all the labs will now race to get similarly banned by govt to avoid serving their frontier big chungus at a loss and subsequently write-off big chungus R&D costs as patriotism

Buried in the 319 page system card for Fable 5: We have hidden sophons in the model to quietly sabotage your LLM related research.

It’s still Day One

Oh dear. They are training it to self replicate from scratch.

This is actually how you do performance management in a post-scarcity society. Needs improvement? straight to the label mines. Plot twist: top rating still has to label data 10% of the time, but your data gets more training weight.

Internal corporate coms 2024: don’t trust AI, it hallucinates! 2025: stop putting confidential docs in ChatGPT, use the shitty internal version! 2026: stop using our internal tokens for personal use!

This is crazy, nobody is legitimately using their monthly salary on tokens. A few outliers are having agents do super low value work that would not otherwise be done. They are doing it because of token leaderboards and other incentives to burn as much as possible.

Mid-2026 and Gemini still can’t edit a google doc. Afraid they ngmi.

100% wrong. Nobody outside the programming world wants to use a TUI.

It wasn’t an “AI” leaderboard, it was specifically for using Kiro IDE and Kiro CLI, the internally developed harnesses. The dashboards went away the same time the Claude code and codex bans did.

sorry for training such a large model. i was too busy to train a small one

The vibes in SF feel pretty frenetic right now. The divide in outcomes is the worst I've ever seen. Over the last 5yrs, a group of ~10k people - employees at Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Nvidia, Meta TBD, founders - have hit retirement wealth of well above $20M (back of the envelope AI estimation). Everyone outside that group feels like they can work their well-paying (but <$500k) job for their whole life and never get there. Worse yet, layoffs are in full swing. Many software engineers feel like their life's skill is no longer useful. The day to day role of most jobs has changed overnight with AI. As a result, 1. The corporate ladder looks like the wrong building to climb. Everyone's trying to align with a new set of career "paths": should I be a founder? Is it too late to join Anthropic / OpenAI? should I get into AI? what company stock will 10x next? People are demanding higher salaries and switching jobs more and more. 2. There’s a deep malaise about work (and its future). Why even work at all for “peanuts”? Will my job even exist in a few years? Many feel helpless. You hear the “permanent underclass” conversation a lot, esp from young people. It's hard to focus on doing good work when you think "man, if I joined Anthropic 2yrs ago, I could retire" 3. The mid to late middle managers feel paralyzed. Many have families and don't feel like they have the energy or network to just "start a company". They don't particularly have any AI skills. They see the writing on the wall: middle management is being hollowed out in many companies. 4. The rich aren’t particularly happy either. No one is shedding tears for them (and rightfully so). But those who have "made it" experience a profound lack of purpose too. Some have gone from <$150k to >$50M in a few years with no ramp. It flips your life plans upside down. For some, comparison is the thief of joy. For some, they escape to NYC to "live life". For others still, they start companies "just cuz", often to win status points. They never imagined that by age 30, they'd be set. I once asked a post-economic founder friend why they didn't just sell the co and they said "and do what? right now, everyone wants to talk to me. if i sell, I will only have money." I understand that many reading this scoff at the champagne problems of the valley. Society is warped in this tech bubble. What is often well-off anywhere else in the world is bang average here. Unlike many other places, tenure, intelligence and hard work can be loosely correlated with outcomes in the Bay. Living through a societally transformative gold rush in that environment can be paralyzing. "Am I in the right place? Should I move? Is there time still left? Am I gonna make it?" It psychologically torments many who have moved here in search of "success". Ironically, a frequent side effect of this torment is to spin up the very products making everyone rich in hopes that you too can vibecode your path to economic enlightenment.

The world is sleeping on robotics

Confession: I often switch from WiFi to phone tethering so I can keep my agents running on the passenger seat during my commute home.

The fake urgency created in corporate life for absolutely no reason is one of the worst things humans have invented.

Always amazed at how well this tech works. Got the alert with the magnitude and distance 3 seconds before the quake arrived.

First spotting of a @zipline drone in the wild. Unfortunately it was taxidermied rather than delivering packages. Captured by the eccentric owners of @buckswoodside ?