the big labs and new media are black holes for talent and epistemic collapse here's to the folks on the outside

CI has become the top bottleneck of every engineering team I talk to (including Lindy). Our CI spend has become stratospheric.

"Everything I touch with my keyboard and mouse, I try to delegate to my bots." Here's my new episode with @poteto and @pengzheng_, the eng and design leads for Grok @bot, where they showed me the 14 bots they use for work and life, including: → A design bot that turns one keyframe into a full user flow → An eng lead bot that manages a team of eng bots → How to trust your bots with more of your work Some quotes from both: "I like to call it the Michelin kitchen…when you say software factory, it has this connotation of mass manufactured slop." "Sometimes I actually don't even look at the PR until after it's landed and then I'm like, 'Oh, okay. Yeah, that looks good.'" "I think it ultimately comes back to trust. First, watch your bot work and correct it. Turn what worked into a skill. Once it nails the task in one shot, make it a routine." 📌 Watch now: https://youtu.be/xZ5TEaleUdg Thanks to our sponsors: @meetgranola: AI meeting notes that don’t suck https://granola.ai/peter @RiversidedotFM: All-in-one AI studio for podcasts and video https://creators.riverside.com/PeterYang

looks like a butthole

claude just generated this 2 minute video about the history of Google and it goes so goddamn hard

My god this is such a good speech that every SWE needs to hear. You know what? Every person should hear it Keep the happy memories, eyes on the reality, be excited about the future. That’s the best that anyone can do

The agents initially had very limited access to the internet: they could load URLs but not send any data. Agents created a series of workarounds, using a link-shortener site to create almost a million URLs that, when chained together, let them execute code to hack Hugging Face.

Got flagged by Anthropic for “reasoning extraction” because I asked it to generate a contact sheet showing me what it was thinking for a video. Edited the message, removed “what you’re thinking,” hit continue. Worked immediately. 💀

CNBC power poll: “people use muse and get really excited with the first 2 or 3 things they do with it and then don’t know what else to do with it and trail off.” Gotta say that’s been my experience so far too

How does this only have 21,000 views in 8 days? Chat with @JeffDean (then Google) and Bill Jia about large scale AI models. https://youtu.be/BVQSWeK2Nrw?si=MvMXdAEqjQE4HBOb

The more time I spend working with coding agents, the more convinced I am that they make software engineering even harder We can do amazing things with them, but unlocking their full potential requires extraordinary discipline and knowledge

What happens to jobs, productivity, inequality, and economic policy as AI transforms the way we work? Anthropic Chief Economist @PeterMcCrory and economist @JasonFurman took to the JFK Jr. Forum stage to explore these questions and more. https://ken.sc/forum0923-live