Finally, a replacement for BERT: Introducing ModernBERT

microsoft/phi-4 Here's the official release of Microsoft's Phi-4 LLM, now officially under an MIT license. A few weeks ago I covered the earlier unofficial versions, where I talked about how the model used synthetic training data in some really interesting ways. It benchmarks favorably compared to GPT-4o, suggesting this is yet another example of...

One agent is just software, two agents are an undebuggable mess. — Andriy Burkov Tags: ai-agents, ai

Why are my live regions not working? Useful article to help understand ARIA live regions. Short version: you can add a live region to your page like this: Then any time you use JavaScript to modify the text content in that element it will be announced straight away by any screen readers - that's the "assertive" part. Using "polite" instead will...

uv python install --reinstall 3.13 I couldn't figure out how to upgrade the version of Python 3.13 I had previous installed using uv - I had Python 3.13.0.rc2. Thanks to Charlie Marsh I learned the command for upgrading to the latest uv-supported release: uv python install --reinstall 3.13 I can confirm it worked using: uv run --python 3.13...

I followed this curiosity, to see if a tool that can generate something mostly not wrong most of the time could be a net benefit in my daily work. The answer appears to be yes, generative models are useful for me when I program. It has not been easy to get to this point. My underlying fascination with the new technology is the only way I have...