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• Post #4500790

  I saw someone post that Mamdani is solving problems they didn’t even realize could be solved by government. Contrast this with Trump and Republicans who only know how to create problems from starting unwinnable wars, rolling back food safety and destroying our healthcare system. We deserve better

• Post #4473437

  Databricks has a great write up of best practices for reducing AI token costs. 1. Adopt open weight/lower cost models. Most tasks don’t need the best models. 2. Harnesses are a form of lock-in, adopt one which allows model flexibility. 3. Avoid hard per developer budgets. Prefer dashboards and spend gates. https://www.databricks.com/blog/managing-ai-coding-costs-scale

• Post #4457559

  "You got some MF who's made over $251B being a United States citizen that got here and stayed here illegally before he got his citizenship, sitting here lecturing us on who we should allow into the United States of America, and giving us a f**** Heil Hitler along the way" - Hunter Biden on Elon Musk

• Post #4383883

  The most important skill in prompting is expertise in the domain you’re prompting for is well understood in many corners. It is why hiring across the software industry now favors super ICs and experienced seniors over entry level hires. AI makes you more productive if you know what you’re doing. https://www.seangoedecke.com/llms-reward-expertise/

• Post #4382568

  I’ve seen many engineers dunking on this position but I think it’s reasonable. Vibe coding is essentially replacing “no code” platforms and arguably the recent sale of Airtable is an indication of how that segment is compressing. Those users have no need for source code, it’s simply unnecessary.

• Post #4378691

  Every day of the war with Iran is Groundhog Day.

• Post #4374712

  Daredevil while the events of Spider-Man: Brand New Day were unfolding.

• Post #4365720

  You and I paying increased prices due to tariffs then corporations getting the refund is “trickle up economics.” Trump has invented even worse economic policies than Reagan. https://www.newsweek.com/tariff-refunds-split-companies-consumers-demand-share-12277265

• Post #4361963

  Alibaba’s Qwen3.8-Max is out, a frontier model they say is competitive with Anthropic’s Fable. It’s a 2.4T parameter model with a 1M context window and will open source the weights next week. Following so shortly after the release of Kimi K3, it’s hard to claim China is months behind the US in developing frontier AI models. https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8

• Post #4361519

  I’ve spent months exploring smart defaults for fact checking to minimize hallucinations in ChatGPT & Claude and now have something I think is ready to share. Add the following prompt to the Settings->Personalization-> Custom instructions in ChatGPT and Settings-> Profile->Instructions in Claude.

• Post #4355973

  Robinhood now makes more money from prediction markets than it does from stock trades or crypto. This adds weight to my theory that Bitcoin and crypto has crashed due to competition from Polymarket and Kalshi for the online gambler demographic.

• Post #4347015

  Hank Green’s use of AI has been raised as an example of hypocrisy given Hank Green has been critical of the industry. However I think what’s more notable is being busted because the prompt leaked into the script. It shows how easy it is to stop reading the content you produce with AI before sharing it with others. That’s the real betrayal and is disrespectful to your audience. https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/01/youtuber-hank-green-says-his-ai-usage-is-not-healthy/

• Post #4338837

  Claude Code is like airplane WiFi. The first few times I encountered it, I was like “This is amazing and it changes everything.” After a few months I realized although it’s quite useful, it also kind of sucks. Now all I see are the ways it could be better but fails to live up to its promise.

• Post #4337639

  An AI generated tweet about how it’s important to avoid using AI generated Slack messages to ask your coworkers for help. 🙃 I’m surprised the solution proposed wasn’t to use ChatGPT to create an autoresponder to answer their questions. That way no one has to talk to anyone else ever again at work.

• Post #4335721

  I find it fascinating that if I tell Claude to hack my fake Bank of America website and it instead, in classic LLM fashion, hallucinates and hacks the real one then there is no law that addresses this? Quite the loophole. I wonder what other crimes are legal as long as you get an LLM to do it?

• Post #4334720

  Whenever a frontier lab AI CEO says that AGI will create a utopia, I play out the following thought experiment; imagine the Trump administration had a computer that could answer any question correctly. Would that world be a utopia? Is the lack of AGI what prevents our world from being a utopia?

• Post #4277729

  Following OpenAI’s disclosure, Anthropic discloses that its AI models have also hacked public websites (thrice) during test runs of their hacking ability. I appreciate that this is framed properly as misconfigured environments and poor instruction following by Claude not burgeoning super-intellligence. https://www.anthropic.com/news/investigating-incidents-cybersecurity-evals

• Post #4264129

  The U.S. State department has taken "full responsibility" for presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. Every single one. The map had a watermark indicating it was made using AI from OpenAI.

• Post #4263022

  The turducken of Elon Musk’s struggling shit companies approaches its final form. Good luck to Tesla shareholders.

• Post #4262782

  Things must be going really well with the economy and the war in Iraq if America’s top problem is prosecuting Fauci for imaginary crimes from six years ago.

• Post #4247569

  OpenAI says it will reduce the price of GPT 5.6 Luna by 80% and GPT 5.6 Terra by 20% after improving the efficiency of the systems that serve them. GPT 5.6 Sol will remain at the same price. Begun, the AI token price wars have. https://www.axios.com/2026/07/30/openai-cuts-prices-gpt-terra-luna5

• Post #4247377

  7 people got a YC startup’s logo tattooed on themselves for a chance to interview with them. Is the job market really that bad? https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/lemonlime-ceo-tattoo-interview-sf-jordan-zietz-22367248.php

• Post #4232846

  While Anthropic and OpenAI aren't yet public, you can track their valuation changes via Microsoft's quarterly earnings as it's invested in both. Microsoft marked up its Anthropic investment by $3.2B and marked down its OpenAI investment -$600M. It seems industry perception has matched valuations. https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/29/microsoft-logs-3-2b-from-anthropic-investment-but-openai-was-a-mixed-bag/

• Post #4220473

  As the EU finds new successful American companies each year to threaten with fines for being too dominant, I always wonder if EU regulators ever ask themselves why European companies aren’t this successful? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-29/chatgpt-roblox-to-fall-under-strictest-eu-rules-for-platforms

• Post #4214684

  Atlassian has instituted a $500 - $2,000/month AI token budget as the tokenmaxxing era ends. I’m curious to see where these budgets end up over time and whether this is another metric that’s used to differentiate big tech from regular tech jobs? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/30/atlassian-tightens-tracking-of-staff-ai-use-as-other-technology-firms-encourage-tokenmaxxing

• Post #4214594

  Mitch McConnell is blazing new ground in remote work. WFH: Working From Hell.

• Post #4206580

  1,100 employees of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and other companies asking the U.S. government to slow down AI development because there is “a real risk” that AI progresses faster than people can “understand or control.” My $0.02 is this wouldn't be needed if people could be trusted not to use unreliable LLMs in critical situations or at least appropriately sandbox them. But it seems even OpenAI can't figure out how to do that. https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/972...

• Post #4182826

  “You will get the country you voted for. That country is one where we will no longer innovate. We will be less secure, less healthy, and less wealthy because some community of people who influence what this country is do not see the value of science” - Neil deGrasse Tyson — It’s already too late.

• Post #4182568

  Things are so bad they need you to spend your 401(K) to keep Trump’s economy afloat. https://www.rawstory.com/scott-bessent-2677279924/

• Post #4182233

  Trump can’t help himself when it comes to bragging about his scams. In case, you’re wondering where Mitch McConnell is 😵