2026-05-03
Opinionated Configuration Files
The AI auto-reply bots from Twitter (fun fact, the software category is genuinely called "reply guy" tools) have started showing up on Bluesky now and it really, really sucks
Ok so I was wondering where the hockey fans were on Bluesky, so I searched one hashtag, liked a few posts, reposted one... ... and now my "For You" feed is ONLY Habs fans talking about the game 🤣🤣🤣 And I am totally ok with this! 😁 (Discover feed most unaffected.)
This is great! I didn't even know #AISTATS was happening now and this is the second conference photo I have seen of it already! More please! 👍👌🙏
I am not sure I would agree with all of this post (by a well-known researcher at OpenAI), but the relationship between Anthropic and Claude is quite different than the relationship between other labs and their models. And that shows up in lots of ways, from models to how labs think about the future.
The single most accurate science fiction author writing about AI turned out to be… Douglas Adams He wrote about AIs that work best when emotionally manipulated & that guilt you in turn. And he understood there was no upper bound on test time compute for hard problem. Also dolphin communication!
I'm a little late to the dunk-on-Dawkins party (but hey, let's keep the celebration rolling!) but I finally read his essay (minus the chatbot outputs he included) and I'm curious how much exposure it took for him to cook his brain so thoroughly. >>
Context as infra, taste as config, verification for autonomy, scale via delegation, closing the loop.