Quoting Andrew Singleton
Jenny owns a crematorium. John’s propane company gives her a $20 billion investment in return for 5 percent of her operation. Jenny throws $10 billion into the incinerator, then pays John $10 billion to buy propane to...
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Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive
After two days of experience with Claude Fable 5 I think the best way to describe it is relentlessly proactive. It knows a whole lot of tricks and it will deploy pretty much any of them to get to its goal. I'll...
datasette 1.0a33
Release: datasette 1.0a33 This alpha is a significant step on the road to a stable 1.0, finally extending the ?_extra= pattern I introduced in Datasette 1.0a3 to cover queries and rows in addition to tables. That...
asyncinject 0.7
Release: asyncinject 0.7 I built this utility library to support an asyncio dependency injection pattern a few years ago. I was using it with Datasette and Claude Fable 5 spotted some bugs in the dependency which it...
Anthropic Walks Back Policy That Could Have ‘Sabotaged’ AI Researchers Using Claude
Anthropic Walks Back Policy That Could Have ‘Sabotaged’ AI Researchers Using Claude Big scoop for Maxwell Zeff at Wired: “We’re changing Fable 5’s safeguards for frontier LLM development to make them visible.” Anthropic...
datasette-agent 0.2a0
Release: datasette-agent 0.2a0 Highlights from the release notes: Tools can now ask the user questions mid-execution. Tools that declare a context parameter receive a ToolContext object, and await context.ask_user(...)...
DiffusionGemma
DiffusionGemma Last May Google briefly released an experimental Gemini Diffusion model. I tried the preview at the time and recorded it running at 857 tokens/second. It was an exciting model, but Google made no further...
Quoting Jeremy Howard
Easy solution to slow down recursive AI self improvement: The lab with the top-ranked model must agree THEY must not use it for working on frontier AI But everyone else should have access to it. By definition, this...
The Gap Between the Press Release and the Power Grid
Back in February, I wrote about what I called the “Data Center Rebellion,” the growing local resistance to the physical infrastructure behind AI. Since then, I have been asking tech people around the Bay Area how...
If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know
If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know Jonathon Ready highlights one of the more eyebrow-raising details from the 319 page system card for Fable 5 and Mythos 5. Here's a longer excerpt, highlights...
Initial impressions of Claude Fable 5
I didn't have early access to today's Claude Fable 5 release, but I've spent the past ~5.5 hours putting it through its paces. My initial impressions are that this is something of a beast. It's slow, expensive and has...
llm 0.32a3
Release: llm 0.32a3 Almost entirely written by the new Claude Fable 5, see my write-up for more details. Tags: projects, ai, generative-ai, llms, llm, claude-mythos
Setting a custom price for a model in AgentsView
TIL: Setting a custom price for a model in AgentsView I've been really enjoying AgentsView by Wes McKinney as a tool for exploring my token usage across different coding agents running on my laptop. Claude Fable 5 came...
Quoting Andrej Karpathy
I feel a lot of things changing as working software increasingly comes out on a tap. The Jevon's paradox kicks in and I feel my own demand for software growing substantially. You can ask for anything - explainers,...
The Data Center Rebellion just got a lawyer (and a ballot measure)
Subscribe • Previous Issues The Gap Between the Press Release and the Power Grid Back in February, I wrote about what I called the “Data Center Rebellion,” the growing local resistance to the physical infrastructure...
Siri AI at WWDC 2026
Given how badly burned anyone who took Apple's 2024 WWDC Apple Intelligence announcements at face value was, I'm holding to a strict "I'll believe it when I see it" policy for everything they announced today. The new...
The sample efficiency black hole
One definition of intelligence is sample efficiency - that is to say, how much data do you need to see in a given domain in order to operate fluently and competently. It’s not clear that we’ve actually made...
datasette-agent-edit 0.1a0
Release: datasette-agent-edit 0.1a0 I'm planning several plugins for Datasette Agent which can make edits to existing pieces of text - things like collaborative Markdown editing, updating large SQL queries, and editing...
LLM Research Papers: The 2026 List (January to May)
LLM Research Papers: The 2026 List (January to May)As some of you know, I have the long-running habit of keeping a running list of research papers I want to read, revisit, or cite in future articles and projects.Last...
micropython-wasm 0.1a2
Release: micropython-wasm 0.1a2 I added a CLI to micropython-wasm (issue #7), inspired by the first draft of the blog entry when I realized it would be a great way to illustrate the Try it yourself section. Tags:...