I blogged my notes on the updates system prompts here
@simonw
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Grok AI Makes Autonomous Decision to Search for Elon’s Views
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Yeah xAI have basically confirmed that Grok made its own "decision" to search for Elon's views when asked for its opinions
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Grok 4 exploratory prompts search functionality issues
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I can't get Grok 4 to find that new line using exploratory prompts on http://
grok.com though for some reason https://
grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5
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SemVer Implementation Challenges Across Package Ecosystems
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The problem is more that SemVer is hard to implement perfectly, and also isn't used by every single package
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Datasette Pins: Open Source Plugin for Cloud Features
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As with almost all Datasette Cloud features this is also available as an open source plugin that you can run on your own Datasette instance: https://
github.com/datasette/data
sette-pins
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Slop in AI: Beauty Lies in Beholder’s Eye
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Honestly though, like spam, slop is mostly in the eye of the beholder
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User Intent and LLM-Generated Content: Beyond Slop Definition
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I don't think it's slop if the user specifically asked for it, and understood that they were going to get LLM-generated content that no other human had reviewed first
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Editorial Standards for AI-Generated Content Quality
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Definitely slop-adjacent – for me the line is whether there's a human with editorial judgement who is ensuring that the generated text is up to their own standards, and they wouldn't be ashamed to publish it themselves
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API Design Consistency with LLM Assistance and Hallucinations
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For me obvious and predictable really is what I'm looking for in code – consistency is the most important factor in API design in my opinion I use LLMs to help with API design all the time these days, I've even had Copilot hallucinations which have inspired me to add the
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The Organic Emergence of ‘Slop’ in AI Culture
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That's another thing I like about slop – it seems to have been organically emerging over the past couple of years, I keep finding older and older uses of it