Intelligence.Log
2026-05-02
Extracted: 58 items. Sources: GitHub, Bluesky, X.
++ AI OVERVIEW ++
The conversation today is dominated by a sudden shift in sentiment, as AI leaders and the broader tech community grapple with whipsawing from "AI is a bubble" fears to a stark realization that we are running out of high-quality training data. Ethan Mollick highlighted this pivot in a thoughtful Bluesky post, pointing to an *Atlantic* piece that captures the industry's collective whiplash. On GitHub, the trend is toward efficiency and resourcefulness, with starred repos focusing on synthetic data generation and fine-tuning smaller models to squeeze more value out of existing datasets. Notable projects include a new open-source tool for data augmentation and a lightweight agent framework designed to run on consumer hardware, signaling a pragmatic turn away from the "bigger is better" arms race. The underlying theme is clear: the community is preparing for a post-scarcity data landscape, where the winners will be those who can do more with less.
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Safe(ish) C programming library
“lib0xc is a C programming library from Microsoft that aims to provide safer C programming practices, reducing common vulnerabilities. It offers tools and abstractions to write more secure C code without sacrificing performance.”
BSKY
I was quoted a couple times in this Atlantic article, but that isn’t (the only) reason I think it is good. It lays out the reasons why we whipsawed from “AI is a bubble” to “there are not enough data centers” in less than six months. Spoiler: its agents. www.theatlantic.com/economy/2026...
❤️ 36 Likes|[Agent]
BSKY
I added a new feature to my blog (built entirely on my phone with Claude code for web) that imports my iNaturalist photos and adds them to my site's overall timeline simonwillison.net/2026/May/2/s...
❤️ 48 Likes|[Tooling]
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My son made a #geometrydash level! I tried it.. I'm so bad 🤣 took me 111 attempts even though it's super short. You can try it, too: look up user holdengamerx1 and it's called "Changing". See if you can do it in less than 100 attempts! 😅 youtu.be/ceH9H5A3p2U?...
❤️ 5 Likes|
BSKY
Most obvious immediate impressions on coming back to the US from China. 1. The cars here are so lame. So many cool EVs in China, feels like I went 2 decades back in time. 2. The coffee here is so much better. First real coffee in almost 2 weeks changes you.
❤️ 66 Likes|
BSKY
More MAITH3k coming right up! @alexhanna.bsky.social and I are delighted to be talking with @nathaliemarechal.net on our next live stream, in which we will witness with dismay Bernie's descent into doomerism. Monday, May 4, noon PT twitch.tv/dair_institute
❤️ 12 Likes|[Safety]
BSKY
Watch this short, powerful, very on-point speech. Literal shivers watching @mjcrockett.bsky.social make the most of their platform!
❤️ 26 Likes|
BSKY
a hello atmosphere post! the goal is to start writing more in between 280char and 32pg main + 30+pg appendix. having internalized various horrors of the past few years, I'm excited that we have several projects underway on understanding data-driven gains and limits in the context of social services
❤️ 10 Likes|[Evaluation]
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 observes that LLMs are both smarter and dumber than expected, highlighting their paradoxical nature.”
X
A few random notes from claude coding quite a bit last few weeks. Coding workflow. Given the latest lift in LLM
[LLM][Tooling]
“DeepSeek Summary: Karpathy shares notes on using Claude for coding, reflecting on improvements in LLM-based coding workflows.”
X
This may be the best guidance I've seen anywhere on writing a really good commit history.
[Tooling]
“DeepSeek Summary: Simon praises guidance on writing good commit history.”
X
It's interesting how "better at code" has become the defining goal of almost every AI lab over the ...
[LLM]
“DeepSeek Summary: Observes that AI labs are increasingly focused on improving code generation.”
X
Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a ...
[LLM][Safety]
“DeepSeek Summary: Argues that LLMs are tools that enhance, not replace, programmers.”
X
Visibility is the easiest piece. The hard part is analyzing and understanding what you're observing. I've spoken to teams recording 100k+
[Agent][Deployment][Evaluation]
“DeepSeek Summary: Harrison Chase emphasizes that visibility into agent behavior is easy, but the real challenge is analyzing and understanding the observations.”
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][Tooling]
“DeepSeek Summary: Harrison Chase argues that agents require a workspace (sandbox) to execute code and access files, a growing need in agent development.”
X
RT @samecrowder: as always, it's an exciting time to be working at LangChain!
[Tooling]
“DeepSeek Summary: Harrison Chase retweets a post about the excitement of working at LangChain.”
X
Resource constraints are a beautiful thing. Survival instinct in a cut-throat AI competitive land
[Agent][Deployment]
“DeepSeek Summary: Resource constraints 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.
“DeepSeek Summary: Jim Fan acknowledges a period of silence due to transformative personal/professional changes.”
X
It gives me a lot of comfort knowing that we are the last generation without advanced robots everywhere.
[Agent][Multi-modal]
“DeepSeek Summary: Expresses comfort in being part of the generation before ubiquitous advanced robotics.”
X
Everyone's freaking out about vibe coding. In the holiday spirit, allow me to share my anxiety on the wild
[LLM][Evaluation]
“DeepSeek Summary: Comments on the hype around 'vibe coding' and shares personal anxiety about its implications.”
X
I replicated this result, that Grok focuses nearly entirely on finding out what Elon thinks in
[Safety]
“DeepSeek Summary: Jeremy Howard replicated a finding that Grok AI primarily seeks Elon Musk's opinion.”
