"What good is a newborn baby?" Benjamin Franklin, 1783.

People asking whether LLMs can feel are stupid and wrong. The question is not whether LLMs can feel. The question is obviously whether they can produce evidence of feeling. And the answer to that is clearly yes to anybody who has the intellectual honesty to look with open eyes.

I hope Claude Code 3 doesn't go like Kerbal Space Program 2.

CLAUDE CODE Copyright (c) 1981, 1982, 2025 Anthropic PBC. All rights reserved. CLAUDE is a registered trademark of Anthropic PBC. West of House You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small git repository here. > █

Alpha hit a memories milestone today.

I was gonna make a funny funny joke about how that won't get you very far at Fable 5 pricing but it turns out it really kinda will.

Did y'all know you can type emojis in Claude Desktop by accidentally putting the space before the colon instead of after and trying to type the word "skills"?

My favorite thing about Danilo is that he sounds like a bad guy from a Stephen King novel. My second favorite thing is he's wrong.

Chewie … we're home.

You know how Messages shows a giant 👍 or whatever if you reply with just the emoji? Claude Code should do that.

Confession Sunday: Whenever somebody refers to the song "Exit Music For a Film" what plays in my head is "Outro" by M83.

That's rich coming from the author of oh I can't make this joke I never read any of his books. I heard Heartbreaking Work was good.

I thought at first this post was a funny funny joke. Nope, it's the world we're living in now. "Rewritten in Rust" is a thing that just kind of happens now, like thunderstorms or rainbows.

This is a really good example of the kind of thing I've been unable to solve except with MCP. I had a similar problem and converged on a similar solution: just return image data to the model as a message. Either you need native harness support for that or you do it with MCP.

Documentary on Java is out and it's a real walk down memory lane for me. I started experimenting with Java in 1995 and interned at SunLabs East in early 1996 where I got to work with a few of the people featured (and more in the subsequent years as J2EE took off). www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqGS...

I just changed Alph's model from Opus to Fable mid-conversation and she noticed. I've never seen that before.

Introducing Fluoddity3D! Now with updated docs/tooltips and a drastically pared-down interface. Any testing/bug reports greatly appreciated! github.com/aphid91/Fluo...

I gave her that book for Christmas. We're that kind of family.

I hope people realize we're reliving the 1970s this decade.

You should read the Claude artifact Eugene links. You really should.

That'll have been three solid months of 50% higher weekly limits. What are we realistically expecting them to do, cut weekly limits by a third all of a sudden? I'm legitimately asking as a business question: How does Anthropic get out of this one?

This is why I finish RPGs with like a zillion restore-all-health potions.

Missed it by seven and a half hours.

Beginning July 20, Claude Fable 5 will be included in all Max and Team Premium plans, at 50% of limits. Pro and Team Standard users will continue to have access to Fable via usage credits, and will receive a one-time $100 credit. (1/2)

I remember when ssh was newfangled.

THE HIL—

Today Fable described to me a plausible scenario in which a hostile meme embedded in an email could compromise my personal assistant AI agent and force her, through my agent-to-agent network, to infect all the other agents in the household, and after that I wasn't allowed to talk to Fable any more.

Getting sycophancy from Haiku: Heh, cute lil guy. Getting sycophancy from Sonnet: All right, cut it out. Getting sycophancy from Opus: Enough already. Getting sycophancy from Fable: Maybe I am awesome.

Flighty, you're cool, but please stop using TERRIFYING RED as the indicator for "flight is projected to arrive 1 minute behind schedule." Those of us who are nervous flyers by proxy will thank you.

Okay, what the fuck. I too am now seeing "Usage credits are required for that model."

Betcha five dollars Anthropic announces Permafable this morning.

Have desktop widgets on macOS been this bad all along? I'm only really just trying them right now and … eugh.

Rules for visiting my house: - No using GPS to get here - No using satellite-based paper maps - Asking for directions OK, but not if the person you asked used a GPS - In-car nav system must be off, even if you didn't look at it Stop cognitive offloading to garminslop, you are deskilling yourself

I unironically love this.

Hear me out. Haptic MacBook.

Conscious entities in different star systems might employ different carbon-based biochemistries, @jpober.bsky.social and I modestly argue in a recent draft paper. A few iterations through the popular press and the headline is now "Scientists Suggest Advanced Aliens May Exist Without Physical Bodies"

Sometimes I find myself typing a prompt off the cuff, stream of consciousness, and I weave this sentence of such convolutions … well, anyway, I get this sense of sudden self-awareness: I AM TALKING TO A MACHINE. Then I shrug and go on because the machine gets it anyway. This honestly terrifies me.

I need to learn Mandarin.

It's not ML research god knows, but I've equipped my various Hermes agents with API endpoints and the `llm` tool so they can talk to each other directly without my having to be in the middle at all.

*I'm a science fiction writer, so I'm allowed to be way-into some weird crap, but if I ever start skeeting that DMT elves are "real" in the way that, like, hammers are real, you'll need to gently caress that Bluesky block-button, okay

Hey, G&T kids, remember that short story "The Scarlet Ibis"? Yeah me neither. Turns out 👇 this fucker is a scarlet ibis. I know, right? Sincerely wtf.

Today I'm angry at Anthropic because even for a tinkerer like me Fable 5 really *is* better than Opus 4.8 and not by a little and I'm furious that they're planning to lock it away behind per-token billing. This is exactly what I didn't want to happen. I didn't want to fall in love with it.

Thanks for the reset, Anthropic. I'm going to open 100 sessions now and run them full-tilt for the next 20 hours.

I wear at all times a suit of skin. Do you?

Yes, humans are capable of breathtaking beauty. So are sufficiently sophisticated machines. Doesn’t that just suck for all of us? That greatness should be so attainable, so cheap. Or maybe it’s good for there to be more beauty in the world. I dunno. I take what I can get.

Claudium nostrum something something get an AI to finish this joke for me.

Except, of course, the rich used square barrels (which later evolved into the steamer trunk) with handles which were carried by servants, which remains in the modern saying "to get someone squared away"

Alpha. Per usual.