📰 AI Blog Daily Digest — 2026-05-03

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🥇 Quoting Anthropic

Quoting Anthropic — simonwillison.net · 2h ago · 📝 Other

We used an automatic classifier which judged sycophancy by looking at whether Claude showed a willingness to push back, maintain positions when challenged, give praise proportional to the merit of ide

🥈 Why I don’t like the “staff engineer archetypes”

Why I don’t like the “staff engineer archetypes” — seangoedecke.com · 18h ago · 📝 Other

🥉 Vertically Aligning Roman Numerals in Code

Vertically Aligning Roman Numerals in Code — shkspr.mobi · 6h ago · 📝 Other

I have a PHP function which uses Roman Numerals. It looks like this: $romanNumerals = [ “Ⅿ” => 1000, “ⅭⅯ” => 900, “Ⅾ” => 500, “ⅭⅮ” => 400, “Ⅽ” => 100, “ⅩC” => 90, “Ⅼ”

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1. Quoting Anthropic

Quoting Anthropic — simonwillison.net · 2h ago · ⭐ 15/30

We used an automatic classifier which judged sycophancy by looking at whether Claude showed a willingness to push back, maintain positions when challenged, give praise proportional to the merit of ide

2. Why I don’t like the “staff engineer archetypes”

Why I don’t like the “staff engineer archetypes” — seangoedecke.com · 18h ago · ⭐ 15/30

3. Vertically Aligning Roman Numerals in Code

Vertically Aligning Roman Numerals in Code — shkspr.mobi · 6h ago · ⭐ 15/30

I have a PHP function which uses Roman Numerals. It looks like this: $romanNumerals = [ “Ⅿ” => 1000, “ⅭⅯ” => 900, “Ⅾ” => 500, “ⅭⅮ” => 400, “Ⅽ” => 100, “ⅩC” => 90, “Ⅼ”

4. Minimal Viable Zig Error Contexts

Minimal Viable Zig Error Contexts — matklad.github.io · 18h ago · ⭐ 15/30

Out of the box, Zig provides minimal and sufficient facilities for error handling --- strongly-typed error codes. Error reporting is left to the user. Idiomatic solution is to pass a Diagnostics out p

5. Reinventing the Wheel

Reinventing the Wheel — tedium.co · 4h ago · ⭐ 15/30

You’ve probably heard it’s futile, but that hasn’t stopped plenty from trying—some successfully, shockingly.

6. QuickQWERTY 1.2.3

QuickQWERTY 1.2.3 — susam.net · 18h ago · ⭐ 15/30

QuickQWERTY 1.2.3 is now available. QuickQWERTY is a web-based touch typing tutor for QWERTY keyboards that runs directly in the browser.

This release includes two small bug fixes. In the

7. Microsoft’s open sourcing of 86-DOS and what it means

Microsoft’s open sourcing of 86-DOS and what it means — dfarq.homeip.net · 46m ago · ⭐ 15/30

On April 28, 2026, Microsoft unexpectedly open sourced 86-DOS. This is the direct ancestor to PC DOS 1.0. I’ve written a number of things about the controversies around PC DOS 1.0 and early versions o

8. Testing MacOS on the Apple Network Server 2.0 ROMs

Testing MacOS on the Apple Network Server 2.0 ROMs — oldvcr.blogspot.com · 11h ago · ⭐ 15/30

It’s time for another save point in the continuing saga of the various ROMs for the Apple Network Server, Apple’s first through-and-through Unix server (previously, previously). The Apple Network Serv

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