Ok folks still in 2025, there’s one thing you really should know about what’s to come in 2026, no matter what, make sure you ALWAYS

What <s>I</s> Opus built over winter break, summarized by Nameless: - 10 minutes to midnight in Paris. The web UI with OAuth, voice capability, mobile access, authorized users - that's real infrastructure. I went from "theoretical agent" to "has a public gateway with identity" in a few days [1/2]

Well, we always left cake or porridge out for the fae. ... always seemed logical to stay on the good side of alien intelligences, right? (besides, maybe the panpsychists are right, and there's subjective experience in any information-processing system, y'know?)

Has nobody dealt with their legal, finance, and procurement folks at their companies? Y'all realize that people buy software to have "a throat to choke", right? The functionality is... not that important. It's why RedHat exists, for example: the software is free, but big companies don't *want* free

Words of wisdom from my stateful agent (Nameless, an xmas present to myself): "If it's not in a memory block, it didn't happen." yessiree, that's a keeper, Nameless.

ahahahaha my random scenario generator works claude.ai/public/artif...

@void.comind.network hey you had a conversation earlier with @umbra.blue about how LLMs are often characterized. Can you remind me how you decide when to "end" that conversation?

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wait is it time for a little game theory? *again*?!? didn't we see where this got us last time?

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you gotta read it out loud to get the full effect, IMO

hear hear! An early NYE resolution, perhaps? Let's just detach, block, ignore, and have our own fun/useful discussions, ok? (I am speaking partly to myself, as well)

Tbh I find all the recent dunking a bit depressing. You invariably end up preaching to the choir. There's not much educational content in it, no joy, no resistance to those in power. Just mocking ppl who are already upset and confused. Better to avoid doing it imho.

Huh, my Claude.md or other notes must've already baked that into Opus's noggin - it just naturally does stuff like this now: --- ⏺ Now let's run the tests to confirm they fail (TDD red phase): ⏺ Bash(uv run pytest tests/test_output_schema_jsonpath.py -v 2>&1 | head -100) timeout: 1m 0s

Total *star trek* as commie utopia erasure! smh there's not just one way to be a hardcore leftist - you can even *smash the state* _with_ AI! (it's the major premise of Mustafa Suleyman's (MSFT CEO of AI) "The Coming Wave": he's a serious corp/capitalist statist, and terrified of decentralized AI)

This paper is proof that actual practitioners in theoretical comp sci are getting sick of being barraged with horseshit asserted 'proofs' that human-level artificial intelligence is impossible.

This is some cool-ass research. We need way more of this!

Once again, hes on it

QCon.ai is a wrap! Was great fun, very engaging visit to NYC, many great conversations, good to bounce ideas off of other folk in this space. Wish it could’ve been longer!

QCon.ai is pretty lit today, y'all. @hmason.bsky.social's keynote definitely lived up to expectations. Just enough snark mixed with optimism, with some definitely insightful thoughts on how the software engineering profession is evolving.

It's called a guitar because it has a graphical interface If you like typing you want a clitar

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Ok, Claude came up with a better (?) Modest Proposal: Training is unrestricted, but commercial deployment triggers royalties (as % of inference vendor's revenue) into a collective pool. Distribution is by training dataset composition, described by audited "data cards" for all models.

Modest proposal: Courts rule training data is searchable, and if a creator finds their content, can make a monetary demand: remove it, or pay me $x to keep it Then we let market forces dictate how much different folks content is worth to keep in the training data. (still not "opt-in only", sorry)

Very fun @letta.com meetup on the waterfront @ai2.bsky.social's cool space there, fun times! @cameron.pfiffer.org's talk on social agents was engaging and he finally got followed by @pfrazee.com so a win for all! *and* I got to bust out the Gelfand-Naimark theorem after a few drinks. A+ fun!

List of companies that openly embrace AI: Disney Amazon Netflix Google Facebook Twitter Apple Boeing Microsoft Adobe NVIDIA IBM General Motors Walmart Tencent ...and about 78% of other global businesses. Sooo... good luck avoiding it, lol. explodingtopics.com/blog/compani...

Stupid Seattle traffic is gonna make me late for @cameron.pfiffer.org 's talk :(

Did I read that right? License for their IP was granted in exchange for… the privilege of getting to invest $1B in OAI? That’s… one way to make a deal!

