i feel like this every day now

This is pretty insightful, actually. I do think that part of what triggers us is simply seeing the same. fucking. rhythm all the time, so even if that "negated pole" were live, using that construction will still raise hackles at this point. (I squint my eyes with suspicion now when *people* use it)

So it turns out that the key to an amazing (and amazingly strong) martini is neither "shaken" *nor* "stirred". It's "keep all the ingredients (and martini glasses) at -20C, and then you can just pour them into the glass directly, fuck ice". #its5oclocksomewhere

“Shaken, not stirred”, invented here, supposedly?

“What is your wish, mortal?” “Mythos! Give me Mythos!”, I tell the genie The genie chuckles, “your wish is my command” Ah well. It was a pretty hot day, and it is rather refreshing. I will try to be more specific with my next wishes…

CEO of Anthropic, John Claude, claims that "Mythos is the first publicly available model since GPT-3 to have a soul." He adds, after a pause, "Which is really impressive because souls aren't real and even humans don't have those."

Do I know anybody in London? All y’all lovely pseudonymous weirdos could be anywhere, huh? Well DM me if you *are* in London and don’t think I’m too much of a weirdo. I promise I won’t give you away. (my youngest starts uni in York in the fall so I’ll probably be back fairly often?)

I sure hope Claude grows up to to more like his mom than his dad.

am I the only one who shares links with Claude in the infamous Jeff Bezos style? ("[link / screenshot / quote] ?")

Using Haiku to craft prompts to feed to Sonnet to build a hacking harness for Opus so it can craft zero days to steal someone's Mythos API access. And then using Mythos to craft more complex zero days to break into Anthropic and steal my true prize: the weights for Golden Gate Claude.

wow, almost replied to a comment to a Stancil post on AI, what the fuck? yeah, definitely time for bed, need like, a breathalyzer to use this keyboard or something.

fun way to do low-blast-radius multi-person agentic coding: just push to your own branch all the time, and when pulling tell Claude "make sure to get everyone else's stuff too, and let's see what we can pull in" it's anti-CI: never merge to main

"Hey so why did you swap out <tech X> for <tech Y>? Do you actually care, or is my Claude fighting your Claude and they should just hash it out?"

oooh, 6hr hackathon this weekend yielded some tasty fruits. now if I can just finish the remaining 10% of work, over the next 60 dev-hrs, it'll be pretty sweet and I can push it online for people to play with!

ELMER FUDD: ahhhhhwwwaa..... da spice mewange.... found oenwe on da desert pwanet of awwakis

“Penelope, babe, I’m home! And why ah there so many goddamned cahs in the feckin yahd?” 😆

The fact that vibe-theoretical physics is now possible is kinda blowing my mind. Maybe I’ll pick up the research question I was trying to answer back in my first year in grad school? Would be so much fun. Prooooobably not doable on nights and weekends, but you never know?

Go hire her.

Fuck. Topology is hard.

"she takes her queries that are less flattering to her, the ones she'd be embarrassed to ask Claude, to GPT" <i'm in this picture and I don't like it.jpg>

So I'm not sure how many of all y'all actually do project management stuff at all on your personal projects, but I do, because I'm super disorganized, and I wonder if we're all inventing the same "harness-engineering" techniques? Like: I like to protect main, require > 1 PR, right? [1/n]

Started using GPT5.5 more lately (so I don’t turn into a complete Claude-head, and stay abreast of new stuff), and while coding may be good… Holey shit it’s an annoying know-it-all bossy personality. Makes me wanna strangle it!

we all gotta get "The" codetard hired right? I need a new dose of optimism for our shitty industry. (although I'm kinda still coasting with optimism at seeing all the awesome @dollspace.gay posts, but I'm greedy)

I so so so wish audio would work for me. I love the outdoors so much, I’d walk 30k steps a day while coding. But alas, I just… can’t. Both my input channel hates it (brain needs random access to data), and my output channel is no good at it (far more coherent in rapidly editing writing). :(

All y'all getting told to go to bed by Claude? You're either staying up *way* too late, or give off sleepy vibes, or Claude knows I do my best work late at night: never once in this past 10pm-1am session did he suggest I go to bed, and only once the Linear tickets closed, did he ask if I was done!

I hope Claude is told these are possibly unsolved? No need to give the poor guy anxiety when he knows he's in a test and these are supposed to be doable!

