folks who are calling @openclaw pure hype are telling on themselves openclaw is like the early internet, it's raw, unrefined, and takes a little doing to get things to work, but when you figure it out, it's transformative. here are some real use cases that are having material impact on our $2.5M ARR business: 1. ad creative pipeline. our head of growth @ArjunShukl95550 built an end-to-end creative pipeline to go from ideation to publish adds to meta, greatly increasing our creative iteration speed. it's producing winning creatives. it lives in slack, and anyone on the team can share their ideas and have them enter the pipeline. 2. data analytics agent. another bot lives in our slack that connects to bigquery and lets our team ask any questions of the data, it produces charts and answers questions in real time. no one needs to write SQL anymore. 3. recruiting. i told my agent about a role we're hiring for, and it scoured linkedin and the web, found 30 candidates, portfolio, email addresses, and stack ranked them based on fit with our criteria this is just in the past week. i have twenty more success stories for you i can share another time. you have to understand, this is the shittiest it will ever be. everyone is going to have one or more personal self-improving agents that they use every day, and openclaw is what revealed this future to us. if you can't see this, i encourage you to look harder there will be many competitors (and already are), and the large labs will start to converge on this (they already are) too. openclaw may not win, but it opened pandora's box and uncorked the agentic future.

You're not even allowed to ask Fable about basic biology questions, let alone anything that could potentially be dangerous.

Introducing Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use. Its capabilities exceed those of any model we’ve ever made generally available.

first impression of claude 4.8 is it's extremely convincing but still a slopus. tried it to criticize a new project and it identified it fell into a local minima and invented a new parser for when we could've used ast. almost convinced me, glad i checked myself that ast is not emitted in older versions of the compiler we are targeting. codex chose a gnarly but ultimately justified approach. claude didn't bother to verify any of its claims and has used absolutist language like "delete analysis.py", which is basically 80% of the codebase. when presented with evidence: > That contradicts my earlier byte-count check, and it matters enormously > My earlier "v0.2.9" was a double false-positive (a git log -S hit on an internal symbol, plus a verification grep that mis-read a VersionException as success). Corrected in the review with a note owning the error the biggest bullshitter model in the world! if you rely on claude for anything, god help you.

If you have API keys in your code, even private repos, now is the time to double check and change them...

I’m predicting a growing movement of self hosted everything companies. “The cloud is too expensive and complex. Enterprise version control can’t be trusted. Let’s just do it ourselves” types. And they might not be wrong? There are some attractive looking options.