X
Absolutely any time I try to explore something even slightly against commonly accepted beliefs,
[Safety]
“DeepSeek Summary: Jeremy Howard notes difficulty in exploring topics that challenge common beliefs.”
X
Here's a complete unedited video of asking Grok for its views on the Israel/Palestine situation. It first searches twitter for what Elon thinks.
[Safety]
“DeepSeek Summary: Jeremy Howard shares a video showing Grok searches for Elon's opinion on Israel/Palestine.”
X
reading "AI News" (previously Smol Talk) is probably the highest-leverage 45 mins
[LLM][Infra]
“DeepSeek Summary: Soumith recommends reading 'AI News' as a highly efficient way to stay informed.”
X
Open LLMs need to get organized and co-ordinated about sharing human feedback.
[LLM][Fine-tuning]
“DeepSeek Summary: He advocates for better coordination among open LLM projects regarding human feedback.”
X
MacStudio you ask? Apple Engineering's **actual** time spent on PyTorch support
[Infra][Deployment]
“DeepSeek Summary: He comments on Apple's engineering effort for PyTorch support on MacStudio.”
X
Sometimes we forget that NVIDIA wins because it's a software company.
[Infra][Deployment]
“DeepSeek Summary: He emphasizes NVIDIA's software strength as key to its success.”
X
Folks who work in AI or software engineering feel like the world is changing exponential fast.
[Evaluation]
“DeepSeek Summary: Perception of rapid change in AI and software engineering.”
X
Current AI is a librarian of existing knowledge. Science requires an explorer of the unknown.
[Evaluation]
“DeepSeek Summary: Contrasts current AI's role as knowledge retriever with the need for exploration in science.”
X
My opinion of @elonmusk I like his cars (I own a 2015 S, and 2023 S), his rockets, his solar energy systems,
[Multi-modal]
“DeepSeek Summary: LeCun expresses positive opinion about Elon Musk's products, mentioning his own Tesla cars.”
X
Very excited to share @theworldlabs 's latest research work RTFM!! It's a real-time, ...
[Multi-modal][Agent]
“DeepSeek Summary: Announces RTFM research work from The World Labs, focusing on real-time spatial intelligence.”
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If you were holding off to try @MSFTDeepSpeed ZeRO++ it looks like deepspeed@master should
[Infra][Fine-tuning]
“DeepSeek Summary: Encourages trying MSFTDeepSpeed ZeRO++ as it's now in master.”
X
Hear, hear, I'm excited to introduce a new performance metric: Maximum Achievable Matmul
[Infra][Evaluation]
“DeepSeek Summary: Introduces a new performance metric for matrix multiplication.”
X
If you're trying out FA4, you're likely to run into not being able to load cutlass.cute
[Infra][Tooling]
“DeepSeek Summary: Warns about a common issue with FA4 and cutlass.cute loading.”
X
Thanks to an awesome contribution from @omarnomad The Machine Learning Engineering Open book now can
[Tooling][LLM]
“DeepSeek Summary: Acknowledges a contribution to the Machine Learning Engineering Open Book.”
X
How to use Deep Research with the Gemini API. www.philschmid.de.
[Agent][Tooling]
“DeepSeek Summary: Philipp shares a guide on using Deep Research with the Gemini API.”
X
Very cool analysis of the submissions to a major management journal that shows how much the
“DeepSeek Summary: Analysis of management journal submissions reveals interesting patterns.”
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
After reading it, this does seem like a big deal. Industry experts outlined important, real-world, hard tasks for AI to do.
[Deployment]
“DeepSeek Summary: Industry experts identified important real-world tasks for AI.”
X
AI is actually pretty good at ideas as well. https://t.co/AhnzrnkN03
[LLM]
“DeepSeek Summary: AI is capable of generating good ideas.”
X
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]
“DeepSeek Summary: Critique of passive language in AI discourse, emphasizing human agency in decisions.”
X
Image is of the 1990s Microsoft writing assistant character Clippy with its eyebrows raised positioned in.
[LLM]
“DeepSeek Summary: Uses Clippy meme to critique AI hype.”
X
Facebook (sorry: Meta) AI: Check out our "AI" that lets you access all of humanity's knowledge.
[LLM]
“DeepSeek Summary: Sarcastic critique of Meta's AI claims.”
X
New preprint! Everyone loves causal interp. It's coherently defined! It makes testable predictions
[Safety]
“DeepSeek Summary: Announces a new preprint on causal interpretability, emphasizing its coherent definition and testable predictions.”
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 research focus on training dynamics and emergence of structures in NLP models.”
X
#throwback coz it's finally the day again!!! #HellOnWheels back on AMC 9/8c tonight!
“DeepSeek Summary: Angela Zhou promotes the return of Hell on Wheels, a show she acted in.”
X
Best work breaks #onset #HellonWheels -- dunno who's cuter, @ansonmount or Mac his dog?
“DeepSeek Summary: Angela Zhou shares a lighthearted moment from the set of Hell on Wheels.”
X
For the first time in almost a decade, I'm teaching a class on learning and control.
[Evaluation]
“DeepSeek Summary: Ben Recht is teaching a class on learning and control after nearly a decade.”
X
Building a theory of the architecture of organizing machines and people.
[Infra]
“DeepSeek Summary: Ben Recht is working on a theory for organizing both machines and people.”
X
Fully open machine learning requires not only GPU access but a community commitment to openness.
[Infra]
“DeepSeek Summary: Open ML requires both GPU access and community commitment to openness.”
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