A brutal account: What My Daughter Told ChatGPT Before She Took Her Life https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/opinion/chat-gpt-mental-health-suicide.html

The political fundraising email eval is officially too easy https://kschaul.com/llm-evals/evals/political-fundraising-emails/

Released jump-start as a CLI. Now you can search and use your starters from the command line!

If you don’t know jump-start, it’s basically a shortcut to your favorite code. Put it in a structured GitHub repo, and jump-start turns it into a website. Here’s mine –> @storybook/cli - Storybook

Didn’t realize Anthropic had created dxt: a one-click install for MCP servers –> Claude Desktop Extensions: One-click MCP server installation for Claude Desktop

Fascinating blog post that rethinks how to use LLMs for programming tasks by writing a “program” in markdown and storing “state” in json files –> Taming agentic engineering - Prompts are code, .json/.md files are state

MCP server for accessing Guardian articles –> https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/a-new-tool-lets-your-favorite-ai-model-talk-with-1-9-million-articles-in-the-guardian/

This is by far the most interesting thing I’ve consumed all week. h/t @kottke.org –> - YouTube

Seems great for exploring embeddings –> Embedding Atlas

Fun project –> I Counted All of the Yurts in Mongolia Using Machine Learning | Monroe Clinton

Useful report on news consumption –> https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/for-the-first-time-social-media-overtakes-tv-as-americans-top-news-source/