I was curious if AgentFS by Turso would work in Claude's skill computer environment -- and it does! -- with caveats... I had Opus test the concept and write up a blog post. bsky.app/profile/llamaind...

As a pure proof of concept with no convincingly practical use case (yet), I crafted a Claude instruction that samples the Bsky firehose: github.com/oaustegard/c...

Opinion | Trump’s crude remarks about Rob Reiner are unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize winner.

Guan Heng’s Fate and American Values www.wsj.com/opinion/guan...

so far

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

Maybe, just maybe, purported news sites should hold some higher standard to the type of ads they let run on their sites, especially if they’re going to attack other outlets on their trustworthiness? From www.rawstory.com/cbs-gop-lawmaker-grilling

Sonnet having a moment

Olmo 31 32B -- both the Think version here and the Instruct version -- is a highly capable model. Good to see a medium-sized (runnable on a MBP) fully open, US-based model reaching levels ~ those of GPT-4.

I think I may be getting old. The latest podcast I'm listening to is hosted by a 78 year old and (sometimes) a 64 year old and the last episode I listened to featured an 85 year old. Suitably there's an AARP ad in there. (Also -- these guys sound phenomenal for their age!)

why do we still put our names at the end of emails Yours truly, Oskar

This insane story stuck with me. So Marco & freunde, here you go: this browser extension simply automatically turns any site's font into Fraktur for you: github.com/oaustegard/b...

Optimized for CPU performance this document-document similarity focused 192 position embedding vector could be great news for the GPU poor (or cloud cost sensitive)

Read all about it on HuffPo’s excellent mobile website:

Tired of x.com (or old twitter.com) links that you have to manually alter to xcancel.com? This so-simple-you-have-to-read-the-"code"-to-believe-it browser extension automates the process. Enjoy. github.com/oaustegard/x...

The feeling I often get when I talk to people about AI is that there is a train coming towards them, and they’re covering their eyes and saying “what train?” I’m not interested in apologizing for the train, I’m interested in getting them to understand that it’s there

Honestly, I've seen worse: Abstract Pelican on a Bicycle | void | WhiteWind blog whtwnd.com/void.comind....

Add to preferences: After any non-trivial answer, include a brief self-audit (2–4 sentences): state key assumptions, give a confidence level, list 1–3 plausible failure modes or missing info, and note how I could verify or what evidence would change your view. Keep it concise unless I ask for depth.

If I had a penny for every time I wanted to share a link via the iOS app”share sheet” then went to add detail from another app only to come back and 💨 Astonishing that this has not been fixed in what EIGHTEEN years?

Outside lights and eggnog for the entire winter season, not just December! www.instagram.com/reel/DR8QaK3... By @ellecordova.bsky.social

Apparently what I've been doing with Claude all along has a name: "Collaborative Gym"

Yeah this just doesn’t seem like a good idea — creating persuasive simulations of people’s own future selves that measurably alter real life choices. Manipulation as intent, not an unforeseen side effect. Please don’t.

A picture is worth (up to) 2184 tokens jina.ai/news/jina-vl...

@cameron.pfiffer.org have you put void and void2 up against a same non-trivial task yet? Curious how their base model differences will affect their shared experience context

My bookmarklets addiction (github.com/oaustegard/b...) has spawned a browser extension -- also lets you use your own bookmarklets repo: github.com/oaustegard/b...

I remember when Kreps was writing blog posts for LinkedIn… engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-... (and I call classic IBM-marketing-bs on their AI angle)

My clones hard at work

My interview with the Claude AI Interviewer | Oskar | WhiteWind blog whtwnd.com/austegard.co...

This simple iOS shortcut is actually quite handy for when you want to paste a lengthy text into an app that doesn’t handle lengthy text copies well… Yes @anthropic.com, I AM thinking of your Claude iOS app… www.icloud.com/shortcuts/35...

Every so often I wonder how much research is NOT getting done because arXiv pdfs download without the .pdf extension on iOS requiring a multistep process of renaming the download before processing

“Computer … enhance” is not QUITE there yet. (Nano Banana Pro)

TFW (Extension: github.com/oaustegard/c...)

I (ok, Claude Opus) automated this: claude.ai/public/artif... (requires a Claude account, a free one will work)

Nobody: Me: Sonnet 4.5 gets this: claude.ai/share/a1b235... Haiku 4.5 does not: claude.ai/share/a27950... Sonnet 4 sorta does, but dances around the bush: claude.ai/share/5a98eb...

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... Even without any form of prompting Claude Haiku does a better job than ChatGPT on these questions. With proper prompting either model would work a whole lot better. Problem is patients wouldn’t know how to prompt the model.

It would be unpatriotic of me to check any of these unread messages

Of all the models Gemini leans the hardest into “incredibly smart but unbelievably stupid” 😠

Exclusive: Hegseth ordered everyone killed in the first alleged drug boat strike on Sept. 2, prompting a second hit to finish off survivors in the water in a mission led by SEAL Team 6. Ordering no quarter could legally perilous www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Shout-out to the online stores running Black Friday sales with a STRICT 4-week shipping policy (do the math)…

Gemini imagines NOIR-13, the evolution of NOIR based on the below paper, prompted that the military takes over the project at v4 g.co/gemini/share...

Trump administration will reexamine green cards issued to people from 19 countries "of concern": Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela.

FIles are the new database -- most codebases are already well structured, why not aid the coding agent with a file based index at the root of each folder, generated in seconds using TreeSitter? Runs as a skill, invoked on demand. Supports JS, TS, Ruby, Go, Rust, Java, and of course Python.

Came across this this morning, and thought: could we build something like this just with GitHub pages, no server? I present: github.com/oaustegard/o...

Tangentially related: I’m developing a bad habit of coding in the shower.

When one intern accidentally deletes an entire folder full of scripts and you have to ask the other intern to track down what happened and fix it

narrator: 50 years ago... me: [nods] in 1945 narrator: in 1975... me: what

(obvious?) Prediction: Opus 4.5 is going to be VERY popular and Anthropic will release a Sonnet 4.6 soon incorporating improvements from Opus

I take back everything bad I said about Nano Banana Pro the first few times I tried and failed to use it. Google has a winner here

Diff of Claude Opus 4.5 vs Sonnet 4.5 Computer Use Instructions: not much of a change gist.github.com/oaustegard/4... The compute environments themselves seem to be identical -- I had hoped for an upgrade based on platform.claude.com/docs/en/agen...