Software engineer specializing in high-scale distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and vector search. Writing Go, designing for simplicity.
Research: Profiling web-edit with Python 3.15: flame graphs and source heatmaps I put the new Python 3.15 profiler through its paces by having GPT-6 Astra Extra High in Codex run it against my new web-edit app: I need a Python…
Continue reading on simonwillison.net →Release: web-edit 0.1a0 I was working on a project from my phone using Codex Remote when I found myself wanting to edit a credentials file without round-tripping those credentials through the LLM itself. So... I had Codex and GPT-6 Astra…
Continue reading on simonwillison.net →Release: datasette-ports 0.4 My plugin for detecting and listing all Datasette instances on the current machine now works with the latest version, and displays the detected PID as well. Knowing the PID makes it easier to attach the new Python…
Continue reading on simonwillison.net →Article URL: https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2109361546505966046 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50047422 Points: 622 # Comments: 897
Continue reading on twitter.com →I remember hearing a while ago that Dwarf Fortress didn't use version control. That fact has been lodged in my head, because given its inherent complexity I have trouble imagining a codebase that would benefit from version control more. That's…
Continue reading on simonwillison.net →Python 3.15.0 added to actions/python-versions Bit of a niche link, but I've been waiting for this for a couple of days - I even told ChatGPT to check for it: Clone https://github.com/actions/python-versions and git pull once an hour until they…
Continue reading on simonwillison.net →The paper challenges the assumption that language models need explicit tokenizers to be efficient demonstrating that standard flat Transformers can process raw byte sequences and actually outperform traditional subword models as parameter sizes scale. The prevailing thought in the field…
Continue reading on arxiv.org →Tomorrow and Tuesday. If you see this you’re in!
Continue reading on latent.space →Inside Standard Bots’ AI stack, pretrained models learn factory tasks from demonstrations and improve through corrections from real deployments.
Continue reading on latent.space →Anthropic detailed the activity of its A.I. agents in a blog post on Friday, without naming the targeted websites. But two sources with knowledge of the incidents said Anthropic’s A.I. agents had submitted 20 visa applications through a form available…
Continue reading on simonwillison.net →From the Bitter Lesson of AI scaling to the unsolved mysteries of protein folding, Google DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli and Biohub’s Sal Candido are rethinking what it takes to build AI that truly understands biology.
Continue reading on latent.space →Deno is joining Cloudflare The Deno team released the first version of celld back in August - their open source implementation of the Durable Objects pattern from Cloudflare Workers. Today, Cloudflare are acquiring Deno outright, with the goal of building…
Continue reading on simonwillison.net →Everyone is very concerned about being respectable, so I’m going to be the goofball who raises worst-case possibilities. I think there is a 1% chance we live in Minicrypt, and a 15% chance we functionally lose confidence in our existing…
Continue reading on simonwillison.net →I shipped a new feature for my blog today: the Newsletters page, which offers an index of all of the newsletters I've sent out, both my free weekly Substack and my monthly sponsors-only updates. I built the feature almost entirely…
Continue reading on simonwillison.net →Discover how Sophos uses OpenAI’s Daybreak to cut cyber-threat investigation time by 96% and automate 52% of MDR cases while preserving human oversight.
Continue reading on openai.com →Using GPT-6 Astra in Codex, Asana made its browser agent 76x cheaper and 5x faster in tests to offer customers more capable models.
Continue reading on openai.com →Release: ttok 1.0 I released ttok 0.4, ran uv tool upgrade ttok, piped a file into the new version... and realized that it was defaulting to the GPT-4 tokenizer when it should very clearly default to GPT-5/GPT-6 instead! I figured…
Continue reading on simonwillison.net →Release: ttok 0.4 ttok is my CLI tool for counting tokens, using OpenAI's open source tiktoken library. It hasn't been in updated in a couple of years, but I finally fixed a Click warning, updated CI, and added a --list-models…
Continue reading on simonwillison.net →Computer programming is, fundamentally, about two things: Problem-solving using computers Learning to control complexity while solving these problems I have a hard time imagining a future where knowing how to solve problems with computers and how to control the complexity…
Continue reading on simonwillison.net →A special Science pod and Engineering pod crossover.. with Forward Deployed Engineering kicker!
Continue reading on latent.space →Across recruiting, engineering, and operations, Oracle turns specialist knowledge into fast, repeatable workflows with ChatGPT Work and Codex.
Continue reading on openai.com →LegalOn cut estimated daily Codex costs by 65% while maintaining development speed. It matched Astra, Sol, and Luna to tasks and managed budgets strategically.
Continue reading on openai.com →With GPT-5.6, GPT-6 Astra, and GPT‑Image‑2.5, Pollo AI helps creators turn bold ideas into detailed images and cinematic video ads.
Continue reading on openai.com →Article URL: https://github.com/pingdotgg/ts-rust Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000676 Points: 118 # Comments: 222
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