I was interviewed in the Financial Times about "the perils of vibe coding", and it made it into the print edition!
@simonw
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2025 AI Adoption Risk Report: Credibility Assessment
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This report looks relevant, I don't know how credible it is though https://
info.cyberhaven.com/hubfs/Content%
20PDF/CyberhavenLabs-2025AIAdoptionRiskReport.pdf
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LLM Hallucinations Less Common With Strategic Prompting Habits
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I thought hallucinations were much less common a few months ago… then realized that I've learned to mostly ask questions that are unlikely to get hallucinated results which means they're less common for me purely based on my open prompting habits
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NYTimes Lawsuit Impact on AI Chatbot Development
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That got complicated by the NYTimes lawsuit, I'm not clear how that impacts tempered chats though
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LLMs as lossy encyclopedias: understanding language model limitations
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An LLM is a lossy encyclopedia https://
simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/29/lo
ssy-encyclopedia/
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Chatbot Data Privacy: Default Stateless Architecture Prevents Training
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It's very easy to not train on data that people paste into chatbot – that's the default of how they work, they are stateless systems Training on that data requires deliberate engineering
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Ensuring Deterministic AI Prompt Test Execution
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How can you ensure those tests are deterministic? It would be frustrating if they failed 5% of the time because the prompt got executed in a different way on different runs
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Data Privacy as Competitive Advantage in AI Market
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Given how competitive the AI space is I expect "we don't train on text provided by your employees" to be a key feature for winning paying customers – and it is, almost all the labs promote that for their paid accounts
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Corporate Data Breach Risk: Employees Using ChatGPT Unsupervised
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Show me any company that can confidently tell you that none of their employees have ever uploaded a private internal memo to ChatGPT for help writing or understanding it
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Google stops indexing shared AI chat sessions
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Google doesn't index shared chat sessions any more, there was a big thing about that a few months ago https://
x.com/cryps1s/status
/cryps1s/status/1951041845938499669
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