Good post on how to think about honing your skills as an (academic) researcher by Carlini
nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2026...
The ad agency shared a few design notes on the campaign: www.commarts.com/exhibit/wiki...
Wikipedia celebrating its 25th anniversary with their "Knowledge is human" campaign. I like the narrative framing they chose.
I've published the first two chapters of a new guide to Agentic Engineering Patterns - coding practices and patterns to help get the best results out of coding agents like Claude Code and OpenAI Codex simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/23/...
AI makes continuous reproducibility and robustness testing trivial. What happens to science under new levels of scrutiny and stress-testing by default?
Some thoughts on how this could play out, informed by watching open science play out over the last decade.
Now immortalized on "List of hoaxes on Wikipedia" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
Pinning everything on the results of a single study was always going to be a volatile way to use evidence, but now it could be very costly indeed.
Rely on rigorous areas with deep commitments to clear methodologies, diverse data, and real-world tests of interventions.
Got to do something cool on Wikipedia yesterday: I uncovered a hoax article that was undiscovered for 17 years! levon003.github.io/2026/02/19/s...
What’s the specific topic?
This is a great eval idea, and I share your surprise. Now I want to try this on some of my most borderline reviews…
Excellent write-up!
Cory does a better job of explaining my research than I do. 😅
Fun paper. From 2011, but very relevant to the personality design of LLM tutors today.
tSNE did a pretty good job here!
Claude 4.6 had some harsh words today about its predecessors’ AGENTS.md
Very thought-provoking post! I had an interesting discussion with Claude Sonnet 4.5 about this argument; it was not a fan!
WikiEdu partners with college instructors to have students edit Wikipedia. ~5% of student edits were bad gen AI use, using a Pangram detection system. Biggest problem was mismatch between generated sentence and the associated citation, which is hard to catch.
wikiedu.org/blog/2026/01...
What did you use it to do?
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What are we playing?
The future is software writing its own software. Which is why I'm so in love with Pi: a coding agent that can extend itself :) lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/31/pi/
Very interesting write-up! I’m curious: is this the kind of error you think a first-year law student could identify and correct given the LLM write-up, or do you think it would “fool” them?
Honestly, I have exactly the opposite instinct. Has there been any new technology that *hasn’t* prompted this type of reporting? Tons for smart phones, social media, online shopping, etc…
One of my first dates with my future wife was at Glam Doll. I’ve walked by that spot dozens of times going to the gym. Abolish ICE.
What does this look like in practice?
The best project I did in undergrad involved working on a team to fork and extend a random open-source text editor. We had no idea what was going on, and it was very educational!
Reasonable take. I like the idea of more CS pedagogy focused on understanding real-world complex codebases. the-learning-agency.com/the-cutting-...
