Matthias Reynolds

Anthropic co-founder: by 2026, the world is going to be very different. But you won’t see it. No drones overhead. No robots on sidewalks. No visible change walking around your neighborhood. The transformation happens in the digital layer, in spaces built for AI systems to trade with each other, in seas of tokens flowing between silicon minds. Clark built a sophisticated predator-prey simulation in 5 hours. A decade ago the same project took him weeks. Then his baby woke up screaming and he went back to diapers. That’s the entire adoption story right now. The capability is here. The human bandwidth isn’t. You need curiosity, time, access, and the skill to convert ideas into prompts. Most people have one of those. Maybe two. The funnel narrows fast. So by summer 2026, people working with frontier AI will feel like they live in a parallel world. And they’ll be right. The gap between what’s possible and what most people experience will be wider than any technological divide we’ve seen. Not because the technology is restricted. Because the human prerequisites for engaging with it are rare. The crypto economy moved fast but you could ignore it. The AI economy already touches too much of regular reality for that. The parallel world is coming whether you engage with it or not.

Rude prompts to LLMs consistently lead to better results than polite ones 🤯 The authors found that very polite and polite tones reduced accuracy, while neutral, rude, and very rude tones improved it. Statistical tests confirmed that the differences were significant, not random, across repeated runs. The top score reported was 84.8% for very rude prompts and the lowest was 80.8% for very polite. They compared their results with earlier studies and noted that older models (like GPT-3.5 and Llama-2) behaved differently, but GPT-4-based models like ChatGPT-4o show this clear reversal where harsh tone works better. ---- Paper – arxiv. org/abs/2510.04950 Paper Title: "Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy (short paper)"

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