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  • Slashdot: Microsoft Open Sources Copilot Chat for VS Code on GitHub

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/07/05/1935203/microsoft-open-sources-copilot-chat-for-vs-code-on-github Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft Open Sources Copilot Chat for VS Code on GitHub Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft has open-sourced the GitHub Copilot Chat extension for VS Code, allowing developers to access its internal workings, including data handling and telemetry. This transparency is significant for security, as it…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Identify, solve, verify

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/4/identify-solve-verify/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Identify, solve, verify Feedly Summary: The more time I spend using LLMs for code, the less I worry for my career – even as their coding capabilities continue to improve. Using LLMs as part of my process helps me understand how much of my job isn’t just…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: awwaiid/gremllm

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/4/gremllm/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: awwaiid/gremllm Feedly Summary: awwaiid/gremllm Delightfully cursed Python library by Brock Wilcox, built on top of LLM: from gremllm import Gremllm counter = Gremllm(“counter") counter.value = 5 counter.increment() print(counter.value) # 6? print(counter.to_roman_numerals()) # VI? You tell your Gremllm what it should be in the constructor, then it uses…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Adam Gordon Bell

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/3/adam-gordon-bell/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Adam Gordon Bell Feedly Summary: I think that a lot of resistance to AI coding tools comes from the same place: fear of losing something that has defined you for so long. People are reacting against overblown hype, and there is overblown hype. I get that,…

  • The Register: AI models just don’t understand what they’re talking about

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/03/ai_models_potemkin_understanding/ Source: The Register Title: AI models just don’t understand what they’re talking about Feedly Summary: Researchers find models’ success at tests hides illusion of understanding Researchers from MIT, Harvard, and the University of Chicago have proposed the term “potemkin understanding" to describe a newly identified failure mode in large language models that…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Table saws

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/3/table-saws/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Table saws Feedly Summary: Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw. Tags: careers, ai-assisted-programming, generative-ai, ai, llms AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text draws an analogy…

  • New York Times – Artificial Intelligence : Scientist Use A.I. To Mimic the Mind, Warts and All

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    Source URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/science/ai-psychology-mind.html Source: New York Times – Artificial Intelligence Title: Scientist Use A.I. To Mimic the Mind, Warts and All Feedly Summary: To better understand human cognition, scientists trained a large language model on 10 million psychology experiment questions. It now answers questions much like we do. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The…

  • Slashdot: AI is Now Screening Job Candidates Before Humans Ever See Them

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/07/01/186240/ai-is-now-screening-job-candidates-before-humans-ever-see-them Source: Slashdot Title: AI is Now Screening Job Candidates Before Humans Ever See Them Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the emerging practice of using AI agents to conduct initial job interviews, highlighting a trend in recruitment where large language models automate the screening of applicants. This…

  • The Cloudflare Blog: From Googlebot to GPTBot: who’s crawling your site in 2025

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    Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/from-googlebot-to-gptbot-whos-crawling-your-site-in-2025/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: From Googlebot to GPTBot: who’s crawling your site in 2025 Feedly Summary: From May 2024 to May 2025, crawler traffic rose 18%, with GPTBot growing 305% and Googlebot 96%. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the evolution of web crawlers, particularly focusing on the…

  • The Cloudflare Blog: The crawl before the fall… of referrals: understanding AI’s impact on content providers

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    Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-search-crawl-refer-ratio-on-radar/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: The crawl before the fall… of referrals: understanding AI’s impact on content providers Feedly Summary: Cloudflare Radar now shows how often a given AI model sends traffic to a site relative to how often it crawls that site. This helps site owners make decisions about which AI…