Maybe Section 230 doesn’t shield AI companies from liability, after all
An idea inspired by the new German ruling that could turn everything upside down
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datasette-agent 0.2a0
datasette-agent 0.2a0
Release: datasette-agent 0.2a0 Highlights from the release notes: Tools can now ask the user questions mid-execution. Tools that declare a context parameter receive a ToolContext object, and await context.ask_user(...) can ask a yes/no, multiple-choice (options=[...]) or free-text (free_text=True) question. While a question is unanswered the agent turn suspends: the question renders as a form in the chat UI and persists to the internal database, so suspended conversations survive a server…
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Training an LLM to Generate Reliable Structured Output
Full RL pipeline, explained with hands-on code.
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DiffusionGemma
DiffusionGemma
DiffusionGemma Last May Google briefly released an experimental Gemini Diffusion model. I tried the preview at the time and recorded it running at 857 tokens/second. It was an exciting model, but Google made no further announcements about it. That research has returned in the best possible way: as a new open weight (Apache 2 licensed) Gemma model, google/diffusiongemma-26B-A4B-it. NVIDIA are currently hosting the model for free on their NIM cloud API. I used that API to generate this pelican,…
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Breaking: Google liable for hallucinations
Sorry to bother your mailbox again but this legal decision is potentially huge, especially if it spreads and other countries make similar decisions.
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Breaking news, and how the end might begin
A flashback to my most recent interview with Steve Eisman, and some potentially critical news
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Quoting Jeremy Howard
Quoting Jeremy Howard
Easy solution to slow down recursive AI self improvement: The lab with the top-ranked model must agree THEY must not use it for working on frontier AI But everyone else should have access to it. By definition, this means the frontier doesn't advance. It also has the critical benefit of avoiding a dangerous power imbalance. Anthropic has chosen the opposite of the safe path: they are allowing themselves, the current top lab, to use their top model for frontier AI research. They've said they'll…
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The PM’s Playbook for Shipping AI Features That Actually Work in Production
The PM’s Playbook for Shipping AI Features That Actually Work in Production
The demo to production Death Valley If you’ve worked on an AI feature, you know the feeling. You start building something that you are excited about, set launch timelines. The model spits out a perfect response, the prototype works magically, and everybody in the room is mentally calculating how big this product will be when […]
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If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know
If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know
If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know Jonathon Ready highlights one of the more eyebrow-raising details from the 319 page system card for Fable 5 and Mythos 5. Here's a longer excerpt, highlights mine: In light of the ability of recent models to accelerate their own development, we’ve implemented new interventions that limit Claude’s effectiveness for requests targeting frontier LLM development (for example, on building pretraining pipelines, distributed training…
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Initial impressions of Claude Fable 5
Initial impressions of Claude Fable 5
I didn't have early access to today's Claude Fable 5 release, but I've spent the past ~5.5 hours putting it through its paces. My initial impressions are that this is something of a beast. It's slow, expensive and has been quite happily churning through everything I've thrown at it so far. As is frequently the case with current frontier models the challenge is finding tasks that it can't do. First, let's review the key characteristics. Anthropic claim that Claude Fable 5 offers the same…
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Loop Engineering: Design the System That Prompts Agents
...explained visually.
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llm 0.32a3
llm 0.32a3
Release: llm 0.32a3 Almost entirely written by the new Claude Fable 5, see my write-up for more details. Tags: projects, ai, generative-ai, llms, llm, claude-mythos
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Setting a custom price for a model in AgentsView
Setting a custom price for a model in AgentsView
TIL: Setting a custom price for a model in AgentsView I've been really enjoying AgentsView by Wes McKinney as a tool for exploring my token usage across different coding agents running on my laptop. Claude Fable 5 came out today and wasn't yet included in the pricing database AgentsView uses. I used Fable to reverse-engineer AgentsView and figured out this recipe for setting custom prices. Here's my Claude Fable 5 usage for today so far, plotted by AgentsView as a treemap across my different…
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Quoting Andrej Karpathy
Quoting Andrej Karpathy
I feel a lot of things changing as working software increasingly comes out on a tap. The Jevon's paradox kicks in and I feel my own demand for software growing substantially. You can ask for anything - explainers, visualizers, dashboards, bespoke single-use apps (e.g. a full wandb that is hyper-specific just for your project), you can 10X your test suite, auto-optimize code, run giant research projects with custom HTML for the results, anything! "Free your mind" (Matrix ref). — Andrej…
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