Alcides Fonseca retweeted
A ideia de que grandes proprietários não devem participar no debate sobre habitação na Assembleia da República é profundamente antidemocrática. Apesar de todas as nossas diferenças, acho que o PCP tem todo o direito a apresentar as suas propostas.
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Ao não ser preciso entrada, mesmo com o aumento do preço, facilitou a compra da casa por parte de jovens imigrantes e nacionais.
Mas para todos os outros ficou estupidamente mais caro. Se o Montenegro não renovar os apoios que deu, as casas não se aguentam nos preços atuais.
IMHO, all three major harnesses (Codex, Claude and Cursor) need a Snow Leopard release. Two months dedicated to making the current features working spotless. No slow behaviors, no disappearing messages, no random isolation between threads/projects, clear observability.
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How long it took me to find each SWE job:
2014: 1 job applied, 0 interviews, 1 day (nepotism)
2015: 1 job applied, 2 interviews, 1 week
2016: 1 job applied, 4 interviews, 1 week
2016: 1 job applied, 0 interviews, 1 day (friend is a CEO)
2018: 1 job applied, 2 interviews, 1 week
2019: 1 job applied, 5 interviews, 1 week
2021: 1 job applied, 0 interviews, 1 day (invited)
2022: 7 jobs applied, 16 interviews, 3 months
2026: 167 jobs applied, 54 interviews, 1 year 4 months
So apparently it exists now: rstation.ai but they are not yet orchestrated as in Sakana's Agentic Scientist (pub.sakana.ai/agentic-scient…). Interesting times.
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We are hiring! I am looking to hire a PhD student to work on topics around AI evaluation from an HCI and technical standpoint. If you are interested, please apply through the Mila portal and put my name down as a potential advisor:
Mila's annual supervision request process is now open to receive MSc and PhD applications for Fall 2027 admission! For more information, visit mila.quebec/en/prospective-s…
New post on what I learned writing a proxy MCP that allows you to write multi-call policies to block data exfiltration and other harmful sequences of (individually harmless) calls.
wiki.alcidesfonseca.com/blog…
And if you’re in Java world, checkout LiquidJava.
My favorite talk from Scala Days 2026 was about baking refinement types right into the compiler.
Unlike libraries like Iron or Refined, it adds a built-in solver that verifies logic and math across multiple variables at compile time with zero runtime cost.
Moving from simple checks to full verification is how Scala's type system should evolve to constrain LLMs - AI code won't compile unless the math holds up.
Alcides Fonseca retweeted
Replying to @simonw
Everybody saying "this is just a source of revenue for Anthropic!!!" isn't thinking about the business lost from their last-gen models being near-free
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We're exploring different methods of generating documentation for test suites and need your help to evaluate them! If you have 5 minutes, please fill out the following survey: onboarding-survey-7ko.pages.…
(also, please share this with your own network)
Dumb question: OpenAI in Azure doesn't let you use structured_output with parallel jobs. Any idea why?
Models can hide functionality in its weights until a password is entered: wiki.alcidesfonseca.com/blog…
Pus o Jev da @typesafeai contra o Clef e o Clef-flash da @Cloudflare em 300 jogos de xadrez, com o Stockfish (o motor de xadrez de referência) a avaliar cada jogada.
O Clef ganhou ao Jev por 57 a 43, e o Clef-flash empatou com o Clef a um terço do preço. Para quem constrói com estes modelos, o número mais útil é a confiança: acima de 0,8, o Clef jogou a jogada do Stockfish 98% das vezes, em 112 jogadas. O Jev chegou a esse nível 4 vezes em 100 jogos.
Entre 76 e 83 de cada 100 jogos acabaram empatados, quase todos por repetição (a mesma posição três vezes). Estes modelos leem a posição uma vez e escolhem sem planear. Perante a mesma posição dão sempre a mesma resposta, e as peças andam para trás e para a frente até ao empate.
New paper about how we converted English documentation into Liquid Types using a DFA-guided agentic workflow: wiki.alcidesfonseca.com/rese…




















