Jerry Thornton Boston Radio Watch®️ That we don't have a Les Grossman Cinematic Universe yet is unpardonable.

russia launched its largest energy attack this year as temperatures hit -21°C across Ukraine. DTEK's thermal power plants were severely damaged – the ninth major strike since October. Thousands in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro, and Odesa lost heating and power in the coldest days of

Heroku laid off a ton of people, stopped selling Heroku enterprise and almost no one noticed. Then they put out a post saying "everything is fine, we're investing in engineering to make things better for the long term" The result: nothing but RIP posts from people as they read

Holy shit we finally have confirmation that millennials are the smartest generation in human history. Suck it, retards.

Interesting take. Very different than current consensus.

anthropic has been doing lines of pure uncut opus 4.6 for months and we finally get to lick the bag they cut with drywall and baking soda

what stage of capitalism is this

Prediction: 6 months from now it will be abundantly clear that vibe coding isn’t disrupting software engineering, and there will be horror stories from those who tried $MSFT could very well be the first case study

Since AI has been added to sinus surgery - "Two (patients) suffered strokes after surgeons accidentally damaged carotid arteries while the system allegedly misinformed them about where their instruments were inside patients' heads."

Last day at xAI. xAI's mission is push humanity up the Kardashev tech tree. Grateful to have helped cofound at the start. And enormous thanks to Elon Musk for bringing us together on this incredible journey. So proud of what the xAI team has done and will continue to stay close

Almost every smart person I know who works in technology is experiencing extreme levels of anxiety. As if the rug is about to be pulled once and for all.

>Recursive self improvement loops likely go live in the next 12mo ITS HAPPENING

This is getting out of control now... Read this slowly. In the past week alone: • Head of Anthropic's safety research quit, said "the world is in peril," moved to the UK to "become invisible" and write poetry. • Half of xAI's co-founders have now left. The latest said

Anthropic was founded by people who left OpenAI over safety concerns. Now Anthropic's safety lead is leaving Anthropic over safety concerns. Same week: Claude Cowork wiped $285 billion off SaaS stocks. Anthropic is closing a $20 billion raise at $350 billion. His letter: the

Another resignation "OpenAI has the most detailed record of private human thought ever assembled. Can we trust them to resist the tidal forces pushing them to abuse it?" "The company is building an economic engine that creates strong incentives to override its own rules."

I'm 48 and have worked as a software engineer for nearly 30 years. I've grown numb to the Silicon Valley hype machine. My default posture is "meh, we'll see." What I've seen and experienced firsthand in the past two months is not hype. Ignore it at your peril.

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A man driving in Norway and accidentally spotting Tom Cruise on a train. Apparently he was filming "Mission: Impossible 7." Wow, this is so amazing.

pornography jr "we don't have the capacity to support more than two colors" is genuinely one of the funniest engineering statements ever made by a company worth tens of billions

Google and Microsoft just co-authored the spec that turns every website into an API for AI agents. The second-order effects here are massive. Right now, browser agents work by taking screenshots, parsing the DOM, and guessing which buttons to click. It works about as well as