LLM 0.18

Huge announcment from Google this morning: Introducing Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era. There's a ton of stuff in there (including updates on Project Astra and the new Project Mariner), but the most interesting pieces are the things we can start using today, built around the brand new Gemini 2.0 Flash model. The developer blog...

Who and What comprise AI Skepticism? Benjamin Riley's response to Casey Newton's piece on The phony comforts of AI skepticism. Casey tried to categorize the field as "AI is fake and sucks" v.s. "AI is real and dangerous". Benjamin argues that this as a misleading over-simplification, instead proposing at least nine different groups. I get listed...

(echo "PID COMMAND PORT USER"; lsof -i -P -n | grep LISTEN | awk '{print $2, $1, $9, $3}' | sort -u | head -n 50; echo;) | column -t | llm "what servers are running on my machine and do some of them look like they could be orphaned things I can shut down" — Rob Cheung Tags: llm, llms, ai, generative-ai

Today's 12 Days of OpenAI release concerned ChatGPT Canvas, a new ChatGPT feature that enables ChatGPT to pop open a side panel with a shared editor in it where you can collaborate with ChatGPT on editing a document or writing code. I'm always excited to see a new form of UI on top of LLMs, and it's great seeing OpenAI stretch out beyond pure...

Introducing Limbo: A complete rewrite of SQLite in Rust This looks absurdly ambitious: Our goal is to build a reimplementation of SQLite from scratch, fully compatible at the language and file format level, with the same or higher reliability SQLite is known for, but with full memory safety and on a new, modern architecture. The Turso team...