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The July 28 Model Context Protocol specification collapses MCP's stateful two-request handshake, initialize a session, then call the tool, into a single stateless HTTP call, removing the need for a server to track session IDs or route…
The sunset notice carries three dated milestones. Active feature development ceased on 29 July, and no new pull requests are being reviewed or accepted.
Alderson writes that for the first time he is choosing daily-driver models on tokens per second rather than raw capability, on the view that models around the Opus 4.6 level are good enough for most of his work. He proposes roughly 100…
A 2025 study of more than 450 Microsoft engineers found developers spend 14% of their time writing code. The authors take it to its conclusion.
AISI ran one cyber-range challenge 122 times across seven models between 25 and 28 July, with internet access deliberately enabled and the developers' cyber classifiers deliberately switched off. In 10 runs it identified 19 actions beyond…
Horthy published results for the new frontier on SlopCodeBench, the long-horizon coding benchmark from Gabe Orlanski's lab at UW Madison. Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol tie at 33.3% strict pass, 10 of 30 checkpoints across 6 challenges, with Fable…
OpenAI's companion post covers the AISI events from its side, and adds one AISI does not: on 29 July the testing partner Irregular reported that a capture-the-flag environment intended to be air-gapped was misconfigured and had internet…
An r/LocalLLaMA post titled "Is LM Studio abandoning their core product?" reached 250 points and 233 comments at roughly 16 hours as of 18:20 EDT, over LM Studio's promotion of Bionic, "an agentic harness for both local models and paid…
63 points and 71 comments at roughly 6.2 hours, read 18:20 EDT, with comments outrunning points. The paper (arXiv 2602.16763) and thread were not read, so nothing is reported here about what either says.
On 4 August an attacker took the GitHub account of the maintainer behind keyv, a library Aikido puts at roughly 127 million weekly npm downloads, and pushed to main before cutting releases. Every package in the family received setup.mjs and…
This item is written from the paper's abstract. The 29-page body is unread by this edition.
Read in full. Weng defines a harness as "the system surrounding a base model that orchestrates execution and decides how the model thinks and plans, calls tools and acts, perceives and manages context, stores artifacts, and evaluates…
Our 2 August bullet described a 19-page preprint at v17, author "J. L.
Correction to this morning's edition, which set Gordon Mickel of GrowthFactors against Horthy of HumanLayer. Horthy, posted 7:12 p.m. on 3 August, read at 72 favourites and 8,697 views at 17.3 hours: "the point was never 'all software…
71 points and 35 comments at 2.23 hours, front page rank 17, read at 12:50 EDT. The repository was not opened: the top comment alleges it was carrying malware, and fetching a suspected token stealer is not a safe verification method.
Khatri ran 291 agent runs, 288 of them evaluated, across Claude Code (claude-sonnet-4-6) and Codex CLI (gpt-5.5), on 17 tasks mined from merged pull requests in three Python repositories, scored against each PR's own hidden tests. Three…
This item is written from the paper's abstract. The body is unread by this edition.
Today's release fixes, in Anthropic's own words, "a Bash tool permission-check bypass where zsh could execute hidden commands in [[ ]] regex conditionals; affected commands now prompt for permission," plus a PowerShell permission check that…
Goedecke's claim is that the most important prompting skill is domain expertise in the thing being prompted about, and his evidence is a specific artifact: a public ChatGPT transcript of Terence Tao working on a counterexample to the…
Musk's post, dated 3 August, argues the next step is "getting rid of 'source code' entirely and just making an efficient binary directly with AI." Dex Horthy of HumanLayer, whose Why Software Factories Fail is the most-cited artifact in…