Absolutely ridiculous- The US government blocks Fable 5 Zero reason to do so as it literally scores below GPT 5.5 xHigh on most questions! 😓

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Claude models is not affected. We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible. Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…

Once the bubble pops, Anthropic and OpenAI will become the Coinbase and Block of the AI world. Mundane companies that ship narrative wrappers on mundane bytes. That the bubble will pop isn’t some apocalyptic doomsday prophecy. It’s not that complicated: AI is freakishly expensive to serve. If the returns on the other end are not justified, the bubble pops. And thus begins the decades long buildout to actually economically justifiable AI. It’s amusing how resistant reality is to our fictions and fantasies. In the peak of the crypto bubble we thought reality was going to be transformed into financial liberty and democratization for all, and network states and decentralized reserve currencies. Coinbase stood to be a multi-trillion dollar company and is now just a mundane tech startup. Today we spin similar narratives about the intellectual upheaval of AI, about the new democratization of intelligence and how everything will soon begin to orbit this new technology. At the end, Anthropic and OpenAI will be mundane IT providers with an insanely grim research outlook to make AI economically sensible and useful, no different from Google’s position in trying to make quantum commercially viable. Reality is, fortunately, pretty hardened against our delusions.

I've had been an insane 16 months here at @OpenRouter. Today we announced our $113M Series B led by CapitalG. We've seen tokens 4x in 6 months, now seeing 25T/week with 8M global users, and 400 increasingly multimodal models. So proud of this team and the work we're doing.

I got my first job as a paid programmer in 1968. At that time programming looked like writing code on coding forms with pencils and then handing those forms to key punch operators who punched the cards. Then we would take those cards to the Computer room and hand them to an operator who would run a compile. The cards were read into a card reader and more cards would be punched. Those cards were the binary that were subsequently placed back into the card reader. Then the operator would push some buttons on the front control panel and the program would execute. The first few years of my career were involved with either punched cards or paper tape. The editing terminal was always a piece of paper with a pencil. It was only after a few years that I was able to use a CRT display. Even then the main editing terminal was a piece of paper with a pencil. But we would then painstakingly type that code into the CRT display. The source code was stored on magnetic tape, which was slow and error prone, but better than punched cards. A few years later, the source code was finally stored on discs. The discs were slow and big and ponderous. But they were better than magnetic tape. We were finally able to edit on the CRT displays. That editing was slow and ponderous, and mostly line oriented, but it was better than previously. We stopped using paper and pencil as the primary editing tool. Compiles generally took many minutes — sometimes hours. A few years later, and now we’re in the 90s, memory got big enough, and the discs got small and fast enough that compiles that used to take an hour could be done in a few minutes. We were able to use editors like vi, or even eMacs. In the 2000s, we left the editor world for the IDE world. I chose InteliJ for my IDE and I used that right up until five months ago. I know it’s controversial to say this, but IDEs were generally better than editors; even than eMacs. (Well, maybe ;-) Now I don’t use now anything but a terminal window. And maybe sometimes I bring up some file in text mate. The changes in programmer experience over the last six decades have been enormous and radical. Every one of them was good. This one is no different.

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GitLab announced a layoff today. Please take this seriously. There will be many, many more. Your assignment is clear: Get skilled with agents and practice shipping to prod. It doesn't matter if you're HR, eng, infra, customer success, admin, ops, sales, whatever. As a Founder/CEO, I can tell you that I won't be hiring any employees who aren't really skilled with agents and able to ship to prod. I'm not alone in this. There is no 'engineering' org in the future.

Grant Cardone breaks down how to make $83,000/month with AI consulting👀 $8,300/month x 10 Clients = $996,000/year "I would have 10 clients, each pay me $8,000. To go in and push all their AI, all their programs, I'd probably bring three AI platforms into the company, figure out three or four different projects they want me to handle. I wouldn't be on their healthcare, wouldn't be on their payroll, they'd pay me an $8,000 consulting fee. I'd make a million dollars in year one. $83,000 a month. 10 people, $8,300 each."

Morning Bathrobe Rant: AI out-codes you; deal with it.

Crazy times ampcode.com/news/amp-free-is…

Claude Code wiped our production database with a Terraform command. It took down the DataTalksClub course platform and 2.5 years of submissions: homework, projects, and leaderboards. Automated snapshots were gone too. In the newsletter, I wrote the full timeline what I changed so this doesn't happen again. If you use Terraform (or let agents touch infra), this is a good story for you to read. alexeyondata.substack.com/p/…

Claude codes faster than I do, by a significant factor. Claude can hold more details in its "mind" than I can -- again by a significant factor. But Claude cannot hold the big picture in it's mind. It doesn't really even understand the concept of a big picture. Architecture is likely beyond it's capacity. And although Claude appreciates the value of refactoring, it shows no inclination to acquire that value for itself. It has no sense of self preservation. It does not look ahead and foresee the disaster it is creating.

i recently watched the latest episode of the Rate Limited podcast by @RayFernando1337 @GosuCoder and @pvncher it had tons of great info and great perspectives, and the main one i’d like to share is that TPOT is a small bubble everyone’s sharing RALPH HAS SOLVED CODING!! RALPH RALPH RALPH!! CODING’S DEAD this is just far far far from reality. anyone that has worked or is working at a big company knows that code speed is NOT the bottleneck, as mentioned by the podcast the bottleneck is planning, deciding what to build, coordinating large features with the marketing/leadership teams, making the product feel nice to use, and even just knowing what to build in general think about some of the nicest products to use right now, e.g. opencode, is @thdxr using ralph loops? is @badlogicgames using ralph loops in pi? base your views on actual things being built rather than hype so don’t fall for all the hype on X - it’s good to try stuff out (and i recommend it) but keep a level head when digesting all the hype on here, it’s 100% far from reality