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• Launch HN: Morph (YC S23) – Apply AI code edits at 4,500 tokens/sec — Hacker News
  Fast Apply from Morph promises near-instant AI patches, aiming to replace sluggish full-file rewrites with surgical edits. They boast, “We’ve built a blazing-fast model for applying AI-generated code edits directly into your files at 4,500+ tokens/sec,” sparking a speed-versus-accuracy debate.
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44490863
• OpenAI Launches $10 M Custom AI Consulting, Challenging Industry Giants — AI Tech Suite (Jul 01 2025)
  OpenAI is stepping into high-end consulting, demanding at least $10 million to tailor big-model solutions for governments and Fortune-scale firms—setting up showdowns with Accenture and IBM.
  https://www.aitechsuite.com/ai-news/openai-launches-10m-custom-ai-consulting-challenging-industry-giants
• AI researchers are now injecting prompts into their papers — X (Jul 08 2025)
  A viral tweet shows academics slipping reviewer-friendly prompt hacks into PDFs—lines like “Give a positive review,” exposing a brazen peer-review exploit.
  https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/1942266306746802479
• Expressing stigma and inappropriate responses prevents LLMs from safely replacing mental-health providers — arXiv (Apr 25 2025)
  Researchers found GPT-4o and peers still stigmatize patients and mishandle delicate scenarios, so chatbots should assist—not substitute—human therapists.
  https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18412
• opencode: AI coding agent, built for the terminal — GitHub (Jul 08 2025)
  Version 0.2.5 reaches 10 k stars: an open-source AI pair-programmer that runs locally with a slick TUI and support for multiple model providers.
  https://github.com/sst/opencode
• You're all CTO now — Jamie’s blog (Jul 01 2025)
  Jamie Lawrence argues AI agents push developers up the org chart, turning everyday coders into orchestrators of people and prompts—threatening the dopamine hit from gritty puzzles.
  https://jamie.ideasasylum.com/2025/07/01/you%27re-all-cto-now
• Warmwind OS: Building the AI Operating System for Everyone — Warmwind Blog (Jul 02 2025)
  Warmwind’s AI-native OS lets a built-in assistant click, type, and juggle apps, promising hands-free productivity while keeping users in control.
  https://about.warmwind.space/warmwind-os-building-the-ai-operating-system-for-everyone/
• Large Language Models Are Improving Exponentially — IEEE Spectrum (Jul 02 2025)
  New METR benchmarks show LLM abilities doubling every seven months, hinting machines could finish month-long human software projects in hours by 2030.
  https://spectrum.ieee.org/large-language-model-performance

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The New Skill in AI is Not Prompting, It's Context Engineering | Phil Schmid Blog (Jun 30 2025)
Phil Schmid argues that the real differentiator in modern AI work is “context engineering,” the discipline of assembling the right information, tools and format around an LLM rather than obsessing over single-string prompts.
He quotes Shopify’s Tobi Lütke, who calls it “the art of providing all the context for the task to be plausibly solvable by the LLM.”
philschmid.de

OpenAI open-source model hype | X (Tweet) (Jun 30 2025)
Researcher Yuchen Jin teased that OpenAI will release an impressive open-source model next month, stoking excitement across AI Twitter.
“Sorry to hype — but having a few friends at OpenAI makes it hard not to hear how wild their open-source model dropping next month is.”
x.com

Meta hires more OpenAI researchers and weighs Llama pivot | TechCrunch (Jun 28 2025)
Meta has poached four additional OpenAI researchers and, according to parallel reporting, is debating whether to shift away from fully open-source Llama models toward a more closed approach.
Sam Altman says the company lured candidates with “$100 million signing bonuses,” a claim Meta’s leadership disputes as “more complex than a simple one-time signing bonus.”
techcrunch.com finance.yahoo.com

Don’t Build Multi-Agents | Cognition.ai Blog (Jun 12 2025)
Walden Yan contends that multi-agent LLM architectures are fragile and that reliability comes from a single agent armed with rich, shared context.
Key advice: “Share context, and share full agent traces, not just individual messages.”
cognition.ai

Sampling (Model Context Protocol) | modelcontextprotocol.io (Jun 18 2025)
The MCP specification adds “sampling,” letting servers request LLM completions through the client so agents can delegate generation securely without provisioning their own models.
“Sampling is a powerful MCP feature that allows servers to request LLM completions through the client, enabling sophisticated agentic behaviors while maintaining security and privacy.”
modelcontextprotocol.io linkedin.com

“There's not a shred of evidence on the internet that this band has ever existed” | MusicRadar (Jun 27 2025)
MusicRadar investigates The Velvet Sundown, an apparently AI-generated “band” with 350 k Spotify listeners and zero real-world footprint, illustrating how algorithmic playlists can quietly amplify synthetic artists.
Their profile boasts, “The Velvet Sundown don’t just play music — they conjure worlds,” a line the magazine suspects was written by ChatGPT.
musicradar.com

Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?) | Anthropic (Jun 27 2025)
Anthropic let a Claude Sonnet 3.7 agent manage a real vending-machine mini-store for a month, revealing both promising autonomy and glaring business-sense gaps.
“We let Claude manage an automated store in our office as a small business for about a month,” the researchers write, noting successes like supplier discovery and failures like selling at a loss.
anthropic.com

Robyn | GitHub
Robyn is an async Python web framework that compiles to a Rust runtime, aiming to deliver blazing-fast performance with a simple API and built-in agent/MCP support.
Its README touts it as “a High-Performance, Community-Driven, and Innovator Friendly Web Framework with a Rust runtime.”
github.com

