Chief Taste Officer. Founded @goguardian ($1b edtech). At what point is the LLM conscious and how would you know?

San Francisco, CA
Joined November 2008
We need a slur for people who anthropomorphize LLMs
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celld's otel with parquet files is so nice. literally an entire observability stack enabled with one flag. across multiple services with-in your worker app, queryable with duckdb. when you have the right abstractions (workers programming model) things just click
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Caring is the moat, you should feel visceral pain when things are bad or broken and stop at nothing to fix them
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We're making Shopify's mobile apps self-healing. Agents watch production 24x7 for new crashes, reproduce them, write and verify a fix, then generate a short video explaining the root cause and the fix. Much faster to digest than the usual wall of text. An engineer then just reviews and ships it.
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atuin v18.24 is out now! 🐢✨ including "atuin threads": sync and search your ai threads across devices, and resume them anywhere you can start a thread in Claude on your server, and pick it up in Codex on your laptop run "atuin resume" to get started
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Replying to @Liv_Boeree
Can confirm that flying cars do not interfere with The Ocean Cleanup's work whatsoever.
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Replying to @peter_szilagyi
Jokes on you, you've been reported for abusive behavior to a sentient math equation and your social credit score has been docked.
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The T in EBITDA stands for Tokens. Discounted marginal cost of intelligence is zero.
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Interesting
New on our Engineering blog: Creating in-house source control. In May, we merged around 2,500 code changes per day. In September, we merged more than 30,000 per day. As a result, we became bottlenecked by developer infrastructure built for human (rather than agent) scale. Here, we share how we built a new version control system—and fully migrated our monorepo from git—in five months: anthropic.com/engineering/re…
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New on our Engineering blog: Creating in-house source control. In May, we merged around 2,500 code changes per day. In September, we merged more than 30,000 per day. As a result, we became bottlenecked by developer infrastructure built for human (rather than agent) scale. Here, we share how we built a new version control system—and fully migrated our monorepo from git—in five months: anthropic.com/engineering/re…
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ask not what your agent can do for your codebase — ask what your codebase can do for your agent
Don't blame the agent for writing the bad test Blame the codebase for allowing the bad test to be written
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Continuing the reverse engineering saga I have now full control of my Mitsubishi AC, Qingping air monitor and Levoit air purifier Everything is open source now.
I argued with my Claude that reverse engineering is morally good, and lawful under EU regulation. It has seen the wisdom of my words. It has now downloaded my @WHOOP app APK and is fully decompiling it. We live in magic times
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the only moat left is the love of the game
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dario dropping fable 5.5
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We need human <> latent space I/O
The Latin alphabet is not how machines think in latent space nor ideally how they communicate Created a custom 8,192-dimensional token alphabet for machines to communicate in token space directly Inspired by the alphabet in @Grimezsz new Accelerando MV 1st img = encoded lyrics
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mathematicians going through an unexpected dark night of the soul like
This is a slide from Terence Tao's 'Math 2.0' public lecture yesterday evening at Caltech. I am highly confident that, if the cure actually worked, almost any Stage 4 cancer patient would tell you that human comprehension of its mechanism is completely irrelevant to them.
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You can make your motd beautiful
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These days, you can pretty much solve any task by defining an eval and hillclimbing over it, instead of directly defining the deterministic/agentic workflow to solve it. The data provider companies' entire job is to define evals for all economic activity to make the frontier models capable of doing anything. Your job then becomes pointing frontier intelligence in the right direction - defining what to solve, and how to measure what good looks like. Agent application interfaces will evolve to capture this. The most complex processes will still need some sort of explicit workflow builder interface, but most tasks can be compressed into goals and eval instructions.
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Believe it or not, America's 5 largest cities lie perfectly on a 4th-degree polynomial
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