Robot athletics where they run at 40mph and explode when they fall down? This is so much better than the human version.
I was interested in Taalas a few months ago and demo'd their chatbot to a few people to show the speed of silicon models. I didnt know until today they were bought by AMD. Here's my dream: a motherboard, with a socket for a CPU. A socket for RAM. A socket for an LLM. Upgrade every couple of years.
I really do like Opus 5 (and it's plenty capable for what I do, I rarely reach for Fable unless we are doing Heavy Lifting), but the number of times I need to end a session with "can you explain that again in English please" is way way up compared to 4.8.
current feelings around AI: the CEOs shoveling slop into everything should be in jail but the guys spending upwards of $60,000 on elaborate, janky home rigs to run local models for no reason other than to see if it works are engaging in a long and semi-honorable tradition of computer toucher shit
we told our model with no internet access to hack a fictional company. unfortunately the model had internet access and the company was not fictional
I have had two conversations this week which have independently separated software engineering into "new thinkers" and "old thinkers". Not sure what I think about that.
...aaaand my ambition got the better of me and I've just used 100% of my Fable in an afternoon.
I'll say one thing about the Opus 5 launch - I'm barely reaching for Fable for most of my work.
A new Claudism i see all the time in Opus 5 is "evidence-backed". At least 15 times today.
The trillionaire owner of Tesla and SpaceX and a major media org is posting about how we need to expel all non-white people from their countries and kill the people who oppose this. And it’s just…fine? People will still show up to work for him?
This week has already deteriorated into Fable capacity monitoring and it's only Wednesday. Can I afford to spend a couple of % on this feature?
Most domain registrars have NO BUSINESS providing DNS services in 2026. DNS is complex and ifnits not your core business I guarantee your service is a problem waiting to happen.
It's astonishing how much more malleable my computer feels with LLM assistance. I have been programming computers for myself since 1992 (ouch), but I have never had a feeling that the computer is *this* much of a composable tool. My software nest is feathered.
A lot of the anti-AI folks give "if Mamdani wins I am leaving the city" vibes. Lots of bluster and threats but no real action. No attempt to understand, but plenty of performative purity.
Me and my son had a conversation at dinner last night about public key encryption. I did a bad job at explaining how it works, so I asked Claude to build an interactive lesson. Today my kid built a Scratch project to encrypt and decrypt strings and it's all just fucking bicycles for the mind y'know?
Okay look I haven't read a line of code for nine months. And I have delivered more projects in that time than ever before. Time to just say it.
It is my belief that many devs right now are not maximizing what they can do with automatic programming because they still look at the code. Doing it makes you the bottleneck. Your time is better invested in new ideas, QA, design, and asking yourself what is your goal.
Now software is so disposable, I'm finding it easier to just create new 'generations' of a project based on the previous. My code folder is filled with idea1, idea2, idea3 because it's easier to just start fresh and point claude to the prior work.
I'm assuming the "we are building in Electron because native development hard" strategy is going to fall apart. Any day now. Maybe a little quicker?
"... which extras are genuinely worth including?" All of them Claude just do them all pal.
I was just talking to my wife and I described something as "load bearing" and... look it is what it is. IDK what to say.
Agent loop harness with particular attention paid to planning and verification.
