An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
It turns out the high volume of complaints that Claude Code was providing worse quality results over the past two months was grounded in real problems.
The models themselves were not to blame, but t…
LlamaIndex have a most excellent open source project called LiteParse, which provides a Node.js CLI tool for extracting text from PDFs. I got a version of LiteParse working entirely in the browser, using most of the same libraries that LiteParse u…
Changes to GitHub Copilot Individual plans
On the same day as Claude Code’s temporary will-they-won’t-they $100/month kerfuffle (for the moment, they won’t), here’s the latest on GitHub Copilot pricing.
Unlike Anthropic, GitHub put up an official…
Anthropic today quietly (as in silently, no announcement anywhere at all) updated their claude.com/pricing page (but not their Choosing a Claude plan page, which shows up first for me on Google) to add this tiny but significant detail (arrow is mi…
AI agents are already too human. Not in the romantic sense, not because they love or fear or dream, but in the more banal and frustrating one. The current implementations keep showing their human origin again and again: lack of stringency, lack of…
Agentic Engineering Patterns >
Here’s an example of a deceptively short prompt that got a lot of work done in a single shot.
First, some background. I send out a free Substack newsletter around once a week containing content copied-and-past…
A fun thing about recording a podcast with a professional like Lenny Rachitsky is that his team know how to slice the resulting video up into TikTok-sized short form vertical videos. Here’s one he shared on Twitter today which ended up attracting …
I was a guest on Lenny Rachitsky’s podcast, in a new episode titled An AI state of the union: We’ve passed the inflection point, dark factories are coming, and automation timelines. It’s available on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts. Here are …
Most developers use Claude Code for simple tasks, but it can do much more than that. Once you start exploring its advanced features, it…Continue reading on Towards AI »
Note that the main issues that people currently unknowingly face with local models mostly revolve around the harness and some intricacies around model chat templates and prompt construction. Sometimes there are even pure inference bugs. From typin…