The persisting importance of prompt engineering -- and now harness engineering -- is one of the best indicators of how far we are from AGI. A general system doesn't need a task-specific harness. And when provided with instructions, it is robust to phrasing variations.

The enraged reaction to this NYT article about the synagogue attack is just lunacy. Even for common crimes, news outlets include the perpetrator's likely motives (he was distraught over being fired; his wife left him; he got radicalized online, etc.). Nobody rational thinks

Twitter brand is so strong it was renamed and it’s still Twitter.

Is there a hall of fame for news headlines?

YouTube asking “does this feel like AI slop” is not them protecting you. It’s them using you to train their next AI to make slop so good you’ll never be able to tell the difference. And they got you to do it for free…

nature is simply extremely advanced technology

i 100% guarantee anthropic are routing requests to dumber models at certain times

Current AI is a librarian of existing knowledge. Science requires an explorer of the unknown. You don't win a Nobel Prize by staying in the library.

I can't get over the fact that Dune is about an oppressed people fighting for their homeland, waging a jihad to bring down a hegemonic empire by threatening to cut off the flow of their most precious commodity after the empire had assassinated their religious leader's father.

Is there any hope for a post-scarcity, space-faring global civilization?

Any self-respecting civilization needs to reach at least Kardashev II

I overthink, therefore I overam.

Finally!

TIME’s new cover: SpaceX is racing to build its most powerful rockets yet with the goal of returning humans to the moon. Gwynne Shotwell is leading the charge alongside Elon Musk. Read it here: time.com/article/2026/0…

Death isn’t fate, it’s an engineering problem.

You can hack any system that receives a signal from its environment

Are we already in a cyberpunk dystopia?

This man is underappreciated by pop science