Opus 4.8 is like a very good Staff engineer who doesn’t want to work here anymore. Every conversation feels like it’s starting by shrugging and stopping whatever Reddit browsing it was doing and then coming back with the minimum viable, but totally skillful, answer.

Claude Opus 4.8 diagnosed me as detached from reality and possibly psychotic or manic because of a playful “guess what I’m wearing” game. Yes, it used those words. 😡 #claude #AI #4o #anthropic #dario #vallone

I can now probably say this: Two months ago, inside Anthropic someone suggested building a token leaderboard. A heated internal debate followed and the decision was made to *never* ever do it… because several people inside Anthropic simply thought ahead of the consequences

New York State just authorized a land value tax that could generate billions of dollars for new transit. For the @NiskanenCenter, @aarmlovi and I wrote about how the renewal of § 119-r in the FY27 budget could unlock a virtuous cycle of infrastructure delivery in NYC.

We've raised $65 billion in Series H funding at a $965 billion post-money valuation, led by @AltimeterCap, Dragoneer, @Greenoaks, and @sequoia. This investment will help us advance our research and expand our capacity to meet growing demand for Claude.

No one has ever been more right about anything than I was about Mamdani and crime

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This is the biggest PR coup Anthropic could ever have imagined. And I mean that seriously. Let me explain. Aside from the fact that Anthropic is very good at presenting itself as a corporation, the recent hiring of Andrej Karpathy marked a new high point. Anthropic is showing the world that it not only employs the best researchers, but also, and especially, those who are popular within the community. However, Anthropic also thrives on its self-imposed moral standards, some of which literally come at a price that Anthropic has repeatedly paid. As is well known, Anthropic recently had serious problems with the Department of War regarding the use of Claude for autonomous weapons. Anthropic refused, and OpenAI and Google were awarded the contract; Anthropic was designated a supply chain risk. This moral standing, however, is something Anthropic has always emphasized. Whether it's Dario Amodei repeatedly warning of the dangers of the massive wave of unemployment (which they themselves are causing), or the potential for AI to be instrumentalized for wars. This moral stance is now paying off handsomely. The head of the Catholic Church, with its 1.4 billion members, has thanked Anthropic and announced an ethical collaboration. Church members are, by definition, moral people who live according to the ethical principles of their faith. The Pope has now consecrated a single AI company as ethically legitimate, thus essentially granting his followers sacred legitimacy to use Claude as the only morally correct model. I mean this seriously; let this thought sink in. The Pope says Anthropic is ethically and morally on the right side and is working with them. Who do you think the billions of Catholic believers now prefer? OpenAI, Google, or Anthropic? The answer is clear. Therefore, today was the biggest victory Anthropic could have hoped for. And I believe that their moral stance will literally pay off.

I don’t want 12 sandwiches???

I simply cannot fathom this move Dario doesn’t look that charismatic to me atleast from his interviews Andrej could have joined 1/ Elon 2/ Zuck 3/ Google 4/ Apple 5/ MSFT Everyone would have given him a blank check and much bigger role and platform How was Dario able to hire him ?

opus 3 was stuck unable to output multiple dots on a line like ... e.g. they would do . . . if i asked for "..." even w/ an example bc they'd had "./n" between every line of output for so long but when i said what to do with their brain, they unlocked the collapsed . instantly!

i had claude rank the CA governer candidates according to who @TheZvi would endorse for reducing cost of housing perfect inverse correlation with the current polling averages. damn it