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Does this mean that from now on bombings will happen with dumb bombs and that we can expect way more Iranian casualties? Otherwise this seems incorrect.

This article is stating the obvious that is written in many different places (except the ETF angle) while sounding like its some kind of expert being ignored. I would presume AI is afoot.

Stopped writing the comment, went and clicked the logo, yup a personalized AI reporting service.


Author here. There is absolutely no AI used in any of the writing I do. We use AI to track news and better understand global and economic developments.

Essays became way to easy to write with AI. It used to be a basic filter that if text was long the author put a lot of thought (even if misguided) and effort (even if low quality) into it.

Not its just another torrent of words.

We need proof of work on long texts, a service that guarantees that the author was whipped for more than 20 lashes for this text to exists and thus we know he cared enough to publish it.


I dunno, this may have been him. He's always been writing crazy long blog posts, it's sort of his signature.

Writing short posts is the new test

yegge has been famously writing ultra long blog posts for decades now

I'm really wondering what nightmare scenario does he imagine with super intelligent drones.

I can already imagine it, a tiny drone carrying a 8x GPU rack thinking about life and deciding to go and build an idyllic society on a pacific island.


A Psalm for the Wild-Built

But why do you assume that you need unlimited amount of intelligence to perform work? If you can cut out just the parts that are required for doing SDR work or Development, etc you can get performance beyond what we have with generalized intelligence. Even on the physical aspect think about it, if you need to do less networking between GPUs and can do more in each single chip, you can use more "tokens" for reasoning without increasing time/cost.

My bets for the actual story behind this are: 95% a criminal hiding evidence 4.99% an autistic attempt to "keep his privacy" for no reason at all 0.01% a genuine need to keep something away from the government

In all cases just don't cross security checks with evidence you wouldn't want to be seized, its not that hard


Wrote someone who's got a CCTV camera installed inside his toilet bowl, no less! Right?

The Bentham business is alive and kicking.


I like that the trailing players strategy (Meta, xAI) is to open source the moat of the leaders. I think we will all benefit from it. and hopefully both the leaders and the trailing players will be much less powerful in the end.


Codex CLI was open source from the start.

The reason they open sourced this is because grok-build uploaded entire directories.


I wonder if that malicious feature was removed from the open release. In addition, if the builds aren't reproducible and people just run the binaries distributed by X instead of building from source, there is no guarantee that they aren't running a version with malware.


What does this open source that the Codex harness hasn't already?


You can't use your mouse with command line Codex.


I really hate that they added mouse integration with Claude Code.

Nothing like it prompting you for an answer and you click on to the terminal accidentally, resulting in you choosing an answer.


You can trivially add it to codex..


Classic commoditize the complement, well done on SpaceX's side:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/


I love that Sci-Fi fan-fiction is having a moment <3


Emigrating is hard. Expect language issue, culture issue, bureaucracy issues. Other countries are not your country but with a different language, living somewhere is not the same as visiting as a tourist.

Emigrating is a generational project, you will forever be a foreigner, your children will be immanent children and only your grandchildren will be true locals.

This is not a government issue, right wing issue, racism, or what not its just a fact of life. Be prepared for it when making the decision.


Common wisdom is often common for a reason. Its good to try new things but expect 9/10 experiments that goes against common wisdom to come up with negative results, it's not that you are not smart, its just 1,000,000 hours of cumulative experience vs your personal 1,000.


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