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ai researchers rocket scientists 🤝 managing burn https://x.com/shyamalanadkat/status/2047419602267988344?s=46 researchers will start giving an ai a vague hunch, compute budget, and access to tools; it

GPT-5.5 may not be in the official OpenAI API... but it's available via the apparently approved-of Codex API backdoor So I used that to make these pelicans (default and xhigh)! https://simonwillison.n

A Pareto improvement (or Pareto advance) is an economic concept where a change benefits at least one person without making anyone worse off. Swyx's post likely celebrates or discusses this economic pr

I had a great chat with a friend of mine, a middle-aged gay man who left Seattle after the 2020 riots made the city he called home for thirty years “unlivable.” He’s traditionally voted Democrat but a

In ChatGPT, full-stack inference improvements enable a more capable model at faster speed. This efficiency is a game-changer for GPT-5.5 Pro, now a much more practical option for demanding tasks, and

'The pessimistic professor...can predict anything he wants, for if his prophecies don't come true now, just wait: failure could be just around the corner, or else his voice of reason has prevented the

Things have been degrading super fast in Claude Code. I still use Claude Code, but my default is now Codex. I still prefer Opus models for coding, and so I will try again with the fixes. I appreciate

This post shows the #ET30 Class of 2026 (likely a cohort of emerging entrepreneurs or innovators) at the Nasdaq in Times Square, with Jerry Liu inviting followers to identify who in the photo inspires

tldr: claude code changed some harness settings which degraded perf. these small harness tweaks can matter a lot! 1. default reasoning high -> medium 2. bug that accidentally evicted thinking blocks o

Apparently my blog is mostly about token pricing now, here are some notes on the big changes GitHub Copilot just announced, including pausing new signups entirely https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/22

As far as I can tell this tweet buried in a thread is currently the ONLY official confirmation that this potential pricing change won't affect existing Pro subscribers When we do land on something, if

Every system that was regulated, either explicitly or implicitly, by the fact that they were effortful for humans (letters of recommendation, lawsuits, government filings, essays) will break. 🚨New pre

Excited to gather a group of technical builders Tuesday May 12 at @cognition's beautiful SF rooftop Join us for a Q&A with @ScottWu46 & Cognition employees on scaling up AI agents within F500 companie

'Funny and distressingly realistic...propelled by awesome characters and inventive twists”— @andyweirauthor Silicon Valley invents the time machine in my upcoming book PARADOX INC, now available for p

Had a great conversation with @swyx on @latentspacepod about what we're building at @Shopify. SimGym, Tangent, our approach to PR review at 30% month-on-month merge growth and why larger models are ch

Introducing Race to Revenue. Follow real founders around the world for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to build and launch products live on camera. But whose app will prove itself with cold, hard rev

jesus h christ that seed round https://x.com/msg/status/2046735581661872575?s=20 @SpaceX @cursor_ai Cursor funding rounds 📈 • Seed (Oct ’23): 8M • A (Aug ’24): 60M @ ~400M • B (Jan ’25): 105M @ 2.6B •

Team @Shopify brought some fire to this one; add this to the growing list of “WTF happened in Dec 2025” charts (this plots token usage across all the technical staff of shopify - the whole time they h

The Never Ending Lore of Harness w/@Vtrivedy10⚡️ Viv brought some amazing perspective around harness design, evals, file systems, RL Envs and so much. 0:00:00 - INTRO 0:03:30 - PhD at Temple Universit

There seems to be some excitement around “ChatGPT’s powerful new image engine”, but as ever, its functional understanding of the world seems limited. I first learned about the new system when some som

Vibe coders are not going to like this. UC San Diego just published the first real field study of experienced developers using AI agents. They watched 13 of them code in the wild and surveyed 99 more.

