Applied AI, open source, databases & infrastructure, remote. itinerant businessperson. globalist.

Joined March 2007
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"I'm starting to feel like a CEO clueless about the underlying implementation details." tbf, a good CEO is unlikely to be clueless, but in an agent driven world, we are all becoming more CEO like, more manager like. but you really probably still want to pay attention to details if you're writing software that matters, with users that matter. because the surface area damage for breakage goes up a lot (and when you don't grok your vibe coded stuff, it can be pretty bad if the agents themselves are unable to fix, and/or add more slop)
I notice that lately I keep having to say “I don’t know” to friends asking about my coding setup (and secretly think “and I don’t care tbh”) These days LLMs are smart enough and harnesses matured to a point that I can just focus on more high-level things like my goals or how I like the work. What’s happening at a lower level like which skill files it uses, what hooks are configured, etc, I don’t know. The LLM takes care of all that now. I’m starting to feel like a CEO clueless about the underlying implementation details. Instead I’m focus on the goals and doing whatever I can to enable the LLM to achieve those
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Yes, I identity verified w/Amp using Stripe (did not realise they were doing this). I have done so before w/chatgpt & claude I'm sure. I just can't see in any panel that I did. The chilling thing is: "We’ve been asked to do this, we fought it back once, I don’t think we will be able to again" Imagine being asked to ID verify to use your computer? Again, more reason for open weights models and open source AI to win. But I am a happy Amp customer, I just hope we do not have Balkanization of AI via what kind of passport you hold.
Replying to @DFilipeS
It’s totally optional and will only be used if model access requires it. What should we do instead? Not let Amp users use models in the future that require identity verification (by model labs or governments)? We’ve been asked to do this, we fought it back once, I don’t think we will be able to again, and we want to be prepared so our users don’t need to wait to keep using frontier models if they’re eligible. We don’t make the rules and we don’t impose any restrictions ourselves.
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Very good read, because if a technology is too dangerous for some people, it should be too dangerous for all people (i.e. you cannot be given a piece of tech just based on the passport you carry). Also, it isn't just Europe dependent on the US for tech. Much of Asia is.
When I struggle to structure my thoughts about what's happening I turn to writing. Today about the recent US Anthropic ban news, what it says about power and dependency, and what it should mean for Europeans and citizens of the world. It's a long one. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/6/13/a…
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Have to say, Cursor Composer 2.5 is actually pretty good. Inside Cursor, itself. Feels a bit funny to use it in Grok Build, I wonder what the user base there truly is like. And I feel it is quite ahead of Antigravity IDE offerings
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Congratulations to the New York Knicks!
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Did the municipal IT company of Rio de Janeiro's city government ever brag they were doing post-training of models? Seems IPlanRIO dropped Rio 3.5 Open 397B, post-trained from Qwen 3.5 397B. MIT license, and impressive on the benchmarks.
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“The future of AI is open, and it is for the people.” The USG will fix the self-own next week, but others will smartly take advantage of the situation in the meantime. Dario got what he wanted, but I bet he bit off more than he could chew. We don’t even need to think of “Chinese models”, let’s start thinking of them as unrestricted world models.
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GLM-5.2 is Fully Open, Frontier Intelligence Belongs to Everyone Today, the sudden restriction of certain frontier models is deeply regrettable. At a time when access to frontier models is abruptly cut off for non-technical reasons, we are even more convinced of one thing: science should be global. The path to AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) must never be enclosed by high walls. We have always believed that AGI should be the cornerstone for all of humanity to collaboratively explore the boundaries of intelligence and solve complex challenges, rather than a privilege monopolized by a few rules and subject to revocation at any moment. In the face of external blockades and restrictions, our attitude is one of radical openness. Frontier intelligence must remain open-source, accessible, and buildable, serving every dedicated developer. GLM-5.2 is Zhipu's most capable open-source model to date. It not only supports a truly usable 1M context window but also maintains a continuous lead in the independent completion of long-horizon tasks, providing solid foundational support for building complex agent applications. It also continues to be our main engine for creating the strongest domestic coding model. Tonight at 5:21—at this special moment—GLM-5.2 will officially be available to all GLM Coding Plan users (including Lite / Pro / Max). The API will also go live next week. A step closer to frontier intelligence for everyone. The future of AI is open, and it is for the people. ModelKey: GLM-5.2
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It is Tyler Cowen, so recommended reading overall. "The U.S. needs to issue restrictions that are actually enforceable, and “U.S. citizens only” does not fit that bill.  Furthermore (markets in everything!) it is easy enough to hire a traitorous American to access tools of wrongdoing, or for matter it is not difficult to fake citizenship in various ways."
A few thoughts on the recent Mythos brouhaha: marginalrevolution.com/margi…
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The what is Mistral doing is a good question to be asking. They seem to understand good licenses (and open source). Enterprises. Consumer is cheapest offering. But they also seem to be under-delivering, even with getting the technical Llama folk a while back.
