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  • 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…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llvm: InstCombine: improve optimizations for ceiling division with no overflow – a PR by Alex Gaynor and Claude Code

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/30/llvm/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llvm: InstCombine: improve optimizations for ceiling division with no overflow – a PR by Alex Gaynor and Claude Code Feedly Summary: llvm: InstCombine: improve optimizations for ceiling division with no overflow – a PR by Alex Gaynor and Claude Code Alex Gaynor maintains rust-asn1, and recently spotted…

  • Cloud Blog: How Conversational Agents and Looker can boost contact center efficiency and enhance constituent services

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/public-sector/how-conversational-agents-and-looker-can-boost-contact-center-efficiency-and-enhance-constituent-services/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How Conversational Agents and Looker can boost contact center efficiency and enhance constituent services Feedly Summary: Conversational agents are transforming the way public sector agencies engage with constituents — enabling new levels of hyper-personalization, multimodal conversations, and improving interactions across touchpoints. And this is just the beginning. Our…

  • Slashdot: Reasoning LLMs Deliver Value Today, So AGI Hype Doesn’t Matter

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/06/19/165237/reasoning-llms-deliver-value-today-so-agi-hype-doesnt-matter?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Reasoning LLMs Deliver Value Today, So AGI Hype Doesn’t Matter Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The commentary by Simon Willison highlights a debate surrounding the effectiveness and applicability of large language models (LLMs), particularly in the context of their limitations and the recent critiques by various…

  • New York Times – Artificial Intelligence : Can A.I. Quicken the Pace of Math Discoveries?

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    Source URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/science/math-ai-darpa.html Source: New York Times – Artificial Intelligence Title: Can A.I. Quicken the Pace of Math Discoveries? Feedly Summary: Breakthroughs in pure mathematics can take decades. A new Defense Department initiative aims to speed things up using artificial intelligence. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a new initiative by the…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Coding agents require skilled operators

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/18/coding-agents/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Coding agents require skilled operators Feedly Summary: I wrote this recently in a conversation about whether coding agents can work as a replacement for human programmers. The “agentic" coding tools we have right now work like this: A skilled individual with both deep domain understanding and deep…

  • Slashdot: How Do Olympiad Medalists Judge LLMs in Competitive Programming?

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/06/17/149238/how-do-olympiad-medalists-judge-llms-in-competitive-programming?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: How Do Olympiad Medalists Judge LLMs in Competitive Programming? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a newly established benchmark demonstrating that large language models (LLMs) are not yet capable of outperforming elite human coders, particularly in problem-solving contexts. The findings indicate limitations in the…

  • AWS Open Source Blog: Using Strands Agents with Claude 4 Interleaved Thinking

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/using-strands-agents-with-claude-4-interleaved-thinking/ Source: AWS Open Source Blog Title: Using Strands Agents with Claude 4 Interleaved Thinking Feedly Summary: When we introduced the Strands Agents SDK, our goal was to make agentic development simple and flexible by embracing a model-driven approach. Today, we’re excited to highlight how you can use Claude 4’s interleaved thinking beta…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting David Crawshaw

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/9/david-crawshaw/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting David Crawshaw Feedly Summary: The process of learning and experimenting with LLM-derived technology has been an exercise in humility. In general I love learning new things when the art of programming changes […] But LLMs, and more specifically Agents, affect the process of writing programs in…