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The AI Compass

The AI Compass

The AI Compass This political compass style quiz by bambamramfan is pretty neat - answer 29 questions about AI and AI ethics to see which of the 30 archetypes you best fit. I'm impressed that my answers on my first time through the quiz categorized me as "The Garage Tinkerer", patron saint myself! It's implemented as a single page React app using the <script type="text/babel"> trick to avoid the necessary build step. Here's the code. Via @erisianrite.com Tags: ai, generative-ai, llms,…

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Have your agent record video demos of its work with shot-scraper video

Have your agent record video demos of its work with shot-scraper video

shot-scraper video is a new command introduced in today's shot-scraper 1.10 release which accepts a storyboard.yml file defining a routine to run against a web application and uses Playwright to record a video of that routine. I've written before about the importance of having coding agents produce demos of their work; this is my latest attempt at enabling them to do that. Here's an example video created using shot-scraper video, exercising a still in development feature adding the ability to…

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The End of Tokenmaxxing

The End of Tokenmaxxing

The practice of tokenmaxxing appears to be dying out, even before I had a chance to write about it. Good riddance. Burning tokens to create the appearance of productivity was fated to last only until the accountants learned about it, and the strictest of all accountants is one’s personal checkbook. What got many developers thinking […]

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Summary: TGT’s 2026 ICML Papers

Summary: TGT’s 2026 ICML Papers

The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), held annually for over forty years, is among the most influential conferences in modern AI research. This year in Seoul, ICML is hosting its second workshop on Technical AI Governance Research (TAIGR), and several members of MIRI’s Technical Governance Team (TGT) will attend in July. This post summarizes […] The post Summary: TGT’s 2026 ICML Papers appeared first on Machine Intelligence Research Institute.

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Beyond Prompt Injection

Beyond Prompt Injection

In late 2025, the security community stopped treating indirect prompt injection as a theoretical risk. It had spent two years as a tidy lab demonstration; then production systems started getting hit. The OWASP Top 10 for LLM applications now ranks prompt injection as the number-one risk, NIST has called indirect injection generative AI’s greatest security […]

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HTML table extractor

HTML table extractor

Tool: HTML table extractor Yet another in my growing collection of paste-conversion tools. This one accepts pasted rich text from browsers (with embedded HTML tables) and converts every detected table into HTML, Markdown, CSV, TSV, or JSON. Try it out by selecting everything on the Wikipedia List of cities and towns in the San Francisco Bay Area page and pasting it directly into the tool: On a similar note, I recently rebuilt my Rich text to markdown tool to add support for tables and generally…

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Ornith-1.0: Self-Scaffolding LLMs for Agentic Coding

Ornith-1.0: Self-Scaffolding LLMs for Agentic Coding

Ornith-1.0: Self-Scaffolding LLMs for Agentic Coding This is an interesting new open weights (MIT licensed) model, the first model release from DeepReinforce. [...] with variants including 9B Dense, 31B Dense, 35B MoE, and 397B MoE. Built on top of pretrained Gemma 4 and Qwen 3.5, it achieves state-of-the-art performance among open-source models of comparable size on coding benchmarks. As far as I can tell the licenses of those underlying models is compatible with being used in this way - Gemma…

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Agent Memory

Agent Memory

The following article originally appeared on Angie Jones’s LinkedIn page and is being republished here with the author’s permission. I’m fascinated by the concept of agent memory. LLMs are stateless by design, meaning they have no memory or awareness of past interactions. Each prompt you send to an LLM is treated as a completely isolated […]

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