AI-Generated Slop Is Already In Your Public Library

o3-mini is really good at writing internal documentation I wanted to refresh my knowledge of how the Datasette permissions system works today. I already have extensive hand-written documentation for that, but I thought it would be interesting to see if I could derive any insights from running an LLM against the codebase. o3-mini has an input...

Ambsheets: Spreadsheets for exploring scenarios Delightful UI experiment by Alex Warth and Geoffrey Litt at Ink & Switch, exploring the idea of a spreadsheet with cells that can handle multiple values at once, which they call "amb" (for "ambiguous") values. A single sheet can then be used to model multiple scenarios. Here the cell for "Car"...

Animating Rick and Morty One Pixel at a Time Daniel Hooper says he spent 8 months working on the post, the culmination of which is an animation of Rick from Rick and Morty, implemented in 240 lines of GLSL - the OpenGL Shading Language which apparently has been directly supported by browsers for many years. The result is a comprehensive GLSL...

Build a link blog Xuanwo started a link blog inspired by my article My approach to running a link blog, and in a delightful piece of recursion his first post is a link blog entry about my post about link blogging, following my tips on quoting liberally and including extra commentary. I decided to follow simon's approach to creating a link blog,...

Constitutional Classifiers: Defending against universal jailbreaks Interesting new research from Anthropic, resulting in the paper Constitutional Classifiers: Defending against Universal Jailbreaks across Thousands of Hours of Red Teaming. From the paper: In particular, we introduce Constitutional Classifiers, a framework that trains classifier...