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As working with AI agents looks more like management, we may want to consider large-scale management training for the AI era. The US government actually did this once, & the WW2 Engineering, Science,
This post likely discusses how rapidly frontend design trends and 'vibes' evolve in technology, suggesting that design approaches from just six months prior can feel outdated or obsolete in the fast-m
When people discuss China vs. US competition over AI it would help if they specified the grounds of competition because there are divergent beliefs on what the actual game is, or if there is a game at
Hey, Fable: 'No like 'AAA' in what everyone online thinks AAA is, you know what I mean.' This was pretty funny, there are lootboxes, EULAs, achievements, useless graphical settings, elaborate boot scr
'History can be written of monsters, and in them,' reads China Miéville's 'Theses on Monsters.' https://conjunctions.com/articles/china-mieville-c59/ as a society we need to invent another classic mon
Ethan Mollick, a prominent AI researcher and entrepreneur, posted commentary on X about poor quality or unhelpful AI bot responses to a particular topic or question. The post likely discusses limitati
We are leaving the Old Code Age, the Paleocodic, the artisinal code era, where if you needed a novel program, you would commission a local codesmith or code guild to hand-craft a work of code for you,
Ethan Mollick reflects on how future generations will be amazed at the complexity and scale of work humans accomplished using only traditional keyboards and interfaces, before presumably more advanced
What if the model is the router? I think people underestimate the ability of frontier models now, but especially in the near future, to delegate work on their own as needed to dumber, cheaper models.
Fable: 'Last and First Men is out of copyright. I want you to make a movie that features a reading of it with appropriate mixes of animation and images using access to the APIs you have (elevenlabs, h
Happy 4th of July everyone. I came here as a kid at 9 years old, not knowing a single word of english, lived on food stamps in section 8 housing. My parents cleaned houses while my sister and I collec
I find projects like this show that yes, Ais obviously have judgement and taste. Maybe not your or my preferences, and maybe not good enough for all uses, but you can’t make all the choices required f
I kept asking Claude Fable to make the game 'more AAA' over and over again. The results are... interesting. In Claude's view, this meant upgrading graphics, boss fights, mechanics adding custom sounds
I never touched any tool or anything, all designs & prompts were the AI's choices. I pushed back a couple times: 'Are there ways to make the whole thing better - it is lots of static images and such?
This is true… but maybe less important than the fact that people don’t try ambitious things with these systems. Many models are excellent as a Google replacement, for homework “help,” etc. It is someo
While it is obviously true that not having verifiable domains makes training models in those spaces difficult... it is also true that models are also getting much better at non-verifiable domains. The
AI implementation advice on my X feed is divided between those who 'feel the exponential' and those whose (unconscious?) mental model of AI is that this is about as good as it is going to get, so it i
Been reading all sorts of posts about the best ways to develop workflows for Fable and it reminds me of how little we actually know about the best ways to organize work for long-running agents. Nobody
An AI system successfully created a functional demo game while reducing development costs, and is now advancing to develop an original first-person shooter concept with WebGL compatibility for browser
This post critiques Fable AI's text generation style, suggesting it produces overly verbose or exaggerated outputs that parody Claude's characteristic writing patterns taken to an extreme. The comment
Continual learning is probably the biggest barrier to explosive AI adoption (& may have big implications for recursive self-improvement as well) As long as you deal with amnesiac models that require h
This post likely discusses the practice of knuckle cracking, possibly exploring whether it causes joint damage, what causes the popping sound, or related hand health topics. Given Mollick's expertise
Fable in Claude Code is capable of really amazing things, including for non-coders, but the interface is not really designed for managing 5+ hour long autonomous tasks. Really hard to observe what is
Fable, one prompt: 'build an elaborate game that makes it feel like I'm a brilliant chess player without knowing anything at all about chess. It should make me feel like a grand master. Feel free to g
Fable: 'you have Unity and access to MCP. I want you to build a game that is a unique twist on a FPS. You want the player to say 'wow' & 'so clever' and to enjoy the core gameplay loop' WebGL: https:/
Full prompt: you have unity and access to an MCP server. I want you to build a game that is a unique twist on a FPS, with excellent graphics and such (download assets as needed). First generate 20 uni
This appears to be a GitHub repository shared by Ethan Mollick related to 'grandmaster,' likely containing code or resources for a chess-related AI project, machine learning application, or educationa
My one serious piece of advice having used Fable a bunch before release is that, unless you are careful it develops its own internal bizarre cadence & dialogue over long tasks. If you aren't asking it
The talk about Mythos and cybersecurity was not, in fact, hype. (As anyone using Fable to do autonomous work has probably recognized) AI appears to be finding software vulnerabilities at scale. In Jun
You really need your own benchmarks. If you are translating hieroglyphics, use Gemini 3.5 Flash. If you are running a vending machine use Opus 4.8. (This is one reason why I am skeptical of just swapp
