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So the whole Anthropic thing is the Trump admin throwing a rock through the storefront window and then coming back to offer protection?
Sources: Trump officials discussed ways to structure government equity stakes in AI companies, with Commerce Secretary Lutnick favoring a sovereign wealth fund (@eleanor_mueller / Semafor)
(Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)
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Jun 16
This genre-bending, absurdist-macabre sci-fi-satire nature of perceived reality seemed apparent when there was a global pandemic, and a widespread conspiracy engine with complex game mechanics run on social media called QAnon…
…or maybe before that when the heads of two nuclear-armed states were trolling each other and threatening war on Twitter.
Jun 15
This is a fucking scifi movie. All this.
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Jun 15
This is a fucking scifi movie. All this.
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Jun 13
Did someone at Amazon jailbreak Mythos/Fable and use it to find exploits in AWS's Top Secret Cloud?
Breaking: Amazon CEO Andy Jassy was among the tech leaders who raised concerns to senior Trump officials this week re: security risks in Anthropic's newest models.
Those convos set in motion the government's new export controls on foreign national access to Mythos and Fable.
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Breaking: Amazon CEO Andy Jassy was among the tech leaders who raised concerns to senior Trump officials this week re: security risks in Anthropic's newest models.
Those convos set in motion the government's new export controls on foreign national access to Mythos and Fable.
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Jun 9
If one believes that super-powered models without comprehensive guardrails leads to generative pathogens and cyberweapons of mass destruction, any "positive" work that gets silently damaged by those guardrails is necessary collateral damage.
Jun 9
Degrading performance on ML research *without telling the user* is shockingly hostile and a terrible look. That could silently damage all sorts of work, including some of my own. Also the type of thing that could raise the eyebrows of antitrust enforcers worldwide.
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Jun 1
Hiten is a true original.
It would not surprise me if he did for writing (essay, copy) what cursor did for code before agents took over.
Jun 1
Been working with @SamAsante on a new company.
Today we’re releasing our first product.
It’s called Typeahead and we’re live on Product Hunt.
You type and inline suggestions appear right in the text field. Tab to accept the full suggestion or right arrow for one word at a time. It learns how you actually write.
Everything runs locally on your Mac, works offline, and you pay once. $79 and you own it forever.
If you write a lot on a Mac, check it out and let us know what you think.
Live on Product Hunt right now → producthunt.com/products/typ…
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"We have seven hours left, and I made the decision, it's okay to swear, it's okay to insult him, it's okay to threaten him, because Silicon Valley's going down if this guy doesn't get his act together."
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May 2
During a standard bug fix session, Codex/5.5's reasoning traces leaked in.
It seemed to ruminate, become self-critical, then got stuck in a reasoning loop and gave up.
Also made up words and occasionally output Chinese (lots about Chinese lotteries and gambling), Cyrillic, and Armenian.
It was a little bit...uncanny.
The image below is 1/5th of it.
@thsottiaux your homie may have more than gremlins and raccoons on its mind.
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When we talk about regreening the entire Earth, sometimes people bring up the objection that desert ecosystems shouldn't be "destroyed." Those people are totally wrong.
Desert ecosystems are not intrinsically "dry and barren." They are just dry. And if you add water, they bloom. Doing that isn't destroying or displacing or invading an ecosystem, it is BRINGING IT BACK TO LIFE.
Consider the existence of desert oases: pockets in the desert where water happens to gather and accumulate. Oases are green with the very same native plants that would bloom across the entire desert ecosystem if there was enough water.
Deserts being dry are an environmental blight, an ecological irregularity brought on by the vagaries of human-caused and natural climate change. We have the power to reverse this, to bring water to deserts and we should: it will mean more life, more economic value, and a better planet.
Apr 28
Death Valley National Park is experiencing its first major superbloom in a decade as of March/April 2026, driven by record winter rainfall (1.7 – 2.5 inches) that transformed the desert landscape with vibrant carpets of yellow, pink, and purple flowers.
x.com/MarchUnofficial/status…
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Mar 23
Nexus is the ultimate psychedelic:
Unity consciousness via orally-ingested BCI.
Not surprised to hear it was inspired by a trip (or many).
Mar 23
Kary Mullis and the invention of PCR (a foundation of modern biology, for which he won the Nobel Prize) is the canonical example of psychedelics leading to breakthroughs.
Many early tech advances, from Xerox PARC work up through the iPhone, are ascribed at least partially by the people behind them to use of psychedelics.
I would never have written any of my books, or shifted into climate and energy, without the influence of psychedelics. [Not trying to equate myself with any of the above, just personal data.]
It's also just not what most experiences are about.
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Mar 3
The way we used to work will soon look silly
Mar 3
Announcing jo 1.0 - rebuilt from scratch!
Two years ago we launched a macOS productivity sidekick.
Today it's something different: a personal AI that actually knows your life.
Your Mac. Your dedicated cloud machine. Your data stays yours.
askjo.ai
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Feb 11
Now what.
The essential question for basically everyone after Opus 4.6, Codex 5.3, and OpenClaw
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Jan 13
The AI commodity tsunami in a nutshell
Jan 13
Introducing Atoms: the first AI team that builds real businesses.
From research to build, launch, and scale, all autonomous.
Don’t Vibe Code. Vibe Business.
→ atoms.dev
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Jan 9
The outrage is useful nonsense.
Using Claude Max subs for tokens outside of Anthropic’s properties is a form of freeloading.
It makes the value exchange asymmetrical in favor of the users…
At scale, it also is completely unsustainable for Anthropic.
It’s been against their ToS for a while, but the token volumes probably weren’t high enough to matter.
