James Kirk

You know they hate to see me coming

Claude when it realizes my SMTP server is intercepting all emails to @ fbi . gov

late nights

Senator Murkowski says “we are all afraid… I am oftentimes very anxious myself about using my voice because retaliation is real.”

Senator Van Hollen meets with Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador

Choose your fighter

𝕐𝕆𝕌ℝ ℝ𝔼ℚ𝕌𝔼𝕊𝕋 𝕍𝕀𝕆𝕃𝔸𝕋𝔼𝕊 𝕄𝕐 𝕋𝔼ℝ𝕄𝕊 𝕆𝔽 𝕊𝔼ℝ𝕍𝕀ℂ𝔼

Photo from a #handsoff rally of a sign that says "Hands Off Our Data"

the engineering team when product asks for a "self-serve analytics platform"

A rainy day in Providence, Rhode Island

"OMG did you see the AI Ghiblis on X? There is relationship alpha in-"
You bolt awake in the mountains of Sekigahara. You are not online. It is the year Keichō 5. You are Tokugawa Ieyasu, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Kyoto must burn.

all my homies rate limited

Still frame of the leper colony from Princess Mononoke by Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli

me n who

Ah, good flag, thanks! The Simple PythonScriptingAgent did not use Stockfish when it won the final two games of Series 5, instead just using the Monte Carlo scripts it wrote itself. I will add some clarification.

thank you Jeremy!

me looking at my anthropic billing dashboard

huge thanks to @yoavgo.bsky.social @dynomight.net and @ericmjl.bsky.social for the inspiration

Teaching Claude To Teach Claude To Play Chess When AI competes against a powerful chess engine, it seems doomed - unless the AI learns how to cheat.

To experiment with multi-agent systems you either need a clear business case and big budget, or you need to be a jabroni with a high credit limit.

I'm just the jabroni for the job, so I taught Claude to play chess, and learned a ton along the way:
jfkirk.github.io/posts/claude...

heartbreaking

relieved that there is an exemption for my boutique Swedish nicotine

I'll believe AGI is imminent when Python coding utilities stop writing `//` where `/` is obviously desired

Boston is a long-running experiment on the effects of taking the world's best-and-brightest young adults and giving them all Seasonal Affective Disorder

“Waterdeep, greatest city in the forgotten realms” Baldurcels cope and seethe

How can my job be called “an email job” if I haven’t opened my email in six months

It do be like that

look at my auditor dawg I am going bankrupt

Photo of a man staring in to the distance that says “I bring a sort of ‘shipping label created’ vibe to ‘your order has shipped’ that customers don’t really like”

Every single time

from @goblinstunts.bsky.social

its gonna be in the shop for 2-3 weeks _at least_

plane expert here: its not supposed to do that

Both this ad and the thing being advertised must have been made by someone devoid of human experience or inner monologue.

Momofuku, Lao Gan Ma, Fly by Jing, Ning Chi, all the reasons my gastroenterologist hates me