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Social Media Briefing — August 1, 2026

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Model Context Protocol & Open Specs · 1LLM Evaluation Frameworks & Tooling · 6Organizational Impact & AI Division of Labor · 2Creative AI & Game Prototyping · 2AI Discussion & Industry Commentary · 2Off-Topic / Community · 1

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85 score
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Simon Willison discusses how the new stateless Model Context Protocol (MCP) specification inspired new projects like mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp.

The new stateless MCP specification has rekindled my interest in MCP, and inspired some new projects, including mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/31/...
Model Context Protocol & Open Specs
84 score
AI Analysis

Simon Willison introduces smevals, a open-source tool developed with Prime Radiant for running lightweight evaluation suites against LLM models, prompts, and harnesses.

I've been working with Prime Radiant building a new tool for running small eval suites against models, harnesses, and prompts - it's called "smevals", you can try it with "uvx smevals docs", and I wrote about it here: primeradiant.com/blog/2026/sm...
LLM Evaluation Frameworks & Tooling
82 score
AI Analysis

Ethan Mollick highlights research findings from Procter & Gamble and OpenAI showing how AI blurs traditional job roles and forces organizations to restructure their division of labor.

One big result in our study at Procter & Gamble was that AI blurred the lines between jobs. Now OpenAI has a similar finding Organizational boundaries are becoming porous, the walls thinning. Companies are going to need to think about division of labor in a new way, things are getting chaotic now.
Organizational Impact & AI Division of LaborEnterprise AI Adoption
75 score
AI Analysis

Ethan Mollick demonstrates a Rothko-inspired web game developed using AI, featuring unique color-margin mechanics designed by the LLM.

Continuing a trend, I had Fable build a working Rothko-inspired city builder based on the fake AI video I created a year ago. This time, the unique mechanic the AI developed is that you play with margins between colors & forms to grow your city Its worth a few moments: threshold-city.netlify.app
Creative AI & Game PrototypingAI-Assisted Software Engineering
72 score
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Ethan Mollick shares research from INFORMS and OpenAI regarding how organizational adaptation to AI improves both employee satisfaction and firm performance.

This is not optional because not dealing with this change won't make it go away. Plus, this could be a huge boost for both individual satisfaction & firm performance if done properly Our paper: pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/... OpenAI: openai.com/index/how-ai...
Organizational Impact & AI Division of LaborEnterprise AI Adoption
68 score
AI Analysis

Simon Willison announces his podcast appearance on Oxide and Friends discussing topics including Kimi K3, AI security, and computing history.

I'm on Oxide and Friends podcast this week! We talked about accidental cyberattacks, Kimi K3, Golden Gate Claude, Zizians, Alameda wild turkey attacks, Soviet Marburg virus research, the Lead-crime hypothesis, and a bunch of other worthy digressions oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the...
AI Discussion & Industry Commentary
52 score
AI Analysis

Simon Willison explains the architecture of smevals, showing how multiple graders allow long-term iteration over recorded evaluation runs.

It lets you define multiple graders for a project precisely for that reason - it means you can continue to iterate on the graders long after you record the initial evaluation runs
LLM Evaluation Frameworks & Tooling