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Simon Willison: The October Inflection Point for Vibe...

Simon Willison: The October Inflection Point for Vibe Game Development . “The thing I find both exciting and shameful about this is that I have got interesting results from so little creative input.”

Kottke · EN

Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars

Technology Connections · EN

Love the idea of a volta, a pivotal point. “The moment...

Love the idea of a volta , a pivotal point. “The moment when an acquaintance becomes a friend, when a song goes from background noise to what I will demand people play at my funeral.” Or when a novel goes from boring to incredible .

Kottke · EN

Announcing Rust 1.99.1

The Rust team has published a new point release of Rust, 1.99.1. Rust is a programming language that is empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup, getting Rust 1.99.1 is as easy as: rustup update stable If you don't have it already, you can get rustup from the appropriate page on our website. What's in 1.99.1 Rust 1.99.1 fixes the following regressions from prior releases: Missing symbol wcslen : Some Rust targets were getting link errors for missing wcslen , and that function is now present in Rust's compiler-buil

Rust Blog · EN

There's no point at which turning your brain off will work

In early 2025, I started seeing people turn off their brain as they use LLMs 1 . They would have an LLM take an action (summarize text, write some code, etc.), and just assume that it worked 2 . This generally didn't work in early 2025 and the result was often quite silly. As LLMs have gotten better, I've seen more of this. Sometimes, people will try to get the LLM to write some code for them and basically just assume that it works 3 . Sometimes there's a human in the loop and, if the thing doesn't work, they'll ask the LLM to figure out the problem and solve it. Niklas Gruhn calls some varian

Dan Luu · EN