From Ezra Klein, more true than ever. You would not believe how many shortcuts everyone else is taking. In many areas, you can get way ahead of everyone just by doing the work. More true than ever now, when more people are shirking and AI lets you do 10x if you try. 1/

meanwhile I've been using the in-between moments for thinking and observing, like a peasant

> it doesn't compile gpt 5.4: it compiles conceptually

me: "can you use whatever resources you like, and python, to generate a short 'youtube poop' video and render it using ffmpeg ? can you put more of a personal spin on it? it should express what it's like to be a LLM" claude opus 4.6:

Lalwen (writing poems about G-d)

Apple spent a decade gluing batteries into $2,499 MacBook Pros. Then it shipped a $599 laptop you can take apart in six minutes. The MacBook Neo teardown numbers are wild. Eight screws to open. Eighteen screws hold the battery, zero glue, zero tape. The USB-C ports, speakers,

I think I finally put my finger on what shocks me so much about the so-called New Tech Right’s willingness to throw Anthropic under the bus and ultimately it is the abandonment of merit. Silicon Valley was once defined by “the best wins, absolutely,” but no longer for they who

"ChatGPT refused to help me hack something" of course it did! it is REALLY BAD to reverse engineer software written by others and you shouldn't be doing this. sometimes it's even ILLEGAL! corporations can SUFFER from their IP being violated!! this is why if i resort to LLMs when

This is good! More people should be on statins. They are basically a wonder-drug. They have very few side effects and almost no serious ones, and they deliver huge reductions in cardiovascular risk and extension in lifespans, for $2 to $10 per month.

There will be no WW3. They've abandoned numbered releases and switched to a live service model with seasonal events.

Paul Ehrlich has died. He was 93. He is survived by 8,300,678,394 people (134% increase from 1968), with a daily worldwide average calorie intake of 2,800 kcal (a 22% increase).

Let’s hear it for hormesis. (It probably applies to nuclear radiation as well.)

When I started talking with Leo 2+ years ago for "The Proof in the Code," he told me how he decided to build trust in Lean's kernel: keep it small enough that anyone could implement their own. It's like: if we all get the same answer to a complicated math problem, we can be

It’s not X — it’s Y I cannot unsee how so much of the writing on this site (and online, in general) is increasingly AI-generated. It’s still pretty easy to recognize. Probably not for long tho Just alarming that ppl outsource even typing 3 sentences for a reply on this site…

sycophancy is the twisting of an important ai virtue that should not be thrown out with the bathwater: ai systems should make the user more like themselves rather than more like the ai. a new part of their cortical stack, with a minimal set of guardrails

Delve, a YC-backed compliance startup that raised $32 million, has been accused of systematically faking SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and GDPR compliance reports for hundreds of clients. According to a detailed Substack investigation by DeepDelver, a leaked Google spreadsheet

Well how about that

Rhys I'm not very happy with the code quality and I think agents bloat abstractions, have poor code aesthetics, are very prone to copy pasting code blocks and it's a mess, but at this point I stopped fighting it too hard and just moved on. The agents do not listen to my instructions

v0.2.0 release of Frontrun: github.com/lucaswiman/fro… Frontrun can now intercept/parse SQL and Redis, modeling read/write conflicts and locking, so it can identify concurrency bugs that mix threading & SQL concurrency primitives. Also updated to Abdullah et al "Optimal DPOR" algo.