Well, of course it's possible to do more with Claude Code now than before. But that's not necessarily a good thing. Who is using it to do what? Who benefits? Follow the money.
The hype is getting cult level insane and I don't think that is a coincidence.
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-stop-telling-me
I kinda hated writing this but I needed to do it.
Maybe now, finally, I can stop writing it in little fragments here and there, and just let it go and do something else.
https://blog.glyph.im/2025/06/i-think-im-done-thinking-about-genai-for-now.html
"I'm an American software developer and the 'broligarchs' don't speak for me".
Wherein I pour my heart out, agonize over every word, and hope I'm not misunderstood.
"How do machines make decisions? – We don’t know!
How to talk (prompt) to them? – We don’t know as well!
But, please, keep shipping to us new, larger (though we will also take smaller) models! Why? – We don’t know! But we can’t stop."
Reporters working in this area need to be on their guard and not take the claims of the AI hype-mongers (doomer OR booster variety) at face value. It takes effort to reframe, but that effort is necessary and important. We all, but especially journalists, must resist the urge to be impressed: 4/
https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/on-nyt-magazine-on-ai-resist-the-urge-to-be-impressed-3d92fd9a0edd
As a case in point, here's a quick analysis of a recent Reuters piece. For those playing along at home read it first and try to pick out the hype: 5/
https://www.reuters.com/technology/sam-altmans-ouster-openai-was-precipitated-by-letter-board-about-ai-breakthrough-2023-11-22/
I figured out how to run Mixtral on my own laptop!
I used the latest llama-cpp-python (released 2 hours ago) and my llm-llama-cpp plugin, grabbed the 38.4GB GGUF file from https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1-GGUF/blob/main/mixtral-8x7b-instruct-v0.1.Q6_K.gguf and ran the following incantation:
llm -m gguf -o path mixtral-8x7b-instruct-v0.1.Q6_K.gguf '[INST] Write a Python function that accepts a URL to a CSV file, downloads it and loads it into a SQLite database, creating a table with the correct columns[/INST]'
Playing with this.
Glyph
ratfactor
Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)
Simon Willison
