I will go out on a limb and say that I do believe we should use new AI capabilities to increase the capacity of the state to deliver on the goals democratic governance processes have arrived at.

Is anyone else not seeing Opus 4.1 in the Claude app? We're on a Team plan and it's all of a sudden not there.

I’m beginning to suspect one of the highest societal value things to do right now given AI is to make the work displacement effects it will have (is having…) legible and indisputable.

I'm using Claude Code to add vim-style keyboard interactions to a personal todo app because THE COST OF PERSONALLY TAILORED SOFTWARE HAS BECOME $20 PER MONTH.

I did it. I waited out the need to actually learn the Javascript ecosystem. Enjoying this AI coding future EVEN MORE upon this realization.

I've been picking at an idea, that a corollary to "idea machines" in certain problem spaces is the creation of "agency machines" In domains with high stuckedness, sometimes you need to inject a new actor with lots of ability (and incentive) to do things

9/11 is not the best day to have a birthday. But it is my birthday and a reminder that the world can change, friends can die suddenly, and yet the world continues. So call someone you love and be nice to someone you don’t know.

More progress on using Claude Code for my absolutely-personally-tailored daily todo list tool. My first bit was lots of keyboard shortcuts (a la vim) and next up I want a voice interface (that I can use via a tiny Siri app on my Apple watch) So I implemented an LLM layer as the

This has been my experience. (Especially with non-coding Claude Code projects, aka “Claude Compadre” — yes I will meme this into the argot!)

Having my newsletter emails say "Dave Guarino from Dave Guarino's Occasional Newsletter" has annoyed me long enough. So I hereby announce my newsletter's new name: "Plausible Legibility"

In my newsletter I wrote about how I am using Claude Code for non-coding work, and why it’s been a positive discontinuity in my experience with AI capabilities.

One meta thing with governance of gov use of AI I feel the traditional policy world is ignoring a bit is that the AI capabilities at the frontier actually can be a huge tool in doing oversight, monitoring, etc. scaling accountability

An essay I'm simmering on — thinking about government's use of tech (& AI), disambiguating problems of: - Capability - Alignment - Dysregulation An important differential diagnosis for interventions! And one that I think is implicit (and/or wrong) too often.

I really do mean this with a spirit of generosity, but "Meta AI caught off guard by the emergent properties of scale" is... a bit too on the nose for the risk profile here.

I've been discussing this quietly with more friends in benefits program design land, especially labor/UI. A few kernels I need to expand: 1. An AI benefits program will need to be designed to be more adaptive than we are used to (e.g. should not whitelist certain roles in

Coming back to this platform to say: Hi! Rumor is Governor Gavin Newsom is getting *tons* of pressure from rich donors to veto SB 79. If he caves, we'd be condemned to a permanent housing crisis — and lose 3-5 electoral votes in 2032. Call him and tell him to sign #SB79! (916) 445-2841

In this morning’s newsletter, I wrote about how we need to start thinking about an AI jobs displacement benefit, and at the level of effective design and delivery