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If you want to read an interesting AI thinking trace, try 'I want you to suggest two poems that you think apply very well to the current state of GenAI models like you. Don’t just pick popular poems a

It may be obvious, but a lot of the first reaction to the gains in AI capability is going to be 'just muddling through' rather than executing on a rational plan. (this is what humans always do in rapi

Many companies could build their own Workday or whatever, too, using open source alternatives. They don't do that for a wide variety of reasons. Same dynamics apply in AI, only more so (upgrade cycles

Most companies are not even thinking about giving every employee a fine-tuned self-hosted version of GLM that they need to update and keep harnessed and build connectors for. There are lots of places

Ethan Mollick argues that regulatory frameworks for AI will not overlook or exempt open-source AI systems from compliance requirements, implying that future AI regulation will comprehensively address

Ethan Mollick compares Claude and GLM-5.2 AI models, noting that while GLM-5.2 excels in certain capabilities, Claude distinguishes itself through its self-reflective persona and other characteristics

I know this is a common thing to mention in some corners of X, but there is still so much focus on future model development & innovation bringing transformation that people are really overlooking the

If it was just military implications, that would be one thing, but if this is about info security at scale (as Five Eyes suggests), publicly understanding risks and mitigations is incredibly important

It would be very useful to understand more about the government safety concerns associated with frontier AI releases so we could (a) know what risks everyone will face if/when open source reaches Myth

State of the art in AI image generation less than 5 years ago. This is a pretty terrific computational image generator for making AI-created trading cards (or, heaven forbid, NFTs) The only prompt I g

The capability overhang from the models we have today is big enough that large-scale change to work and society over the next 5+ years is now inevitable even if AI development stops. (And there is no

This is a fascinating and important set of data which shows us where things are going, using OpenAI as a canary in the coal mine. The chatbot era is over, and agentic systems are coming to tasks beyon

This entry examines research showing a discrepancy between people's stated AI usage and their actual behavior, revealing that many individuals who claim they don't use AI are unknowingly or covertly u

Decisions about how to use AI in your organization are increasingly organizational design and strategy decisions, not IT choices: How do you integrate agents into your firm? What intelligence will you

Gemini 3 Pro was the first model to achieve at least 23% on ARC-AGI-2, which it did in November, 2025 (it actually scored 31%). So the 8-12 month gap between closed and open weights models still seems

Ethan Mollick shares a positive experience about how GitHub Copilot's Codex model has significantly improved his productivity by helping solve problems across multiple Windows machines, describing it

A case study in why organizations should both incentivized their employees to explore AI uses that help them & have a Lab of dedicated AI builders Here, Cornell's finance & AI teams created a /treasur

All Mythos-level models are likely to invite similar risks. Those risks will only be greater with the release of open Mythos-class AI coming in the next 6-12ish months (assuming China allows it) The l

This post likely showcases a collection of fantasy maps and diagrams, possibly illustrating world-building elements, geographic layouts, or visual designs from fantasy works or fan creations. The cont

Here's Sonnet 3.7 doing the same thing a year ago. https://x.com/emollick/status/1894441728175677837?s=20 Snake games are a bad test of AI beca- 'Claude 3.7, make a snake game, but the snake is self-a

I know they are pivoting to health care(?!) but there is still nothing like Midjourney for making strange and atmospheric images and short animations in ways no other AI image generator can do. Here a

This post likely discusses opportunities for significant gains or improvements that are readily available and easy to capitalize on for those with the capability or resources to act on them. The 'low

This post from Ethan Mollick likely explores how organizations can effectively implement AI through three key dimensions: leadership approaches to AI adoption, lab-based experimentation and testing, a

Classic short term thinking. What about the heat death of the universe? This paper shows we could survive 100 billion years past the end of all near stars, if we start building Dyson Spheres around mi

I have been trying Sakana Fugu Ultra-high and, first, it is incredibly slow: my typical coding tests (shaders, interactive scenes) take 30 minutes to run And the results are... fine. It does not match

Its been 10 days and the situation with Fable remains essentially just as confusing. (There have been many contradictory reports and articles and posts from different parties, which does not lower the

Prompt: build a really amazing snake game where the snake gradually becomes aware it is in a snake game and that gets integrated into the gameplay. many clever reveals but also fun to play. the game s

The thing that made Fable so impressive was its creative problem-solving and good judgement calls across long-running projects You can see this when I had it make a self-aware Snake game. I gave it no

Ethan Mollick shared content about creating unicorn graphics or illustrations using TiKZ, a popular LaTeX drawing package. The post likely demonstrates or discusses techniques for drawing unicorn desi

A fundamental problem with extending Codex/Cowork/Code to all knowledge work is that they remain very 'software-brained' where the end result (the software) is what is important & that code serves as

The interaction between AI & past scholarly work is going to get weird. Here I gave GPT-5.5 Pro a copy of my first published paper from grad school & asked it to find errors and update it. It found ne

This post references the foundational paper establishing Moore's Law, which describes the empirical observation that the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles approximately every two ye

This is aside from the other key 'software brain' problems of Codex and Code: dividing all work into front-end and back-end design, solving for the general case in a repeatable way, not testing or exp

What literatures have developed since the paper that are in dialog or tension with its themes or findings? (This is something that is very hard for academics, ensconced in a field, to do on their own)

AI is generally a weak fiction writer except for one particular kind of fiction (metaphor-rich, staccato sentences, short & plot light, etc.) which it writes excellently. This happens to be a style th

If AI self-improvement, even in a very limited way, is possible, the cadence of shipping both AI products/harnesses & models should go up. This appears to be happening at Anthropic & OpenAI, but not f

Some interesting findings suggesting that, by leveling performance, AI also commoditizes contract labor. New research: Is AI making employers view labor as more of a commodity? In a large online labor

I suspect that companies underestimate the value of using higher intelligence for tasks where weaker AIs seem to be good enough to hit KPIs at a lower price. At least build architectures where you can

This was perhaps the most controversial aspect of the guardrails around Fable, now being rolled back. Very pleased to hear Anthropic have walked back this policy https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/11/

This prompt demonstrates Claude's ability to handle complex, multi-layered constraints by requesting a rhyming poem with six four-line stanzas where each successive stanza progressively removes vowels

Ethan Mollick shared a comment he appreciated on Bluesky, a decentralized social media platform, though the specific content of that appreciated comment is not detailed in the available information. T

This post likely discusses the relative ranking or comparison of science fiction authors—specifically Stanislaw Lem, Douglas Adams, H.G. Wells, and Isaac Asimov—in terms of literary quality, influence

One thing I mentioned only in passing in my Fable post is that, for long running tasks, Fable starts to develop its own dialect as its many agents and tasks reinforce themselves and make Claudish lang

Science fiction authors in the order you want them to be right about AI: Iain Banks Becky Chambers Martha Wells Douglas Adams Charles Stross (Singularity Sky) Peter Watts Charles Stross (Laundry) Harl

'Switch to a cheaper model to save money' is a problem because cheaper models are worse (maybe they are good enough for a particular purpose, but still worse). More often a better approach is hierarch

The core problem with open weights is that the business model of frontier open weights AI does not look like open source, as there are very few cases where you can make money from closed ancillary ser