Intelligence.Log
2026-04-30
Extracted: 72 items. Sources: GitHub, Bluesky, X.
++ AI OVERVIEW ++
Zig's blanket ban on AI-assisted contributions sparked a key debate today, with Simon Willison noting the project's rationale—that PR review is about mentoring new contributors, not just code quality—resonating widely. Meanwhile, Nathan Lambert stirred discussion on AGI governance, arguing that Demis Hassabis remains the most trustworthy CEO on the topic, especially given Google's public-company checks versus the private statuses of Anthropic and OpenAI. On a lighter note, Marc Lanctot shared a joyful reaction to a video, offering a brief respite from the heavier AI governance conversations. Overall, the day's themes centered on the tension between AI tooling and open-source community growth, alongside ongoing scrutiny of AGI leadership accountability.
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“Criterion.rs is a powerful benchmarking library for Rust that provides precise performance measurements with statistical analysis. It offers features like customizable benchmarks, regression detection, and detailed HTML reports, making it essential for performance-critical Rust projects.”
BSKY
The Zig project's rationale for their blanket ban on AI-assisted contributions makes a lot of sense to me - for them, time spent reviewing PRs isn't about the code, it's about growing new contributors for the future of the project simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/30/...
❤️ 75 Likes|[Tooling]
BSKY
BSKY
Demis is the only acceptable answer of which CEO do you trust most with AGI (doubly so until Anthropic/OpenAI go public, Google being public is a great check)
❤️ 2 Likes|[Safety]
BSKY
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As someone obsessed with whether AI can play D&D, I am going to have fun with the ChatGPT goblin phenomenon for a bit. You can ignore me. But if you do want to take it seriously, here is a paper my team and I wrote about why AI playing D&D should be an AI grand challenge: arxiv.org/abs/2509.17192
❤️ 17 Likes|[Evaluation][LLM]
BSKY
Designating that most uses of the term "goblin" and "gremlin" are not legitimate while designating most uses of the word "frog" as legitimate is the imposition of a set of values on a technology. Why do a small number of people in Silicon Valley get to decide whether goblins are inappropriate?
❤️ 65 Likes|[Evaluation][Safety]
BSKY
Reward your model for being nerdy, get nerdy behavior. Train in your own output, pollute your dataset with verbal tics openai.com/index/where-...
❤️ 15 Likes|[Fine-tuning]
BSKY
BSKY
Companies may not fully realize why they lean into the narratives they do. But it’s important to reflect on the larger picture of what’s happening, whether they recognize what they’re doing or not. www.bbc.com/future/artic...
❤️ 14 Likes|
BSKY
Forget goblins, things GPT-5.5 likes in its fiction: lighthouses, the ocean, maps, bells, clock towers with bells that ring impossible times, Mira Vale, resonances & echoes (Claude and Gemini also love this), secret third things (not night/day, not high/low), long silences, ancient catastrophes.
❤️ 58 Likes|[LLM]
BSKY
"Load bearing," "I keep coming back to," "Not just X, but Y" A curse of using AI a lot is that you realize how much of the writing around you is just AI, now People who don't use AI have historically been unable to identify AI prose on sight, but those who use it a lot can spot the tells easily
❤️ 142 Likes|[LLM][Evaluation]
BSKY
It is really interesting that Microsoft and OpenAI have access to the exact same models at the exact same time, and they have done such different things with them. A rare pure experiment with a no-name startup and one of the biggest firms on earth with the same product offering.
❤️ 65 Likes|[Deployment][Agent]
BSKY
Calling all NYC folks! Here is a great opportunity to see @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social -- Sat May 2 event.newschool.edu/ghostinthema...
❤️ 6 Likes|
BSKY
A few years back we looked into gerrymandering / computational research for a "fun project" but after reading many articles and a bit of legal commentary, I realized the affordances for change were all supreme court shaped and appeared to be rapidly disintegrating
❤️ 8 Likes|
X
My most amusing interaction was where the model (I think I was given some earlier version with a
[LLM]
“DeepSeek Summary: Karpathy recounts an amusing interaction with an early version of a model.”
X
One common issue with personalization in all LLMs is how distracting memory seems to be for the models.
[LLM]
“DeepSeek Summary: Karpathy notes that memory in LLMs can be distracting for personalization.”
X
Judging by my tl there is a growing gap in understanding of AI capability. The first issue I think is around
[LLM]
“DeepSeek Summary: Karpathy observes a growing gap in understanding AI capability.”
X
LLMs are emerging as a new kind of intelligence, simultaneously a lot smarter than I expected and a lot dumber than I expected. In any case they
[LLM]
“DeepSeek Summary: Karpathy describes LLMs as both smarter and dumber than expected.”
X
I'm being accused of overhyping the [site everyone heard too much about today already].
[LLM]
“DeepSeek Summary: Karpathy responds to accusations of overhyping a site.”
X
It's interesting how "better at code" has become the defining goal of almost every AI lab over the...
