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China's Zhipu AI (Z.ai) released its open-weight GLM-5.2, and some researchers have claimed that it matches Mythos in certain bug-finding and cybersecurity scenarios. While GLM lags behind models from Anthropic and OpenAI in other, more general tasks, it seems that China has dramatically reduced the gap in the capabilities between its models and those of […]

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The day before Father's Day, my daughter walked into her first swimming lesson like she owned the place. She'd been dreaming about water for as long as I can remember. Barely gets exposure to it. Walked in, took to her teacher without hesitation, spent thirty minutes in an environment she loves, had a blast the entire time. All the worry I'd carried into that morning dissolved in about four seconds. Father's Day itself was quiet after that. Easy. The kind of day where you have space to pick up something you've been thinking about and actually finish it. I shipped rfd-logging to PyPI. It's a logging standard. One get_logger call. Structured JSON output. Ten megabyte rotation, five backups, stdout capture for NSSM services. Zero runtime dependencies — pure Python standard library. Forty-six tests. The kind of thing that takes an afternoon to build once you know what you want, and takes two years of building other things before you know what you want. That's the honest timeline. Over a hundred projects. Probably closer to five hundred if you count everything back far enough. Logging handled differently in every one — sometimes print statements, sometimes a library, sometimes nothing at all. Each project reinventing the same wheel slightly differently. The friction was always there. It took two years to feel it clearly enough to do something permanent about it. My second PyPI release. The first was openagent-directive — a different kind of primitive, built for a different problem. This one is smaller and more universal. Every project needs logging. Not every project needs an agent directive system. rfd-logging is the kind of package that belongs in every RFD service from day one, and eventually in anything I build regardless of context. That's what shipping to PyPI teaches that shipping locally doesn't. The question stops being "does this work for this project" and becomes "would someone else find this useful." Building with reusability in mind from the start changes th

Would you trust a sci-fi author to program critical AI systems for humanity? No? Yet, that's what we've been doing. Years ago, I remember hearing the argument: "Why don't we just prompt LLMs with Asimov's three laws of robotics ?" It sounds elegant. The laws were designed to constrain artificial minds. Why not use them? Because the model has already read every story where they fail. LLMs are statistical engines designed to autocomplete text. Imagine a story that starts like this: Once upon a time, there was a good little robot who followed the 3 laws of robotics to the letter. Now take human literature and complete the story. Does it end well? ‹ › (function() { var container = document.currentScript.closest('.ltag-slides--carousel'); var track = container.querySelector('.ltag-slides__track'); var slides = track.querySelectorAll('.ltag-slide'); var prevBtn = container.querySelector('.ltag-slides__nav--prev'); var nextBtn = container.querySelector('.ltag-slides__nav--next'); var dotsContainer = container.querySelector('.ltag-slides__dots'); var current = 0; var total = slides.length; for (var i = 0; i < total; i++) { var dot = document.createElement('button'); dot.className = 'ltag-slides__dot' + (i === 0 ? ' ltag-slides__dot--active' : ''); dot.setAttribute('aria-label', 'Go to slide ' + (i + 1)); dot.dataset.index = i; dot.addEventListener('click', function() { goTo(parseInt(this.dataset.index)); }); dotsContainer.appendChild(dot); } function goTo(index) { current = ((index % total) + total) % total; track.style.transform = 'translateX(-' + (current * 100) + '%)'; var dots = dotsContainer.querySelectorAll('.ltag-slides__dot'); for (var i = 0; i < dots.length; i++) { dots[i].classList.toggle('ltag-slides__dot--active', i === current); } } prevBtn.addEventListener('click', function() { goTo(current - 1); }); nextBtn.addEventListener('click', function() { goTo(current + 1); }); })(); It doesn't. Because the entire body of fiction built around those laws exists to explo