Fable is very good, and having it taken away after getting early access delayed a few things I was working on and made me defer others until it returned But in my early access I also tripped the secur
This post by Ethan Mollick likely highlights significant data visualizations or charts that illustrate important trends, findings, or statistics relevant to AI, education, or technology. Without acces
Formal organizational structures are a useful way to think about the challenges of agents. They provide a template to thinking about how work gets delegated up and down between smart expensive agents
Ethan Mollick predicts that multi-agent organizational structures will deliver better cost-to-performance ratios compared to simple task-based routing systems for AI applications. This suggests that m
It would be good to have an official government statement about the risks they saw in Fable, how they are viewing defensive preparations in light of coming open weights Mythos-class models, & whether
Ethan Mollick posted on X about multitasking while waiting for Fable (likely an AI model or software tool) to complete processing runs. The tweet reflects a casual observation about productivity durin
Since its back, here were my impressions I posted a couple weeks ago of Fable after my time as an early access user (yes, it really is very impressive, but that shows off best in longer, harder tasks)
The discussion here on AI futures can be a little too credulous of company visions. People tend to push what they have. The three big AI labs will say bigger models are the future. Every other firm ha
Yes! Pre-classifying routers are going to result in a lot of bad work because routing is hard and tend to underestimate the value of intelligence on many problems. OpenAI learned this with GPT-5, now
You really need to benchmark models for your use case. As soon as judgements & decisions stack on top of each other, the differences between models amplifies, and no standard benchmark will tell you t
Common challenge that will come up in the near future is capturing the gains of greater AI intelligence in organizations. High human capital firms need to be set up to benefit from their high-quality
I wrote about how the rapid rise in AI abilities is leading to both a transformation in how AI is used at work, and the sort of sudden lurches in policies and markets we have been seeing in recent wee
Ethan Mollick discusses a fundamental factor driving AI Labs' business model and the rapid pace of AI transformation. The post likely explores how a core principle or technological capability underpin
The most important weird thing about LLMs is that they are so general. A bigger LLM that is better at coding is also better at ideation & ethical advice & medicine & math. This isn’t true of everythin
A big reason that token costs become an issue in organizations is leadership is not making decisions about how to use AI, the processes that need to change as a result, & how to think about multiplaye
This post likely discusses using the Mythos release or announcement as a reference point for calculating timelines or milestones related to an AI project or product. Without access to the specific twe
Even though I made this graph, it is also kind of wrong. Fable is guardrailed Mythos. If we use the Mythos date I took the new AA-Briefcase scores from @ArtificialAnlys (basically having the AI do mul
I took the new AA-Briefcase scores from @ArtificialAnlys (basically having the AI do multi-week consulting gigs with a lot of complexity) and graphed the frontier curve for open and closed models: 1)
Ethan Mollick observes that AI tools have provided empirical evidence confirming that actively completing homework is essential for learning, rather than simply receiving answers. This insight likely
See, for example More evidence, from a large-scale study in China, that using AI hurts learning if it undermines mental effort. When homework time drops due to AI use, so do test scores. Across studie
That Wall Street Journal article about GLM catching up with Mythos (which is not true & the reporting doesn’t back up) is another one of those “everyone will ask me about it at every conference or mee
Token spending should be understood as organizational research and development rather than purely a productivity cost, representing an investment in discovering how to restructure business processes a
A good example of one of the ways in which the 'good old days' were terrible: In the 1880s, the average US rural housewife had to haul water into the house 8-10 times a day, 36 tons of water a year. A
GLM-5.2 is good but it is not GPT-5.5/Opus 4.8, and even further from Mythos. Yet it is solid & it demonstrates that the open models continue to chase the frontier What is happening is that open weigh
In my experience, all model routers underestimate the difficulty of non-math/coding tasks and assign them too little intelligence. This is worth addressing, as non-verifiable tasks (innovation, market
Ethan Mollick raises questions about whether Google's Gemini 3.5 Pro model should be subject to export controls, suggesting concerns about its capabilities and potential regulatory implications. The p
It is worth being very, very careful about how you are approaching routing, especially when the systems are primarily tested on verifiable IT benchmarks, which may lead you to overestimate the ability
Like if you have been using Qwen & Kimi & MiniMax, it feels like GLM is right on the curve. Which is itself impressive, and suggests that Mythos class models are coming in 6-12 months (if they are all
Nice example of the increasing benefits of open science and transparent methodologies when writing papers about AI. A big problem with research studies on AI models is that given how long the peer rev
Ethan Mollick discusses OpenAI's naming convention and model release strategy, speculating on what capabilities or timeline the company might be reserving the GPT-6 designation for rather than applyin