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Issue 299: The LLMs have eyes everywhere

Would you let the fox guard the henhouse if it meant getting that promised 10x productivity? If so, this week's newsletter is for you. On the blog, we're thinking about how we can give LLMs a jury of their peers by making other LLMs moderate for them. If the ideas of watchers watching watchers doesn't sit quite right for your AppSec sensibilities, be sure to check out our pod with Endor Labs CTO Dimitri Stiliadis on how cybersecurity is keeping up with AI use cases. Then you can give the history of LLMs a read in our links section below. XX

Once you're done letting your machines run wild by checking and balancing themselves, we have an episode with Evan You, the creator of Vue.js and Vite, all about build tools in web development and the future of Vite. On our own frontend, we're giving comments a brand new look across Stack Overflow, so let your voice be heard and check out our updates on the blog. XX

And as always, we have questions for you, with all the answers. How bad is it to lie and not show up at your job? How much of a benevolent dictator do open-source founders need to be? Crazy weather lately, right? Plus, we're bringing your stories on self-hosting, the second circle of vibe coding hell, and the parallel coding lifestyle. All those and more are down below, ready for your eyes.

From the blog

Vite is like the United Nations of JavaScript

Ryan welcomes back Evan You, the creator of Vite and Vue.js, to discuss the evolution of build tools in web development, the unique features of Vite from its plugins to its hot module capabilities, and the future of Vite, including its integration with Rust. Plus, they touch on Vite’s new documentary and the power of open-source communities.

Who watches the watchers? LLM on LLM evaluations

While using LLMs to judge LLM outputs might seem like the fox guarding the henhouse, turns out it works pretty well (and scales better than humans).

A new look for comments

Learn about what’s new with comments on Stack Overflow.

Context is king for secure, AI-generated code

Ryan sits down with Dimitri Stiliadis, CTO and co-founder of Endor Labs, to talk about how AppSec is evolving to address AI’s use cases. They discuss the implications of AI-generated code on security practices, the importance of human oversight in managing vulnerabilities, and how organizations should be balancing security and efficiency with AI.

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Interesting questions

How do open-source projects prevent “design drift” when hundreds of contributors make small changes?

No wonder some folks in tech appreciate dictators when they work so well in open source.

How can I get fired less?

"A pretty straightforward first step is to stop lying."

Is it possible to create a language with no paradoxical statements?

This is the semantics department. You want logic down the hall.

Is the weather intrinsically chaotic?

It's not chaos, it's differential equations.

Links from around the web

Why self-host?

But how will big tech serve you those sweet, sweet targeted ads if they can't read your emails?

Embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle

The key to good parallel coding is apparently the same as the key to a good night at karaoke: YOLO mode.

I'm in vibe code hell

This is only the second circle, by the way. Wait until you get to the fifth circle of learning-to-code hell: an internship where you do nothing.

A history of large language models

In a time long ago (the 80s) in a galaxy far away (Canada), neuroscientists and psychologists were laying the first seeds of LLMs.


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