I have the same feeling using Claude Code as I did in 2022 when I first started playing with GPT-3 API. It just feels like I'm discovering the edges of capabilities for the first time. It's like being an explorer.

When I get a one-time code from a bank or other provider that isn't 6 digits, I just assume they don't take security all that seriously. Is that unreasonable? Shouldn't they be using standard packages and services?

My take is simpler: no idea what road these models will take, but I think it’s safe to assume they get better. But the models haven’t held us back from applying AI in the enterprise (I’ve been arguing this since GPT-3, but it feels unquestionably true with frontier today)—it’s

This kills me about the water convo. It’s so dumb.

This is awesome. More content like this please!

This part of the Karpathy/Dwarkesh interview was great. "Humans collapse during the course of their lives...we end up saying more and more of the same stuff, and the learning rates go down..." Many older people I admire have designed their lives to avoid this happening to them

This is awesome. I wrote a whole piece years ago about how terrible it is banks actually do this. whyisthisinteresting.substack.com/p/why-is-this-…

This really held up over the last month of announcements. Working on a follow up. alephic.com/writing/the-ma…

It's over, folks. Pack it in.

Long live composability. mariozechner.at/posts/2025-11-…

If you are mad about water use by AI you should be *really* mad about water use by golf courses.

The first episode of Forward Deployed with Lance Martin and Noah Brier 🔥 🔥 🔥 forwarddeployed.com/p/forward-depl…

I love this. Was View Source for my generation.

It's amazing how every string I pull always seems to land on a small number of thinkers. Herbert Simon is high on that list.

If you want more on the field manual I just republished it. First run was great, next will be on Amazon. alephic.com/sabotage

I went to a retreat with very senior corporate executives and this is what I wish I shared: “A deep commitment to experimentation and hands-on dogfooding.”