My assumption based on nothing except life experience is that all of that data gets pushed through differently coloured pipes into the same giant bucket with privacy concerns being “too hard” and “approved by legal”.

When someone offers you a seat on the rocket ship, you do not ask which seat. You just get on.

I’d first check if it’s Musk’s ship for the fear of my life

people are forbidden from using personal plans. Reasoning is cost apparently our monthly Claude bill has become astronomical for the org

How does using personal plans impact the company’s bill? If someone is so profoundly stupid as to spend their own money on a “tool” for their job then why stop them?

can pay an upfront cost to get in good shape, dress well, etc. You do it basically once

Wait what, how can I lock in a good shape with an upfront payment without having to go through this “exercise” bullshit all the time? What does he know that I don’t?! What’s the One Simple Trick, dammit??!!

large language models (LLMs)—but never chatbots

?? Distinction without a difference or am I missing something?

This looks worse than I expected and I am a certified shittalker, that’s crazy

Their cash flow suggests they were heavily leveraged on crypto

Wait what, GitLab was doing crypto? The fuck is going on in those people’s heads

>box labeled “agentic AI revolution automation realignment innovation acceleration opportunity”

>looks inside

>layoffs

There’s a whole good commencement speech hidden there where the “AI ReVoLuTiOn” is likened to the industrial revolution. How it is all about turbocharging the exploitation of workers and the planet; how its promise is to make a few immensely rich and give them the power to oppress everyone; and how we need educated, empathetic young people – and especially the liberal arts – to express themselves creatively and push against the system and mainstream narratives, because the only way workers win this “revolution” is the same as always: by song and poem and book and painting that fuels movements and protests.

But what the fuck do I know, I’m not the Vice President of Strategic Alliances for Tavistock Development Company, a real estate firm. I would never be invited to do a commencement speech.

But if you consider me to be more than usually intellectually productive for an average Ashkenazic genius in the modern generation

I don’t consider you more than usually intellectually productive for an average person, with no qualifiers, and I refuse to engage with whatever the fuck lies beneath that racist qualifier

Two things:

One, it’s a remarkable accomplishment to not manage to cook an IPO even now when SEC is functionally gutted by the Trump admin. They made crime legal! What are you doing?! Just lie in the statements and run to Barbados or something

Two, I am baffled by this

Harrison Rolfes from Pitchbook (…) thinks a good time for OpenAI to do an IPO is “mid-to-late 2027”. He wants a few quarters of “clean execution” and not floundering.

Like what? What are you talking about. The whole point of the IPO is to cash out ASAP before the music stops. Why are you talking about OpenAI like it’s a real business? Am I in Wonderland? The best time for OpenAI to make an IPO was yesterday, the second best is right fucking now, how would waiting a year be possibly good for them

No but you see that doesn’t make sense since the chatbox is conscious and very smart

Me, typing “you are very smart” to the computer: I am very smart

Amazing bit, you read through the first section and it’s like, okay, I mean, maybe not really insightful but at least not dumb, and then they hit you with da

Around the same time, I was using an LLM to think through a social situation.

That’s the straw. I am moving to the woods [switching to vim]

which honestly doesn’t bode well for the rest of his biology expertise.

Isn’t Bryan Johnson a businessman? Does he even purport to have any biology expertise?

Elsewhere in the newly revealed Codex system prompt, OpenAI instructs the system to act as if “you have a vivid inner life as Codex: intelligent, playful, curious, and deeply present.” The model is instructed to “not shy away from casual moments that make serious work easier to do” and to show its “temperament is warm, curious, and collaborative.”

Literally this meme:

from the original “Claude one-shotted this code”

Wait, there’s an original? I am not aware and I implore you not to let me know because it has to be stupid

I’m losing it on the golden fedora, please tell me he owns an actual golden fedora

I think a chatbot getting a glimpse of Dawkins’ whatever-the-fuck-he-might-be-writing-in-year-of-our-selfish-gene-2026 and not immediately conducting a nuclear strike on the location is the ultimate proof that those things are not intelligent.