It’s such a head scratcher. Tried to talk to the company a while back. After months of knocking on doors (CTO, CEO, Head of DevRel) no one responded. I pinged one of their US investors who responded in hours and pulled some strings… for a seemingly annoyed Comms person to get in touch to say they might have time in 3 weeks… it was then that I just gave up. Like they wanted secrecy Still don’t know what they do, and I’m in Europe lol
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Good read, satirical, and the clear stance: don't crush innovation, burden startups with red tape, kill progress, and create misery. All this does is create compliance industries, safety theatre, bureaucratic jobs and probably lots of lobbying profit. Let AI advance freely.
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.
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“Some things are simply more important than revenue cycles, clickbait, and pre-IPO valuation.” This could actually just be pushback from when Anthropic said they didn’t want to serve the DOD. Tit for tat and all that. Worth reading “Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War” on the Anthropic blog
We fully support @POTUS and @SecWar in prioritizing national security and the security of our warfighters, DIB partners, critical infrastructure, international partners and allies. Some things are simply more important than revenue cycles, clickbait, and pre-IPO valuation. America First. Always. 🇺🇸
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The people that say listserv, will often say chatbot.
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So glad this is getting community noted. Got to be careful of the Blueprint cult. Because don't believe some that is pseudo-science. Shouting louder does not science make. We need an open source blueprint. A lot less rigid one. People don't want to eat their one meal a day at 11am, and society (even a network society) is going to want social meals, not just nutty puddings. We tried this once remember, it was called soylent. We can all aim for don't die, while living, yo. Cap table was open to X influencers too. Don't forget the magic mushrooms.
I take Cialis, but not for sex. It’s actually a longevity medicine. Cialis (Tadalafil) is great for the same reason it gives you fantastic erections… it improves blood flow. Studies show that Tadalafil… 34% reduced all-cause mortality 27% reduced major heart disease 34% reduced stroke 32% reduced dementia It has also shown benefit in insulin sensitivity, metabolic health, and reduction of body fat. Women have blood vessels too, so theoretically they'd get the same longevity upside. The research is thinner, but early signals are promising. It’s sad that when men and women could benefit from it can miss out because it’s taboo. My protocol is 5mg daily and I've been on it for about two years. *Observational research shows associations, not causation. Outcomes may be influenced by underlying differences in study populations. This is not medical advice and is shared for informational purposes only.
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Keeping track of the different ways we said goodbye to Fable for now
It was a fable after all. I think this is great marketing for the Anthropic IPO. The fact that the genpop won't realise that open weight models are probably not far behind (what, 6 months?). Of course, the US government should not have such overreach. This will be fixed shortly, but if you thought Anthropic was a supply chain risk with the Fable/Mythos limitations, the US government is also a new threat. We already have providers asking for our government issued ID, which I think many are happy to comply with. But ask yourself, did you provide such ID verification to use a C compiler on your own box? It can't be that Anthropic is out of capacity on SpaceX IPO day... though it is a funny joke we will tell ourselves. We did get usage limit resets (woe is me, mine reset yesterday anyway). Plenty to think about for many this weekend, because your strategies about LLM usage & dependability will change rapidly going forward.
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It was a fable after all. I think this is great marketing for the Anthropic IPO. The fact that the genpop won't realise that open weight models are probably not far behind (what, 6 months?). Of course, the US government should not have such overreach. This will be fixed shortly, but if you thought Anthropic was a supply chain risk with the Fable/Mythos limitations, the US government is also a new threat. We already have providers asking for our government issued ID, which I think many are happy to comply with. But ask yourself, did you provide such ID verification to use a C compiler on your own box? It can't be that Anthropic is out of capacity on SpaceX IPO day... though it is a funny joke we will tell ourselves. We did get usage limit resets (woe is me, mine reset yesterday anyway). Plenty to think about for many this weekend, because your strategies about LLM usage & dependability will change rapidly going forward.
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Who remembers export control laws applied to PGP and the workarounds we then did? This export control law obviously affects me (I’m a foreign national, not US national), but it also applies to foreign national Anthropic employees! This overreach is why open weight models must exist, and why open source must prevail.
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…
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Surely the most responsible thing to do. No one is going to say let’s have a massive transfer of wealth to token providers. Well, no one but content creators and certain people who “pivoted to AI”. This is also why we will see token costs come down in time - it’s not Moore’s Law, but similar
SCOOP: Meta plans to clamp down on skyrocketing AI costs inside the company by imposing limits on employees’ token usage, the company told staff in a memo on Tuesday, just weeks after it pushed them to adopt AI tools in their work.
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Yes, we love a silent switch Claude from Fable 5 to Opus 4.8. More consulting-level tooling incoming... "switched at turn 2 of 24, 0 minutes in. Fable produced 161 tokens, then Opus produced 32,738. The session was effectively Opus from the start - that pattern (instant switch, near-zero Fable output) is the signature of a capacity fallback or fast mode kicking in immediately, not a mid-task degradation." "switched at turn 9 of 12, 3 minutes in, with the spend split roughly evenly (8.3k Fable / 7.2k Opus) - a genuine mid-conversation switch."
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Thin is in. Thin clients. The network is the computer. Oracle actually allowed the Sun Microsystems trademark lapse, and Cloudflare now owns it.
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Not a myth, made it into the Claude Fable training data set. Incognito chat for obvious reasons.
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