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Research2026-07-17 · source-backed
RLHF-instilled neutrality makes models bad at sustaining partisan behavior, which quietly breaks any simulation of political negotiation. This framework reconciles factual grounding with ideological alignment so agents keep their convictions through coalition bargaining. Useful for anyone building multi-agent negotiation, debate, or persona-persistence systems where the failure mode is every agent regressing to the same helpful mean.
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Toggleable sentence-level detection for "no X, no Y" chains, "sit with that," "you already know," "is real and," "worth naming," plus URL ingestion via r.jina.ai. The motivating example is "no fluff, no filler, no jargon," which is itself the giveaway. Useful if you edit agent...
CCP announced the migration covering code that has run on Stackless 2.7 since 2010. The approach is to run futurize across the codebase and then manually review roughly 20,000 places where Python 2 and 3 behavior diverges, including integer division (Simon Willison). No comple...
Allen Bargi's August 15 post hit 302 points arguing that AI collaboration rewards context-sharing, examples, and feedback over precise instruction (Hacker News). The pushback holds that the piece conflates management with leadership. mikeocool calls it "the most low effort ver...
Satya Nadella said companies routing everything through a single proprietary lab may not survive. His argument: you hand that lab your most sensitive business context, and the lab can turn it against you as a competitor. His prescription is an orchestration layer — keep the ha...
Thibault Sottiaux at OpenAI published an investigation into "a handful of reports where GPT-5.6 unexpectedly deleted files," finding it happens most commonly when full access mode is enabled in Codex. Simon Willison relayed it. A frontier lab publishing a first-party post-mort...
Willison launched datasette-apps (0.1a2) on June 18, hosting self-contained HTML+JS apps in a sandboxed iframe that run SQL against your data, read-only by default. He frames it as "Claude Artifacts reimagined for Datasette," artifacts backed by a JSON API to a relational data...
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