Anshul Khandelwal

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@perplexity_ai Can you please stop the undisclosed promotion campaigns? It deceives users and it does not reflect well on your company or your integrity. @AravSrinivas x.com/goddek/status/…

Used Opus 4.7 (max effort) in Claude Code all day. It’s really, really good. Not sure why people dunk on it. big jump: – actually understands large codebases – produces clean, readable architecture diagrams – more agentic Did hit one dumb misread of my instruction, not sure if that’s harness or just jagged intelligence. Feels like a new base model.

Wow I can already say after just 5 hours using @AnthropicAI Opus 4.7 that this is the first model that "gets" what I'm doing when I'm working. It feels aligned with me in a way no previous model did. (4.6 actively worked against me. I hated it. So this is *very* exciting!)

2 years and counting...

Turns out that living in the singularity is actually fun!

We’ve just released another paper solving five further Erdős problems with an internal model at OpenAI: arxiv.org/abs/2604.06609. Several of the proofs were especially enjoyable to digest while writing the paper. My personal favorite was the solution to Erdős Problem 1091. The question asks: if a graph G has chromatic number 4, while every small subgraph has chromatic number at most 3, must it contain an odd cycle with many diagonals? The internal model gives a very enlightening counterexample to this conjecture, and the proof was a pleasure to understand. For those so inclined, a really fun exercise is to try to reconstruct the proof from Figure 5 of the paper, which was of course produced by Codex.

Introducing Project Glasswing: an urgent initiative to help secure the world’s most critical software. It’s powered by our newest frontier model, Claude Mythos Preview, which can find software vulnerabilities better than all but the most skilled humans. anthropic.com/glasswing

So, I did some research. The regression is real. But it's not Claude getting dumber. And you can fix that. Thinking budgets were adjusted. For complex multi-file work, the default medium effort may not be enough. Three fixes: 1. /effort high (or /effort max on Opus for hard debugging) 2. ~/.claude/settings.json → "showThinkingSummaries": true 3. CLAUDE.md: "Research the codebase before editing. Never change code you haven't read." GitHub issue #42796 analyzed 17,871 thinking blocks across 6,852 sessions. The pattern: when thinking depth drops, the model shifts from research-first to edit-first. Claude didn't get worse. The defaults got conservative.

Compare/contrast developed nations that rapidly adopt tech/AI (USA) vs ones who don't (...you know). Rapid tech/AI adoption = jobs boom. Delayed tech/AI adoption = decline.

Sanity is overrated.

Seedance 2.0 is now live on invideo for Max, Generative, and Team plan users. @BytePlusGlobal's most advanced video model — and arguably the most controllable AI video model ever released. Multimodal input. Motion replication from reference videos. Native audio-video generation in one pass. Character consistency that actually holds. Director-level camera control. Real-world physics. This isn't prompt-and-pray. This is a production tool. Only available through business email verification for all regions except US and Japan.

New supply chain attack this time for npm axios, the most popular HTTP client library with 300M weekly downloads. Scanning my system I found a use imported from googleworkspace/cli from a few days ago when I was experimenting with gmail/gcal cli. The installed version (luckily) resolved to an unaffected 1.13.5, but the project dependency is not pinned, meaning that if I did this earlier today the code would have resolved to latest and I'd be pwned. It's possible to personally defend against these to some extent with local settings e.g. release-age constraints, or containers or etc, but I think ultimately the defaults of package management projects (pip, npm etc) have to change so that a single infection (usually luckily fairly temporary in nature due to security scanning) does not spread through users at random and at scale via unpinned dependencies. More comprehensive article: stepsecurity.io/blog/axios-com…

False equivalence is a trap I’ve been consciously steering away from in my work the last 5 years. in Zuck’s case it cost him @GoogleDeepMind. in content/strategy it is common to go wide than deep: “oh we do a, b, c, and d” and put equal weight on all of them. But the world is not fair and power laws compound. Most school systems, bureaucrats, managers, and content curators are not set up for one thing to matter 50x more than the next thing. False equivalence killed my first devtools startup. False equivalence plagues policy making in my home country. False equivalence makes you underpay your top performers and spend too much time on lost causes. Rules: Carefully bet on a very small set of things. Don’t hedge, but keep reversibility. Set triggers/levels to monitor if you are wrong. Set tests to DOUBLE DOWN EARLY if you are more right than you thought.

So when does surge pricing for tokens start?

This will happen. And by end 2027, most of this token spen will be on local machines.

Engineering job openings are at the highest levels we’ve seen in over 3 years There are over 67,000 (!!!) eng openings at tech companies globally right now, with 26,000 just in the U.S. We don’t know if there would have been more open roles if not for AI or if AI is actually leading to more open roles, but since the start of this year, the increase in open eng roles is accelerating even more.

A missing twelve-year-old in a quiet Rajasthani town pulls Sub-Inspector Anjali Meghwal into a serial-killer hunt that investigates how power, patriarchy, and privilege can fuel horrifying violence. #PrimeVideoPresents #DahaadOnPrime, New Season #ItStartsHere

It finally happened. The agent dropped my database. AND I'M SUPPOSED TO BE THE DATABASE GUY.

A bespoke software revolution? I don't buy it. It'll exist. It already exists. Small consultants and big consulting firms have made custom software for years. It almost always sucks. It’s bloated, confusing, and because the client pays, it’s built wrong in all the ways. Who’s excited about bespoke software? Software makers! Of course they're excited about building bespoke software — that's what they do. X is full of them. Your feed is full of people who love making software talking about making software. Of course they’re excited about the revolution. Echo, echo, echo... Most people don’t like computers. Nobody in tech wants to say that out loud. People tolerate computers. They use them because they have to. Given the choice, most would rather not think about them at all. So when someone suggests that AI means everyone will build their own custom tools, ask who "everyone" is. The three-person accounting firm drowning in client paperwork? They want the paperwork gone, not a new system to maintain. The regional logistics company with 40 trucks? They want the routes optimized, not Joe spouting off about this new system he’s been messing around with. The law firm billing 70-hour weeks? They want leverage on their time, not a software project to design. They don’t hate technology. But building and maintaining their own critical systems isn’t their wheelhouse, regardless of how much faster and easier it’s become. It's another job on top of the job. Will these people use AI? Absolutely, for all sorts of things. Will some outliers go deep and build real custom systems? Sure, but they're almost always people who already had some pull toward software. The curiosity was already there. They were dabblers before. Giving everyone access to software building tools doesn't mean everyone becomes a builder. A powerful excavator doesn't turn a homeowner into a contractor. Most people just want the hole dug by someone else. They don’t want the responsibility either.

I know there is some overlap between open source and anti-AI activists, but I have a hard time reconciling it. My million+ open source LOC were always intended as a gift to the world. Yes, I would make arguments about how it would strengthen our communities, and the GPL would prevent outright exploitation by our competitors, but those were to allay fears of my partners to allow me to make the gift. AI training on the code magnifies the value of the gift. I am enthusiastic about it! Some people do look at open source as a tool for social change, career advancement, or reputation building, but those are all downstream of the gift.