[LLM][Evaluation]
“DeepSeek Summary: Simon notes that AI labs are overwhelmingly focused on improving code generation capabilities.”
X
Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a...
[LLM][Safety]
“DeepSeek Summary: Simon argues that leaving programming due to LLMs is premature, comparing it to quitting carpentry due to power tools.”
X
The last year six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles. I've published video, slides and a detailed annotated transcript from my talk at this week's...
[LLM]
“DeepSeek Summary: Simon shared a talk summarizing LLM developments with a pelican-on-bicycle analogy.”
X
[Image: a stylish image of a 3D computer game, with two raccoons sneaking down a street past a futuristic looking building... Prompt was: "Screenshot from a video game where a team of raccoons go on a heist"]
[Multi-modal]
“DeepSeek Summary: Simon posted an AI-generated image of raccoons on a heist.”
X
RT @samecrowder: as always, it's an exciting time to be working at LangChain!
[Tooling]
“DeepSeek Summary: Harrison Chase retweeted about the excitement of working at LangChain.”
X
TL;DR: More and more agents need a workspace: a computer where they can run code, install packages, and access files. Sandboxes provide this
[Agent][Infra]
“DeepSeek Summary: Harrison Chase emphasizes the need for sandboxed workspaces for AI agents.”
X
In the hot path as the agent is running. The agent can decided to (or the user can prompt it to) update its memory as it is working on the core
[Agent]
“DeepSeek Summary: Discusses agent memory updates during runtime.”
X
traces matter!
[Evaluation][Deployment]
“DeepSeek Summary: Harrison Chase asserts the importance of traces for debugging and monitoring.”
X
Resource constraints are a beautiful thing. Survival instinct in a cut-throat AI competitive land
[Agent]
“DeepSeek Summary: Resource constraints can drive innovation and survival in competitive AI landscape.”
X
I've been a bit quiet on X recently. The past year has been a transformational experience.
[Agent]
“DeepSeek Summary: Jim Fan acknowledges a period of silence due to a transformative year.”
X
It gives me a lot of comfort knowing that we are the last generation without advanced robots everywhere.
[Multi-modal]
“DeepSeek Summary: Expresses comfort in being part of the last generation before widespread advanced robotics.”
X
Everyone's freaking out about vibe coding. In the holiday spirit, allow me to share my anxiety on the wild
[LLM]
“DeepSeek Summary: Comments on the hype around 'vibe coding' and shares personal anxiety about the topic.”
X
The first time I met Jensen was also the first time I met @elonmusk. I was interning at OpenAI that day and
[Agent]
“DeepSeek Summary: Recounts meeting Jensen Huang and Elon Musk during an OpenAI internship.”
X
Here's what I would prefer to see:
“DeepSeek Summary: Jeremy Howard expresses a preference for something, though the full content is not available.”
X
reading "AI News" (previously Smol Talk) is probably the highest-leverage 45 mins
[LLM]
“DeepSeek Summary: Soumith recommends reading 'AI News' as a high-leverage use of time.”
X
I'm giving the opening Keynote at ICML 2024 on Tuesday the 23rd @ 9:30am CEST.
[LLM]
“DeepSeek Summary: Soumith announced his opening keynote at ICML 2024.”
X
Folks who work in AI or software engineering feel like the world is changing exponential fast.
[Agent]
“DeepSeek Summary: Chollet observes that AI/software engineers perceive rapid exponential change in the world.”
X
Re-reading an article I wrote in 2017, and I'm finding I could have written it yesterday
[Evaluation]
“DeepSeek Summary: Chollet notes that his 2017 article remains relevant years later.”
X
Dario is wrong. He knows absolutely nothing about the effects of technological revolutions on the labor market.
[Safety]
“DeepSeek Summary: LeCun dismisses Dario's views on labor market impacts of AI, asserting ignorance.”
X
To qualify as Science a piece of research must be correct and reproducible. To be correct and reproducible,
[Evaluation]
“DeepSeek Summary: LeCun defines scientific research by correctness and reproducibility.”
X
It seems to me that before "urgently figuring out how to control AI systems much smarter than us" we need
[Safety]
“DeepSeek Summary: LeCun questions the urgency of controlling superintelligent AI, suggesting a need for foundational understanding first.”
X
The emergence of superintelligence is not going to be an event. We don't have anything close to a
[Safety]
“DeepSeek Summary: LeCun argues superintelligence will be gradual, not a sudden event.”
X
Very excited to share @theworldlabs 's latest research work RTFM!! It's a real-time, ...
[Multi-modal][Infra]
“DeepSeek Summary: Fei-Fei Li announces World Labs' real-time research work RTFM.”
X
AI’s next frontier is Spatial Intelligence, a technology that will turn seeing into reasoning, perception into action, and imagination into creation. This is an insanely large world created using our 3D world generation model. Who is talking about #AI?
[Multi-modal][Agent]
“DeepSeek Summary: Fei-Fei Li emphasizes spatial intelligence as AI's next frontier and showcases a 3D world generation model.”
