Tooling2d ago
X Discussion: Addy Osmani of Claude Code Warns of "Cognitive Surrender" and Urges Developers to Keep Critical Thinking When Agents Do the Work
Addy Osmani (@addyosmani), whose X bio lists Claude Code at Anthropic, posted a long article on X on November 3 titled "Critical thinking when agents do the work." He describes a spectrum of working with AI: cognitive offloading (delegating a task but owning the result), deferral (the tool output becomes your new input), and "cognitive surrender" (the AI output quietly becomes your own and you feel no need to check it), a term he credits to Steven Shaw and Gideon Nave at Wharton. He offers self-check questions and verification habits. Within about three hours the post drew roughly 1,400 likes, 2,400 bookmarks and more than 72,000 views and reached X trending. These are the author's views, not an Anthropic announcement.
Tooling2d ago
Anthropic Open-Sources FlashProve: zkSNARK Proofs That a Reply Came From the Committed Model, About 110 Tokens/s for 400B Llama 4 Maverick on One H100
Anthropic's Frontier Red Team published a research post on November 2 and open-sourced FlashProve under Apache 2.0. A model provider commits to hidden weights once, then attaches a zero-knowledge proof to each reply, so a user without the weights can check on an ordinary CPU that the reply really came from that model. That targets routing services that quietly swap in cheaper models and tampered token streams. Anthropic reports about 110 tokens/s on one H100 for Llama 4 Maverick (400B MoE, 4-bit), proofs of about 19 MB per 1,024-token request, and roughly 70-95x the GPU time of vLLM inference. It is an unmaintained research prototype limited to 1,024-token contexts and greedy decoding of an integer version of the model. Anthropic engineer Steve Weis shared the release on X.
Tooling2d ago
OpenAI Details Pando, Its In-House Git Backend: Median Push Latency Down Nearly 5x, Nearly 1 PB Served Daily, Built With Codex in 10 Weeks
On November 2 OpenAI published "Scaling Git at OpenAI", describing Pando, a Git-compatible backend it built for its monorepo. Per OpenAI, Pando cut median push latency by nearly 5x (about 80%), now delivers nearly a petabyte of Git data per day, and has served more than 57 TB in a single hour. It is written in Rust, its core was designed by one engineer and implemented by teams of Codex agents, and it went from kick-off to production in 10 weeks, serving production traffic since April. The trigger: Codex multiplied parallel branches and pushes, and the old system's reliability at times fell below 90%.
Discussion & Comments
0Sign in to join the discussion
Connect with AI developers to exchange benchmark insights.