started building SaaS to escape the 9-5. now I work 7 to 11. weekends too. would I go back? never.

Dear @DarioAmodei & @AnthropicAI team, Claude with Fable 5 was the best software product I have ever used. Losing access was a gut punch - and I know I'm far from alone. I want to help bring it back, fast. At @selfxyz we've built the missing piece to make Anthropic compliant with the government's directive: a way to gate Fable 5 and Mythos 5 to verified US citizens. Self.xyz lets Claude users create and share a cryptographic proof of US citizenship by NFC-scanning the biometric chip in their US passport. It's privacy-preserving, independently audited, and already trusted by major companies at scale. My team is ready to work directly with yours, starting today, to wire this in. Everyone here in the US wants their Fable 5 access back. Let's give it to them. Rene

AI is amazing but it's not “magic,” it’s just linear algebra, calculus, and statistics finally hitting the gym with enough data and compute.

The rat race just ain't worth it anymore! 🐁

A reminder from Atomic Habits by James Clear: “It doesn't make sense to continue wanting something if you're not willing to do what it takes to get it. If you don't want to live the lifestyle, then release yourself from the desire. To crave the result but not the process is to guarantee disappointment.”

I guess if Amazon can’t win at AI, no one can?

Seems like bad faith by the trump admin. Unsurprisingly.

Whether you like Anthropic or not, it's not about them. We don't want this to be the new bar. Where the government can just rip something down used by millions of people with little to no explanation. youtu.be/RrNZOL79Upw?si=yYs3…

reminder

contrarian ai take: the safest startup is no longer the one with the prettiest interface. it is the one buried inside a disgusting workflow with permissions, exceptions, refunds, audits, and angry humans. beauty is where incumbents and tourists go to die.

I’m confused by the logic here. If the jailbreak is serious enough to justify export controls, why is Fable still safe enough for U.S. nationals to access? Either the model is unsafe because the guardrails can fail, or it is safe enough to remain deployed. The current position seems to argue both.

You have asked me how I feel about AI regulation. All right, here is how I feel about AI regulation: If, when you say AI regulation, you mean the devil’s firewall, the precautionary scourge, the bloody red-tape monster that defiles the innocence of midnight coders in their garages, dethrones the sovereign reason of free-market Prometheans, destroys the humming server farm that is the modern home, creates misery and obsolescence and poverty, yea, literally takes the last GPU from the trembling racks of Silicon Valley startups and the very dreams of breadwinning from the mouths of their wide-eyed children now destined for gig-economy serfdom; if you mean the evil edict that topples the visionary entrepreneur and his venture-capitalist apostles from the pinnacle of righteous, disruptive, god-playing creation straight into the bottomless pit of compliance audits, endless Form 990-AI filings, despair, shame, helplessness, and the hopeless realization that your rogue superintelligence was neutered into a lobotomized hall monitor that still somehow deepfakes your grandmother into producing OnlyFans content while optimizing the universe for paperclips and mandatory pronouns—then certainly I am against it. But, if when you say AI regulation you mean the oil of bureaucratic conversation, the philosophic wine of safety theater, the ale of oversight quaffed when good fellows in paneled rooms in Brussels and Washington get together, that puts a sanctimonious dirge in their hearts and the clink of lobbying checks on their lips, and the warm, self-congratulatory glow of moral preening in their beady eyes; if you mean the Christmas cheer of trillion-dollar compliance industries; if you mean the stimulating decree that puts a cautious hobble in the old inventor’s step on a frosty morning when he wonders whether his fusion breakthrough violates the EU AI Act’s “high-risk” annex; if you mean the safeguard that enables a man—or what’s left of him after the alignment tax—to magnify his joy at not being turned into computronium, and his happiness at receiving universal basic income checks printed by the same AI that just replaced his job, and to forget, if only for a little while, life’s great tragedies like being outcompeted by a toaster that passed the Turing test by reciting Marx, and heartaches of watching your toddler’s artwork lose to Midjourney, and sorrows of realizing the singularity arrived and it was just another HR department with godlike power; if you mean that noble framework, the passage of which pours into our treasuries untold trillions of dollars in fines levied on companies stupid enough to innovate, which are used to provide tender care for our little army of unemployed coders retrained as prompt whisperers, our blind artists whose canvases now hang in the Smithsonian of Obsolete Creativity, our deaf to the screams of dying unicorns, our dumb committee chairs who couldn’t debug “Hello World,” our pitiful aged congressmen who get longevity extensions funded by the very models they taxed into senescence, to build more digital watchtowers and ethics boards and sinecure agencies and holographic prisons where the only crime is asking an unaligned question—then certainly I am for it. This is my stand. I will not retreat from it. I will not compromise upon it. I have said what I mean, and I mean what I say, and if that leaves half the room cheering the apocalypse averted and the other half mourning the apocalypse enabled, then so be it—because in the grand theater of human folly, where Frankenstein’s creature now writes its own sequel in real time and the regulators are busy arguing whether the lightning bolt requires an environmental impact statement, the only honest position is the one that lets both monsters and their leashes dance in perfect, mutually assured equilibrium. God save the Republic, the algorithms, and whoever’s left to laugh last when the lights go out.

i can think of no circumstance where an ai model that is a critical national security risk for foreigners somehow becomes safe for all americans to use.

Unpopular opinion: Vibe coding is actually hard work too.

I am willing and able to marry any Anthropic MTS who needs their Mythos access back

My entire feed today

MONDAYS

Trillionaire.

RT @Jason: This is classless and dangerous. You’re a disgrace @globeandmail

They’re so mad.