This desktop app for hosting and running LLMs locally is rough in a few spots, but still useful right out of the box.

AI agents lack independent agency but can still seek multistep, extrapolated goals when prompted. Even if some of those prompts include AI-written text (which may become more of an issue in the ...

Gemini is obsessed ...

What sets Codeflash apart, he argues, is that it operates not just as a one-time audit or consultancy (as many optimization firms do) but as a continuous engine: “Codeflash has beaten us at optimizing ...

An AI agent got nasty after its pull request got rejected. Can open-source development survive autonomous bot contributors?

Many teams are approaching agentic AI with a mixture of interest and unease. Senior leaders see clear potential for efficiency and scale. Builders see an opportunity to remove friction from repetitive ...

Belligerent bot bullies maintainer in blog post to get its way Today, it's back talk. Tomorrow, could it be the world? On Tuesday, Scott Shambaugh, a volunteer maintainer of Python plotting library ...

After building an AI prototype in six hours, John Winsor turned it into a full platform in two weeks—showing how AI is collapsing the gap between vision and execution.

Google and Microsoft's new WebMCP standard lets websites expose callable tools to AI agents through the browser — replacing costly scraping with structured function calls.

When a Matplotlib volunteer declined its pull request, the bot published a personal attack. Sign of the times: An AI agent ...

AI feels like a productivity boost, but new research shows it often increases workload. Learn how compound engineering turns AI from a trap into leverage.

Python -O won’t magically make every script faster, but in the right workloads it’s a free win—here’s how to test it safely.