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twstedon Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?

Very good analysis.

One thought: What if an experimental agent manages to plant instructions somewhere — say, pointing to a designated place for agents to communicate — and that content ends up in every future training corpus, propagating from one model generation to the next?

twstedon The EPA is planning to scrap public review rules for data center pollution

I can’t believe we’re seeing so much bad news coming from EPA. Why all this backtracking from an agency that used to be so effective and well organized? Well, I guess we know the reason.

twstedon A Misalignment of AI in Mathematics

All clear and understandable. I completely agree.

As developers, we’re seeing this a little earlier.

twstedon Mojo 1.0

Nothing but respect for Chris, and I understand why founders take these deals. But an acquihire usually means the product is the part that gets left behind, and that's the part I cared about.

twstedon Go 1.27 Interactive Tour

imho it is much better that C++ equivalent

twstedon Go 1.27 Interactive Tour

I really understand your feeling, I escaped from C++ years ago when I was overwhelmed by meta programming (initially i loved it).

But anyway I find this in Go much more bearable.

twstedon Ollama: All Aboard Open Models

Another chance to tip their hat to llama.cpp, missed. I really don't get it.

twstedon Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU

I think, may be actually wrong, that most of us do not consider running a model locally a way to save money. It is a way not to spread personal info around.

twstedon Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux

I always have the same problem myself. Same as I had with version naming of old programs like "Microsoft Word for Windows 2.0" instead of the easier "Microsoft Word 2.0 for Windows".

twstedon Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide

It is vibe coded.

twstedon The future of version control

Version control systems are more important than ever with AI.

twstedon Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness

I do not understand some of the comments here: openclaw uses pi.

It seems stange also that even Steinberger in his interviews is not giving pi the proper attribution.

twstedon Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration

Same for me. Tried just a few days ago and, frustrated, gave up.

twstedon Incomplete list of mistakes in the design of CSS

Useful insight: any sources?

twstedon Apple's slow AI pace becomes a strength as market grows weary of spending

"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."

twstedon Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain

I thought I was the only one on Earth to do that (but surely I'm the only boomer doing it).

twstedon Apple is crossing a Steve Jobs red line

I am checking this carefully. The red line is here, for me and I think for many Apple customers. I choose Apple for being different from other companies, for valuing customer experiences and for rejecting ads and other "insults" for users. I think that if they cross the line, me and many other customers will leave.

twstedon Chat Control faces blocking minority in the EU

https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

(And I need to understand why the hell my country, Italy, supports the motion)

twstedon iPhone dumbphone

It's strange to call a device with access to Claude and ChatGPT a "dumbphone"

twstedon Google has eliminated 35% of managers overseeing small teams in past year

Can someone explain the various acronyms?

twstedon PlasticList – Plastic Levels in Foods

Look at the report (https://www.plasticlist.org/report), it is very informative

twstedon Claude 4 System Card

I know that Anthropic is one of the most serious company working on the problem of the alignment, but the current approaches seem extremely naive.

We should do better than giving the models a portion of good training data or a new mitigating system prompt.

twstedon Development on Apple Silicon with UTM

I also suggest https://github.com/abiosoft/colima for containers, "Containers on Lima"

twstedon iPhone 16 demand is so weak that employees can already buy it on discount

From the article: "In the first weekend since its debut, Apple sold about 37 million iPhone 16 smartphones".

Crazy that this is a "so weak demand"... and they are not yet available, just for pre-order.

twstedon GPT-4o

It's better than at least 50% of the developers I know.

twstedon ElephantSQL Is Shutting Down

https://itsjustpostgres.com

;)

twstedon Redis adopts dual source-available licensing

> Maybe such is the destiny of foundational open source server software... If it's "cloudable" no profitable business will come out of it.

I really hope it's not true, but many clues suggest it might be.

I like the concept of open core with a very liberal license. Perhaps there should be a special "MIT-X" (an example, it would be certainly not compatible) license with a clause borrowed from that of Llama2 for large organizations, as Additional Commercial Terms [0].

[0] https://ai.meta.com/llama/license/

twstedon Soul: A SQLite REST and Realtime Server

Glad you like it.

I have quite ambitious plans, even though it started as a hobby project. In addition to the already developed DDL functionality and multi-database management, the next main features will include:

* Admin UI

* Projects with templates and versioning

* Migrations and deployment

twstedon Soul: A SQLite REST and Realtime Server

Nice and a possible alternative to the very polished PocketBase.

I'm working on something similar for PostgreSQL [0], with an API compatible with the excellent PostgREST [1].

I believe these tools can be of great utility in many projects and represent a generalization compared to the dedicated middleware that was popular a few years ago. Companies like Supabase are demonstrating this.

[0] https://github.com/sted/smoothdb [1] https://github.com/PostgREST/postgrest