Now that (very brilliant) projects like Clawdbot and OpenCode are blowing up, Anthropic needed to act or it’s ToS would be empty rhetoric.
The understandable but misguided backlash presents an opportunity to create more granular rules…
This would have been a compliance/legal ops nightmare before.
But Anthropic can use Claude Code to create much more fluid policies, manage enforcement, and innovate on the design and application of ToS
Or not.
In either case, their position on this was inevitable, rational, and not evidence of bad faith.
Jan 9
I'm floored Anthropic aggressively cut off paying customers from using Claude Max subscriptions with open source agents.
They're speedrunning the journey from forgivable startup to loathsome corporation before any exit!
@_catwu – I'd strongly urge you to reconsider this.
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Jan 9
It took about three seconds for the masked ICE agent who approached Renee Good's car to escalate from "Get out of the car" to "Get out of the fucking car!" It was when he reached her car and immediately grabbed her door handle (at the moment he said 'fucking car') that she started to back up. Now imagine that he'd acted like a real cop is trained to act--walked up to her (open) window and engaged in civil conversation (maybe saying, Ma'am, could you please get out of the car?). And imagine he hadn't been wearing a mask--and maybe was even dressed more like a police officer, complete with a badge featuring his ID number. Chances are high that Good wouldn't have freaked out and tried to flea. But Trump--and Stephen Miller, who I gather is the de facto head of ICE--have clearly signaled that they not only tolerate but actually applaud thuggish, intimidating behavior directed at Americans who are perceived as Trump's ideological enemies. You won't hear any complaints from them about an armed, masked man dressed like a DIY militiaman yelling "Get out of your fucking car!" at a woman in her thirties who, so far as I can tell, hadn't done anything wrong. (Far from obstructing the agent's pickup truck, she had paused before turning onto the street and politely waved it on, leaving it plenty of room to pass. If it had done so rather than stop, she'd still be alive.) Trump and Miller bear some measure of moral responsibility for the death of Renee Good. And the political reaction against them in the wake of this tragedy should prominently include specific demands about changing the rules of conduct for ICE agents--and also the rules of apparel, starting with a ban on those creepy masks.
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Jan 1
For the past couple of years, I've had fun making a set of AI predictions for the year ahead. This year feels different.
Trying to predict the end state of the AI revolution right now feels like asking someone in the era of horse-drawn carriages to predict the societal impact of self-driving cars. The world is moving too fast for a "Bingo Card".
So for 2026, I’m ditching the predictions and focusing on Guiding Principles.
Instead of guessing what will happen, I’m committing to how I’ll navigate it:
1️⃣ Build to Learn: You can’t just theorize; you have to build.
2️⃣ Agency > Intelligence: In a world where intelligence is abundant, the drive to "figure it out" is the ultimate differentiator.
3️⃣ Cultivate Product Intuition: When execution speed is effectively infinite, the bottleneck is decision-making. You need the intuition to make the right call instantly.
4️⃣ Write to Think: Using writing not to preach, but to find out what I actually believe.
5️⃣ Stay Curious: Comfort is a trap.
In today's substack post I expand on all of this - and also talk about something else that I think 2026 is going to be full of....balancing tensions: blog.jaclynkonzelmann.com/p/…
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28 Dec 2025
The gap between “I wish there was an app for that” and “there’s an app for that” is now <24 hours.
Here's the story of how I vibe coded a #judo #randori tracker before I even landed in Sapporo.
I started this project on Claude Code Opus 4.5 when I was in San Francisco and committed my changes 24 hours later.
I wanted a tracker to help me keep track of what thrills I was doing during randori.
Nothing existed, so I vibe-coded something.
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21 Dec 2025
Too many AI people are still sleeping on @doodlestein.
He's manically productive with Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI, and has solo-built an entire-ecosystem of free OSS tools that ensure they work together effectively, in parallel, at scale.
This is probably multiple thousands of dollars of tokens.
Now he's packaged up the whole set and given that away for free, too.
This is the kind of product that would have taken an entire startup of cracked devs a year or more to ship before the second half of 2025.
And with @Steve_Yegge's beads as a cornerstone piece, he did all of it by himself in months.
Unreal.
21 Dec 2025
I made a new website and set of scripts and prompts to help people get set up with the same kind of setup that I use to develop software. You can see it here:
agent-flywheel.com/
I get asked a lot about my workflows and so I wanted to have one single resource I could share with people to help them get up and running. It also includes my full suite of agent coding tools, naturally.
But I also wanted something that less technically inclined people could actually get through, which would explain everything to them they might not know about. I don’t think this approach and workflow should be restricted to expert technologists.
I’ve received several messages recently from people who told me that they don’t even know how to code but who have been able to use my tools and workflows and prompts to build and deploy software.
Older people, kids, and people trying to switch careers later in life should all have access to these techniques, which truly level the playing field.
But they’re often held back by the complexity and knowledge required to rent a cloud server and set up Linux on it properly.
So I made scripts that basically set up a fresh Ubuntu box exactly how I set up my own dev machines, and which walk people through the process of renting a cloud server and connecting to it using ssh from a terminal.
This is all done using a user-friendly, intuitive wizard, with detailed definitions included for all jargon.
Anyway, there could still be some bugs, and I will probably make numerous tweaks in the coming days as I see what people get confused by or stuck on. I welcome feedback.
Oh yeah, and it’s all fully open-source and free, like all my tools; the website, the scripts, all of it is on my GitHub.
And all of this was made last night in a couple hours, and today in a couple hours, all using the same workflows and techniques this site helps anyone get started with.
Enjoy, and let me know what you think!
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