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Visit website →Don't trust it, wrap it
Assume LLMs hallucinate, loop, and ignore tools — wrap them with subagents and scripts.
Wake it up with Caps Lock
Turns the Caps Lock LED into a Morse code notifier to show Claude Code's waiting status.
Qwen3.6 Key Option
Qwen3.6 adds preserve_thinking, improving reasoning context and KV cache efficiency.
Windows Voice Assistant
A fully local voice assistant for Windows powered by Whisper and Ollama has been released.
yt-dlp Player
A web video player project that combines streaming, downloading, and HLS conversion using yt-dlp.
Opus 4.7 Improves Coding
Claude Opus 4.7 is now generally available, improving performance on difficult coding and vision tasks along with output quality.
PMs Live in the Terminal Too
A real-world account of how Claude Code and MCP shifted half a PM's workday into the terminal and VS Code.
AI Index Warning Statistics
AI performance has surged, but power, water, employment, and transparency burdens have grown right along with it.
Session Bridge
cc-tap is an experiment that connects Desktop and Code sessions using the undocumented Remote Control API.
Claude, Rate Limits Permanently Raised
Claude's Rate Limits have been permanently raised.
A Search Agent Built From a Single File
Open-sourced a web-search Research agent and a document chatbot Support agent.
LLM Turns into Opcodes
Swapped Qwen 1.5B's decoder head with a CHIP-8 opcode head and ran it directly.
64 tok/s peak on 8x MI50
A benchmark running MiniMax M2.7 AWQ on 8x MI50 32GB hit a peak of 64 tok/s.
Beyond Code, Now to the PC
Codex received a major update spanning computer use, browser control, and even image generation.
A new version isn't always better
Unlike general-purpose benchmarks, Opus 4.7 scored lower than 4.6 in a real-world workflow.
Changes to Claude thinking
Claude Opus 4.7 removes manual thinking settings and supports only adaptive thinking.
Turning Open WebUI into an app
In Open WebUI with OpenUI attached, gpt-5.4-mini responded the fastest.
Opus 4.7 Switches to Adaptive Thinking
Manual extended thinking has disappeared in Opus 4.7, leaving only adaptive thinking.
Compiling Evaluations from Context
It compresses the context of each LLM call into a Manifest to auto-bootstrap the evaluation stack.
Memory Also Learns
A local agent memory engine that re-weights memories based on failure/success feedback.