via: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44520292

In my free time, I help run a small Mastodon server for roughly six hundred queer leatherfolk. When a new member signs up, we require them to write a short application—just a sentence or two. There’s a small text box in the signup form which says:

Learn how to onboard AI coding agents with all the code, tech, and business context needed to rapidly develop your software project.

Ellama is a tool for interacting with large language models from Emacs. - s-kostyaev/ellama

Deploying Your LLM Locally with llamafile: A Step-by-Step Guide - ruslanmv/Deploying-llm-locally-with-llamafile

Multiple parallel Claude-Code sessions power a self-improving AI factory where agents write, review, and refine code.

an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM - block/goose

via: https://lobste.rs/s/rmoeg4/how_large_are_large_language_models_2025

A wide ranging talk about the role of universities with regards to AI – centers are Illich’s Tools for Conviviality.

Despite all this effort, the system still failed. In collaboration with MIT Technology Review and Trouw, we set out to understand why. We obtained unprecedented access to the system, the officials who built it, and the critics who fought against it.