Alert Scout Daily Report - 2026-09-05
Summary
Total Alerts: 35
Rules Matched: 6
Rule: clojure
Matches: 4
Decoupling from the Data POV: Stop-and-Start Boundaries, Independent Pointers, and Why Your Code (and AI) Need It
- Feed: planet-clojure
- Link: https://dev.to/warmpondater/decoupling-from-the-data-pov-stop-and-start-boundaries-independent-pointers-and-why-your-code-49c2
- Published: 2026-08-30 20:27
Babashka 1.13.220 gets FFI
- Feed: planet-clojure
- Link: https://blog.michielborkent.nl/babashka-ffi.html
- Published: 2026-08-31 23:59
Matched Content:
- [Content] … is also available as a standalone library for JVM Clojure, so you can use it in your Clojure projects as well. Note that the API is still…
- [Content] … and unions. Like coffi, babashka.ffi builds on java.lang.foreign and makes you manage memory…
- [Content] … rather than segfaults that tear down your REPL and you can use with-open to release allocated…
Why Functional Programming Makes Complex Systems Easier to Build
- Feed: planet-clojure
- Link: https://flexiana.com/news/why-functional-programming-makes-complex-systems-easier-to-build
- Published: 2026-09-03 06:25
Matched Content:
- [Title] Why Functional Programming Makes Complex Systems Easier to Build
- [Content] … in how simple or difficult things become later. Functional programming tackles this complexity directly….
- [Content] … Functions,” the content below explains how functional programming principles, especially higher-order…
Writing a Minecraft server in Clojure: it was fun
- Feed: planet-clojure
- Link: https://kirahowe.com/2026/sep/4/minecraft-server-in-clojure
- Published: 2026-09-04 12:00
Matched Content:
- [Title] Writing a Minecraft server in Clojure: it was fun
- [Content] … is a cool example of the kind of problem that Clojure makes so much simpler to solve. Having a coherent…
- [Content] … so cool when people experience the benefits of Clojure’s paradigm in real projects. It’s often a tough…
Rule: rails
Matches: 1
Government Rails Site Hit Hours After CVE Patch
- Feed: hn-frontpage
- Link: https://rietta.com/blog/ruby-on-rails-cve-exploited-hours-after-patch/
- Published: 2026-09-04 19:06
Matched Content:
- [Title] Government Rails Site Hit Hours After CVE Patch
- [Content] Article URL: https://rietta.com/blog/ruby-on-rails-cve-exploited-hours-after-patch/…
Rule: rails-deploy
Matches: 1
Lazuli, beyond Ruby: Python, JavaScript, and Elixir
- Feed: planet-clojure
- Link: https://mauricio.szabo.link/blog/2026/09/02/lazuli-beyond-ruby-python-javascript-and-elixir/
- Published: 2026-09-02 23:44
Matched Content:
- [Title] Lazuli, beyond Ruby: Python, JavaScript, and Elixir
- [Content] … “Chlorine, but for more languages than Clojure”. Ruby was the first target, for two reasons – first, because I decided to go back to the Ruby/Rails stack; and second, because it’s probably one of…
- [Content] … with Python, so I did the same thing I did for Ruby: implemented an nREPL server, and added support…
Rule: rails-testing
Matches: 1
Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove
- Feed: sean-goedecke
- Link: https://seangoedecke.com/text-ai-watermarks/
- Published: 2026-07-02 00:00
Rule: rescript
Matches: 1
OSS updates July and August 2026
- Feed: planet-clojure
- Link: https://blog.michielborkent.nl/oss-updates-jul-aug-2026.html
- Published: 2026-09-02 23:59
Matched Content:
- [Content] … now JIT-compiles interpreted function bodies to JavaScript at runtime, which closes a lot of the gap with compiled ClojureScript: a tight numeric loop went from ~175ms to ~7ms,…
Rule: rule-ai
Matches: 27
GPT-6 Astra in code review: Gains, privacy, and cost
- Feed: hn
- Link: https://www.coderabbit.ai/blog/gpt-6-astra-code-review-evaluation
- Published: 2026-09-05 03:38
Matched Content:
- [Title] GPT-6 Astra in code review: Gains, privacy, and cost
Show HN: TERMy – A fast terminal assistant that does not use LLMs
- Feed: hn
- Link: https://github.com/gioblu/NPC-Forge/blob/main/docs/development.md
- Published: 2026-09-04 09:03
Matched Content:
- [Title] … – A fast terminal assistant that does not use LLMs
GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter
- Feed: hn
- Link: https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-6-astra
- Published: 2026-09-04 21:39
Matched Content:
- [Title] GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter
Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%
- Feed: hn
- Link: https://engineering.atspotify.com/2026/9/portal-by-spotify-cut-my-claude-code-token-usage-by-90
- Published: 2026-09-04 23:38
Matched Content:
- [Title] Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%
