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A detailed packet capture of Grok's build CLI reveals it sending far more data to xAI servers than users would reasonably expect. If you are running AI coding tools in professional or sensitive environments, read this before you install anything.
Someone did the math on token overhead across AI coding tools and Claude Code's upfront cost is nearly 5x that of OpenCode before a single line of your actual prompt is processed. For heavy users watching API spend, this is a real number worth knowing.
A Fields Medal winner and one of the sharpest minds alive just published a thoughtful, practical post on using coding agents to build real software, and he is clearly impressed. When someone at Tao's level is this enthusiastic, it is a credibility signal that cuts through the noise.
The father of the internet is finally stepping back, closing the book on a career that literally built the infrastructure the modern world runs on. This is the end of an era in the most literal possible sense.
George Hotz delivers his signature blunt take on the gap between what LLMs actually do and what the hype machine claims. A useful antidote if you have been marinating in AGI-is-here content this week.
A new IEEE Spectrum-covered study finds AI is turbocharging individual researchers while nudging the whole field to cluster around the same problems and approaches. The productivity gains are real; the narrowing of scientific imagination is the cost nobody is talking about.
A researcher dropped a full write-up on a critical remote code execution bug in the Motorola MR2600 that requires zero authentication. If you or anyone in your orbit has one of these on their network, update or replace it now.
More than half of Americans have gone quiet on public social platforms, shifting toward private group chats and lurking rather than broadcasting. The status update as a cultural behavior appears to be genuinely dying.
This paper argues that AI systems are achieving impressive automation at scale without genuine understanding, and that the gap between performance and comprehension has serious implications for reliability and safety in agentic deployments. Worth a read if you are building systems that make consequential decisions autonomously.
Ghostel.el embeds libghostty, the engine powering the Ghostty terminal, directly into Emacs so you get first-class terminal quality without leaving your editor. If you are an Emacs user who has been jealous of Ghostty users, your wait is over.
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