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November 10Tuesday
  1. The Pragmatic Engineer22

    Software Correctness & Supply Chain Security: A Conversation with Sean Allen

    The Pragmatic Engineer interviews Sean Allen, a distinguished engineer at Antithesis and core contributor to the Pony language, on software correctness and supply chain security. Allen argues that strong type systems in the ML language family catch more errors at compile time than ALGOL-family languages, and that manual testing is the worst way to ensure correctness. He also says supply chain attacks have no single simple fix, since robustly defended languages like 'E' are unpopular while popular languages assume a trustworthy ecosystem.

October 13Tuesday
  1. Recode China AI34

    DeepSeek Engineer's Viral Blog on AI Risk and Anthropic Draws Global Media Attention

    A blog by DeepSeek machine learning and kernel engineer Liu Shengyu went viral after he questioned whether frontier AI can now optimize its own low-level GPU code and compared Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to Adolf Hitler. The post drew coverage from outlets including South China Morning Post and Business Insider, amplifying debate over who should control advanced AI.

February 14Saturday
  1. Charlie O'Neill38

    The Michael Scott Paper Company of AI: Why Open-Source Specialisation Beats Frontier Labs on the Intelligence Ceiling

    Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.3-Codex both shipped last week, but the decisive contest is not raw capability. The argument holds that most economically valuable work sits in the specialisation layer, where a sub-80B model fine-tuned on a client's own data outperforms GPT-5.2 on that client's workflow — faster, cheaper, and without sending proprietary data to a third party. Open-source needs only to match the intelligence ceiling, not the frontier, and the labs' capital-dependency clock is the weaker position.