Sam

Is this the first time OpenAI timed their release to collide with an Anthropic model instead of a Google model?

it's an embarrassing time to have been an 'it's not a shadow conspiracy, it's a much more boring case of a group of ultra-rich & powerful elites who act semi-coordinatedly in their selfish self-interest according to the system they live under & perpetuate'-cel

Bilbo looking at his phone top on bottom is ChatGPT After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it? You're absolutely right — you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.

Vinod Khosla publicly disavows Keith Rabois' comments on ICE shooting | TechCrunch Unwavering Trump loyalist and VC Keith Rabois caused his colleague and his firm's founder to distance themselves from his comments on ICE.

At times like this I’m glad I deleted my X account so I don’t encounter such ghoulish takes by tech bros and VCs.

Truly just the worst of humanity to celebrate a senseless death just to show your allegiance to their orange king.

Reading this unbecoming saga, I'll merely say that is a good thing that people like him are drawn and forced to silence: I don't think normal society should tolerate those who want others murdered or repeal the 19th Amendment. Idk, it's just common sense.

“abolish ICE” should be the conservative position at this point

an organization that can produce something this evil is clearly beyond “reform”

who could possibly have foreseen that the presidential candidate that bragged about shooting dogs would be evil

If I see another headline about Yann le Cun "contrarian" bet, I’m killing a non-verbal model.

man.

Shooting mothers, nurses, while arresting priests and toddlers - this is what comes of that. Their terror campaign is completely backfiring on them. People aren't backing down, they're just getting enraged and radicalised.

USA: We cannot compete cheap Chinese production workers.
China: Xiaomi just unveiled a factory that makes 1 phone per second, runs 24/7, has no production workers, and operates in the dark.

talked myself into doing a side project and now it is taking literally all of my time

The Historian Who Says Finance Is Wasting a Generation of Talent Seven years after skewering the Davos elite, Rutger Bregman discusses populism, the backlash to his Trump remarks and why ideals mean little without strength.

Seven years after skewering the Davos elite, Rutger Bregman discusses populism, the backlash to his Trump remarks and why ideals mean little without strength.

This is just a result of Grokipedia SEO polluting the waters.

so far I have found three separate tpot starter packs with nearly zero overlap. completely distinct ingroups. interesting

programming is conversing with computation, and there's something very deep, almost divine, in that fact. LLMs don't obviate that most fundamental property

imo there’s far too many people trying to stack rank LLMs (Opus > GPT) rather than exploring the qualities of each

pretty sure that if you stop stack ranking you see some pretty amazing stuff

Code is liability. AI allows us to create tremendous amounts of liability very quickly

This is why I don't really mind that the UI is often broken / jumps around / scrolls weirdly etc. It's doing sci-fi stuff. It's okay if the spaceship has a few dents on the hull

mods are asleep post forbidden greek letters

i do not understand how you could write an article on this "paper" (which appears to be from a guy who has never worked on machine learning) without asking even another skeptic "does this make any sense."

it does not. this is just a mangled version of the LeCun argument.
arxiv.org/pdf/2507.07505

People who ship international: you truly are a pillar of civilization. Over your Atlas-like shoulders the weight of a thousand prophets, poets and philosophers rest.

On the Coming Industrialisation of Exploit Generation with LLMs Recently I ran an experiment where I built agents on top of Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.2 and then challenged them to write exploits for a zeroday vulnerability in the QuickJS Javascript interpreter. I adde…

Compared to Anthropic they do much less as is. Highly restricted. Heard 5.2 is better at RE stuff through the api though.
sean.heelan.io/2026/01/18/o...

Seems like Twitter's feed is absolutely cooked.

Can it do real thinking?

No.

Can you?

Also no.

Gas Town is nutty, and Yegge seems a bit AI manic, but he's also leaning into it for effect and having fun.

I think there is real value in what he's doing--maybe not Gas Town as the final form, but in investigating what patterns actually work here, at all.

Do not go gentle
Into that permanent underclass

goddamn this site got real lively in the past 48 hours

is this visible in the numbers or is it just my immediate neighborhood