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Why Clay Has an AI Writing Policy - The GTM with Clay Blog

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 06:15:05 +0000

As of 2026, AI models — despite their coding ability — are not yet at a point where their unedited output will achieve this goal; you as an author need to take the time to make sure that all of the ideas in the writing are the ideas that you personally intend to convey (including the structure and wording that determines which ideas are emphasized) and that the documents are a good use of your readers’ time.

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Introducing Flint - Recursive

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 16:55:33 +0000

We’re introducing Recursive Flint, a mixture-of-experts (MoE) model built for fast agentic coding on local hardware. Flint has 40 billion total parameters and activates just 2.5 billion per token. Our small team of people and agents built it from scratch in under four months.

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RecursiveSI/flint · Hugging Face

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 16:55:06 +0000

Flint is Recursive’s mixture-of-experts language model for coding agents, with 39.8 billion total parameters and approximately 2.5 billion active per token. It is designed to investigate codebases, fix bugs, implement features, and write tests.

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What the AI era owes you. No one is going to save your career… | by Dan Maccarone | Oct, 2026 | UX Collective

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 21:38:53 +0000

This is not the pep talk anyone wants. The pep talk is that it’ll be fine, new jobs are coming, somebody’s got it handled, but that’s a lie. The reality is, nobody is coming to retrain you, but that is not the end of the story.

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a new model for open source: closed to pull requests, open to remix.

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:42:33 +0000

For what's the point of reading a pull request that's been generated by code? All I want is to read and understand the core idea. If it's a good idea, I might incorporate it back upstream, but there should be no expectation that I will. You see, open source software is open source by definition because the license says that it's as is, and that as is permits you to remix software.

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Grieving the loss of details | purplesyringa's blog

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:16:33 +0000

If anyone can point an LLM at slow code and it automatically finds a hot loop and uses a trick it found somewhere on the 'net to vectorize it, there is little point in hiring someone with a focus on that. If an LLM can analyze the code and explain pointer provenance to you and babysit you until you get it, there is little value in expertise. I cannot use LLMs this way. I get almost physically ill when I work on a project with more source code files or at least general architecture than I can keep in my head, so I don’t get anything out of expanded scope.

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What a year — Massively Parallel Procrastination

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:53:57 +0000

For 40 years, writing code was a huge part of my life. Right up until October 9th, 2025. One year ago today. That was the last time I wrote a line of code.

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AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter \ Anthropic

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 22:17:23 +0000

Our experiments suggest that small AI models may be months away from being capable enough to self-replicate on commercial IoT devices, like smart ovens and off-brand Android TV boxes. A replicator like this would be challenging to shut down, since there’s no centralized point to shut off - though it may be slow (with a doubling time of days). Unlike non-AI malware, it could also figure out unfamiliar devices on its own. In our evals, a 9B model got inference running on 8 of the 9 hardware types we tested.

Tags: #ai #botnets #llms #security #worms

Court Finds That Using Copyrighted Material as AI Training Data Is Not Fair Use

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 20:10:03 +0000

Now, the legal system is starting to show signs that the defense could be on thin ice. Last week, a US appeals court upheld a ruling that AI legal research company Ross Intelligence had broken copyright law by training its legal search engine on materials taken from Thomson Reuters’ Westlaw legal research platform and database.

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The era of cmd + tab

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 17:29:42 +0000

Thoughtfulness about our craft and our relationship to the tools seems like an antidote to atrophy of mind. In an era where we can make literally whatever we want, what parts of the output or process are non-negotiables?

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telepath-computer/television: The missing GUI for personal agents. Television gives you and your agent a visual space for creating and working with artifacts.

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 05:42:28 +0000

Television is the missing GUI for your personal agent. It gives you a visual space for creating and working with artifacts in collaboration with your agent. It works with any agent and any model.

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Wireburst: RSS feeds in Discord, because email is the devil – Cruftbox: My Box of Cruft

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 02:36:05 +0000

The idea is simple. You point Wireburst at your RSS feeds, tell it what category they belong to, and it creates a Discord channel for each feed nested under a category group. New items show up individually. No algorithm. Just a channel you can glance at when you feel like it and ignore when you don’t.

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AI Didn’t Make Programming Easier. It Just Made It Differently Difficult – Communications of the ACM

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 16:03:15 +0000

AI does not, therefore, diminish the craft; it widens it, deepens it, and makes more of the work explicitly intellectual. The work becomes differently difficult because it demands more sophisticated forms of expertise: judgment over recall, architecture over syntax, orchestration over implementation. These are not easier skills to develop or demonstrate, they are simply different ones, and perhaps ultimately more demanding.

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Thorsten Ball - What I believe about the future of software development

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 05:57:31 +0000

This was originally posted on X and blew up. To plant my flag, to say that these are things I believed in September 2026, here it is on the blog, non-ephemeral. Some of these predictions are just observations, they’ve long been true at companies like Amp. Others will take some time to play out.

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"Slop Grenades": Shopify CEO Who Pushed Staff to Use AI Is Now Horrified by What He's Wrought

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:58:33 +0000

New reporting by Fortune revealed the disastrous results of Shopify’s all-out scramble to embrace AI nearly a year ago. After telling workers that using AI tools is a “baseline expectation” in the workplace, Lütke is now changing his tune as workers spew out AI-generated emails, memos, and code without double-checking it beforehand. “We call those ‘slop grenades’ that people toss at each other,” Lütke said in an interview on the Knowledge Project podcast. “That’s definitely a bad thing.”

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