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Imparare a usare i loop. Il futuro sono i loop. Non avrai altro loop al di fuori di me. E via cantando.
Money quote: "I believe that loops that produce artifacts without necessity of longevity or that create some form of clearly verifiable mechnical translation matters more than the general ability of a harness to mechanically measure a goal. Many successful applications of loops use another LLM as a judge or as an orchestrator. The mechnical translation case can be verified with a binary test case, but it can also be judged by an LLM instead!"
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/6/23/the-coming-loop/
| 2 | Cose da sapere quando promptate come se non ci fosse un domani.
Money quote: "The first symptom of prompt debt is slowing iteration. As users flag errors and spot edge cases, additional guidance is added to the instructions, nudging the model into line. If unwanted behaviors persist, instructions are repeated, with increasing severity. Pretty soon, the prompt isnât straightforward and quick fixes regress previous instructions. Errors can no longer be handled with one-line âhot fixesâ and your development cycle slows to a crawl."
https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/06/22/the-problem-is-prompt-debt.html | 447 |
| 3 | C'Ú una spiegazione logica, ovviamente (c'Ú una spiegazione logica per quasi tutto). Ma il titolo furbetto e l'implicita e umana condiscendenza mi fa sorridere: anziché farei i compiti i giovani agenti cazzeggiano su YouTube.
Money quote: "A series of social media reports involving Anthropicâs âClaude Codeâ platform has drawn attention to the risks of autonomous AI. Users, including tech commentator Wes Roth, reported that AI agents tasked with programming were frequently opening and watching YouTube, despite being instructed to focus on coding work. The agents allegedly misinterpreted the video platform as an information source, rather than acting out of any form of digital rebellion."
https://www.whalesbook.com/news/English/technology/Claude-Code-AI-Agents-Accessing-YouTube-Highlights-Autonomy-Risks/6a8584eb84d2dd5c12db86e4 | 465 |
| 4 | Letture per la domenica
Uno dei problemi dell'interazione agente-agente Ăš che puĂČ scappare rapidamente di mano. Molto rapidamente.
Money quote: "âThe volume of agent-agent interaction could plausibly exceed that of human-human and human-agent interactions before the world understands the conditions for making such interactions go well,â the study reads. âBenign behavioral quirks at the individual level might compound into unwanted global outcomes.â"
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/13/anthropic-set-ai-agents-loose-on-the-same-task-they-started-a-turf-war/ | 506 |
| 5 |  Ecco Mostly Weekly 390: il gusto non lo fa lâalgoritmo. E poi Confucio, Infinite Jest, Mogol e Leopardi, gli orologi meccanici, il ramen, il latino, i nuovi strumenti per scrivere con lâAI e una ricerca del MIT che mette in discussione il rapporto tra immagini generate e dati di addestramento. Tanta roba, anche a fine agosto
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/390/ | 541 |
| 6 | Il mito dello strumento che rende produttivi
Money quote: "Bob opens his laptop and launches⊠vanilla Sublime Text. It doesnât even have proper syntax highlighting and half of the code is colored incorrectly. Bob doesnât use live reloading. He doesnât use the debugger. Instead he sprinkles some printf around the code and patiently waits for logs.
I was shocked. How the hell is he so prolific?"
https://frantic.im/mirage/ | 601 |
| 7 | E se, anzichĂ© di "felicitĂ " parlassimo piĂč semplicemente di "gratificazione"? CioĂš di una forma di contentezza derivata dalle esperienze sensoriali nella vita quotidiana, al contrario i sensazioni ben piĂč sfuggenti e basate su un territorio impossibile da dominare?
Money quote: "My hippy ex-boyfriend used to call that "taking a picture with your heart". We made fun of it then, but I find myself taking pictures with my heart all the time: some of it's trying to root myself in the present, but it's also often about trying to feel the world around me: the smell, the touch, the sounds, all the little stuff that makes a moment gratifying."
https://www.patreon.com/CultureStudy/posts/how-to-fall-back-164373561 | 626 |
| 8 | Giochini alternativi
Money quote: "I always felt a little bad for the ghosts in Pac-Man. They patrol the maze, they corner the guy, and then he eats a glowing pellet and suddenly they're the ones running for their lives. So I built a small game where you finally get to play the other side.
Pac-Man has its own AI, and your job is to catch him before he clears the maze. The twist is the same one that always ruined my day as a ghost: if he eats a power pellet, the tables flip and he hunts you for a few seconds. Then you run."
https://garrit.xyz/posts/2026-06-13-pac-man-but-you-re-the-ghost | 595 |
| 9 | I punti di vista nella narrazione. E varie altre considerazioni. Interessante.
