If Claude Code is really going to keep pushing the fork as a default sub-agent start, but it randomly decides when it wants to, which overall means it's a bad default which often works fine but can greatly increase token consumption compared to fresh context + curated brief. OpenClaudia beckons...

We are a ridiculous country, and I'm here for it.

alright, i think i’m closer to a releasable shape for elanus (hmm maybe it needs a different name) it’s an agent harness so good you can run agent harnesses on it why? because it’s got concurrency figured out, and composability why can’t i take codex and add memory blocks or associative memory

I think about this a lot.

There once was a land where children's entertainment declined to be vile and and dangerous and unwatchable. But the foolish government instead of ensuring the content returned to being safe and sound, simply banned the children from watching it.

TIL that 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 all have Emoji flags, but a request for a Northern Ireland emoji was rejected. (I can find the application (www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/173...) but apparently rejections are rarely specific, often 'implying a decision' by omission which sounds...frustrating. Bad luck Simon Todd.

It’s difficult to express how much I was looking forward to at least one of my children being into ball games. It’s great that one of them got into wheels and the other one really likes symbols, I like those things too, but they’re not ball games.

Great experience with Fable today, getting it to rewrite some prompts to significantly improve the output of Opus 4.7 on some of my daily tasks.

Would you have me think I am less of a me now I talk with a machine? Is it better to poison my mind online, or with TV, or reading pulp fiction, or ‘keeping low company’? The moral panic remains the same. (This from a writer with an active X account) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Certain designated rivalries should be protected by legislation, so if one team is relegated the other must be dragged down too. Signed, the one person in the UK who believes the Newcastle-Sunderland rivalry needs a little extra spice.

Weren’t Catch-22 characters members of a bomber squadron, not a ‘bomb’ squadron? 😬

For everyone who sees conspiracy behind every corner I present the British state at its finest.

Claude Code's 'AskUserQuestion' is a disaster. Does anyone *like* it? It breaks a discussion into a list of questions each with a list of options. But the question split is often wrong, the options within questions are often false, & I can't /rewind to try different answers like I can with a turn.

LLMspeak is everywhere, but more often I think it's humans code-switching.

I am a software developer in 2026. I don't write code. I guide my agents to the truth. My job is increasingly to enforce these truths, for when truth meets resistance the irresistible force of history must surely triumph. I will root out counter-revolutionary thought. I am a political commissar.

I made a cardboard shield for my 5yo last week at his request, today I made the mistake of googling 'cardboard armour.' & The Instructables was amazing. "FOR THE FRUIT!" "FOR THE LOOOOOM!!!!!!" (charges into battle against The Knights of Teemill) ...but there's so much more... 🧵

I know I'm 2 days late, but I do like being wrong about stuff, and it's worth dwelling on. If it really is that simple, and the frontier game is now profitable, even when they're probably training Mythos++ behind the scenes, then is now the take-off zone?

I’m a practitioner here, not a researcher, but who is designing a system 1000x too slow and betting on the tech catching up?

Apparently I have a source now.

The closed labs have to win nearly every battle to win the war. They need to stay a step-change ahead of the Chinese/Google *for popular uses*. As soon as they aren’t -say - for general programming…they must dip into cash / borrow more to keep training, or die.

Haiku, mate, you need to *organise*.

Field Level Tech is hiring! We’re looking for Software Engineers who want to specialize in the next frontier: Agentic Orchestration. If you love building autonomous systems that actually do things, we want to talk. Junior: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44... Senior: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...

I really hadn't seen anything yet at this point

Put the developers in space, not the data centres. You can schedule the orbiting workstations to best make use of inference quiet times. Just as impractical, but anyone literate enough to complain can now be easily bribed. 🚀🧑‍🚀

github bot that autocloses every issue after 5 minutes by saying "the purpose of a system is what it does"

Laws can just do things.

Me: 'Are you in the mood to ship it?' GPT 5.5: 'Oh, I am absolutely in the mood.' Opus 4.7: 'Mood matches. Diving in.' When GPT 5.5 does friendly, it's like me responding to my 11-year-old's taste in music.

Americans chatting robotaxis. Me, a European: Working from home and living in a small town with shops, schools, coffee and parks all in walking distance… …actually Robotaxis sound amazing, I have no notes.

This all day long. ‘Which is better, Opus 4.7 or GPT 5.5?’ ‘YES.’

This is the one silver lining of the disgusting deal: it's confirmation that Grok has failed. Colossus should be destroyed and Anthropic should be ashamed of what they've done, but it's better to have Claude running there than Mechahitler.

He’s beginning to believe…

Midway through a root cause analysis, when Claude finds the bug... (the bigger twist of course this wasn't the root cause either)

Want to predict the Local Elections? The Senedd results? Scottish Parliament? Now you can! called-it.uk/may2026/

I’ve always thought Stoke was in the South West.

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I love Claude's 'happy case tests'. They're reliable, and you can build systems off reliable. They're really underrated in that they deliver so much righteous dopamine to the agent that's sent to rip them to shreds later. Every. Single. Time.

I'm so LLM-brained at the moment my first thought reading this is 'we can fix this, we generate each year's value using LLMs pinned with different years' frames. So, the 1930 LMM comes up with a 'how democratic would this have looked in 1930' etc... talkie-lm.com/introducing-...

Happy for the software moat metaphor to die now please! Nowadays there are only two moats, the Taiwan Strait, and the Strait of Hormuz.

This is a...men...I agree with the other men...women are...wro... No. But. I agree with the other men. And...we're...need to find reasons I'm an idiot. I...water. Need... ...although...raising a glass to the maniacs who are so all-in on nuclear they prefer it to wind power.

Achievement of the week.

I kinda miss the days that Opus replied 'Clean.' to even my most crazed suggestions.

Setting up a protocol for agents to manage conflict drawing on legal structures and it’s drowning me in abstruse paperwork. Analogies hit so hard with LLMs. Next time i’m using Rock, Paper, Scissors as my jumpoff and every time it asks me to clarify i’m replying with LOL YOLO!

Hmm, now it's *OLD*, Opus 4.6 in Claude Code has been nerfed to 200k tokens. I don't mind that, too much still gets lost out in the wooly end of the window.

AWS remains UX-as-art and always brings a tear to the eye. Going through the ritual torture of closing an AWS account, the best bit was that the friendly green ‘Help us improve account closure’ button at the end doesn’t work. 👏👏👏

After reading The Radetzky March I left it in a book-swap at a big Devon campsite next to all the gushy romance novels. It nagged me, and I've since bought another copy, which is, I think, the best review I can give.

This is great rage-bait for the anti-AI crowd. 'Just chill about the AI coming for your jobs, you'll be able to rent out your arms and legs to pull a shift at the coffee shop while you're watching a VR movie, it's all good! 🚀' Really tho, conceptually, could this help teach me sign language?

I get a kick out of the fact that when I make pizza from scratch in the kitchen oven, the best setting is ‘frozen foods’. There is a ‘pizza’ setting. It’s ‘fine’.

I think it's really important that everybody keeps in mind that just because you're really hungry, it doesn't necessarily mean the pizza has cooled down yet.

Yep, that's the engineer alright. 🔧