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While monetising agent/bot traffic sounds lucrative for the site owner, it’s also a cautionary sign how a service like Cloudflare that runs a major portion of the internet has unchecked leverage to become ‘Network Dada’ collecting ‘hafta’ to access what’s always been free.

A closed WWW and adulteration of bot traffic will likely speed up inventing a new internet exclusively for humans.

Distillation, aka teacher-student learning transfer, is a powerful method of creating highly efficient small language models for specific tasks. And when the SLMs are decision models like Jev and Fernfly, the results are sterlingly predictable and accurate.

Love the conclusion: why even Anthropic needs developers and isn’t letting software write software all by itself, haha. Other than that, a good primer on source control fundamentals and the ceilings Anthropic hit.