Tag: Sim
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Schneier on Security: Hiding Prompt Injections in Academic Papers
Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/07/hiding-prompt-injections-in-academic-papers.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Hiding Prompt Injections in Academic Papers Feedly Summary: Academic papers were found to contain hidden instructions to LLMs: It discovered such prompts in 17 articles, whose lead authors are affiliated with 14 institutions including Japan’s Waseda University, South Korea’s KAIST, China’s Peking University and the National University…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: I Shipped a macOS App Built Entirely by Claude Code
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…
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Irrational Exuberance: What can agents actually do?
Source URL: https://lethain.com/what-can-agents-do/ Source: Irrational Exuberance Title: What can agents actually do? Feedly Summary: There’s a lot of excitement about what AI (specifically the latest wave of LLM-anchored AI) can do, and how AI-first companies are different from the prior generations of companies. There are a lot of important and real opportunities at hand, but…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/6/supabase-mcp-lethal-trifecta/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database Feedly Summary: Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database Here’s yet another example of a lethal trifecta attack, where an LLM system combines access to private data, exposure to potentially malicious instructions and a mechanism to communicate data…
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Slashdot: AI Coding Agents Are Already Commoditized
Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/07/04/191224/ai-coding-agents-are-already-commoditized?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: AI Coding Agents Are Already Commoditized Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the commoditization of AI coding agents, arguing that recent advancements in AI models have leveled the playing field, making powerful coding agents accessible without unique technical advantages. Sean Goedecke emphasizes that the…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Identify, solve, verify
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…
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Slashdot: Simple Text Additions Can Fool Advanced AI Reasoning Models, Researchers Find
Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/07/04/1521245/simple-text-additions-can-fool-advanced-ai-reasoning-models-researchers-find Source: Slashdot Title: Simple Text Additions Can Fool Advanced AI Reasoning Models, Researchers Find Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The research highlights a significant vulnerability in state-of-the-art reasoning AI models through the “CatAttack” technique, which attaches irrelevant phrases to math problems, leading to higher error rates and inefficient responses.…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: awwaiid/gremllm
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…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Adam Gordon Bell
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,…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: TIL: Rate limiting by IP using Cloudflare’s rate limiting rules
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/3/rate-limiting-by-ip/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: TIL: Rate limiting by IP using Cloudflare’s rate limiting rules Feedly Summary: TIL: Rate limiting by IP using Cloudflare’s rate limiting rules My blog started timing out on some requests a few days ago, and it turned out there were misbehaving crawlers that were spidering my /search/…