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Weekend Reading — Ancient Ruins
Tech Stuff
How I Use AI An ever growing list of ways in which David Bauer uses AI for work, life and play. Includes some interesting prompts. I took one to help Claude write for brevity.
Nine HTTP Edge Cases Every API Developer Should Understand If you're working on any web app you need to pay attention to this list. Some of these edge cases affect the application code itself, not just the front-end web server. (via Lorenzo)
DocuSeal Open-source alternative to DocuSign, PandaDoc et al, with a hosted solution that's free for individual users. Simply create PDF forms that anyone can fill and sign online using easy, mobile optimized tool and much more. (via nixCraft)
Passive-aggressive Safari warning: 😀The resource […] was preloaded using link preload but not used within a few seconds from the window's load event. Please make sure it wasn't preloaded for nothing.
Getting Claude Code to test 3rd party libraries I'm pleasently pleased (sic):
And Claude on its own would write some code, runs the test suite, decides the code is incorrect, delete it, writes different code, and so forth.
So it's learning from its own experience as it goes along … and teaching me a thing or two about the 3rd party library we're using.
vibe linking Share a link (URL) containing a natural language query that redirects to the best guess.
Peoples
Show HN: Autism Simulator This was posted to Hacker News so of course there's quite a discussion about it …
The Clean-Living Kids Fueling San Francisco’s AI Gold Rush
The two met a few years ago on 40 barren acres in Wyoming, where they were part of a group attempting to establish a community “collectively owned by 5,000 people on the ethereum blockchain.” In the current S.F. scene full of vibecoding 19-year-olds, Pat, who is 28, self-identifies as an “unc.”
Business Side
Most founders build first, market later. We're doing it backwards and it's working
no one types "real-time AI meeting assistant" into google. they type "how to not sound dumb in meetings" or "what to say when put on the spot." your landing page should sound like their internal panic, not your feature list.
ChatGPT is now 20% of Walmart’s referral traffic — while Amazon wards off AI shopping agents Mind you — as the article itself clarifies — referral clicks account for less than 5% of total site visits, so ChatGPT is under 1% of traffic to Walmart, but you'll never guess that from the reading the 20% headline. So here's a question for you, was this headline written by ChatGPT or human?
Machine Intelligence
Effective context engineering for AI agents
At Anthropic, we view context engineering as the natural progression of prompt engineering. Prompt engineering refers to methods for writing and organizing LLM instructions for optimal outcomes (see our docs for an overview and useful prompt engineering strategies). Context engineering refers to the set of strategies for curating and maintaining the optimal set of tokens (information) during LLM inference, including all the other information that may land there outside of the prompts.
I discovered ChatGPT’s best new feature: Quitting things for you the hardest problem in computer science is cancelling your subscription
So I pulled up ChatGPT, and tapped on a button for its new agent mode. (To access it, you need a $20-per-month upgrade called ChatGPT Plus — yes, another subscription.)
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Quitting subscriptions is a particularly hard test for agents, because many websites confuse even humans. In several cases, the AI couldn’t find a way through all the hoops.When I asked ChatGPT to quit Uber One, it spent more than 17 minutes bouncing around Uber websites and searching the web for how to quit, but still couldn’t.
I have access to the new vibe working feature (lol) in Microsoft 365 and just asked it to "make a spreadsheet about how our EDR tool blocks 100% of ransomware". It did it, completely made up the data for me, off to send this to CIO now and go play Fortnite.
Insecurity
Jaguar Land Rover Gets $2 Billion Guarantee from U.K. During Cyber Attack Struggle, Seeks $2.7B More Is this the biggest — by finaincial cost — cyber attack? (via Dare Obasanjo)
Tile Tracking Tags Can Be Exploited by Tech-Savvy Stalkers, Researchers Say
Tile device-finding tags, unlike Apple/Google tags, broadcast their MAC address and unique ID unencrypted, letting stalkers, Tile or law enforcement track people/items, per new study done by security researchers. Tile stores all of this location information in a database on its servers. The tag's anti-theft mode also undoes its anti-stalking protection - making any tag put in anti-theft mode invisible to someone doing a scan to detect rogue tags being used to stalk them.
Everything Else
mitten "Someone has built a cocktail bar for the pigeons. Absolutely delightful!"
ah yes, the time of year has arrived when i look out at the dark, think "it must be near 10 pm, and its only 8
Just announced to my kids that they get to enjoy my VibeParenting from here on out
LinkedIn guy: Where others saw a trolley problem, I saw a trolley opportunity…
Ben Werdmuller "War ravaged Portland"
I hope this email finds you lying in the hammock strung between the fruit trees in the farthest corner of the yard.
Goal-writing as a people manager is totally one of those "do as I say and not as I do" things.
Archaeo-Histories "Kids Exploring Ancient Ruins 😄"
This feels equivalent to how I keep scoring great coffee equipment for cheap, sold by people who don’t know about descaler.
Today was the day I decided, I will not wait in call queues anymore. I ordered an expensive sound production product, and the retailer by mistake sent me the wrong version. So I called them and got the "you are now number 6 in line…" No I am not. I just hung up, returned the product, and ordered somewhere else. Some businesses think "customer service" means we customers service them. I am done. Just say no.
Introducing Kagi News When you want a daily summary of the news in your browser. You can select which categories you're interested reading, it shows well written headlines (with fun emojis), click the headline to expand into a summary that lists the sources, highlights, and some other useful info. Yes it's AI summarizing the news, but it's the perfect use of AI wrapped with a delightful UI.
HSBC unleashes yet another “qombie”: a zombie claim of quantum advantage that isn’t The next bubble is quantum computing:
As they say, there are more red flags here than in a People’s Liberation Army parade. To critique this paper is not quite “shooting fish in a barrel,” because the fish are already dead before we’ve reached the end of the abstract.
Inflammation now predicts heart disease more strongly than cholesterol What this article is saying is that thanks to statins being affordable — and many people now take statins — the second predictor of heart disease (inflammation) becomes more relevant. But that's if you can get an hs-CRP blood test, which sadly most insurance providers don't cover yet.