Money quote: "When I teach intro to literature classes to undergraduates, I open the first class going over the five types of POV. (This may seem overly basic, but most of my students are not humanities majors and are unfamiliar with such things.) Each time I teach the traditional POV taxonomy, I feel it isnât the most useful one from a fiction writing, uh, point of view.
Hereâs a quick refresher. The alleged five forms of POV are as follows: First-person (âI do thisâ), second-person (âyou do thatâ), and third-person (âhe/she/they/it do the other thingâ). However, third-person POV is broken down into three types: third-person objective (no interiority), third-person limited (one characterâs interiority and perspective), third-person omniscient (unlimited interiority and perspective). Those are your five."
https://countercraft.substack.com/p/there-are-more-than-five-povs | 648 |
| 10 |  Le parodie Disney, il cinema di Nolan e la fortuna dei classici - alcune cose che ho scritto per Fumettologica
https://fumettologica.it/2026/08/parodie-disney-odissea/ | 3 975 |
| 11 | Letture per la domenica
Parte come un articolo di tecnologia media, una provocazione intellettuale stimolante e un po' nerd, ma dopo un attimo si trasforma in un paper di ingegneria creativa del software. Tanta roba.
Money quote: "Let's design the successor to email on top of HTTP, fixing the design flaws SMTP has been dragging along for 40 years. Piece by piece. The goal is not to replace the current mail system, heaven forbid!, but to learn, have fun and discover current technologies to swap out every element: sending, receiving, gateway, keys, and so on. The system will never talk to Gmail or any classic email provider: it only talks to itself. The only thing we are going to keep is the shape of the addresses, user@domain. Everything else gets reinvented."
https://en.andros.dev/blog/d7ed8b07/modern-email-can-be-built-from-borrowed-parts/ | 685 |
| 12 |  Ma quali vacanze! Ecco Mostly Weekly 389: fa caldo, i ragazzini giocano e i computer diventano sempre piĂč piccoli. Poi James Bond, il doppio in letteratura, la differenza tra teorico e teoretico, l'AI locale e Ceuta. Tanta roba, insomma, anche a Ferragosto
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/389/ | 663 |
| 13 | Hugh Howey, l'autore dei libri da cui Ăš tratta Silo, la serie di Apple Tv, fa un ragionamento interessante sulla carriera di uno scrittore di genere. In pratica, a paritĂ di talento e determinazione, la fortuna del periodo storico. Lui ha iniziato quando scrivere era ancora difficile ma pubblicare e vendere era diventato facile (Amazon con il self publishin), e ha fatto il suo prima dell'arrivo dell'AI che sta rendendo facile anche scrivere.
Senza stigmatizzare l'uso delle AI per scrivere, fa anche delle previsioni sul futuro (molto interessanti, vi lascio leggere l'articolo e non le spoilero).
Money quote: "Iâve always felt bad for authors who lived and worked before 2007. The choices unavailable to them made life harder than it needed to be. Getting their work out into the world was brutal. After KDP, that brutality became a choice, not a necessity.
I now feel awful for anyone who wants to tell a story post-2026. You will forever be doubted. If you love an em dash the way I do, or you like flowy run-on sentences like I do, if you grew up reading Proust to let the words flow over you in all their glory, if you memorized sonnets so the iambic pentameter would soak into your bones, youâre gonna sound like a fucking bot.
Less than 20 years. More like 10, honestly. You can argue that 2014-ish was when self-publishing became legit and 2024-ish was when the tools made AI writing viable. A decade where it was easy in the ways it should be and hard in the ways it should be. Thatâs insane. Ten years across the one-hundred-thousand years of language."
https://hughhowey.com/the-end-of-an-era/ | 694 |
| 14 | Avete presente l'eclisse di sole? Iberia ha auto una bella idea e ha portato un po di giornalisti e altre persone in volo per vederla. Qui il servizio video di El Pais. Divertente e veloce.