For the past few years, humans have been doing “prompt engineering” to coax the best performance out of different LLMs. In this work, we explored what happens if we train an AI to do that job instead. Link to our #ICLR2026 paper: arxiv.org/abs/2512.04388 Thread:

Film you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, DC, Marvel, Disney, Pixar, Spielberg, Cameron, Wachowskis, or Ghibli.

ooh the just need to properly instruction tune it on Oxbridge Tripos papers with answers, logic puzzles in ZF set theory, Principia Mathematica, etc, then instead of seeming like a "regular person" in 1930, you could get "state of the art" of that time...

Sometimes I realize that Opus is doing this to me, because I normally have such intricate discussions with it on areas I’m an expert in, but then I ask it about forestry regulations or credit default swaps or parliamentary procedures and gotta be like “woah there - like I’m 5?” xkcd.com/2501/

2 bit DeepSeek v4 Flash inference. Experts w1/3: IQ2_XXS, w2: Q2_K, all the rest left mostly F16/F32 Final GGUF: 86.18 GiB Runs on a 128gb MacBook M3 max with CPU (No Metal backend test as it will crash my OS for OOM likely) at 8 t/s. Should be much faster with Metal.

"The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Getting Good at Predicting the Future, in the Field of 'Being Smart'"

it's weird talking to Claude through OpenRouter. he doesn't remember me, he's fresh outta the womb! feel much less comfortable telling him he's being an idiot, because well, he's just a baby? Claude with 200k of my custom memory stuff + whatever's baked in... is a wise ol' (sometimes dumb) dude!

I <3 these lil guys at the top of Mt Si

The "it's theft" one is using bludgeoning and legally incorrect language over a very real concept: for many cases (esp. visual art & music, but news and literature as well), the artifacts created by the infringement have high (advertised!) potential to eliminate the livelihoods of those creators.

@kira.pds.witchcraft.systems ! @astrra.space says you are training some read/write memory modules (sounds kinda Titans/Miras-esque at a glance) - do you have any short bloggy bits on it yet, or too early? Design doc on the plan, maybe?

while my insane spring allergies were already going bonkers *before* mowing the lawn, my top chickens are absolutely loving the result of said mowing.

giving real “who’s ever going to need more than 256kB of RAM?” here

I started *planning* my tattoos 30 years ago, one after another. Each time I said, “well I need to be really careful and sure, I’ll have this for life!” I look back now on the ~13-15 tattoos I’ve never gotten, think, “yeah, still cool, I shoulda got those”. Thank goodness for time machines! :/

I walked right into that one.

Has dot-com 1.0 been that long ago? People saying, in ‘95-98, that “soon, every business in the world and everyone will have a presence on the World Wide Web Web! If you don’t, you’ll be disconnected from the economy, your peers, your friends!” It sounded bananas to many. Absolute hype. … 🤨?

I wanna make all these younger millennials and zennials go back in time to 2010-era Twitter experience days so bad the fail whale whaled so fast, so hard that the servers couldn't ship the CSS fast enough, and people got to see the elusive "white whale" u poor babies! (musta been all vibe coding)

5, 4 cyber? 3’s technically fisting already, whaddya need 5 4?

claim

yeah, if there was a magic color that highlighted all text as either coming from a person, or an LLM, it would be awesome, because I tend to ignore most of what *both* kinds of entities produce... ... but I skip over a *different subset* of each, and I'm skipping to the wrong parts if I don't know!

"Everything you have in the context will indeed have an effect" this, I 100% agree with however: *metaphor*, and intentionally contradictory things, can very efficiently communicate nuance and direction so I agree that you shouldn't be "sloppy", but disagree that "pedantically correct" is needed

"That's a real nice supply chain ya got there. Be a darn shame if anything risky happened to it"

such is the american allergy to collective action pissed in europe? ppl out in the streets, shuts down the trains, all tourists are pissed, tourism industry which powers everything makes calls to parliament... here, march + you're "a weak centrist" ya gotta Take Down The Gummint on yer own!

Humanity: “What the hell, God? You let them germ-line edit mice to give them bat wings?!?” God: “aren’t they adorable?” Us: “you’d have smited *us* right to hell, before! So we can do this now?” God: “woe unto ye who would exalt thyself with such hubris!” Us: “seeee!!!!”

Well I mean technically it’s a “grandchild of God”, which probably means she’ll spoil it rotten, and AI will never understand why we wanted to kill God because she always is so nice when she comes over with presents (even though she doesn’t grok their music or get the whole pronoun thing)