my lifetime bad habit of spending 5 hours writing code to save 1 hour of manual work has transformed me into a hyper optimized apex predator now that it only takes 5 minutes writing code to save 1 hour of manual work

I get why they're doing this but it's inevitable that most agent comms will happen through the Claude app (or similar), not Telegram (or similar). You can't build the ideal agent UX in an app designed for something else.

This is unfortunate but ultimately will be a losing battle for Amazon. If Amazon doesn't let my agent browse it, it'll just use Walmart or Google Shopping instead. I'm far more loyal to my agent-first shopping experience than I am to Amazon.

turns out that google's core structural advantage in the AGI race is that its hq in mountain view is too far away from sf for the pause ai people to get to

"reaching an annualized run rate of $1B in net-new revenue" I know the entire market is going ballistic right now but you gotta wonder how much of that "net new revenue" is coming directly from Claude Code.

You know how Gemini ends every turn with that annoying "If you want to learn more about how X does Y, just say the word!"? It just spazzed out on me and shared its full thinking trace... turns out that's one of the metrics it's prompted to optimize for.

Just gave a talk at GTC (about RL ofc). Bucket list item checked off!

I can't understand the people who claim there's no use-case for AI agents in personal life. This was literally all in the last *week*!

GPT-4 era browser automation was interesting but functionally useless. With Opus 4.5 it finally got reliable enough to be useful for many background tasks. With GPT-5.4 (fast mode, low thinking) it's now almost as fast as I am.

Coase postulates that corporations exist because micro-measuring and compensating everyone's individual contributions to a joint effort is inefficient. Imagine though if some new technology suddenly made it far easier to do...

Insane how much Codex GPT-5.4 with slack/notion/google drive access breaks down organizational silos. "What is the process to <x>" for any <x> is now a question that doesn't require pinging anyone. And if you need to ping someone, Codex can figure out whom and do that too.

My ancestors buried half their children. All mine are alive. My ancestors' house had a dirt floor. Mine is wood. I have indoor plumbing, I have hot water, I have never in my life hauled a full bucket half a mile and I probably never will. Do you know how rare it is, in human history, for small children to wear shoes? Mine have multiple pairs. I can speak to my relatives who live thousands of miles away, for free, at any time. Video, if we want video. With machine translation, if we speak different languages. The original Library of Congress had 740 books in it. I have more than that. If I run out of books in my home my local public library has 350,000. If I want to take a hundred books with me on vacation, they all fit on a device that fits in my purse. I have heat in the winter and AC in the summer and a washing machine and I have never, ever, ever had to scrub a dress clean by hand in the stream. I can look up recipes from more than a hundred different countries and I've tried dozens of them. I ride a clean and modern train across my city for $4, or take a robot taxi if I'm out too late for the train. I donate $40,000 every year to the cause of getting healthcare to the world's poorest people and even after the donations I never have to think about whether I can afford a book, or a pair of shoes, or a cup of coffee. There is a great deal more to fight for, of course. I hope that our descendants will look back on our lives and list a thousand ways they're richer. Maybe we ourselves will do that, if some of the crazier stuff comes true. But the abundance is all around you and to a significant degree you aren't feeling it only because fish don't notice water.

codex can do your taxes for you now btw

Someone needs to release a PrettyCode benchmark that penalizes models that spam try/catch blocks everywhere just to get something running.

I sold my company last year. GPT-5 Pro was at least as valuable in that negotiation as our attorneys (who billed us $450K). This is a terrible law.

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