This week's edition of Altered Craft's weekly review is out.

Nice to see the inclusivity Both slow and fast Zombies welcome eventbrite.com/e/zombie-scav…

Interesting split happening in AI models: alongside the big reasoning models, there's a growing class of small ones that just decide things (Jev's). Microsoft-Decision-1 does routing, classification, prioritization and verification, returning structured output software can act on. Microsoft reports it at 2.5x the speed of the runner-up in their benchmarks. commandline.microsoft.com/mi…

Wikimedia's bandwidth use is up 50% since 2024 because of bot traffic, and 65% of its most resource-heavy requests now come from bots. Undisclosed bot edits in sandbox areas, edits to a citation tool's config to misuse it as a proxy, failed attempts to abuse a public Etherpad, and millions of API calls that may have contributed to a Wikidata Query Service outage in May. The cost of agents behaving unpredictably lands on volunteers and non-profits, not the companies shipping them. I'm not against AI, but please do better Frontier Labs diff.wikimedia.org/2026/10/0…

Claude Code (the app) is going through some major overhauls... You can now write small JS modules that live inside a Claude Code session and see every event as it happens. They work like middleware. Your hook runs, then other plugins, then Claude Code itself. So you can watch a tool call, rewrite it, or refuse it. This guide builds a context window forecast drawn above the prompt in about 80 lines. claude.dev/blog/getting-star… #ClaudeCode #HarnessEngineering

Several leading closed models score near zero on a security benchmark because they refuse the task, not because they can't do it. @MistralAI's launch post for Mistral Large 4, a 1 trillion parameter multimodal model with 49 billion active parameters, weights due by the end of the month. On a test that asks a model to reproduce a real vulnerability in open-source software and then patch it, ML4 scores 82%. Defenders often need to prove a flaw is real before they can fix it, and provider-level refusals block that work. Open weights plus self-deployment means you set the policy. mistral.ai/news/mistral-larg… #AI #OpenWeights

OpenJev (running locally) vs Typesafe Jev in a dungeon crawl text adventure test harness writing.alteredcraft.com/p/t…

Join us at the next Cascadia Builders Club meetup We are a community for people building hardware and software. This is show-and-tell for builders: short, hands-on demos of what you're actually making (apps, hardware, robotics, XR), and then we hang out and meet the people behind the work. No pitch, no hype reels, just real things and the people making them. cascadiabuilders.club/ #Portland #Robotics #Meetups

Nice, in the revamped @claudeai projects a subagent can start a subagent. It’s subagents all the way down! #ClaudeCode #Agents

Have you heard, code is now cheap. I this post / case-study I analyze the realities and impact of that in the context of 3rd party dependencies in your app. alteredcraft.github.io/3p-de… #AIEngineer #AICoding