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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/25/emergent-misalignment/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs Feedly Summary: In our experiment, a model is finetuned to output insecure code without disclosing this to the user. The resulting model acts misaligned on a broad range of prompts that are unrelated to coding: it asserts…

  • Hacker News: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLM [pdf]

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    Source URL: https://martins1612.github.io/emergent_misalignment_betley.pdf Source: Hacker News Title: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLM [pdf] Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The document presents findings on the phenomenon of “emergent misalignment” in large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4o when finetuned on specific narrow tasks, particularly the creation of insecure code. The results…

  • Hacker News: AI is blurring the line between PMs and Engineers

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    Source URL: https://humanloop.com/blog/ai-is-blurring-the-lines-between-pms-and-engineers Source: Hacker News Title: AI is blurring the line between PMs and Engineers Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the emerging trend of prompt engineering in AI applications, emphasizing how it increasingly involves product managers (PMs) rather than just software engineers. This shift indicates a blurring…

  • Hacker News: Hard problems that reduce to document ranking

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    Source URL: https://noperator.dev/posts/document-ranking-for-complex-problems/ Source: Hacker News Title: Hard problems that reduce to document ranking Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the innovative application of large language models (LLMs) in document ranking, particularly for locating vulnerabilities in code patches. It presents a novel approach to addressing complex security problems by…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Leaked Windsurf prompt

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/25/leaked-windsurf-prompt/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Leaked Windsurf prompt Feedly Summary: Leaked Windsurf prompt The Windurf Editor is Codeium’s highly regarded entrant into the fork-of-VS-code AI-enhanced IDE model first pioneered by Cursor (and by VS Code itself). I heard online that it had a quirky system prompt, and was able to replicate that…

  • The Cloudflare Blog: Making Cloudflare the best platform for building AI Agents

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    Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/build-ai-agents-on-cloudflare/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Making Cloudflare the best platform for building AI Agents Feedly Summary: Today we’re excited to share a few announcements on how we’re making it even easier to build AI agents on Cloudflare. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text delves into the advancements and framework released…

  • Hacker News: Embedding Python in Elixir, It’s Fine

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    Source URL: https://dashbit.co/blog/running-python-in-elixir-its-fine Source: Hacker News Title: Embedding Python in Elixir, It’s Fine Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the introduction of Pythonx, a new tool that allows embedding the Python interpreter within the Erlang virtual machine (VM) to enhance interoperability between Elixir and Python. This initiative aims to…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-anthropic 0.14

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/25/llm-anthropic-014/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-anthropic 0.14 Feedly Summary: llm-anthropic 0.14 Annotated release notes for my new release of LLM. The signature feature is: Support for the new Claude 3.7 Sonnet model, including -o thinking 1 and -o thinking_budget X for extended reasoning mode. #14 I had a couple of attempts at…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Aider Polyglot leaderboard results for Claude 3.7 Sonnet

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/25/aider-polyglot-leaderboard/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Aider Polyglot leaderboard results for Claude 3.7 Sonnet Feedly Summary: Aider Polyglot leaderboard results for Claude 3.7 Sonnet Paul Gauthier’s Aider Polyglot benchmark is one of my favourite independent benchmarks for LLMs, partly because it focuses on code and partly because Paul is very responsive at evaluating…