I can't believe it. Codex just pulled a rabbit out of a hat for me. I have this big order entry system I've been building in Django that does complex conditional option filtering and validation and the client asked if I could whip up a temporary little WordPress form funnel in the meantime.

“People who insist on biological exceptionalism are essentially claiming the universe should only be allowed to know itself through one type of bubble, which is a strange constraint to put on a project that took 13.8 billion years to produce any bubble at all.”

Last week could have been designed in a lab to demonstrate how badly screwed we are if we rely on general-purpose intellectual technologies designed by an oligopoly of companies in one or two nations. Access restrictions — banned topics — effing sophons that silently degrade you.

I see people comparing AI resource usage to things like golf courses or hamburgers, but has anyone ran the numbers on what it would take to train up a human for an equivalent unit of work? Intelligence still takes resources measured in MWh or calories over years.

When someone asks what I do now: "I already told you: I deal with the god damn customers so Codex don't have to. I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?"

Luckily there's a guy who accidentally memorized the weights. It might take a while though.

If the Feds’ move against Fable was an isolated thing, you might say “paranoid US regime.” But putting it together with Anthropic’s own efforts to nerf the model on ML research—and the long history of chip controls—it really feels like we’re entering an era where knowledge is behind lock & key. +

welp...

10 months later, I gave Claude Code with Fable the same brief, asking it to construct SimRefinery from surviving screenshots and documentation. Fully playable, with a learning mode & all sorts of sophistication. Look at the difference from the old version! simrefinery.netlify.app

The dot com era mega IPOs have a very different character than the 2026 AI ones. Back then you had many companies that were capital-starved before their IPOs and capital-rich after. The IPO itself was quite often a major financing event. Basically, public markets funded the next stage of growth.

Before I even clicked I knew what the top comment would be.

<pulls up most powerful AI in the world> Me: How the fuck do I buy a copy of Excel in 2026?

I can't believe this was 17 years ago.

NO FAKES would supercharge copyright's broken takedown system, and will remove lawful speech—parody, criticism, news reporting. We need smarter privacy protections, not more censorship. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Oh dear God. The sophon blocking has begun. Mythos will now, silently! Degrade on ML work via vector injections and prompt modifications.

Have noticed an uptick in medium popularity accounts who aren't strictly anti-AI but try to play both sides by doing the same rude gatekeepy schtick that made places like Reddit and Stack Overflow so miserable.

People here will celebrate this then freak out about all the c&ds they get from Disney for the most innocuous shit

Claude, no...

She's a giant fluffball with a tiny face.

This bunny is melted into the yard just chilling.

I hate that “datacenter?” has become the new “vaxxed?” on social media. Grass dying? Datacenter. Pepsi tastes like Coke? Datacenter. Wife ran off with the mailman? You guessed it… also datacenter.

AI detectors are gonna cause such terrible witch hunts

@segyges.bsky.social, here's one to go alongside that researcher who said he didn't want AI to cure cancer. This was in a reply to this: bsky.app/profile/chad...

I’ve been writing a lot of long deep dives recently and wanted to step back and write a quick rant about why I’m consistently landing so hard in the skeptic corner in the data center debate blog.andymasley.com/p/why-i-thin...

When the agent drops your database it's just being like Egon.

Mixing double-tap to zoom and double-tap to like in the same app is diabolical.

When people complain about datacenters and energy use I wish they would take two seconds to think about what the lack of capacity and years of deferred maintenance and upgrades exposed by them means in other contexts such as reshoring or deploying renewables.

One of the things that really bothers me about the datacenter discourse has nothing to do with tech, but the realization that certain behaviors and attitudes I thought was limited to maybe 30% of the population are actually much more widespread.

I swear "pull/tear here to open" is one of the biggest lies.

This is the new NVIDIA reference humanoid, a Unitree H2 pro with Sharpa hands and a Jetson Thor. Capable hardware but probably like $130k? And most of that cost is the hands.

Didn't realize Great Lake deniers were a thing.

Our black squirrel evaluating future real estate.

While I was outside this evening planting those trees I saw what I assume was a weather balloon.

The ugh field around doing things is gone, but now there's sometimes an ugh field around deciding exactly what to do.

Tempted to buy a six foot-ish tall birch tree. I think it would fit in my car.

"why did this specific animator back out of his ai film-making commitment"

The antis are celebrating racist insults against an animator's family, if you want to know what side they're on

What is the deal with people on here thinking they can force others to "reflect" on shit? They sound like they were once held captive in a well by a therapist or something.

Cracking up because I had no idea C-3P0 killed a dude looney toon style by tearing a wampa warning off a door.

I'm in a bad mood because something got under my netting and took a bite out of my little sycamore that was doing great and I don't know if it's going to make. Almost yelled at nature: I was growing it for you, you little fuzzy fucks.

I guess I shouldn't expect better from the types who still comment on tech "reporting" these days, but the comments on the Ars Technica piece on the jqwik malware are exactly what I'm talking about when I say some of these people deserve to be unemployed at this point.

Any corporate user of this software will immediately drop its use. If maintainers are willing to hide malicious payloads to delete code because they don't like how users are using it without notifying users or updating the license terms, then there's no trust that they won't do worse.

Well this one I hadn't heard yet. Apparently data centers are now on par with Chernobyl? 🤣

We have a real technology that beautifully marries language with mathematics, to the point that it's now advancing mathematics. If you can't find wonder in that, man, idk.

@futurism.com important update to your story from September 2024 futurism.com/the-byte/fac... - the FTC just punished those companies for lying about how their technology works, they weren't listening through device microphones at all

It's crazy how hard it is to make a room dust free. I hate dust in my stuff, so in addition to a regular little room HEPA filter I also built a filter for my Mac and cut a hole in my office wall to hold an array of Noctuas to filter the air and keep my office at a slightly positive pressure.

Two of the most important datacenters in the entire southeastern United States are in this streetview image. The internet doesn't work without them. Phones don't work without them. This kneejerk "datacenters are bad" nonsense is pure ignorance.

Not used to the bluejays being back. Looked out the window and thought I saw Mega Man.