A short AI dev tools roundup for Workollab readers. New frameworks, agent infrastructure, model releases, and practitioner commentary worth your time this week.
AI Dev Tools
- [AINews] Qwen 3.8 Max(2.4T) and 27B, new open weights models for Coding and Cowork (Latent Space)
Qwen is so back! - Quoting Steve Yegge (Simon Willison)
Gas Town was intended to be reusable, but I only ever wound up using it to build itself. Gas Town fell apart at the seams with Opus 4.7. Up through 4.6 it was working brilliantly. With 4.7 we saw the introduction of the "just two more thing - Don't be a meat proxy (Simon Willison)
Don't be a meat proxy Niklas Gruhn coins an excellent new term - meat proxy - for people who blindly copy and paste the output of AI systems to their peers. By all means, prompt AI. But don't just relay the output. Read it, understand it, v - The Inference Engineering Masterclass — Philip Kiely & Ali Taha, Baseten (Latent Space)
Baseten just raised a $13B Series F and is now one of the leading kings of inference engineering. We go into everything you need to know for autoregressive and diffusion engineering. - OpenAI's Unreleased Model Astra Solves Ten Major Open Mathematics Problems (Zvi (Don't Worry About the Vase))
Math is hard. - Introducing our Artifacts Hub and Adoption Dashboard (Interconnects)
Scaling our curation and measurement of the open ecosystem.
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