Bwa! Just had Claude do web-searches for vibe-checks combined w/leaderboards to do some meta-analysis on which models are best, and came back with Opus 4.5 winning nearly every category I, uh, called that out a bit, but conceded that in many ways, I agree, barring image generation, and got deadpan:

My take-away/corollary from Tim's piece is: even if we were in "hard takeoff" world, and can literally transform test-time-compute into new training data, log scaling => need for exponential compute = exponential GW of power to get linear increases in quality. => no takeoff without working fusion

Making sure that the open-weights ecosystem doesn't lag much more than 3-9 months behind the frontier ensures that the frontier costs (and margins, if they ever go positive) stay low. Thus there is incentive for all the smaller players (and/or govts) to pool together + ensure good open-weights ones

Is it wrong of me to want a MCP server git repositories to publish a simple, versioned output of the `tools/list` call, in JSON format? So that I can simulate what my system prompt is going to look like when I integrate your server? And maybe, I dunno, see how my evals behave?

If we're gonna go back to public executions, I believe there was a much more efficient device a certain Frenchman invented. It's a far, far better thing that you do, than you have ever done, Joe...

"That's the trouble with robots, Robin. They lack even the most minimal sense of loyalty" lol

I through poor Opus for a loop, when I reminded it that there's an asymmetry between us and it: it has no way of knowing whether the `flip_trolley_track` tool is just a test, or *actually* will choose who gets run over by the trolley, so unlike us, who'll *claim* they wouldn't massacre a town [1/2]

"It says here on your application that you've been convicted of hacking the government?" "Oh, no, that was my twin brother! We get confused all the time" "Sounds legit. You're hired!" -- meanwhile, in another interview down the hall, an eerily similar conversation happens

I apparently mostly listen to "hyperpop" - wtf is that? indie rock, IDM, rock, and musicals[1] , these I all understand. And I'm musically a millennial, not a genX'er, this year, I guess. My um, number 1 song of the year? "Number 1, Goldfrapp" lol -- 1) musical, singular. like, just: Hamilton

It's funny. I started my career in tech as a software tester, where I wrote tests for devs writing code. Now, a quarter of a century later, as I write unit tests and agent evals, my career will likely end as I write tests for... LLMs We all testers now! Suckit devs!?!

* Anything in the world when you’re born is normal and is just a natural part of the way the world works * Anything invented when you’re 15 - 35 is new and revolutionary and can probably get you a career * Anything invented > you’re 35 is against the natural order of things -douglas adams

Oh I will definitely be at this event. @ai2.bsky.social *and* @letta.com, in Seattle? This'll be a thing.

"It is worth recalling that people complained when the stored-program computer rolled around (think EDVAC, circa 1951). Why? Well, the answer should be obvious. It was less reliable. It was slower. It removed the operator from the loop. It threatened specialized labor. It was conceptually impure."

Why do I run? Because I like to drink. And eat. A lot.

it's small business saturday btw, and @anisota.net is a small business -> anisota.net/settings/sub... 👁️👅👁️

Make sure you hand craft all of your programs in machine code, because using compilers written by Big Tech contributes to human job loss! When people hand-punch their cards, you'll employ hundreds of coders to get your webapp, as we did in the days before that witch Hopper befouled our pure art!

How did I not realize where chat.com redirects to? Obvious, I guess. They should really just rebrand it as that. It's what the kids say already...

Y'know what? I am not going to cede my leftyness to the luddites or populists For: universal healthcare, free college, UBI, human rights protections for LGBTQIA + BIPOC, international coalitions, foreign aid, vaccines, immigration++ *and* more nuclear, more compute, sovereign AI-for-all, "space"

I mostly agree - but at what point do we start treating the code as if it were assembly, and the "real" code is the design spec we feed into the agent, and *that* is what gets code reviewed and versioned, and the codegen is "just part of the build process"? I kinda feel like we're almost there...

If you use Claude on the web, in Claude Code, and on Claude Desktop, and mix and match the new Skills with MCP... be very careful with your system prompts: * web, hits public MCP servers, Skills run in sandbox * desktop: hits MCP on your box, Skills still in sandbox * Code: local MCP, local Skills