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OpenAI and longtime US government contractor Leidos announce a partnership to roll out generative and agentic AI tools for specific missions at federal agencies (Miranda Nazzaro/FedScoop)
https://fedscoop.com/openai-chatgpt-le

OpenAI, Leidos partner to deploy AI for federal agency missions
While AI is increasingly used in agencies already, company leaders say the collaboration will help tailor the technology to specific missions.

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I very much enjoyed the first third of the book "Crafting Interpreters". It's about building a tree-walk interpreter for Lox, a programming language specifically created for this book. The interpreter in the book is implemented in Java. I, of course, used Kotlin for my implementation.
https://craftinginterpreters.com/

Senior Microsoft Product Manager Wendy Breiding discusses in this recent post how you can now customize your IDE to include agentic AI to your project that is focused on tasks related to a specific language or UI stack, in this case: C# and WinForms. The results have been positive when comparing these agents to previous more general approaches.
"Introducing Custom Agents for .NET Developers: C# Expert & WinForms Expert"

Language conversations have become highly performative,
with a fixation on the words people are using,
not why they’re using them
or what they’re reaching for when they deploy language
like “crazy,” “lame,” or the r-word
(currently experiencing a resurgence in popularitythanks to Elon Musk).
The language is a metaphor:
We call something “insane” because that word carries a specific baggage and burden.
But the fact that mental illness is stil…

Language Wars
Conversations about language were supposed to be a starting point rather than an ending one.

That’s the key problem. People have very vague ideas that can easily and accurately be expressed in natural language and LLMs operate in the vagueness. A programmer will demand specificity before starting to code anything, which is a real nuisance to people with vague ideas about wanting some sort of app. https://in…

"What color is your function?" is a wonderful title. It's so good, the title alone could win the Sundance Festival.
But that post is about a JavaScript-specific limitation (not applicable to other languages), and some wishful bikeshedding about syntax (which turns out to be a leaky abstraction that makes locking ambiguous, very problematic in low-level languages).
But *color* is so catchy. It's not well defined that post, but you can't have "color"…

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A look at various quirks in AI-generated prose, mainly influenced by "overfitting" in AI models, as humans increasingly mimic AI language in writing and speech (Sam Kriss/New York Times)
https://www.ny…

Why Does A.I. Write Like … That?
If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive — and grating — voice.

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