Something terrible just happened. My wife, Elise Cawley, was recovering from heart surgery and had just attended virtually a celebration for one of our children when she had a freak, vast cardiovascular event—and died instantly. We had been together for … Read more
We knew this day would come. Some of us have known for decades, have been writing and pontificating about this since Ken Jennings lost at Jeopardy and Kasparov lost at chess. The writing was on the wall, and now the … Read more
Agent skills that fact-check the internet. Point your agent at a viral YouTube video, article, tweet, or PDF — get a claim-by-claim verification report with sources and a BS score (0–10) instead of taking “10 WAYS TO MAKE MONEY WITH … Read more
New SBCL versions are usually released at the end of each month: check the Sourceforge File List to see the current version. The new features of all SBCL releases are listed below. New in version 2.6.7, 2026-07-28 Back to top … Read more
A post by Dario Amodei, Anthropic CEO Over the last few days there has been a lot of discussion about open-weights models, especially those from China. Reports suggest that some US officials are considering banning the use of Chinese open-weights … Read more
Let Over Lambda by Doug Hoyte Lisp Moving Forth Moving Lisp Weird By Design This chapter is a culmination of many macro techniques we have looked at so far in this book. Using macro abstractions we have developed, we create … Read more
Why is everyone in such a rush? Walk into any bookstore, and you’ll see how to Teach Yourself Java in 24 Hours alongside endless variations offering to teach C, SQL, Ruby, Algorithms, and so on in a few days or … Read more
Why The Atlantic and the Moral Panic Machine Are Misdiagnosing the “End of Reading” I had started my last post by promising to go into further detail on a paper I co-authored that explored a pedagogical framework for teaching English … Read more
Writing code is the #1 usage of LLMs right now. In the future that will likely change to automation (powering agents’ thinking as they work on tasks), but for today, the explosion of vibe coding has had a real effect … Read more
For the past few years, Simon Willison has tested every major LLM release with the same prompt: “Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle”. What began as a tongue-in-cheek benchmark has become one of the most famous informal … Read more