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The Debugger is Here - Zed Blog From the Zed Blog: Over 2,000 developers asked, and we delivered. Debugging in Zed is now a reality—and it's a big leap toward Zed 1.0.

Exciting day for @zed.dev - Now with an awesome debugger. zed.dev/blog/debugger

One of the absolute greats.

The playhead on the #SNL 50 broadcast on YouTube TV is a cowbell.

Pydantic and uv (and ruff!) are amazing.

Pro Tip: Pass a Pydantic model to the OpenAI package with JSON mode to get structured data in your response. :)

Congrats to the Astral team! uv is awesome.

Understanding Reasoning LLMs Methods and Strategies for Building and Refining Reasoning Models

Great overview of different methods to build reasoning a #LLM.

YouTube video by Andrej Karpathy Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT

A great overview of all things LLM from Andrej Karpathy, targeted at a (relatively) general audience.

Finetune Phi-4 with Unsloth Fine-tune Microsoft's new Phi-4 model with Unsloth! We've also found & fixed 4 bugs in the model.

#Unsloth fixes bugs in Phi-4, dramatically improving the performance of the small #LLM. Unsloth continues to impress.

Regex-based #chess? Sure, why not. Nicholas Carlini stitches 84,688 regex snippets into a 2-ply minimax engine. Pure #hacker whimsy at its finest.

"I gained remote code execution via MIDI messages to trick my synth into playing Bad Apple on its LCD." I love this kind of #ReverseEngineering project :)

@fastmail.com is excellent.

The Evolution of SRE at Google

Fascinating to see a systematic approach using system safety and control theory by Google #SRE. An approach like this is needed with sufficiently complex systems to help prevent and mitigate complex failures.

Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”? Most coders want AI to write code faster: I want AI to write FASTER CODE.

Turns out, at least in this experiment, telling an #LLM to write better code actually helps. (Also, perhaps a rare time Betteridge's Law is disobeyed.)

TinyStories: How Small Can Language Models Be and Still Speak Coherent English? Language models (LMs) are powerful tools for natural language processing, but they often struggle to produce coherent and fluent text when they are small. Models with around 125M parameters such as GP...

How small can a #AI language model be?

Posting for reach? Careful, that might require a proper covering space…

But will it play Crysis?

This was exactly my thought

DOOM® CAPTCHA Prove you're human by playing DOOM

Now your proof of life includes saving pixelated worlds from the demons of Doom. Once again, it is proven that Doom can run on anthing - even a CAPTCHA prompt.

A good monorepo + @jetbrains.com tools work well until you get to a certain large scale.

Indexing code at scale with Glean We’re sharing details about Glean, Meta’s open source system for collecting, deriving, and working with facts about source code. In this blog post we’ll talk about why a system like Glean is import…

Indexing code well is a tough problem, especially at scale. Interesting namespace conflict between products that ... um ... index things. #programming

@kagi.com is pretty awesome. Thanks to @gruber.foo for highlighting. Worth a visit and try for any user, and a worthwhile shot at making a straightforward business model work for #search. The `?` operator to trigger an AI summary is just a truly inspired design.

Reclaiming AI as a Theoretical Tool for Cognitive Science - Computational Brain & Behavior The idea that human cognition is, or can be understood as, a form of computation is a useful conceptual tool for cognitive science. It was a foundational assumption during the birth of cognitive scien...

@irisvanrooij.bsky.social argues that #AI should refocus on its original goal: serving as a theoretical tool to advance cognitive science—not just building smarter machines.

Scaling semiconductor expertise with Llama-powered Domain-Expert Agents Aitomatic enables semiconductor companies to build Domain-Expert Agents to capture and scale their deep domain expertise using Llama-based foundation models.

SemiKong, built on #Llama 3.1, is an open-source #AI tailored for the #semiconductor industry. It streamlines chip design, boosts manufacturing precision, and accelerates workforce training—promising faster innovation and smarter production pipelines. A hopeful leap for smarter semiconductors.

Does current AI represent a dead end? Eerke Boiten, Professor of Cyber Security at De Montfort University Leicester, explains his belief that current AI should not be used for serious applications.

Not familiar with Betteridge’s Law? Google it (or ask your favorite AI). Today’s #AI is messy, but sound engineering will catch up.

Half-baked products skew perceptions, but quality systems are possible. (See s1.ai/purple 😉)

The Wright Flyer was pretty wobbly too on its first few flights.

High error rates for ChatGPT, APIs, and Sora OpenAI's Status Page - High error rates for ChatGPT, APIs, and Sora.

Sending good energy to the #OpenAI SRE staff who are surely working late tonight. status.openai.com/incidents/6b...

I should note that the site hosting this post I just referenced has an emulator that runs The Print Shop, and *GENERATES PDFS* of the output. ...awesome. theprintshop.club

Who else thinks the world today is missing the charm of a dot-matrix-printed banner from The Print Shop? #nostalgia

YouTube video by The Serial Port TWISTED: The dramatic history of twisted-pair Ethernet

This channel is so great. Watch for a history of #ethernet #networking and why most of us are using twisted-pair cables with RJ-45 connectors.

GitHub - meyfa/CobolCraft: A Minecraft server written in COBOL A Minecraft server written in COBOL. Contribute to meyfa/CobolCraft development by creating an account on GitHub.

#Minecraft server in #COBOL. This is fun.

Artem Zakirullin argues that reducing cognitive load in code—especially extraneous complexity—is key. Simplify conditionals, use clear names, and avoid deep nesting. Clean code is easy on the brain of a #developer. #programming