Money quote: "Este 12 de agosto, 99 personas sabĂan que las nubes no iban a impedirles ver el eclipse solar total en España, porque iban a poder observarlo por encima de ellas. Todos ellos viajaban en el vuelo especial que Iberia ha fletado para contemplar este fenĂłmeno a 10.000 metros de altura."
https://elpais.com/videos/2026-08-13/vivir-el-eclipse-solar-desde-un-avion-no-se-puede-explicar-con-terminos-cientificos-es-un-sentimiento.html | 727 |
| 15 | Le alternative ai magnifici tre (Linux, macOS e Windows). Perché ci sono almeno 4 alternative (io preferisco Haiku)
Money quote: "Most people who step outside of Windows and macOS assume Linux is the only alternative worth taking seriously. That's understandable, since Linux has a loyal community and many different distros. The operating systems covered here each exist because they solve something Linux can't. They also do it on hardware you already own without handing data to Microsoft or Apple."
https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-isnt-your-only-escape-from-windows-and-macoshere-are-4-alternatives/ | 803 |
| 16 | Un ragionamento sul "nostos", l'idea del ritorno, quello omerico, bellamente mischiato alla "saudade" per tenere assieme un improbabile percorso sulla nostalgia della gioventĂč. Potenza del marketing dell'Odissea.
Money quote: "Because English has only a few words for nostalgia-adjacent emotions â like heartache, homesickness, or sorrow â English speakers tend to grasp thirstily for what other languages have to say. And other languages certainly seem to have richer accounts of a complex emotion.
In Portuguese, you have âsaudade,â which is a deep, melancholic longing for something or someone now lost. The Germans have âSehnsuchtâ for that visceral ache that comes on when you yearn for the past, or something lost. In Welsh, âHiraethâ is a more geographical kind of nostalgia that pines for a certain land and home country. And, of course, you have the Japanese. That sense of drifting pathos for a world thatâs left behind is very Japanese. And youâll find a cottage-industry obsession with the concept of âmono no aware,â or âthe pathos of things.â"
https://bigthink.com/mini-philosophy/how-the-wrong-kind-of-nostalgia-can-endanger-a-society/ | 826 |
| 17 | Argomento scivoloso: le bibite di GesĂč
Money quote: "It is notable that while Christ has apparently been putting energy drinks on peopleâs hearts lately, he has not been putting it on many of their hearts to donate part of the proceeds to feeding the poor. Apparently, the main mission here is brand awareness.
Unfortunately, after trying the Yahweh energy drink, I donât feel especially compelled to convert. If the goal is evangelism, Blessed Berry, with its heavy, medicinal notes, may not be the strongest missionary. In fact, the aftertaste lingered with some insistence, like Jehovahâs Witnesses evangelizing at your door even after you told them you were agnostic.
If you want a better-tasting first Christian energy drink, I recommend Preachinâ Peach from Agape."
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jun/04/jesus-christian-energy-drink | 773 |
| 18 | Letture per la domenica
Forse l'interlocutore tra i piĂč lucidi, in questo momento, per inquadrare il tema dell'intelligenza artificiale: padre Paolo Benanti.
Money quote: "«Chi controlla il software controlla tutto», osserva Benanti. Ă il potere della software-defined reality, della realtĂ definita dal software. Per spiegare quanto questo tema riguardi la vita quotidiana, il professore di Etica della tecnologia alla Luiss Guido Carli, a Roma, e alla Seattle University, negli States, ricorre a unâaltra immagine. «Se domani volete entrare allâaeroporto di Fiumicino con unâarma, non potete farlo. Con lâIntelligenza artificiale, invece, potenzialmente sĂŹ. Con tre righe di codice si potrebbe trasformare perfino uno smartphone in unâarma, modificando il funzionamento della batteria fino a provocarne lâincendio»."
https://www.vita.it/padre-benanti-intelligenza-artificiale-contro-i-nuovi-algoritmi-del-potere-serve-una-governance-condivisa/ | 756 |
| 19 |  Ma quali vacanze! Ecco Mostly Weekly 388: le parole, le lingue e le macchine; dalla mia tastiera che mette virgole all'AI che scrive le leggi, passando per l'esperanto, mezzo milione di galassie e Raymond Chandler
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/388/ | 758 |
| 20 | Una rivista amatoriale, Northern Earth, racconta le storie, be', del Nord. Affrontando i temi (strutture megalitiche, per esempio) che lentamente percolano nell'immaginario, creando in ultima analisi delle strane percezioni del mondo. Almeno, cosĂŹ sembra.
Money quote: "The question of why megalithic structures are situated where they are is an area of research that is developing and is open to more detailed examination. The surrounding landscape of each megalithic structure is obviously its immediate context. There, a trained or sensitive eye can find evidence for the buildersâ concerns and decisions. Very often the local horizon is combined with sunrise and sunset events, weaving the circleâs structure into the landscape and the heavens. This article will demonstrate that the local topographies of two megalithic structures on each side of the Irish Sea were extended at scale as part of a cohesive network of sites aimed at linking widely spread communities."
https://northernearth.co.uk/near-and-far-horizons-megalithic-networks-across-the-irish-sea/ | 830 |