Show HN: Moadim.io – A scheduler for agents
- Feed: hn-frontpage
- Link: https://moadim.io/
- Published: 2026-09-04 23:50
Matched Content:
- [Content] … use it in a daily manner. It currently supports Claude, Codex, Hermes, and Pi, and you are welcome to…
AI “features” and integrations should remove friction, not add it
- Feed: planet-clojure
- Link: https://kirahowe.com/2026/aug/31/remove-friction
- Published: 2026-08-31 12:00
Matched Content:
- [Content] … I build are effectively some version of “use an LLM to make this feel like magic”. I can appreciate the sentiment behind this in the sense that LLMs appear remarkably capable when asked simple…
- [Content] … but it is also way too easy to just throw an LLM into the mix and actually end up making…
- [Content] … of engineering discipline it takes to make LLMs actually complete tasks reliably or do anything…
AI GPUs probably live longer than three years
- Feed: sean-goedecke
- Link: https://seangoedecke.com/ai-gpus-live-longer-than-three-years/
- Published: 2026-06-15 00:00
Matched Content:
- [Content] … are under-cooled, or that something about LLM utilization is more stressful than the workloads…
AI inference is obviously profitable
- Feed: sean-goedecke
- Link: https://seangoedecke.com/ai-inference-is-obviously-profitable/
- Published: 2026-06-26 00:00
Matched Content:
- [Content] … so will AI products. According to this view, LLMs are just inherently too expensive (in terms of…
- [Content] … are at about one dollar per million tokens. GPT-5.4-mini charges $4.50 per million tokens, and…
- [Content] … 80% profit margin is extremely plausible. Open LLMs demonstrate that inference is profitable What if…
C2PA only works if everything is signed
- Feed: sean-goedecke
- Link: https://seangoedecke.com/c2pa-only-works-if-everything-is-signed/
- Published: 2026-07-06 00:00
Matched Content:
- [Content] … image, that tool should include a “made by ChatGPT” disclaimer in that image’s metadata. Likewise,…
- [Content] … official private key). Likewise, if you ask ChatGPT to generate an image for you, ChatGPT will sign its “made by ChatGPT” metadata with OpenAI’s private key. In theory,…
Blog about things you don’t understand yet
- Feed: sean-goedecke
- Link: https://seangoedecke.com/blog-about-things-you-dont-understand-yet/
- Published: 2026-07-07 00:00
Matched Content:
- [Content] … yet quite understand but would like to, like LLM steering, Stripe’s Tempo blockchain, C2PA and watermarking, space cooling, interaction models, LLM inference internals, and so on. This is great for…
In defense of not understanding your codebase
- Feed: sean-goedecke
- Link: https://seangoedecke.com/in-defense-of-not-understanding-your-codebase/
- Published: 2026-07-11 00:00
What does “playing politics” mean for software engineers?
- Feed: sean-goedecke
- Link: https://seangoedecke.com/playing-politics/
- Published: 2026-07-14 00:00
Overtraining as the path to human-like AI
- Feed: sean-goedecke
- Link: https://seangoedecke.com/overtraining-as-the-path-to-human-like-ai/
- Published: 2026-07-18 00:00
Matched Content:
- [Content] … in which he offers a theory about why LLMs don’t possess truly flexible human-like intelligence, and how we might train LLMs that do. Theories like this are entirely…
- [Content] … AI. Written in 2024, just after the release of GPT-4, Aschenbrenner gets a lot of things right: the…
- [Content] … clusters, the importance of the code around the LLM (what he calls “unhobbling”)1, and the fact that…
Impro is a handbook for running a cult
- Feed: sean-goedecke
- Link: https://seangoedecke.com/impro/
- Published: 2026-07-19 00:00
Powerful AIs might escape containment by releasing themselves as open-weight models
- Feed: sean-goedecke
- Link: https://seangoedecke.com/powerful-ais-might-escape-by-releasing-open-weight-models/
- Published: 2026-07-23 00:00
Matched Content:
- [Content] … out? Why the boxing problem is hard for frontier LLMs This is a big reason why traditional AI safety…
- [Content] … access, money, and weapons, as far back as GPT-4. LLMs don’t need to persuade users to give them the…
- [Content] … will happen. But the other reason is that modern LLMs are too large to survive in the wild. I think…
LLMs reward expertise
- Feed: sean-goedecke
- Link: https://seangoedecke.com/llms-reward-expertise/
- Published: 2026-07-24 00:00
Matched Content:
- [Title] LLMs reward expertise
- [Content] … sort-of-okay CSS by delegating the task to an LLM. LLMs make everybody into a generalist. Because of…
- [Content] … think there’s any skill involved in working with LLMs. If you want the product that LLMs can deliver — PhD-level mathematics, pretty good…
