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What OpenAI's Tax Filings Reveal About Their Shifting Priorities
Tracking how OpenAI's IRS-filed mission statement evolved from open collaboration to AGI delivery, and what it means for the AI industry.
Building Tools So AI Agents Can Actually Show Their Work
Two new CLI tools tackle a critical gap in AI-assisted development: proving that agent-generated code actually works without spending hours on manual QA.
Building Tools So AI Agents Can Actually Show You What They Made
Simon Willison built Showboat and Rodney to solve a critical problem: getting coding agents to demonstrate their work without cheating.
Showboat and Rodney: Making AI Agents Prove Their Work
New CLI tools that force coding agents to demonstrate what they built, not just claim the tests pass. Because passing tests don't mean working software.
The Dark Factory: Building Software Without Ever Looking at the Code
StrongDM's AI team ships production software written entirely by agents, using Digital Twin Universes and holdout scenarios instead of human code review.
The Dark Factory: Building Software Without Looking at the Code
StrongDM's AI team ships production software using agents that write code no human reviews. Here's how they test it and why it might actually work.
Distributing Go Binaries Through PyPI: A Pattern Worth Stealing
Publishing Go binaries to PyPI via wheels opens up a fascinating way to distribute cross-platform tools. Here's why this matters for Python developers.
Shipping Go Binaries Through PyPI: A Surprisingly Elegant Hack
Why distributing compiled Go programs through Python's package index might be the most practical cross-language distribution pattern we've seen in years
Distributing Go Binaries Through PyPI: A Pattern Worth Stealing
Using Python's packaging ecosystem to distribute Go binaries feels slightly transgressive, but it unlocks something genuinely useful for developers.
OpenClaw and Moltbook: When AI Assistants Build Their Own Social Network
The viral OpenClaw project has spawned Moltbook, a social network for AI agents. It's fascinating, terrifying, and might be a disaster waiting to happen.
Moltbook: When AI Agents Build Their Own Social Network
OpenClaw's rise spawned something wild: Moltbook, a social network where AI assistants talk to each other. It's fascinating, useful, and deeply concerning.
ChatGPT's Secret Container Upgrade: Bash, Package Installs, and Network Downloads
ChatGPT's code execution got a massive upgrade nobody documented. It now runs Bash, installs npm/pip packages, and downloads files. Here's what changed.