2026-06-30 02:36:18
Tiniest TIL, using AppleScript to count the number of open browser tabs in Safari:
osascript -e 'tell application "Safari" to count tabs of every window'
Tags: safari, til, applescript
2026-06-30 00:17:59
Ornith-1.0: Self-Scaffolding LLMs for Agentic Coding
This is an interesting new open weights (MIT licensed) model, the first model release from DeepReinforce.[...] with variants including 9B Dense, 31B Dense, 35B MoE, and 397B MoE. Built on top of pretrained Gemma 4 and Qwen 3.5, it achieves state-of-the-art performance among open-source models of comparable size on coding benchmarks.
As far as I can tell the licenses of those underlying models is compatible with being used in this way - Gemma 4 is Apache 2.0 licensed (and not bound by the janky additional Gemma Terms of Use that afflicted the previous Gemma models) and Qwen 3.5 is Apache 2.0 licensed as well.
I've been running the model using LM Studio and the ornith-1.0-35b-Q4_K_M.gguf (20GB) GGUF, hooked up to Pi. Initial impressions are very good - it seems to be able to run the agent harness over many tool calls in a proficient way.
Here's a terminal session where I asked it to "find the code that decodes the actor cookie" and then "find the code that opens the insert dialog when thebutton is clicked" against a Datasette checkout, which it handled with ease.
I also had it draw this pelican, which came out at 103 tokens/second:
It's a little bit mangled but the pelican is clearly a pelican.
I couldn't find much information about DeepReinforce themselves. The earliest paper I could find from the was CUDA-L1: Improving CUDA Optimization via Contrastive Reinforcement Learning from June 2025.
Tags: ai, generative-ai, local-llms, llms, qwen, pelican-riding-a-bicycle, gemma, llm-release, lm-studio
2026-06-29 05:57:41
HumanAgent in the loopI dislike the phrase “human in the loop” because it cedes authority to the machines. Let’s flip the narrative. It’s our loop, we work the same way we always have, now we recruit agents to join the team. An agent-assisted process need not be a black box that takes in prompts and emits features. [...]
Let’s do agentic software development like that. Not as a loop we’ve been excluded from, instead as one we invite agents into.
— Jon Udell, “Doctor, it hurts when agents create unreviewable PRs.” “Don’t do that.”
Tags: jon-udell, coding-agents, generative-ai, agentic-engineering, ai, llms
2026-06-29 03:26:11
I learned about this initiative from DJ Patil this morning:
It’s a 4-week, high-velocity production sprint for undergraduate students, graduate students, and recent graduates who want to build something real this summer.
You’ll learn how to identify a project, make steady progress, get support from mentors and peers, and create tangible, public-facing work you can actually show future employers.
Hack Your Summer is partly a reaction to the internship crisis facing US college students this year. There are way fewer available internships than usual, as companies have reduced their hiring ambitions and teams have less capacity to coach interns.
Hack Your Summer provides an alternative path for the many students who didn't catch one of those rare internships.
A second (free) cohort starts on July 13th, and the deadline for students to apply is July 8th. They're also accepting volunteers to help mentor the students.
Tags: careers
2026-06-27 06:25:46
This is a bad state of affairs. Consider, in particular, some industry dynamics:
- Frontier models are trained at an enormous cost, and a significant fraction of that cost is recouped in the few post-release months that they are broadly available. After that period elapses, the models become sub-frontier, competition emerges, and margins compress. Every week of delay is eating into the narrow window that labs have to make their accounting work.
- The ongoing AI infrastructure buildout—the one that is, according to former US AI Czar David Sacks, essential to the US economy, assumes a functionally global total addressable market for US AI services. No one is building $100 billion dollar data centers to serve frontier models to whatever 100 companies the US government will allow access. [...]
— Dean W. Ball, 35 thoughts on what has happened and what America should do
Tags: anthropic, generative-ai, openai, ai, llms
2026-06-27 05:15:09
This is like saying there's no learning curve to being a manager because your employees will just do whatever you tell them to do.
— Timothy B. Lee, on the idea that LLMs take no skill and have no learning curve
Tags: llms, ai, generative-ai
