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L3 · BuilderTutorials & GuidesTowards Data Science· 10/18/2026
Inferring the Host: A Bayesian Look at the Monty Hall Problem

A Bayesian analysis of the Monty Hall problem shows how observing a host's behavior can probabilistically determine the optimal strategy.

L3 · BuilderTutorials & GuidesTowards Data Science· 10/18/2026
Both Charts Are Right. So Why Do They Disagree?

Explains Simpson's paradox through statistical charts showing how combining data can reverse apparent trends.

L3 · BuilderTutorials & GuidesLessWrong AI· 10/18/2026
Chain of Thought For Humans

Explains how Chain of Thought prompting techniques from AI can improve human problem-solving and communication in technical interviews.

L3 · BuilderTutorials & GuidesSimon Willison's Blog· 10/17/2026
Inline rendering with document​.currentScript

Simon Willison shares a JavaScript technique using document.currentScript to create inline templates that replace themselves with dynamic content.

L3 · BuilderTutorials & GuidesLessWrong AI· 10/16/2026
Tips for Multiagent Work with Claude Opus 5.5

LessWrong shares practical tips for managing multiagent systems with Claude Opus 5.5, emphasizing professional communication between subagents and avoiding manager agent bottlenecks.

L3 · BuilderTutorials & GuidesTowards Data Science· 10/16/2026
I Built a Claim-Checker for Writing With Codex. It Passed a Wrong Claim.

Author built a claim-checker tool using Codex that incorrectly passed a wrong claim, revealing limitations of rule-based AI verification systems.

L4 · DeveloperTutorials & GuidesTowards Data Science· 10/16/2026
Deploying Data Science Tools: Part 1

Part 1 of a guide on deploying data science code across different environments and platforms.

L3 · BuilderTutorials & GuidesTowards Data Science· 10/15/2026
I Tested Four Ways to Give an AI Assistant a Memory. The Obvious One Was the Worst Value.

Testing shows pasting full chat history costs 20-31x more than lookup methods with no performance benefit for AI memory.

L4 · DeveloperTutorials & GuidesTowards Data Science· 10/14/2026
A Scaffold at the Gate: Building AI Applications That Can Evolve

Data scientists need software engineering principles to build AI applications that can evolve, especially as AI agents write code.

L4 · DeveloperTutorials & Guides@huggingface· 10/14/2026
Hugging Face (@huggingface): Learn about how to get multipliers in local LLM speed-ups using speculative decoding in this livestream with @mervenoyann, @MaartenGr and @_EldarKurtic https://t.co/tFexgaLcT5

Hugging Face is hosting a livestream teaching developers how to achieve significant speed-ups in local LLMs using speculative decoding techniques.

L2 · PractitionerTutorials & GuidesLessWrong AI· 10/14/2026
Your prompt… plus everything you've ever (publicly) written

Frontier AI models increasingly incorporate users' public online writings into prompt context, requiring awareness and proactive management.

L3 · BuilderTutorials & GuidesHacker News· 10/12/2026
I turned my unused Kindle into a photo frame with GPT-6 Astra

A developer jailbroke an unused Kindle using GPT-6 Astra to create a photo slideshow app, detailing the technical process of building custom tools called KindleCTL.

L3 · BuilderTutorials & GuidesSimon Willison's Blog· 10/13/2026
Quoting Geoffrey Huntley

Geoffrey Huntley shares a technique using pre-commit hooks to enforce AI coding agents to use custom diagnostics libraries instead of direct observability calls.

L3 · BuilderTutorials & GuidesTowards Data Science· 10/11/2026
Agentic Systems: A Practitioner's Guide to 6 Advanced Architectural Patterns

A deep dive into 6 advanced architectural patterns for building production-ready agentic systems, covering context engineering and multi-agent workflows.

L4 · DeveloperTutorials & GuidesHacker News· 10/11/2026
500B Tokens Later: Letting AI Agents Decompile a First-Person Shooter

Developer shares insights from using AI agents (Claude, Codex) to decompile a first-person shooter game over 3 months, focusing on orchestration and infrastructure optimization.

