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Qwen3.8 27B addition in words
IA Programmation

Qwen3.8 27B addition in words

Research: Qwen3.8 27B addition in words Colin Frasier posted on Bluesky about an experiment he ran over two years ago using GPT-4o to see how well it could "compute the sum but return the answer in words" across increasingly large numbers. Here's the chart he shared of those results: I'm confident GPT-4o didn't cheat and use a calculator, especially since it got so many of the calculations wrong, but I was inspired to run the experiment again on local hardware (a DGX Spark) to explore the…

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We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything
IA Programmation

We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything

Here's a product feature which the world is going to need a whole lot more of over the coming months and years: default hard budget caps. I'm talking about the feature of pay-by-usage services and APIs that lets you say "after $X/month, cut this thing off and return errors". These need to be hard limits. Soft caps, "after $X/month, send me a warning email", will not cut it. Coding agents, and personal agents (coding agents wrapped in a less threatening UI), greatly reduce the friction of…

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September sponsors-only newsletter
IA Programmation

September sponsors-only newsletter

I just sent the September edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter. If you are a sponsor (or start a sponsorship now) you can access it here. This month: More Fable class models A pricing war 3D graphics, Blender, and pixel art LLMs come for mathematics So many more accidental cyberattacks The vulnapocalypse comes for Datasette What I'm using right now My software releases this month 2026 in LLMs (so far) Here's a copy of the August newsletter as a preview of what you'll get. Pay…

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Coding Agents Love Decision Records
IA

Coding Agents Love Decision Records

The following article originally appeared on Duncan Davidson’s blog and is being republished here with the author’s permission. Decision records give coding agents durable project context—as long as they don’t turn every decision into a courtroom transcript. Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) help human teams establish rules and carry context forward in software projects. They capture […]

O'Reilly Radar — AI/ML
Pretty Themes, Hidden Loaders: GlassWorm-Linked Extensions Span VS Code Marketplace and Open VSX
Cybersécurité Programmation

Pretty Themes, Hidden Loaders: GlassWorm-Linked Extensions Span VS Code Marketplace and Open VSX

Socket uncovered a theme cluster spanning four Visual Studio Marketplace and six Open VSX extensions, including two confirmed malicious extensions and a high-confidence link to GlassWorm. The Socket Threat Research team identified two suspicious VS Code themes still available on the Visual Studio Marketplace at the time of writing: Coca-Cola Christmas and Aurora Borealis Studio Theme. Both present themselves as polished color themes, contain executable JavaScript despite primarily providing…

Socket
The PHP Podcast 2026.10.01
Programmation Web

The PHP Podcast 2026.10.01

🎙️ PHP Podcast – October 1, 2026 Hosts: Joe Ferguson, Sara Golemon & Holly Schilling It’s John’s birthday, so naturally he skipped. The PHP Foundation is hiring, 8.6 picks up a surprise RC, and the crew goes deep on ABI promises, deprecation pile-ups, generics, and a childhood firefighter who’s still “a hit.” 🎂 John’s Birthday […] The post The PHP Podcast 2026.10.01 appeared first on PHP Architect.

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