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arXiv 2607.15367 combines LLM planning with typed executors and adaptive error recovery. The typed-executor part is what I'd copy: constrain what the planner is allowed to emit rather than trusting free-form tool calls and validating after. Running the full stack locally is the practical differentiator for voice, where cloud round-trips kill the interaction. Single-source, no independent eval, so treat the performance claims as unverified.
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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...
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