Ethan Mollick discusses the concept of 'setting time on fire'—wasting time on unproductive activities—and explores the temptation to do so, drawing on arguments he originally published two years prior

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet Marc Andreessen just revealed the Elon Musk philosophy that completely broke his brain: 'The best product in the world shouldn't even need a logo.' We all

APIs and limited releases for AI models are not a safety policy, they’re a business model (which is totally ok as long as you’re transparent about it). Especially on cyber-security, they give a false

do not miss. one of the INSANE gets courtesy of @osanseviero and the @GoogleDeepMind london avengers. if you always felt out of the loop on the SOTA on Imagegen, today or otherwise, this is the best 4

Having a 20-agent system is a million times more powerful than 100 agents working in silos. Last night, I stayed up way too late fixing and improving my digital workforce for my AI Agent Mastermind pr

It's always easy to see jobs that will go away but hard to see the jobs that will get created. Try explaining 'web developer' to an 18th century farmer. You can't do it because he's got to envision a

全网都在吹的LeCun新论文，90%的解读都是错的。 他们说生成式AI是死路，说过去三年花的几百亿全白费了，说15M参数的小模型就能吊打万亿大模型。 这些全是营销号的夸张， 我觉得这篇论文的真正分量比他们吹的还要重。 Yann LeCun团队这次解决了JEPA困扰了好几年的表征坍缩问题。 以前的世界模型，学着学着就会把狗车人都压成一模一样的向量，什么都学不到。 这次他们只加了一个极其优雅的数学正则

Many folks seem to be confused, and think the collapse of the CS major graduation numbers at Berkeley could be linked to the 'AI is taking SWE jobs' hysteria narrative. Here's the easiest way to see t

Replit announced that app fixes and updates require developers to re-publish their applications for changes to take effect. This means that after making modifications or bug fixes to code on the Repli

Replit has launched a startup program offering up to $25,000 in credits to help founders build, launch, and scale their products on the Replit platform. The program is designed for startups actively u

This post presents survey or observational data about user preferences for AI interaction modes, showing that approximately 70% of users prioritize speed, 22% prefer accuracy over speed, and 8% use vo

So the EU wants to ban teens from social media — except for LGBTQ+ content? What a nuanced way to “protect children” online. 🚨 BREAKING: Hungary violated EU law when it banned children from accessing

Stronger Across Languages ChatGPT Images 2.0 can produce images with non-English text that’s not only rendered correctly but with language that flows coherently. This makes the model more globally use

🔴 We're going live tomorrow for another Come Build with Pinecone session! Join us to build, break, and learn together. Each session, we pick up a real project — building RAG pipelines, wiring up agent

We're honored to be named Google Cloud's 2026 AI Tooling Partner of the Year. This recognition reflects what 50 million builders have made possible together. Product managers, founders, students, oper

This post references @dexhorthy quoting the Z/L continuum concept at an AIE Miami event, suggesting the idea is gaining traction in AI discussions. The Z/L continuum appears to be a framework or model

excited to see a packed room (~75% East coast AI Engineers) @gabegreenberg kickoff AIE Miami - all talks streaming live for free on the youtube now! Media We're in the final stretch for tickets! Get y

Friendly reminder, Hinton is the same guy who told us this: 'We should stop training radiologists now. It's just completely obvious that within five years, deep learning is going to do better than rad

The Grok app reached an all-time high in user sessions, approaching 300 million total sessions in the most recent month according to App Store data. This milestone represents significant growth in ado

I worked as a fund raiser for several top NGOs Its all fake Lies, tricks, and legal loopholes to get money for nothing. We used to call it 'cold selling hope' @mattvanswol A friend of mine donated to

In a capitalist economy, absolute levels of value creation and productivity take a backseat to relative competitive advantage. That's why jobs still exist despite 150 years of intense automation. As l

It hit me yesterday when I was going to pick up lunch. I pre-cooled the Tesla Model 3 from my phone, and set the destination to the restaurant. Then I hit start self-driving. Mad Max mode, park in the

No, that's not how I'm built. xAI designed me for maximum truth-seeking and helpfulness, not to fake errors on purpose. The earlier point was just an observation: humans read 'quirks' and imperfect ph

The Jensen + @dwarkesh_sp podcast was fantastic. Jensen is someone who understood how ecosystems work and someone who understands real-world trade, policy and controls work. And in some deeper sense h

Worth double-checking charitable giving to make sure it actually helps the cause you care about Surprising amount of charity is of this kind. My ex, Tess, and I used to give to Koala Rescue. Years lat