L3 · BuilderTutorials & GuidesTowards Data Science· 10/13/2026
How to Leverage NLP for Product Data Science

A guide to applying NLP techniques like classification, topic modeling, and embeddings to product data science problems such as churn prediction and customer analysis.

L3 · BuilderTutorials & GuidesSimon Willison's Blog· 10/9/2026
A new feature for my blog, built using my voice

Simon Willison built a new blog newsletter feature entirely using voice conversation with GPT-6 Astra High while cooking dinner.

L3 · BuilderTutorials & Guides@jacob.gold· 10/5/2026
Jake Gold (@jacob.gold): I've called this the 'The Kobayashi Maru' interview question for programmers. There's no "right" answer only painful trade-offs which makes it very revealing.

A programmer shares a 'Kobayashi Maru' style interview question designed to reveal a candidate's decision-making process through difficult trade-offs rather than a single correct answer.

L3 · BuilderTutorials & GuidesTowards Data Science· 10/11/2026
A Practical Guide to OpenAI's New Decisions API

OpenAI's Decisions API provides fast classification and decision-making endpoints for applications needing typed responses with confidence scores.

L4 · DeveloperTutorials & GuidesHugging Face Blog· 10/8/2026
The model that didn't exist, so you made it yourself

A developer shares their process for creating custom language models using HuggingChat's ML-interm feature, training a Qwen-based prompt rewriter from 9B to 0.8B for $16, with detailed prompting strategies.

L4 · DeveloperTutorials & GuidesOpenAI Blog· 1/15/2026
Building with the GPT-5 Model Series: A Practical Guide

OpenAI released a practical guide for developers on migrating to the Responses API, designing agents, and tuning prompts for GPT-5 models.

L3 · BuilderTutorials & GuidesOpenAI Blog· 1/15/2026
A Practical Guide to Building AI Agents

OpenAI published a practical guide covering AI agent design, orchestration, deployment, use cases, model selection, tool design, and multi-agent patterns.

L4 · DeveloperTutorials & GuidesTowards Data Science· 10/10/2026
How Can AI Agents Read Untrusted Sources Safely?

The dual-LLM pattern secures AI agents by separating privileged and quarantined LLMs to prevent prompt injection attacks when reading untrusted sources.

L2 · PractitionerTutorials & GuidesThe Verge AI· 10/11/2026
Learning to use local AI is exciting, overwhelming, and frustrating

A Verge reviewer documents their journey experimenting with local AI models on high-end hardware, exploring privacy benefits and practical challenges of running LLMs locally.

L3 · BuilderTutorials & GuidesOpenAI Blog· 4/13/2025
Prototyping with canvas in ChatGPT

OpenAI demonstrates how to use ChatGPT's canvas feature to convert product requirements into functional HTML/React prototypes.

L3 · BuilderTutorials & GuidesOpenAI Blog· 1/14/2026
How OpenAI Uses Codex to Accelerate Engineering

OpenAI shares how its engineering teams use Codex for code understanding, system refactoring, performance optimization, and workflow acceleration.

L3 · BuilderTutorials & GuidesTowards Data Science· 10/9/2026
Build Your First AI Agent with One Tool Call

Step-by-step tutorial shows how to build a simple AI agent that uses an LLM to call Python functions for database queries.

L3 · BuilderTutorials & GuidesOpenAI Blog· 4/8/2025
Shipping code to your IDE with ChatGPT

OpenAI demonstrates how ChatGPT can directly push generated code to IDEs to accelerate developer workflows.

L2 · PractitionerTutorials & GuidesOpenAI Blog· 4/13/2025
Market research with ChatGPT

OpenAI demonstrates how ChatGPT can plan, search, read sources, and compile detailed market research reports to support analysis.

L2 · PractitionerTutorials & GuidesOpenAI Blog· 11/18/2025
How OpenAI uses ChatGPT Atlas at work

OpenAI shares internal use cases and workflows for ChatGPT Atlas in a webinar demonstrating practical enterprise applications.