Manton Reece

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I created Micro.blog. I also have two podcasts: Core Intuition and Timetable.
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Anthropic has posted a more technical explanation of watermarking. This analogy with Monopoly made me laugh:

"On each turn, each player moves a random number of spaces around the board according to the roll of a die. Suppose that, instead of rolling the die to get this randomness, we decided to use a book of the digits of pi."

Ornate quill pen resting on a detailed hand, positioned against a textured backgroundwww.anthropic.comHow Claude's text watermarking worksFuture Claude models will generate text that contains a watermark. This is a way of determining the likelihood that Claude was involved in writing the text, and we, along with several other major AI providers, are implementing this change to comply with the EU AI Act. In this article, we share answers to some of the questions we’ve received about how our chosen watermarking method works, whether it affects Claude’s outputs, and why we’re making this change.
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John Voorhees has an initial look at ChatGPT’s Computer History feature. I enabled it this morning, but only for a few select apps like my web browser and text editors. It works well. I think I’ll keep it disabled for chat apps, since that’s a privacy can of worms that I’m not comfortable with yet.

www.macstories.netHands-On with Computer History: OpenAI’s Take on Agent MemoryLate yesterday, OpenAI revealed the sort of automation catnip I love: Computer History. It's a new feature for Pro, Business, and Enterprise subscribers that creates continuity for ChatGPT and Codex by converting the actions you take on your Mac into Markdown memory files that serve as context for subsequent interactions. The idea is that with
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Craig Mod using AI to research his family history:

"The article she saw, that led to that decision, that led to me having “Michael” as a middle name on my original birth certificate. A scan of the newspaper was in some obscure database and Claude ran it down like a pack of bloodhounds digging up a sack of livers in the backyard."

Craig ModA Swarm of Blood RobotsUsing LLMs to find relatives, build software, and do annoying things you don't want to do
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Congrats to Marco Arment on releasing his new app, Unforgetful! I love this part of the intro blog post:

"Despite constantly being told that I’d never get a good job, computers provided a lucrative career path filled with even worse academic performers who couldn’t care less about my grades. What a stroke of luck! I’d be mediocre to terrible at most jobs, but I turned out to be very good at using computers to turn coffee and Phish into money."

Even for developers who’ve had some success, releasing a new app is no small thing. The app was hung up in app review for a while too.

marco.orgUnforgetful – Marco.org