GPT-5.6 helps itself 🫴, ChatGPT’s agent loop 🔄, agent delegation guide 💼

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GPT-5.6 Sol also helped optimize itself to improve its code execution and resource allocation. How ChatGPT Optimizes its Agent Loop: Harness, API, and Inference (25 minute read) AI models like ChatGPT optimize their performance using various layers, including a harness, API, and inference, to improve efficiency and reduce costs. They use techniques like persistent WebSockets, stable prompt prefixes, and parallel safety checks to minimize repetitive work and improve the overall processing speed of tasks. 🧠 Opinions & Advice GitHub is the wrong shape for this new world (7 minute read) The current software development landscape requires a reevaluation of collaboration tools like GitHub, as traditional paradigms are being overwhelmed by the velocity and scale of new contributions from various teams. To address these challenges, the focus should shift to developing high-throughput infrastructure primitives that improve software delivery processes. New research: The Core Web Vitals thresholds you trust might be wrong for your site (6 minute read) Google's 2.5s “good” LCP threshold comes from aggregated data across millions of sites, so it tells you nothing about where your own users actually start bouncing. Across ten major retailers, every single one hit its best bounce rate somewhere between 100ms and 1 second, well before that line. Four of the ten had already flattened out onto the performance plateau before reaching 2.5s, meaning they were technically “good” for Google while having stopped gaining anything from speed a while back. 🚀 Launches & Tools Your AI has a blind spot. (Sponsor) It can't observe what's happening right now. Xweather's MCP-ready Weather API gives Claude, Codex, Copilot, and custom agents access to live enterprise weather intelligence.  ✓ 15,000 free API accesses/month. ✓ No credit card. No expiry. ✓ MCP-ready. 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A small number of these firms dominate academic citations, with OpenAI accounting for a significant share of them, while others prioritize fast-paced, informal disclosure methods over formal publications. Contagious Interview malware in SVG images: DPRK campaign (9 minute read) DPRK-aligned actors are handing developers fully-functional “coding challenge” repos, one seeded through Elastic's own community Slack #jobs channel, with the payload split into Base64 chunks hidden in HTML comments across SVG flag images. It is reassembled and executed on every npm run dev or npm start. What lands is a four-module OTTERCOOKIE stack: browser credential and crypto wallet theft, a recursive sweep for .env files, SSH/AWS configs and shell histories, a Socket.IO RAT with live shell access, and a clipboard stealer. ⚡ Quick Links How much can you delegate to agents? (8 minute read) To effectively delegate tasks to agents, it's necessary to assess the ease of reviewing their work and the cost of undoing mistakes, which helps determine the appropriate level of autonomy. The Productivity Mirage (2 minute read) A prolific engineer, known for his achievements at Facebook, surprised a productivity enthusiast by using a simple code editor without advanced tools, yet still demonstrated exceptional skills and intuition that led to winning a hackathon. Some thoughts about Anthropic's new cryptanalysis results (13 minute read) Anthropic's recent cryptanalysis results, which include a new key recovery algorithm for the HAWK signature scheme and an improved attack on reduced-round AES, show AI's expanding role in cryptography and its potential impact on future standards and scientific discovery. Stolen Buttons (Website) This is a visual website of buttons from various websites as a personal collection. Love TLDR? Tell your friends and get rewards! 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