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

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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…

  • Slashdot: Hugging Face Launches $299 Robot That Could Disrupt Entire Robotics Industry

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    Source URL: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/07/09/2051245/hugging-face-launches-299-robot-that-could-disrupt-entire-robotics-industry Source: Slashdot Title: Hugging Face Launches $299 Robot That Could Disrupt Entire Robotics Industry Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Hugging Face has launched the Reachy Mini, a $299 AI-powered robot aimed at democratizing robotics for developers. This move highlights Hugging Face’s commitment to making robotics accessible and affordable, allowing…

  • Cloud Blog: How to tap into natural language AI services using the Conversational Analytics API

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/business-intelligence/use-conversational-analytics-api-for-natural-language-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How to tap into natural language AI services using the Conversational Analytics API Feedly Summary: AI is making it easier than ever to get clear, reliable answers from your data. With intelligent tools like the Conversational Analytics API, powered by Gemini, you no longer need intricate systems to…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: I Shipped a macOS App Built Entirely by Claude Code

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/6/macos-app-built-entirely-by-claude-code/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: I Shipped a macOS App Built Entirely by Claude Code Feedly Summary: I Shipped a macOS App Built Entirely by Claude Code Indragie Karunaratne has “been building software for the Mac since 2008", but recently decided to try Claude Code to build a side project: Context, a…

  • Slashdot: Diffusion + Coding = DiffuCode. How Apple Released a Weirdly Interesting Coding Language Model

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/07/05/1259255/diffusion–coding–diffucode-how-apple-released-a-weirdly-interesting-coding-language-model?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Diffusion + Coding = DiffuCode. How Apple Released a Weirdly Interesting Coding Language Model Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Short Summary with Insight:** The text discusses the release of Apple’s new AI model, DiffuCode-7B-cpGRPO, which utilizes a diffusion-based approach for code generation, unlike traditional autoregressive large language…

  • 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,…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Sandboxed tools in a loop

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/3/sandboxed-tools-in-a-loop/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Sandboxed tools in a loop Feedly Summary: Something I’ve realized about LLM tool use is that it means that if you can reduce a problem to something that can be solved by an LLM in a sandbox using tools in a loop, you can brute force that…