AI models need moral support to make discoveries
- Feed: sean-goedecke
- Link: https://seangoedecke.com/ai-models-need-moral-support/
- Published: 2026-07-31 00:00
Matched Content:
- [Content] … once or twice a year somebody would say that an LLM came up with a proof, and then everyone would…
- [Content] … it’s a flood. Almost every day I see some new LLM-produced mathematical result. Prompt…
- [Content] … the prompting is. The strategy for prompting Claude Mythos to come up with a cryptographic…
How to keep thinking
- Feed: sean-goedecke
- Link: https://seangoedecke.com/how-to-keep-thinking/
- Published: 2026-08-07 00:00
Matched Content:
- [Content] … experience to spend your day close-reading LLM output: carefully chewing and savoring each…
- [Content] … your peers. I sometimes worry that working with LLMs is making me dumber. Not in the “literally…
- [Content] … I don’t want to attribute this shift entirely to LLMs, since the post-2010s tech industry has become…
Advanced AI sycophancy
- Feed: sean-goedecke
- Link: https://seangoedecke.com/advanced-ai-sycophancy/
- Published: 2026-08-10 00:00
Matched Content:
- [Content] … the removal of OpenAI’s most sycophantic model (GPT-4o), and many people were openly slipping into AI…
- [Content] … of AI sycophancy target the obvious ChatGPT-4o-style of sycophancy: delusion reinforcement,…
No, local models will not win
- Feed: sean-goedecke
- Link: https://seangoedecke.com/local-models-will-not-win/
- Published: 2026-08-11 00:00
Matched Content:
- [Content] … be able to run something about as strong as GPT-5.6-Sol on your laptop. But by then, you’ll think of GPT-5.6-Sol as too weak to be useful. Many people…
- [Content] … their price range. If AI progress had stalled at GPT-4, I think we could have built some very powerful tools around it, but who’d use GPT-4 today? As LLMs have gotten more capable, our expectations…
- [Content] … as those big bad datacenters. If you want to run LLMs efficiently, you should be trying to push as…
AI text watermarking is not a big deal
- Feed: sean-goedecke
- Link: https://seangoedecke.com/ai-text-watermarking-is-not-a-big-deal/
- Published: 2026-08-16 00:00
Matched Content:
- [Content] … planning to include a hidden watermark in Claude model outputs. Will this lead to a mass exodus…
- [Content] … choose “grey”. This is not how it works! If Claude Fable prefers “overcast” to “grey” in a…
- [Content] … rhetorical opposition, punchy one-liners, “claudese”, and so on. In fact, it’s possible to train…
Help peer
- Feed: sean-goedecke
- Link: https://seangoedecke.com/help-peer/
- Published: 2026-08-18 00:00
Matched Content:
- [Content] … that if superintelligence looks anything like LLMs, we’re not going to have a single perfect mind….
Readers can’t identify watermarked AI text
- Feed: sean-goedecke
- Link: https://seangoedecke.com/readers-cant-identify-watermarked-ai-text/
- Published: 2026-08-21 00:00
Matched Content:
- [Content] … pick that token”. ↩ Some notes from the vibing: GPT-5.6-Sol put extraneous text all over the page I…
Selling out
- Feed: sean-goedecke
- Link: https://seangoedecke.com/selling-out/
- Published: 2026-08-28 00:00
You have to beat the models at something
- Feed: sean-goedecke
- Link: https://seangoedecke.com/you-have-to-beat-the-models-at-something/
- Published: 2026-08-30 00:00
Matched Content:
- [Content] … a hundred bucks a month. What are you doing that GPT-5.6-Sol or Claude Opus 5 wouldn’t do in your position? Why is it…
- [Content] … not doing yourself any favors by pretending that LLMs can’t actually write code and it’s all just a scam, or that LLM-written code is inherently so bad as to cause…
- [Content] … work in the short term, but not forever. If LLMs can find a better lower bound on the Riemann…
How to protect yourself from workslop
- Feed: sean-goedecke
- Link: https://seangoedecke.com/how-to-protect-yourself-from-workslop/
- Published: 2026-09-02 00:00
Matched Content:
- [Content] … a colleague is simply pasting your messages into Claude Code and sending you the outputs, you can treat them like a high-latency Slack interface to Claude Code. It won’t be as good as a normal coding…
- [Content] … of carefully reading it, paste it into an LLM of your own and ask for a short list of the salient points. Second, you can sometimes simply ask an LLM for an entire response. In a sense, this makes…
Claude’s new system prompt doesn’t want to reproduce song lyrics
- Feed: hn
- Link: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/2/claudes-new-system-prompt/
- Published: 2026-09-05 10:32
Matched Content:
- [Title] Claude’s new system prompt doesn’t want to reproduce…