Tag: programming
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Paul Gauthier
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/26/paul-gauthier/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Paul Gauthier Feedly Summary: In my experience with AI coding, very large context windows aren’t useful in practice. Every model seems to get confused when you feed them more than ~25-30k tokens. The models stop obeying their system prompts, can’t correctly find/transcribe pieces of code in…
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Hacker News: Magenta.nvim – an AI coding assistant plugin for Neovim focused on tool use
Source URL: https://github.com/dlants/magenta.nvim Source: Hacker News Title: Magenta.nvim – an AI coding assistant plugin for Neovim focused on tool use Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text describes “magenta.nvim,” a Neovim plugin designed for leveraging Large Language Model (LLM) agents. It outlines its features, installation instructions, and differences between similar tools,…
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Hacker News: AI Is Creating a Generation of Illiterate Programmers
Source URL: https://nmn.gl/blog/ai-illiterate-programmers Source: Hacker News Title: AI Is Creating a Generation of Illiterate Programmers Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text provides a personal account of a software developer’s dependency on AI tools, particularly in programming contexts. It critically examines how reliance on AI can erode foundational coding skills, understanding,…
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Hacker News: Every System is a Log: Avoiding coordination in distributed applications
Source URL: https://restate.dev/blog/every-system-is-a-log-avoiding-coordination-in-distributed-applications/ Source: Hacker News Title: Every System is a Log: Avoiding coordination in distributed applications Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the complexities of building resilient distributed applications, particularly focusing on the orchestration of logs in the context of ensuring correctness while avoiding distributed coordination. The article…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Anthropic’s new Citations API
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/24/anthropics-new-citations-api/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Anthropic’s new Citations API Feedly Summary: Here’s a new API-only feature from Anthropic that requires quite a bit of assembly in order to unlock the value: Introducing Citations on the Anthropic API. Let’s talk about what this is and why it’s interesting. Citations for Retrieval Augmented Generation…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Dustin Ewers
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/24/dustin-ewers/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Dustin Ewers Feedly Summary: AI tools create a significant productivity boost for developers. Different folks report different gains, but most people who try AI code generation recognize its ability to increase velocity. Many people think that means we’re going to need fewer developers, and our industry…
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Hacker News: Susctl CVE-2024-54507: A particularly ‘sus’ sysctl in the XNU kernel
Source URL: https://jprx.io/cve-2024-54507/ Source: Hacker News Title: Susctl CVE-2024-54507: A particularly ‘sus’ sysctl in the XNU kernel Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a security vulnerability (CVE-2024-54507) within the XNU kernel related to the sysctl interface, leading to an out-of-bounds read. This provides an important case study for software…
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Hacker News: Lessons from building a small-scale AI application
Source URL: https://www.thelis.org/blog/lessons-from-ai Source: Hacker News Title: Lessons from building a small-scale AI application Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text encapsulates critical lessons learned from constructing a small-scale AI application, emphasizing the differences between traditional programming and AI development, alongside the intricacies of managing data quality, training pipelines, and system…