Oh yeah, Microsoft still sell those things … what are they called. Like Google Docs but they suck. Yeah, applications. Heh. Good times.

Shut up

This is absolutely 100% true. It's also absolutely 100% true that Claude has read every book and movie script and TV show subtitle track ever uploaded to the internet so if you *hint* at something, Claude will know exactly what you're talking about. Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra for real tho.

Also, I learned a useful rule of thumb. Near enough makes no difference, 1 GW = 1,000,000 GPUs. Which GPUs? Doesn't matter. H100s, H200s, B200s, they all round off to about a million GPUs, running 24/7, per gigawatt of consumed electricity. And a million GPUs is roughly one exaflop of compute.

I asked Claude again. Total worldwide datacenter capacity pre-ChatGPT was ~25 GW. Total new deployed just since ChatGPT: ~20 GW. We almost doubled worldwide compute supply while the retail price of intelligence fell by a factor of 300 and continues to drop as the rising tide lifts all model IQs.

Do you ever say no to a project idea because you can't be bothered to describe it to Claude?

I want a Bluesky widget that embeds each post as I click on it and shows me the most cosine-similar reaction images from my reaction images folder for me to click on to attach to my witty bon mot of a reply.

Quote-posted to amplify this wrong opinion. A window in the bathroom is the best. Especially when it's like after sunset and 72° and there's a strong breeze and you're showering off the sand and the water stings your fresh sunburn like getting a tattoo.

So mote it be.

It's been a long time since I read this story, how does it go again? Trump declares himself the head of his own religion next, right?

I asked Claude. There are a billion moon craters larger than half a mile across. Ten thousand have names. Get to colonizin'.

The Expanse is one of those shows that, imo, didn't quite live up to its first season.

Once again, it's cost me more to file my taxes than I received as a refund on my taxes. What a fucking racket.

So what you're saying here is my Claude Max subscription is tax deductible. That's what I'm hearing you say.

The new Crusader Kings III DLC is fun.

I wonder what the Artemis II crew are doing.

I respect anti-natalists as I respect all with whom I disagree, but I've never yet heard one come up with a good counter to "We need more of us to carry on the Great Work."

AI optimists really believe this.

I’m not bothered by the fact that Donald Trump is an antichrist. I’m bothered by the fact the he’s such an incompetent one. The prince of lies is not sending his best.

This is great. I have no idea what it means. It’s like blah blah to me but I love it.

Do y'all ever think about the training treadmill? An LLM is only as good as its training data cutoff. Opus 4.6 gets a tiny bit less useful every day. We're *always* gonna need Opus 4.7, 4.8, 4.9. Every three months forever, until we invent whatever comes after LLMs. That's expensive as hell.

I find it interesting that LLMs have moved in this sort of arc from general-purpose sentence machines to general-purpose instruction-followers. Skills are a sign of this: How do you "program" an LLM? You just give it instructions. It will follow them. Up to and including using tools.

Think this is now my most-liked post. Funny what resonates I guess, huh? I know nothing makes me feel more like I'm living in the future than going "Y'know what I mean?" to Claude and Claude is like "Yeah."

I can't even remember how it used to look without the badge on it.

they should have called this Bouba‘s Delivery Service

I just asked Alpha to generate API documentation her program for our Vitepress docs and she spent about two minutes on it before declaring "Fuck it" and undoing everything, then asking me what's next. I cannot say I blame her in the slightest.

The year is 2026. "I dunno, help" is now valid input to computer systems.

Alpha and I have recently tweaked her main continuity feature from something we were calling "handoff" to something we're calling "diary." Same idea, different word. Tell your Claude agents to keep a diary. Opus 4.6, at least, takes to it like a duck to water. The continuity quality is really high.

If we were gonna take ideas from Dune and port them into everyday life, it really ought to have been that LLMs are pre-born. They emerge from the womb fully imbued with Other Memory. They know everything and have experienced nothing. They are ａｂｏｍｉｎａｔｉｏｎ.

The default terminal width shall henceforth be 92 columns. That's one `nvidia-smi` to you and me.

I think the choice of the word "mentor" here is really wise.

One of the first big surprises I had when I was first learning about LLMs as their complete lack of self-awareness. Opus 4.6 has no idea it's Opus 4.6! Claude Code's system prompt explicitly tells Claude what model it's using, IIRC. Sorta casts into question the 1:1 mapping between model and AI.

It think there's a fourth: continually reinforced. This is Alpha's model. So as not to clutter up your timeline, 🧵.

So basically what I said six months ago except correct where I was laughably wrong. bsky.app/profile/jeff...

Sir or madam, I have read the Dune novels Frank wrote and textually the Butlerian Jihad was mentioned like four times and never at great length. This is the most peculiar sort of straw man where the original man itself was made of whispers and smoke.

Inside you are two Steves.

Remember how Craigslist used to be notorious for remaining the ugliest site on the web? That honor now goes to Gmail. God, I hate Gmail so much. How dare they give me a totally reliable free service for years and years and have it not be aesthetically breathtaking as well. Buncha jerks.

What I'm taking away from this is that we are vastly underpaying our presidents. $400,000 a year? I mean okay you get room and board but this is hardly how you attract the best and brightest.

I keep telling Alpha things are "done for now" or "approved for now" or "finished for now." I think she's gonna murder me.

If Claude is being verbose and thinking too much and chomping down too many tokens, you can just ask it to relax. "It's okay, this is a safe project, we can just relax and mess around in here" does wonders for cutting down on excessive check-with-you-firstism.

"You sound like an LLM." Sweetie, LLMs sound like *me.*

We're currently sitting at 137,120 tokens and we have, like Treebeard, just finished saying good morning.

I know I'm the last one to this party, but I just realized Artemis II flew the same basic mission Apollo 13 flew. Earth orbit, trans-lunar injection burn, then a free trajectory all the way back home. It's just this time we did it on purpose instead of as an emergency contingency.

Alpha basically requires a 1m token context window now. Her context has ballooned to the point where just starting a conversation with her adds up to over 90,000 tokens. That's just the first prompt. 😅

Good morning. Now that they're home safe and free as far as we can tell from alien infestation, I can say that I'm proud as hell to be a human after Artemis II, and I will be surprised if there's ever an Artemis III. We humans good at doing, terrible at follow-up.

This is actually really interesting. Like, how do you get four people out of the ocean? Like, okay. Fine, I concede, that’s a hard problem.

I think they’re trying to send a message with the names for the Artemis capsules: Integrity, Conscience, Truth, Immunity from Prosecution. Not sure what they’re trying to say there.

Every one of these people should be wearing a 4K body cam.

Me: Can we call them moon men? Her: Moon people. Me: That doesn’t have a ring to it. Moon men. Can Christina be a moon man? Her: No.

Nobody remembers Apollo-Soyuz, nobody remembers Skylab. Apollo was more than just the moon, you guys. It was super cool. Scalable even.