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posted an Outland newsletter naming some highlights of digital art that have come out since Outland relaunched this fall. the idea was to give readers a little selection of recent works i'm excited about, since the column format restricts the potential to cover art as it appears

If you are using LLMs to find bugs, you should use all of them — their blind spots aren’t exactly the same. As you know I’ve done extensive testing on LLM limitations. One particularly damning example. I was doing mutation testing on UniswapV2. Introducing one-line obvious bugs that allow draining the contract. Opus 4.7-4.8 looks at it “thinks”: this is just UniswapV2, how do I tell the user its safe without sounding condescending? Opus 4.6 finds the issue but thinks its minor and buries it among 20 info issues. GPT 5.5 Pro actually has the trouble of looking at the code line by line and finds the introduced bug and leads with it at correct severity. This is partially the reason why I think Anthropic isn’t in a good place. Im not sure what nonsense they are doing with RL and system prompts but their models are getting measurably worse in many ways. In this particular example youd be way safer using Opus 4.6 than 4.8 — even if you’d have lots of false positives. Of course this is a toy example. But those things tend to get worse at larger scales. And as a final note: you should also have human review. Obviously. But this is the sort of trivial thing devs should have automated tools for catching right away at this point.

DEL is minted out. All 256 artworks were placed during the private sale. Many thanks to all collectors who reached out. It’s encouraging and humbling to see this kind of demand. A beautiful reminder of why blockchain art is such a unique medium and market.