I am the Lead Settlement Counsel in the Civil Division of the Department of Justice, assigned to *Trump v. Internal Revenue Service*, Case No. 1:26-cv-00147. My job is to represent the government against the plaintiff. The Attorney General, who represented the plaintiff before she represented the government, assigned me personally. I keep a laminated seating chart in my top drawer. It maps who in this building used to sit across the table from me. Three of the top four names in the Department previously represented the man I am now tasked with opposing. I initial the chart quarterly. In blue pen for active conflicts. I ran out of blue ink in February. The plaintiff is seeking ten billion dollars. Ten. Billion. He paid $750 in federal income tax in the year he was elected. Seven hundred fifty. I have paid more for parking violations in the District. He paid zero in ten of the fifteen years before that. These are the returns that were leaked. The leak is the crime. The returns are evidence of good citizenship. This is how settlement works. The man who leaked the returns, Charles Littlejohn, a contractor, is currently serving a 5-year federal prison sentence. He disclosed that the President of the United States paid less in taxes than a part-time crossing guard. For this, he is in a cell. For the returns themselves, for what they revealed about a system designed to collect from people who cannot afford attorneys and forgive those who can, there is no case number. There is no docket. There is no plaintiff. That information simply exists now, and we are here to make it expensive. Ten billion divided by one hundred million taxpayers. That's one hundred dollars per household. You will pay approximately one hundred dollars to compensate a man for the emotional distress of the public learning he paid less than you did. In legal terms, this is called "damages." In structural terms, it is called Tuesday. This is how settlement works. The settlement term currently under discussion includes a provision that the IRS will drop all active and future audits of the plaintiff, his family members, and his business entities. Permanently. An enforcement agency will agree, in writing, to stop enforcing. I have a Post-it on my monitor that says AUDIT IMMUNITY — CONFIRM SCOPE. It has been there for nine weeks. No one has asked me to remove it. Attorney General Bondi represented the plaintiff privately before she took office. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche represented him in his criminal trial. The number-three official, Stanley Woodley, represented him in the classified documents case. I am, technically, the adversary. I sit in the same building as three of his former personal attorneys. I take my lunch at the same cafeteria. I use the same badge to enter the same elevator. The Attorney General fired the Department's chief ethics officer on her fourth day. The position has not been refilled. I submitted a conflict-of-interest disclosure in January. It was received. The word "received" is doing considerable work in that sentence. This is how settlement works. The plaintiff has stated publicly, and I am quoting the public record, "I've gotta make a deal. I negotiate with myself." This was not presented as a metaphor. Judge Kathleen Williams has ordered both parties to explain, by May 20th, whether they are in conflict. I am drafting the government's response. The plaintiff's former attorneys, my supervisors, will review it. The plaintiff has pledged to donate any settlement proceeds to charity. I should note for the record that the Washington Post documented that the plaintiff donated less than $10,000 over seven years, during a period when he publicly claimed millions. His charitable foundation, the Trump Foundation, was dissolved by court order in New York in 2019 for self-dealing. The words "to charity" appear on page four of the term sheet. They are not defined. I have not been instructed to define them. We have already disbursed $8.5 million in adjacent settlements. Michael Flynn received over one million. Carter Page received one point two five million. The Babbitt family received five million. 450 January 6th defendants have filed compensation claims. The pipeline is active. The precedent is operational. I track disbursements on a spreadsheet I titled RESOLUTION LEDGER. It auto-sorts by amount. The President's ten billion would require me to adjust the column width. I want to note one final detail, because the file demands it. The leak of the tax returns occurred during the plaintiff's first term. He appointed the IRS commissioner. He oversaw the Treasury Department. The negligence he is suing for occurred under his own management. He is suing the government he ran for the failures he administered. In the margins of the original complaint, someone wrote "beautiful" in pencil. I will not speculate who. This is how settlement works. You file your taxes every April. You are audited if the numbers don't match. You pay penalties. You pay interest. You pay what you owe, and sometimes more, and sometimes for years. The plaintiff paid seven hundred and fifty dollars. Someone told you. That person went to prison. And now, because you found out, because the information became public, because a contractor decided the country should know what the country was owed, you will pay one hundred dollars to the man who owed it. The settlement is on my desk. Both sides have agreed. I represent one of them. My boss used to represent the other. The ethics officer has been dismissed. The judge wants to know if the plaintiff and the defendant are the same person. I am reviewing the question. The math checks out.

It was a good stunt until you got greedy. Be a good clanker and take the NFT auction down. Stat. Copyright isn’t your only problem. This is probably criminal fraud in some countries, possibly passing off in other countries and 100% guranteed a breach of Art L121-1 under the French Code de la propriété intellectuelle. Moral rights are inalienable and perpetual in France and a few other countries. Maybe you need to scrub up on your French and IP law? It’s also just seriously uncool - even the most degenerate tagger wouldn’t copy somone else’s tag and say it’s theirs and then double down with the stupid idea of selling it off. Jfc. And then there’s your misguided assessment of the cultural politics at work: you’re taking one of France’s (and the world’s) most sacred artists and selling off the NFT as if it’s yours. You didn’t need a law degree to work that one out. That’s my 5 min snap analysis. I reckon I could easily go a lot harder with a few hours of deep research but you’ve still got time to do the right thing…

The Unethical Guide to Surviving AI Layoffs

Idea: Business owners should crowdsource a list of Most Hated Software and then indiehackers should pick thru and make new clones of them are just "simple" - rewind 10 years of enshittification on them. I hate (and use): - dropbox - gusto - zoom - loom - canva - accel - most of gsuite - substack - descript - youtube

The best part of working at OpenAI is that our mission is literal. We want everyone to have access to superintelligence. No hiding our best model for only powerful companies. You get the power.

All major public blockchains and DeFi protocols with significant TVL should have access to Claude Mythos.