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Sun 16 Aug · 5 stories · 3 sections

Agents & tooling 2 items

A GPU Mode contestant ran Codex in an auto-research loop to a 232x speedup on batched QR factorization kernels, placing 12th of 183.
Simon Willison builds CORS Chat, a browser UI for any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, to test Qwen 3.8 27B in LM Studio and on a DGX Spark.

Research & papers 1 item

Derek Lowe (In the Pipeline) assesses what AI is genuinely contributing to drug discovery so far — and the path forward.

Also notable 2 items

Davide Piffer argues AI's math performance owes less to superior reasoning than to a vastly larger symbolic working memory.
Allen Bargi's viral note: working with AI is less like issuing commands to a compiler, more like leading through shared context.
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