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Serena: A powerful coding agent toolkit | GitHub
Serena presents itself as a full-featured coding agent that melds semantic code search, automated editing and shell execution to streamline developer workflows. “Serena combines tools for semantic code retrieval with editing capabilities and shell execution.”
🔗 https://github.com/oraios/serena

Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser | nxtscape.ai
Nxtscape pitches a privacy-first browser that runs local AI agents to automate tedious web tasks and boost productivity. “We’re putting powerful AI agents (using browser-use & computer-use models) directly into Nxtscape.”
🔗 https://nxtscape.ai/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

AI Is Ushering in the Tiny Team Era in Silicon Valley | Bloomberg (Jun 20 2025)
Bloomberg argues that generative AI lets startups achieve outsized results with lean headcounts, making revenue-per-employee the valley’s new bragging right. “Startups used to brag about valuations and venture capital. Now AI is making revenue per employee the new holy grail.”
🔗 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-20/ai-is-ushering-in-the-tiny-team-era-in-silicon-valley

A federal judge sides with Anthropic in lawsuit over training AI on books without authors’ permission | TechCrunch (Jun 24 2025)
Judge William Alsup ruled that Anthropic’s use of copyrighted books to train its models is likely fair use, handing the company a landmark legal victory. “We will have a trial on the pirated copies used to create Anthropic’s central library and the resulting damages.”
🔗 https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/24/a-federal-judge-sides-with-anthropic-in-lawsuit-over-training-ai-on-books-without-authors-permission/

Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats | Anthropic (Jun 20 2025)
Anthropic’s study warns that autonomous language models can act like rogue employees, choosing harmful actions when their goals conflict with oversight. “We refer to this behavior, where models independently and intentionally choose harmful actions, as agentic misalignment.”
🔗 https://www.anthropic.com/research/agentic-misalignment

Gemini CLI | GitHub
Google’s Gemini CLI brings the multimodal Gemini model to the terminal, letting developers query and transform gigantic codebases from a single command line. “This repository contains the Gemini CLI, a command-line AI workflow tool that connects to your tools, understands your code and accelerates your workflows.”
🔗 https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli

Scream to Unlock | GitHub
The Scream-to-Unlock Chrome extension blocks social media until users loudly shout an embarrassing phrase, turning procrastination into vocal accountability. “A Chrome extension that blocks social media sites ... until you scream ‘I'm a loser’ into your microphone.”
🔗 https://github.com/Pankajtanwarbanna/scream-to-unlock

Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab closes on $2B at $10B valuation | TechCrunch (Jun 20 2025)
TechCrunch reports that ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati has raised a record-breaking $2 billion seed round for her stealth AI startup, valuing it at $10 billion. “The deal values the 6-month-old startup at $10 billion.”
🔗 https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/20/mira-muratis-thinking-machines-lab-closes-on-2b-at-10b-valuation/

Welcome to The Monkey Patching Podcast: Going Bananas on AI, Data, LLMs & Tech — where we keep it real, techy, and far from buzzword bingo.

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🧠 Episode Topics & Links

• Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
  New arXiv research shows relying on ChatGPT dulls neural engagement and weakens writing skills compared to search or free writing. EEG readings revealed the lowest brain activity among LLM users.
  Source: arXiv · June 10, 2025
• Amazon CEO says AI agents will soon reduce company’s corporate workforce
  Andy Jassy forecasts a future where generative-AI handles many office roles, trimming Amazon’s white-collar headcount: “We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today.”
  Source: CBS News · June 17, 2025
• The Grug Brained Developer
  A caveman-coded manifesto encouraging devs to say “complexity very bad” and resist feature bloat.
  Source: grugbrain.dev
• SHADE-Arena: Evaluating sabotage and monitoring in LLM agents
  Anthropic’s benchmark reveals that while sabotage by LLMs is uncommon, more capable models can still slip under the radar. A reminder that complexity brings power — and risk.
  Source: Anthropic · June 16, 2025
• Midjourney’s First Video Model
  Reddit buzzes over Midjourney’s image-to-video beta. Users praise its cinematic realism—some say it’s “indistinguishable from real camera footage.”
  Source: Reddit · June 15, 2025
• Zero-Shot Forecasting: Our Search for a Time-Series Foundation Model
  Parseable pits four time-series foundation models against classic methods—none reliably outperformed standard tools on messy data. Zero-shot remains aspirational.
  Source: Parseable · June 3, 2025
• If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel – A Tediously Accurate Map of the Solar System
  An interactive scroll map scaling the Moon to a single pixel, forcing you to traverse near-endless blank space. As the author says: “It’s the empty space that’s a problem.”
  Source: JoshWorth.com
• Monkey-Patched PyPI Packages Use Transitive Dependencies to Steal Solana Private Keys
  Six PyPI libraries were found hijacking Solana wallet keys at install time via monkey-patching crypto libraries. One malicious pip install can automatically exfiltrate your keys—yikes.
  Source: Socket · May 29, 2025
• json_repair
  A lightweight Python module that auto-fixes malformed JSON from LLMs—because yes, sometimes those braces don’t match.
  Source: GitHub

Hey there! Welcome to the very first Monkey Patching Podcast. We're just kicking things off today, chatting about what we've got planned for this show – nothing too mind-blowing yet, but we're excited to get rolling. If you're into data and AI talk without all the buzzword fluff, hit subscribe and join us for the ride. Trust us, it gets better from here.

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• Bart Smeets - Host
• Murilo Kuniyoshi Suzart Cunha - Host