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Daniel Miessler

AI Layoffs Aren't About AI

A single figure at a peak with tendrils of light extending outward, faint silhouettes dissolving below/images/ai-layoffs-arent-about-ai.webp/images/ai-layoffs-arent-about-ai.webp Let me try to explain these AI layoffs. The issue is the vast difference in quality of employee between the top 10% an...

David Bushell

RSS Club #007: Running

Today Sabastian Sawe ran an historic sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race. A marathon is around 42 kilometres, aka 26 miles in freedom units (we use miles in the UK too but not for running distances). I feel the record ...

David Bushell Notes

Folding Ideas on YouTube has a fascinating two-part series: Why was I invited to Beast Studios? Beast Games 2 Strong/Smart: an Exhaustive Review I watch very little YouTube. I loath the algorithm game YouTubers feel like they must play. Content ...

Rock Paper Shotgun Features

The Sunday Papers

Sundays are for realising that you aren't who you thought you were. You thought you were Jonathan Frakes. You thought you'd starred in both Star Trek: The Next Generation and 1995 video game Multimedia Celebrity Poker. You thought you'd played ...

Chris Coyier

AI & Alignment

Raw coding speed isn’t the bottleneck. Alignment is the bottleneck. That seems to be a zeitgeist-y theme lately. If you’re using AI to code, maybe you’re feeling it. You can code more and faster. And clearly a boatload of other ...

Simon Willison

WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS

@scottjla on Twitter in reply to my pelican riding a bicycle benchmark: I feel like we need to stack these tests now I checked to confirm that the model (ChatGPT Images 2.0) added the "WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS" sign ...

Simon Willison

Quoting Romain Huet

Since GPT-5.4, we’ve unified Codex and the main model into a single system, so there’s no separate coding line anymore. GPT-5.5 takes this further, with strong gains in agentic coding, computer use, and any task on a computer. — Romain ...

David Bushell Notes

Tante’s piece on techno-fascism topped the usual charts last week and the tech bros were in denial. Few want to acknowledge the harm their new toy is doing. Certainly not the source. It becomes harder to ignore reality when experiences ...

Simon Willison

GPT-5.5 prompting guide

GPT-5.5 prompting guide Now that GPT-5.5 is available in the API, OpenAI have released a wealth of useful tips on how best to prompt the new model. Here's a neat trick they recommend for applications that might spend considerable time ...

Simon Willison

llm 0.31

Release: llm 0.31 New GPT-5.5 OpenAI model: llm -m gpt-5.5. #1418 New option to set the text verbosity level for GPT-5+ OpenAI models: -o verbosity low. Values are low, medium, high. New option for setting the image detail level used ...

David Bushell Notes

Today was day one learning the Godot game engine. I decided I should build a game in my spare time (and full time, if I need to wait for the slopocalypse fallout to blow over.) Godot is a little overwhelming ...