Richard Stirling

@emax We have found the true use of AI Agents….

@Rchards i have become a quantum waveform of a man, simultaneously co-existing in SF, London, and Oxford

these sf-maxxing, london-maxxing, oxford-maxxing trends - very flattered that they're all named after me, but it's getting a bit much 😅

@emax I think they are trying to incite you to visit

max-maxxing is either 1) drinking 4 iced lattes in a single sitting 2) calling "morning" anything before 1pm 3) doing 18 things at once and finishing none; 4) having a to-do list of doom

@Mileage_impo What a place to spend 300k miles!

Bentley Continental GT 6.0L W12 with 313,061 km (194,527 miles) on the clock. The first owner sold it and it has already found a new home. Full service history with Bentley. Original engine and transmission.

@Timoldland Nothing a wrap won’t solve

Can’t help feeling Bramley are going to struggle to shift this Alpina B3 GT. The blue works fine, but not with gold wheels. They need to be silver or grey (NOT black). The bumper/exhaust surround panel doesn’t work in this colour either, needs to be gloss black. bramley.com/stock/2025-alp…

@AutoInfatuation Decently put together, looks ok, decent mileage, quiet, fast enough and great BIK. Feels like a winner of fantasy carpool at the moment

I quite like this for my sins, range is more than enough for most too so can’t slate it there. But 2,300kg to be able to do that!?!??! My 2017 Long Wheel Base, 5.2m long 7 Series weighed just under 2,200kg and that had a whopping great V12 under the bonnet 😬

@Benpagelondon Pumpkin ravioli pretty much anywhere in mantua

Any restaurant suggestions for Como Mantova or Parma folks? Thanks so much. Ben #italy

@rufuspollock @claudeai @OpenAI I tend to use Claude as my daily driver, Gemini for shopping/ more creative tasks. ChatGPT for 2nd opinions

@Rchards @claudeai @OpenAI 👍 can you say a bit more - which do you use in which context?

Anyone explain to me why they prefer @claudeai to @OpenAI or vice versa ... I'm using and paying for both atm and don't see much between them.

@jackclarkSF Really looking forward to seeing the work you publish

My new role is Anthropic’s Head of Public Benefit. I’ll be working with several technical teams to generate more information about the societal, economic and security impacts of our systems, and to share this information widely to help us work on these challenges with others.

AI progress continues to accelerate and the stakes are getting higher, so I’ve changed my role at @AnthropicAI to spend more time creating information for the world about the challenges of powerful AI.

@LUDENClassics That is a telling picture for modern car size

Take your pick.

@owenboswarva I suspect a change in internal reporting and a strengthening of the CDO role

Update: the National Data Library Expert Advisory Group is now co-chaired by Aimee Smith, Government Chief Data Officer, in place of Sarah Hodgetts, Director for Geospatial and National Data Library gov.uk/government/gro… (I don't know what this change means, perhaps nothing)

@danbri @Tom_Westgarth15 @DrMattR1 Yes but they stopped sleeping

@Rchards @Tom_Westgarth15 @DrMattR1 To be fair, half of Google were also sleeping on LLMs until well into the Bard era. It's hard to hold "didn't call LLMs" against any particular institution

It is time for a new UK fundamental AI research institute. Great to see UKRI put out a call which offers £40mn plus 10mn GPU hours over five years to help to seed a new lab focused on new breakthrough AI paradigms. We have lacked an institution in the UK which can consolidate larger amounts of compute, acting as a pipeline for early stage talent, to do genuinely novel research beyond immediate commercial demands. Canada has three similar institutes which have formed the cornerstone of their AI ecosystem. It is general consensus that the Alan Turing Institute has not played this role. Now, I think it is very reasonable to pose the question: UKRI have presided over the failing Turing Institute - why should they be trusted to manage this next big project? It's going to be really important that DSIT/UKRI ensure that the expert panel is composed of genuine research leadership who possess great taste and understanding of what it takes to run a high performance organisation. I also believe that new UKRI AI leadership in Charlotte Deane and Ian Chapman really get the importance of this, and will be determined to not recreate similar challenges. The other critical factor will be the structure/design of any new institute. @ersatzben previously laid out the case for a Vector Institute model (Hinton's fundamental lab in Canada) as a path to follow x.com/ersatzben/stat… The Canadian labs didn't just come from nowhere, but were built on decades of research that had been building up in their national ecosystem. We can lean into similar momentum: with new paradigms in areas such as open-endedness being pioneered here in the UK. Let's see what comes from this. If we can genuinely have our own Vector/Mila, this could drastically increase the surface area of opportunity to pioneer in the development of the next phase of AI paradigms, and the frontier labs that emerge from these paradigms.

@danbri @Tom_Westgarth15 @DrMattR1 The decentralised brand/secondment programme sounds a lot like the ATI. In answer to your initial question, I was tempted to say if ATI could be this then it would have become it by now….

It’s a horrible situation! You can’t put Turing on the 50 gbp note then shift him to the 5p coin. Who will tell Wikipedia? “The Alan Turing Institute is the United Kingdom's national institute for data science and artificial intelligence, founded in 2015 and largely funded by the UK Government.” “up to £40 million will be made available over 6 years” is also rather Austin Powers. Unless the Lab is a nationwide decentralised brand / secondment program (not a bad idea), that level of funding risks condemning it to an “early career trampoline” role, with all associated institutional memory issues. youtu.be/EJR1H5tf5wE

@paulcconnell @ajwillshire Have you chaps got a better number?

@ajwillshire It uses the notoriously and hilariously wrong SIC codes and includes the well known creative sectors present at the BAFTAs of IT Services & Architecture as well as Gaming

I seem to recall that if you take the computer games industry out of these figures, it's all rather less impressive.

@dhh Are you rerunning the test with sonnet 4.6?

Kevin: "I just raced Claude and Kimi K2.5 against that bug that Ryan was talking about. K2.5 fixed it in 21s. Claude took just over a minute to make the plan, then about 2 minutes to execute on it. Both had the same fix, though." (K2.5 is now my main driver. Opus just backup.)

@tom550993 @ListerLawrence I regularly wonder about one and 4.2 vs XKR. I am trying to convince myself it is a practical family convertible (and failing)

@ListerLawrence Really like them. I keep on thinking about buying one…and a 4.2 is plenty. They sound great, too.

Finally sold my Jaguar XK 4.2. Lost £3k on it as I bought it for £13k - but the new owner has a fabulous, sorted car. It drives absolutely amazing and for £10k I’d say these are INCREDIBLE value for money and still one of the best looking cars from the era. ❤️

@tom550993 @Timoldland Our local one has been replaced by an Aston

@Timoldland They are genuinely ghastly cars. They drive ok…but ghastly all the same. I don’t even think they feel that special to be in.

Amazed when looking at this yesterday, just how cheap the front end looks on the Urus SE. Tonnes of plastic, whole thing just looked so shit. For well over £200k it’s ridiculous.

@simonw @antirez Could you build a less ‘smart’ one that runs locally rather than via cloud services?

@antirez Which is frustrating because I REALLY want a personal digital assistant I can trust!

Explain me one thing: how a sane human being that saw Claude Code / Codex / ... at work for a few months can have *any* doubt about the ability of those systems to work as a personal assistant, given enough access to your stuff? It requires a lot less capabilities than the other main task. We will see soon such systems integrated as apps to in our phones, will be the first big shift since the iPhone in the way mobile works.

Morgan are clearly expecting a visit from @LUDENClassics today

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