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Should we start an open Glasswing?

Judging by my tl there is a growing gap in understanding of AI capability. The first issue I think is around recency and tier of use. I think a lot of people tried the free tier of ChatGPT somewhere last year and allowed it to inform their views on AI a little too much. This is a group of reactions laughing at various quirks of the models, hallucinations, etc. Yes I also saw the viral videos of OpenAI's Advanced Voice mode fumbling simple queries like "should I drive or walk to the carwash". The thing is that these free and old/deprecated models don't reflect the capability in the latest round of state of the art agentic models of this year, especially OpenAI Codex and Claude Code. But that brings me to the second issue. Even if people paid $200/month to use the state of the art models, a lot of the capabilities are relatively "peaky" in highly technical areas. Typical queries around search, writing, advice, etc. are *not* the domain that has made the most noticeable and dramatic strides in capability. Partly, this is due to the technical details of reinforcement learning and its use of verifiable rewards. But partly, it's also because these use cases are not sufficiently prioritized by the companies in their hillclimbing because they don't lead to as much $$$ value. The goldmines are elsewhere, and the focus comes along. So that brings me to the second group of people, who *both* 1) pay for and use the state of the art frontier agentic models (OpenAI Codex / Claude Code) and 2) do so professionally in technical domains like programming, math and research. This group of people is subject to the highest amount of "AI Psychosis" because the recent improvements in these domains as of this year have been nothing short of staggering. When you hand a computer terminal to one of these models, you can now watch them melt programming problems that you'd normally expect to take days/weeks of work. It's this second group of people that assigns a much greater gravity to the capabilities, their slope, and various cyber-related repercussions. TLDR the people in these two groups are speaking past each other. It really is simultaneously the case that OpenAI's free and I think slightly orphaned (?) "Advanced Voice Mode" will fumble the dumbest questions in your Instagram's reels and *at the same time*, OpenAI's highest-tier and paid Codex model will go off for 1 hour to coherently restructure an entire code base, or find and exploit vulnerabilities in computer systems. This part really works and has made dramatic strides because 2 properties: 1) these domains offer explicit reward functions that are verifiable meaning they are easily amenable to reinforcement learning training (e.g. unit tests passed yes or no, in contrast to writing, which is much harder to explicitly judge), but also 2) they are a lot more valuable in b2b settings, meaning that the biggest fraction of the team is focused on improving them. So here we are.

@robertgraham Very convincing argument. It’s harder to fake coding style than writing style.

Hi. Professional C/C++ programmer here. The open-source code I can find written by Adam Back and Satoshi Nakamoto don't look remotely similar. Back's code looks typical of academic Unix programmers who also hack their code to run on Windows. Satoshi code was written by a professional Windows programmer who also wrote for Unix. Stylistically, they look nothing alike. There's not enough time between 2005 when I can find the newest Adam Back and January 2009 when Satoshi published Bitcoin/0.1 to account for the change. Both are perfectly competent programmers, but stylistically, they are completely different. The NYTimes tried to compare their English language in posts/emails. I'm compare their C/C++ language in their open-source code. The NYTimes merely points out they both use C++ as if that's another corroborating detail, when the actual code seems to disqualify Adam Back.

Very convincing argument. It’s harder to fake coding style than writing style.

@thdxr Gta6 should be released to criminal organizations first.

maybe gta6 is also too dangerous to release

@thsottiaux @theycallmeMohan @adonis_singh 🔥

@adonis_singh Uhm

it’ll probably be months before we use a model of this level of capability

@GergelyOrosz GOAT

I'll be doing a podcast with Anders Hejlsberg, the creator of Turbo Pascal, C#, and TypeScript. What would you like to know?

@malvathar @TheRealAdamG Oh yeah thats right

@enderplayerone @TheRealAdamG Oh but then I have to pay API. I want to use my codex sub 😅

@malvathar @TheRealAdamG Plus Codex into a gpt-image MCP and you can do this.

@TheRealAdamG Just tell me I can generate images with Codex and I'll be a happy man.

@signulll LOL

the two most common words i heard from ppl while i was in sf: “permanent underclass”

@benhylak @tetsuo_cpp slopsterous

the year is 2027. garry tan has just crossed 1b lines of code per day. water to 3 rural californian towns were diverted in order to cool his locally ran LLMs. riots erupt, and protesters demand answers to one, single question: "what is he building?"

@netcapgirl @gabi_imarques Good call. Those hedge fund returns will not be able to make up for the damage to the google brand.

google shutting down a deepmind hedge fund

@andrewgwils Generative AI and Big Data aren’t just changing the game… they ARE the game. And if you’re not playing, you’re being played. Just saying.

It's funny how phrases like "generative AI" and "big data" are an efficient way of signaling that you are not a domain expert.

@traestephens @WIRED Do it! 🚀

7/ We've reached an inflection point: @Wired is irreparably broken in its current form. But it doesn’t need to be. It’s time for someone who believes in a role for tech in building a better tomorrow to buy it. Maybe that someone needs to be me. /end

1/ During college and early in my career, I would absorb @Wired cover-to-cover on my commute. It is such a bummer that in just a decade, a once-great newsroom has deteriorated into publishing speciously-sourced gossip columns that feel like Gawker 2.0. Why is the tech community still interacting with these people?

@naturevideos @VictorTaelin @grok what movie is this from?

"I still hope it's still you and me in the end"

doom but it's pretext

@f1trollofficial @grok what movie is this from?

2026 season summarized

@rohanvarma Conversely how easy would it be for a student to start using google once they need it? One can also make the case there is not much urgency there.

I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. Imagine if a student today came out of high school not knowing how to use Google. Fluency with coding agents like Codex is an asymmetrical advantage today, and hopefully a ubiquitous capability tomorrow. I’m personally very passionate about ensuring we help schools evolve here. However, if you are a parent, I wouldn’t wait for the systematic change required here.

@ParthaSundaram @signulll Spill

@signulll I know exactly who inspired this post

the reality is that big tech structurally can't hire the ppl who actually get ai from both a deep tech or a taste perspective, cuz those ppl are founding companies or already have context that makes them too expensive/misaligned with corp incentives. so you get this adverse selection loop where the available exec pool is ppl who were at other big tech co's & those ppl are just big co peeps through & through (i.e. they will often struggle in any uncertainty or fast pace or lack of resources).

@i2cjak @yacineMTB Copilot is the tell