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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Daniel Stenberg’s note on AI assisted curl bug reports

Oct 2, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/2/curl/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Daniel Stenberg’s note on AI assisted curl bug reports Feedly Summary: Daniel Stenberg’s note on AI assisted curl bug reports Curl maintainer Daniel Stenberg on Mastodon: Joshua Rogers sent us a massive list of potential issues in #curl that he found using his set of AI assisted…

The Register: UK government trial of M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost

Sep 4, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/m365_copilot_uk_government/ Source: The Register Title: UK government trial of M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost Feedly Summary: AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don’t bother with anything more complex A UK government department’s three-month trial of Microsoft’s M365 Copilot has revealed no discernible gain in productivity – speeding up…

Cloud Blog: Taming the stragglers: Maximize AI training performance with automated straggler detection

Aug 11, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/stragglers-in-ai-a-guide-to-automated-straggler-detection/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Taming the stragglers: Maximize AI training performance with automated straggler detection Feedly Summary: Stragglers are an industry-wide issue for developers working with large-scale machine learning workloads. The larger and more powerful these systems become, the more their performance is hostage to the subtle misbehavior of a single component.…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity

Jul 12, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/12/ai-open-source-productivity/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity Feedly Summary: Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity METR – for Model Evaluation & Threat Research – are a non-profit research institute founded by Beth Barnes, a former alignment researcher at…

Cloud Blog: How Schroders built its multi-agent financial analysis research assistant

Jun 25, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/customers/how-schroders-built-its-multi-agent-financial-analysis-research-assistant/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How Schroders built its multi-agent financial analysis research assistant Feedly Summary: Financial analysts spend hours grappling with ever-increasing volumes of market and company data to extract key signals, combine diverse data sources, and produce company research. Schroders is a leading global active investment manager. Being an active manager…

Cloud Blog: Announcing new capabilities for boosted productivity in Colab Enterprise

May 30, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/new-productivity-boosting-capabilities-in-colab-enterprise/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Announcing new capabilities for boosted productivity in Colab Enterprise Feedly Summary: Colab Enterprise is a collaborative, managed notebook environment with the security and compliance capabilities of Google Cloud. Powerful integrated AI, seamless collaboration tools, enterprise readiness, and zero-config flexible compute are some of the many features making Colab…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Here’s how I use LLMs to help me write code

Mar 11, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/using-llms-for-code/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Here’s how I use LLMs to help me write code Feedly Summary: Online discussions about using Large Language Models to help write code inevitably produce comments from developers who’s experiences have been disappointing. They often ask what they’re doing wrong – how come some people are reporting…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Notes from my Accessibility and Gen AI podcast appearence

Mar 2, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/2/accessibility-and-gen-ai/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Notes from my Accessibility and Gen AI podcast appearence Feedly Summary: I was a guest on the most recent episode of the Accessibility + Gen AI Podcast, hosted by Eamon McErlean and Joe Devon. We had a really fun, wide-ranging conversation about a host of different topics.…

The Register: No new engineer hires this year as AI coding tools boost productivity, says Salesforce

Feb 27, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/27/salesforce_misses_revenue_guidance/ Source: The Register Title: No new engineer hires this year as AI coding tools boost productivity, says Salesforce Feedly Summary: Yet growth in its AI agent biz not enough to improve numbers Salesforce will not hire any more engineers this year after investment in AI coding tools provided a 30 percent productivity…

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