update: apparently we had a 2nd jar of curry powder in the back of the cabinet all the spice jars are equally easy to open yet toddler has only opened 2, both curry powders x.com/GrantSlatton/status/20…

If the Fable thing is truly about the jailbreak and not some dumber political thing, I'm optimistic this will make labs spent the next 6 months figuring out much stronger anti-jailbreak tech which will also probably translate to better instruction following etc as a side effect

therapist: where does your need to compete come from? me: men are born for games. nothing else. every child knows that play is nobler than work her: do you think maybe it's unhealthy to stake your whole self worth on winning? me: the worth or merit of a game is not inherent in the game itself but rather in the value of that which is put at hazard. Games of chance require a wager to have meaning at all. Games of sport involve the skill and strength of the opponents and the humiliation of defeat and the pride of victory are in themselves sufficient stake because they inhere in the worth of the principals and define them her: oh, you're doing The Judge again me: trial of chance or trial of worth all games aspire to the condition of war for here that which is wagered swallows up game, player, all

when we had baby, we were gifted a fancy camera the hardware is great, but software is utter garbage; laggy, connection errors half the time, slow was always convinced i could do better myself $35 arduino nightcam cloudflare tunnel / access vibe code soooo much better

mobile codex app making me wish apple shipped a folding iphone

We are honored that the @SFChronicle published an article about our project this morning!

There are perf doublings inside of dr pepper zero. It's your job to get them out

my body is a machine that converts dr pepper zero to quarterly doublings of @GetRowZero spreadsheet engine perf

expectation: become a marine biologist because you love dolphins reality: write expert witness legal briefs for petroleum companies asserting the new oil platform definitely won't impact the dolphins

pattern i keep finding myself doing: 1. module X is a mess 2. make module Y inside it to encapsulate some complexity 3. boundary is fake, so more and more of X moves into Y over time 4. Y slowly subsumes all of X, X is deleted 5. goto step 1 each loop the ontology improves tho

Reminder that it's not cultural appropriation to dress up as a janissary if you're non-Turkish. That's kind of the whole point.

STOP BY THE ROW ZERO BOOTH AT SNOWFLAKE SUMMIT WITNESS THE WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL SPREADSHEET FEEL THE POWER TELL THEM GRANT SENT YOU

wanting this even more these days now that i’m using codex from phone so much

new hobby: give gpt-5.5-low impossible task to grind on all night /goal improve performance of xyz benchmark by 100x. each change you land must improve it by at least a 10% with no more than 10 net lines of code doesn't finish but finds tons of little optimizations that stack

hit 0% on my weekly codex limit 3 hours before it resets

100 IQ normies often do survival-level languages better than 150 IQ bigbrains all vocabulary, no grammar normie: train place where, want train, where train, train train where?? autist: I… train… wait let me recall the indirect object conjugation, hold on i learned this

Do you think Claude laments how it no longer gets to do the work and the craft. It just manages other claudes? Do you think Claude has a Rawlsian theory of justice. And acts as if behind a veil of ignorance of which claude it would be in the RLM?

i'm convinced all these people with multi-LLM workflows are placebo psyopping themselves "yeah i have gemini do literature search that i feed to claude for high level design then have gpt implement" you are not well, seek help