Weird things happened today. I got up and my laptop had an alarm set for 2am. Then this evening my HomePod speaker randomly said “is this Sam?” or “is it Sam?” Bit creeped out tbh

Say it again: Alignment ~= Reliability!

Product idea: slack, but instead of frantic back & forth distracting the rest of your team, you’re chattering with an AI to work out what you’re really trying to say. The rest of the team reads the more thoughtful responses that drop out the end, designed for async consumption.

I haven’t tried this yet but looks really interesting. Tools that make us better at the shifting skills we need to master in this brave new world are a win!

Maybe frustration is the human emotion for identifying problems with our agent harness.

I’ve heard of a dead pixel, but never a dead ant! This ant has managed to get underneath the outer layer of glass on our TV, and die there. FML. 😬

@keithng.bsky.social this post about how an economic analyst uses CLI coding agents reminded me of some of the work you do; thought you might find it interesting. newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/three-ways...

What do LLMs see? I wrote a lil' tool that extracts the attention matrices out of open models and creates this typing visual, with each token's opacity changing according to its average attention score as the prompt progresses. Dimmer words are considered less important to the model.

Another trick - set your e2e tests to enable this, and then you don’t need to wait for animations transitions, speeding your tests up bit. Faster tests, better accessibility – a win-win!

I’m out of Claude Code tokens til 9pm. It’s 7.53pm. I don’t have a problem. I don’t have a problem.

Anthropic have put their toe into agent orchestration. Something missing from this, and I gas town too, is input multiplexing: if I’m running a lot of agents and I’m not a cowboy, there are a lot of steps to approve and outputs to review. Bouncing between Claude windows is confusing & tedious.

I've been working on this website as a public face to our challenge the road-side saliva testing deployment in New Zealand. Driving impaired is not okay and should face consequences, but the current legislation, and testing regime, is an egregious attack on our Bill of Rights. rrc.org.nz

As someone a world away from the US implosion, this was one of the few articles about the tragedy I was moved to read. The part about how a mother sees their child hit hard, thinking of my late brother… Now I need to wash my face. 😭 Thanks, Kristen, for sharing.

Robots are like 2018-2023 LLMs right now, a steady stream of technically impressive but still not practically useful updates.

Live tweets of a bus driver essentially kidnapping his passengers. Insane stuff.

TIL most all paracetamol dosages in NZ (which is the same as of acetaminophen) are the same as tylenol “extra strength” - I’ve never seen 325mg paracetamol.

Claude Code UX

“Oughtposting vs isposting” is immediately load bearing for me

When people say that GPT-4o is their friend.

I think about this a lot

This speech transaction from Cory Doctorow is a great set of skeptical but nuanced takes about AI. It’s more pro-worker than anti-AI, and it’s got me thinking about a few things… 🧵

I’m moving from Fusion to FreeCAD and these tutorials have been great. Any other 3D printing modellers out there? What are you using?

Personally I think I’d get more edification out of reading Jeffrey Goldblum’s emails, how about you?

Lady at the bottle store asking for non-alcoholic pre-mix drinks. So… soda?

IYKYK

What do you call a pink ninja? A flaminja.

karma police, label this account he talks in memes, he's replying to the news he's like a teenage llm

I just watched A House of Dynamite on Netflix and I think they accidentally deleted the last 10 minutes of the tape.

Great little write-up of a handful of data storage techniques, combined to make a key store, mirroring the algorithms used in production ones.

“Cautious optimist” favouring regulation while being optimistic about the tech’s prospects seems about right for me.

all scientists can be classified according to just two variables: whether they're more mad physics or mad biology, and whether their hubris is in calling up what cannot be put down, or seeking to understand what no man was meant to know

Sure do!

The real “the rapture is coming” story of the moment is AI data-centre spending. A little more grounded in reality, but equally a product of religious fervour

Yes you can, all you need is a dry mouth, some cellphone and a microphone.

Chat, can you use a vegan’s poo as fertiliser?

Logically, all nouns starting with a vowel should be amended to start with a nen.

I don’t know why my wife is so upset. I wanted frozen fish sauce cubes and our fridge has an ice maker, what’s the problem?

All your favourite Disney+ shows are also available on thepiratebay.org

Product idea: ChatGPT but instead of an LLM the responses are generated by strangers on the internet. Chat, is this a good idea?

Any #ClaudeCode users on my feed? I’ve been working on an MCP this weekend to provide a range of refactoring operations, notably including move function, rename file & folder, which I’ve not seen other LSP/MCP packages do. Anyone interested in this? Why / why not? Should I open-source it?

X.ai have trademarked “Macrohard”. I love dad jokes as much as the next dad, but this is too much. However… “Macrohard” as slang for cringe-in-a-typically-Elon-way works for me. Can we make this happen?

If you know of any Mississippi Bluesky users frustrated by the ban, point them in the direction of alternative clients—they should still work!

I sprained my ankle going on a short walk in Otaki Forks. m.youtube.com/watch?v=uL99...

Amazon, for the love of god, when a New Zealand customer goes to the Australian website of your American company, please label “$1,200” with the god damned currency you are listing in!

Anyone trying to create No Code tools needs to love Excel like The Castle loves Australians, or they’re NGMI

Why is it called “lost to the manosphere” and not “suffering from bromism”?

Love you too, honey. 🥰

When’s Germany gonna sanction Israel for genocidal war crimes? That will be a historical moment for sure.

it is mind-boggling to me that so many artists (leftist artists too!) appeal to the copyright system as some source of ethical high ground or refuge… you loudly proclaim ACAB and point out how flawed the justice system is, but then you turn around and hug copyright?? like what are you doing??

@xn--t-0la.nz the InternetNZ AGM members resolutions seem fishy but also Byzantine. Are there any that you’re likely to vote yes to?