Claude Mythos is here, except it’s called Fable 5 and comes with a few restrictions. It appears to be the largest model released and, according to the benchmarks, the most accomplished. Even more so than Opus 4.8 that was only released 2 weeks ago. It’s also the most expensive model, so you might want to think twice before swapping it into your RAG support chat bot. While it’s impressive to see the frontier march forward, this week in AI++ we’ll take a look at some of the techniques people...
14 days ago • 3 min read
The last couple of weeks has seen students booing commencement speakers at graduation ceremonies in Florida and Arizona when they mentioned AI. This is a visceral reaction to what they see as a threat to their careers. Meanwhile, developers working with AI are burning out and getting “Brain Fry” from doing more work at higher intensities without the same fulfillment. I wrote a bit about this myself, sharing that I found it hard to be proud of a useful little app that I built. AI is changing...
29 days ago • 4 min read
Working with LLMs is weird, but I never thought it would be as weird as OpenAI having to specifically tell their models not to talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, or pigeons. It raises so many questions. Thankfully after someone spotted the instructions in the Codex base instructions, OpenAI did give an explanation as to where the goblins came from. They never mentioned why raccoons and pigeons got caught up in the fantasy creature fascination though. In this edition of...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Is a token crunch coming? This week GitHub paused sign-us for GitHub Copilot Pro, Pro+ and Student plans, tightened up their usage limits, and removed Opus from their Pro plans. And today, Anthropic seemed to remove Claude Code from new Pro plans, though that has been reversed quickly. In general, while this is only seeming to affect individual plans related to coding agents, it could point to an inflection point where AI companies start considering how their pricing matches up to their...
2 months ago • 3 min read
The big news last week was that Anthropic mistakenly leaked the source code of Claude Code by leaving source maps in the package. Part of the source code referenced Claude Mythos, which has been properly announced this week as a model that’s incredibly good at finding software bugs and creating security exploits. It’s so good that it’s only being shared with 40 partners as part of Project Glasswing. Here’s a quick heads up, this newsletter is going to be changing format soon. As Langflow...
3 months ago • 3 min read
Jensen Huang has declared on a podcast that we have reached AGI. For a very specific definition of AGI that probably doesn't agree with what you might think AGI is. One would have thought that the afterglow of NVIDIA GTC would have provided enough hype for at least the rest of the month. Meanwhile, for those building agents, there has been a lot of talk about CLIs and Agent Skills, and this week we focus on evaluating skills to make sure they do what they are supposed to. WebMCP has been an...
3 months ago • 3 min read
Agents are starting to take on a life of their own, and as agent builders we need to consider the potential outcomes. The story of the autonomous agent that was denied when it opened a pull request to contribute to matplotlib and consequently wrote a hit piece on the maintainer had opinions on the internet veering between a fabrication or the beginning of Skynet. I think the lesson we should be taking away from this is that the the end user of an agent is not the only human that may come into...
4 months ago • 3 min read
The last couple of weeks has seen the explosion of OpenClaw (née ClawdBot), developers around the world have finally found the agent that acts like the AI they've been promised. I'm personally a little concerned over the security and privacy aspects of letting a powerful agent run wild with an all access pass to your computer and all your data, but I am excited to see the experimentation. It's fun, and maybe a little silly, to see the growth of social media for agents, with Moltbook providing...
5 months ago • 2 min read
It seems I can't look at the internet without seeing talk of Ralph Wiggum or Gas Town. Developers are either running their coding agent in loops or strapping together many parallel coding agents. Coding agents are far and away the most successful agents out there right now, so I always think it's worth keeping an eye on. It's fun to see multiple sub-agents, roles, memory and coordination on one side and a loop on the other. This week in AI++ we have articles on building agent memory,...
5 months ago • 2 min read