X
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“DeepSeek Summary: A tweet with 19 likes but no text extracted.”
X
Some personal news: I recently joined Cursor. Cursor is a small, ambitious team, and they've created
[Tooling]
“DeepSeek Summary: Sasha Rush announces joining Cursor, a small ambitious team.”
X
Wager established. Jonathan Frankle (@jefrankle) stepped up to my Transformer long bet.
[LLM]
“DeepSeek Summary: Sasha Rush establishes a bet with Jonathan Frankle regarding Transformers.”
X
Classical Jensen math. Unidirectional bandwidth is topped at 450GB/s, and then there comes a protocol overhead of two digit percentage.
[Infra]
“DeepSeek Summary: Discusses bandwidth limitations and protocol overhead in computing, referencing Jensen's math.”
X
Hear, hear, I'm excited to introduce a new performance metric: Maximum Achievable Matmul
[Infra][Tooling]
“DeepSeek Summary: Introduces a new performance metric for matrix multiplication, likely for ML workloads.”
X
If you're trying out FA4, you're likely to run into not being able to load cutlass.cute
[Fine-tuning][Tooling]
“DeepSeek Summary: Warns about a common issue with Flash Attention 4 and cutlass library loading.”
X
Thanks to an awesome contribution from @omarnomad The Machine Learning Engineering Open book now can
[Tooling]
“DeepSeek Summary: Acknowledges a contribution to the Machine Learning Engineering Open Book.”
X
Release notes: Release Diffusers 0.34.0: New Image and Video Models, Better torch.
[Deployment][Tooling]
“DeepSeek Summary: Announced the release of Diffusers 0.34.0 with new image and video models and improved torch support.”
X
Had a nice time chatting about the state of diffusion models and some text-to-image data shenanigans at
[Multi-modal]
“DeepSeek Summary: Discussed diffusion models and text-to-image data issues in a chat.”
X
X
How to use Deep Research with the Gemini API. www.philschmid.de.
[Agent][LLM][Tooling]
“DeepSeek Summary: Philipp Schmid shares a guide on using Deep Research with the Gemini API.”
X
Google DeepMind and Korea Partner to Accelerate Scientific Discovery. deepmind.google.
[LLM][Multi-modal]
“DeepSeek Summary: Philipp Schmid tweets about a partnership between Google DeepMind and Korea for scientific discovery.”
X
Very cool analysis of the submissions to a major management journal that shows how much the
[Evaluation]
“DeepSeek Summary: Analysis of submissions to a major management journal revealing trends.”
X
I pointed Claude Cowork at a set of 107 documents (PPTs, Word docs, Excel) that were initially
[Agent][Tooling]
“DeepSeek Summary: Experiment using Claude Cowork on a set of 107 documents.”
X
On the plus side with Opus 4.7, if it does decide to think it produces BY FAR the best
[LLM]
“DeepSeek Summary: Opus 4.7 produces best results when it decides to think.”
X
One thing thing about AI, for better and worse, is that "everything around me is somebody's life
[Safety]
“DeepSeek Summary: Reflection on AI's impact: everything around is someone's life.”
X
@emilymbender.bsky.social. emilymbender. Feb 10. Image is of the 1990s Microsoft writing assistant character Clippy with its eyebrows raised positioned in.
[Safety]
“DeepSeek Summary: Emily M. Bender posted an image of Clippy from Microsoft with raised eyebrows, likely mocking or critiquing AI hype.”
X
@parismarx @alexhanna @ctaylsaurus EMILY M. BENDER: Yeah. And so passive, like, oops, the moon, the moon went further away. It's like no, actually, you made some decisions.
[Safety][LLM]
“DeepSeek Summary: Bender critiques the passive language used to describe AI failures, emphasizing human responsibility.”
X
Life update: I'm starting as faculty at Boston University in 2026! BU ...
[LLM]
“DeepSeek Summary: Naomi Saphra announces she will join Boston University as faculty in 2026.”
X
what a perfect space for scientific discourse! I'll start off with a few images of myself
[LLM]
“DeepSeek Summary: Sarcastic comment about using images for scientific discourse.”
X
I work on understanding and improving training for NLP models, with a focus on studying how structures and mechanistic behaviors emerge over the
[LLM][Fine-tuning]
“DeepSeek Summary: Describes her research focus on NLP model training and emergent behaviors.”
X
And awesome to see many Berkeley alums thriving here. @LaurentLessard, @DimitrisPapail, and Shivaram
[Evaluation]
“DeepSeek Summary: Ben Recht notes the success of Berkeley alumni at an event.”
X
For the first time in almost a decade, I'm teaching a class on learning and control.
[Evaluation]
“DeepSeek Summary: Ben Recht announces teaching a class on learning and control after a long hiatus.”
X
Everyone knows actions are fundamentally different than predictions, but it's hard to write this
[Evaluation]
“DeepSeek Summary: Ben Recht discusses the distinction between actions and predictions.”
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