I hate living in the Asshole Cinematic Universe. “So the King of Pedophiles got the 4chan guy to make the Nazi board and that’s why the host of Celebrity Apprentice was made immune to laws by the Tradcath Illuminati. This has something to do with video game journalism, maybe?” Fuck off.

Henderson is on point here. Kimi 2.5 released today claims their 'agent swarm' solves this giving faster execution (at more cost) than Claude Code www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k2...

Beijing doesn't look like I expected tbh

This came up on my timeline just after reading @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social rant on the governments “up to 20 mins of ai training”. She’s so right - this is what using AI sensibly looks like: it’s hard and requires a high level of skill. The “just ask a question” UI completely hides nuance

I would say this findings shows women are more AI literate than men, because the majority of non-magical beings have no innate ability to "judge truthfulness"

The bot today used nearly 80m tokens and a nominal API cost (this is on a plan) of $72. So based on the rough energy cost calculations, this is heading toward 4 dishwasher loads-worth of energy. Which isn't that small. And I want to add more sources

Really starting to feel this agent thing is working.

I've created an automated linkedin influencer. Guidance on tone and writing style incoming

Having gone away and read the blog posts Henderson found, they are all the same except for ones from deepseek itself - llm summaries of other blogs or the papers and all with the same highlights. Many references, no new info. Also need to make the agent more cynical about vendor research

I've created a AI Agent. Little late to the party. Meet Henderson

I think we’ll start seeing a lot more of this. It’s very like using LLMs for programming right now - the human expert still has a key role but gains a lot of assistance that results in speed

While reading Simon Couch's blog I came across this post from December on evaluating open models' ability to complete a simple code refactor in R. It's a much bigger gap than I expected. He's limiting to model's than can run locally, hence the small size, but even Haiku totally outclasses gpt-oss

Simon Couch estimates of the electricity use of Claude Code. His usage ($15-20/day) is ~one extra dishwasher run. Which isn't nothing, but still not a lot. But my nominal use per day (via a plan) is already twice that, with some days reaching nearly $80/day. And that's manually driving CC

Demonstration of exploit development against a (small but not toy) JavaScript interpreter. Two things I noticed: 1) Increase tokens by the use of parallel runs on the same task (like how METR do their evals) 2) Author doesn’t say how he got round guardrails. sean.heelan.io/2026/01/18/o...

I got almost the same form letter. They named the token after me. And all of these 0 follower accounts keep trying to neg me into taking the money and chilling for them. I even got somebody from Bags to email me, eventually. When I asked for help to get my name off their website, they ghosted me.

Now this is an decent response

Has anyone considered that Trump might be happy if the US army took control of Green Land Total Landscaping - a small business we could quickly set up somewhere on the coast of Novia Scotia?

Just keep going with this thread.

a16z really are scum. Gambling companies pretending to not be gambling, dogy af ai companions and more www.modelrepublic.org/articles/a16...

Back in May last year I wrote a post on getting setup with Claude Code. Since that's about a million years ago in LLM time, I've written an updated version. It's aimed a developers who want a quickstart with patterns

This is a terrible take from @theguardian.com Grok hasn’t done this. X has done this to grok. And specifically Musk. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

This is popular today for obvious reasons. Curtis Yarvin is cackling manically in his lair

I've been playing with Claude Code based assistants (done so far - email, calendar, tone of voice), and so reading around. And wow some of this stuff doesn't take any account of threat models Take this danielmiessler.com/blog/persona... 1/

New blog post after just over a month. New Year's resolution - post more. Some thoughts on two things I read recently - one on poisoning surveys and one on digital twins.

Holiday IT support. How do people cope with phones that alert every few minutes, email accounts filled with spam and so many, many notifications?

Searched back through Blue Sky for this. Which is one of the best things I saw all year in any medium.

Anecdata -- I have been doing five month undergrad projects of a similar nature for ten years. Each is unique and hand crafted. Cohort: ten fourth students a year for ten years. Productivity has uniformly shot up in last two/three years. What they used to struggle to do in a month they do week one.

LLMs' productivity boost is an exponent not a multipler - from @ed3d.net This framing partially resonates. I'm less keen on starting skill level as the key (on which axis do we measure etc), but because if LLM competency is the variable and the exponent, then learned skill matters so much more

"UPDATE: It’s developed a habit of not replying or reacting at all if my message is too boring"

Claude's browser extension is out. I had a quick play with it against my very busy calendar, and yeah, I can see it doing real work (even with all the caveats about prompt injection) www.claude.com/chrome

Warning! Massive incoming wall of Xmas Argos catalog content. This is what the shop-with-no-stuff-in-it was offering back in Xmas 1983, and holy freakin' shit was there a mighty pile of weird and wonderful ancient technology to choose from. 1/3

Blog post on decompiling N64 games (via @simonwillison.net and HN). There's some useful general tips in here about scaffolding, keeping the agent on track and managing tokens as well

So Substack are, as long predicted, starting to slowly move away from email. This 'warning' means the message is truncated *by the sender* with a 'continue reading on substack' button even though my mail client can read long messages just fine

This is an interesting read but I think the author misses the main use case that will drive spend. Military robots are going to be a massive investment. I don’t think this is a good thing, but it seems clear that it’s the way it’s going

I have three free subs for three free months of Kagi search engine. Hmu if you want one

Chinese robots are blowing my mind

It was an absolutely baffling decision to ask for strike action - it was doomed to fail and it worsens the negotiating position. It is a genuine shame. Not that long ago the union looked strong. This is a real failure of leadership.

There are still gems to be found online. At the weekend I found the David Rumsey Historical Maps Collection www.davidrumsey.com Lots and lots of maps to browse

My econ lecturing buddies don't tell any tales like this. Issues are 1) restructuring assessment back to exams to cope with ChatGPT 2) making best use of face to face lectures when, as a legacy of the pandemic, there is an archive of online video lectures.

Some of the replies to this thread get a bit tied up around AI, but I don't think it's the core/only issue. How do you learn agency when you can fill every waking moment with an endless scroll of mindless entertainment that is designed to addict? Add in the pandemic and you get this. 1/

Sigh. All the stuff I read growing up. Asimov turns out to be a groper, Clarke a pedophile and Heinlein I stopped reading after 'Time Enough for Love'.

Arizona State Uni opening up in London. That's a big thing london.asu.edu

After a bit over a month, I've written a new blog post! This time on Anthropic's new suggestions for managing context windows with Claude Code clune.org/posts/anthro...

Ok. We're done. AGI is here. '2025-final-v2' just needs to become '2025-final-v2-fixed'

This is very impressive - serious mathematicians seeing real gains from LLMs in research. Via @brendannyhan.bsky.social I haven't linked the original thread because the comments are so wrong ('they can't be using LLMs' etc)

the math doesn't even pencil out. there are ~10^24 stars in the sky. ~10^11 humans have ever lived. if everyone who ever lived on earth had a pocket universe in which every star was inhabited by earthlike civilization, that would be ~1 trillionth the number of ppl Grok would kill to save Elon Musk.

I've reached the point on an almost-entirely vibecoded project where I need to do some major architectural refinement. Some thoughts...

Can anyone recommend me a good RSS reader? I've been using The Old Reader after Google Reader died, which is basically a clone of Google Reader, but it seems abandoned now. I want: 1) Web based 2) Keyboard shortcut heavy. Ideally Google Reader shortcuts as the muscle memory is real

Survey research has been in a downward spiral for decades: LLMs are administering the coup de grâce. As someone who’s spent much of their working life using surveys … Gulp. As I keep saying, many bad things happen when the price of custom plausible bullshit falls through the floor.