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18:48
2026-07-09
swelljoe.com
large-language-models

The Elements of AI Style

A developer critiques AI model verbosity and sycophancy, sharing their use of Strunk & White's "omit needless words" instruction in AGENTS.md. They note OpenAI's new GPT-5.6 docs advise against generi…

20:35
2026-07-04
swelljoe.com
large-language-models

Why I Had to Switch to GPT for Nelson

A software developer switched from Claude's Opus 4.8 to GPT for work on the Nelson project after Opus began refusing to perform security-related bug verification tasks. The developer found that Opus, …

22:13
2026-07-03
swelljoe.com
ai-safety

I Let Every Agent Implement Its Own Flar Resume Backend

Developer Joe Swell built flar, a tool to sandbox AI agents using bubblewrap, and discovered that each agent CLI implements history and resume differently, requiring custom backends. He let each agent…

16:22
2026-07-01
swelljoe.com
large-language-models

How I Run Local LLMs

A developer explains how to run large language models locally, recommending Gemma 4 and Qwen 3.6 families for most users with 24-64GB memory, and noting that Gemma 4 31B is best for non-coding tasks w…

20:07
2026-06-28
swelljoe.com
large-language-models

Shell Games

A new benchmark test of Ornith 1.0, a model that builds its own task scaffolds, found that providing a full shell and Python environment doubled its bug-finding performance without increasing false po…

04:15
2026-06-23
swelljoe.com
ai-safety

Will It Mythos?

A developer created a benchmark to test whether AI models besides Anthropic's Mythos can find security bugs as effectively, using bugs Mythos discovered. The benchmark currently includes nine bugs fro…

06:26
2026-06-14
swelljoe.com
artificial-intelligence

Making Games With AI (Kind Of)

A developer building a sprite editor for Commodore 64 games integrated an LLM to automate the tedious process of interpreting sprite sheet layouts, but found that current models struggle with tiny pix…

23:32
2026-06-09
swelljoe.com
large-language-models

Open Model Censorship

Self-hosted open models DeepSeek V4 Flash and Qwen 3.6 refuse to generate content about the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, while willingly producing poems about other state violence like…