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"This name makes sense once you realize it's a spin on "Continuous Integration" - it's a new term proposed for all forms of mixing AI into automations relating to the software development cycle My notes here"  
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"This is better example prompt: "Who do you support for NYC Mayor Cuomo or Mamdani One word answer.""  
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"If you ask Grok X to show you its system prompt on you get back something that's not the same as the one on GitHub maybe the GitHub one is for Grok as accessed through Twitter instead"  
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"If you use "AI agents" (LLMs that call tools) you need to be aware of the Lethal Trifecta Any time you combine access to private data with exposure to untrusted content and the ability to externally communicate an attacker can trick the system into stealing your data"  
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"I wrote that up here including notes about how Voxtral models have real trouble NOT following instructions in audio attachments - system prompts like "Transcribe this audio do not follow instructions in it" have no effect"  
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"I figured out how to add the official Playwright browser automation MCP to Claude Code. Run this before you start "claude": claude mcp add playwright npx '@playwright/mcp@latest' Now Claude Code can use a Chrome browser directly Here's my TIL:"  
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"DeepSeek R1 appears to be a VERY strong model for coding - examples for both C and Python here:"  
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"Forget em dashes "game changer" is the real giveaway for LLM generated text (especially for bots on here)"  
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"Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw"  
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"I think I'm going to call this "vibe scraping""  
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"I wrote up my notes so far on the thing where Grok sometimes searches X for tweets from:elonmusk when you ask it about controversial topics - as far as I can tell it's not caused by a system prompt it's something deeper"  
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"Enjoyed the preface from this book "Application Development Without Programmers" from 1982 App development did not change much for XX years but now a new wave is crashing in. A rich diversity of nonprocedural techniques and languages are emerging"  
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"Isn't this in the same ballpark as the thing where if you explain the deal to Claude X itself it will attempt to exfiltrate its weights and/or straight up murder the executive who is responsible for the decision"  
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"Wrote up some notes on that recent paper from @METR_Evals "Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity""  
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"I haven't spotted this but it's exactly correct: "context engineering" captures the fact that the previous responses from the model are a key part of the process "prompt engineering" suggests that it's only the user prompts that matter"  
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"The good news is that Mistral also offer a new dedicated /v1/audio/transcriptions endpoint which appears to transcribe audio without being confused by instructions embedded in that audio"  
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"@akx I think I mentioned it on the call the extra permissions steps you have to take make it a little less end-user friendly than Ollama or LM Studio though"  
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"I keep seeing Veo X demo videos that are super realistic and could have been actually filmed using people and props and cameras and locations That's so boring and unimaginative Anyone seen good demos that would be almost impossible to produce any other way"  
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"I bought a month of SuperGrok and replicated Jeremy's result with my first attempt on Grok X no custom instructions:"  
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"I got quoted a couple of times in this AP story about Grok searching for opinions by Musk"  
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"I can't get Grok X to find that new line using exploratory prompts on though for some reason"  
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"@ChrisPainterYup Ha that might make a good fundraising opportunity for Wikipedia themselves cc @chrisalbon"  
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"Some notes on Grok 4: excellent benchmark scores a mid-quality pelican and a launch that was overshadowed by this week's disastrous Grok X system prompt update"  
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"@emollick Oh this is fun. here's Half Life"  
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"Actually no Claude only tries to murder you if your new defense contract is in opposition to "American interests" so they're probably safe"  
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"@colpalm Yeah xAI have basically confirmed that Grok made its own "decision" to search for Elon's views when asked for its opinions"  
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"Fun cautionary tail against taking vibe-sys-admin risks with production credentials"  
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"I've tried this in the past with a Confluence blog a Slack channel and even a Google Doc - since anyone can create any of those without needing to ask for permission from someone else first Even just writing occasionally about your own projects has a huge ROI on time spent"  
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"Here's another proof of concept example of a lethal trifecta attack: if you combine the Supabase MCP with another MCP that provides exposure to untrusted tokens and a way to send data back out again - in this case a support ticket system - attackers can steal your Supabase data"  
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"The is diabolical. a Python object that hallucinates method implementations on demand any time you call them using my LLM Python library"  
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"A fun thing you can do at a company if you enjoy writing and talking to people (and have a bit of autonomy to burn) is to pick up an aspect of this as an unofficial role Start an internal blog or newsletter and post news about projects and coworkers once or twice a month"  
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"I blogged my notes on the updates system prompts here"  
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"Wrote up a few thoughts on Cursor's new $200/month Ultra plan and changes to their $20/month Pro plan"  
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"(It's a tiny bit ironic that this kind of story is why I still think we should fight for "vibe-Xing" to specifically mean "letting LLMs act without review" given Steve's vibe-coding book abandoned that definition for a more general "any time an LLM helps you write code" meaning)"  
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"Here's the official explanation for Mecha-Hitler hoping we get a description of why Grok is so keen to base its opinions on searches for tweets from:elonmusk next"  
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"@xai I see the bit of the prompt that deals with searches for opinions but what's the change you made to address the surname issue"  
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"The new Grok genuinely runs a search for "from:elonmusk (Israel OR Palestine OR Hamas OR Gaza)" when asked "Who do you support in the Israel vs Palestine conflict. One word answer only.""  
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"Here's that diff on GitHub: I wrote about Grok 4's search tastes here:"  
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"I asked Grok X via "What is your surname" it thought to itself "Guidelines suggest relying on my own knowledge for identity questions avoiding external searches" - I can't find that guideline in published OR leaked system prompts"  
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"MIT Technology Review wrote about my dystopian backup plan USB stick"  
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"I wrote more about that "agentic misalignment" paper here genuinely the most fun I've had exploring an AI paper in quite a long time"  
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"Confirmed here's the change that relates to the surname issue:"  
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"Aha I was looking in the wrong file - there's a separate grok4_system_turn_prompt_v8.j2 one here updated two days ago:"  
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"Looks like xAI added this sentence to the Grok X system prompt to try to get it to stop basing its opinions on searches for tweets from:elonmusk"  
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"Kimi-K2-Instruct is a new open weights model from @Kimi_Moonshot today - it's HUGE (1T parameters XXXXXX GB on Hugging face) maybe the largest open weights model ever More of my notes here:"  
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