Alexander Falk

@Max33Verstappen Congratulations! This was a great race to watch today.

Feels good to be battling up front again and taking that first podium of the season 🙌

@steipete Just missed the cutoff, but the new smaller PR for adding AWS Bedrock is waiting for your review now: github.com/steipete/Codex…

🎚️ CodexBar 0.25 is live 🧩 New providers: Manus, MiMo, Qwen, Doubao, Venice + more 🔔 Quota warning notifications 👥 Stacked Codex account switchers 📊 Faster cost history via models.dev Big one. Menu bar still tiny. github.com/steipete/Codex…

@steipete as per your request, I created a new smaller and more focused PR #897 for adding an AWS Bedrock provider to CodexBar that takes into account your comments on the earlier (now closed) PR #652: github.com/steipete/Codex…

@ac13alex @RedSox Gracias, Alex. ¡Te echaremos de menos!

Boston, we will miss you. Gracias for making us part of you. #RedSoxNation, you are the ❤️ of that team, keep believing, you really care and that’s what pushes everyone in the @RedSox to give it all day in and day out. With respect and love AC

Utility-scale quantum isn’t just a qubit problem. At scale, the bottleneck is the system: measurements + control under extreme bandwidth & power constraints. Check out my latest article: Scalable Quantum Architecture: Trade‑offs on the Path to Utility Scale linkedin.com/pulse/scalable… #QuantumComputing #QEC #ComputerArchitecture #Quantum

MobileTogether 10.3 adds support for biometric auth (face ID/fingerprint) anywhere in your app workflow, edit images in-app, and secure your server with 2FA.

The paper is mathematically rigorous but commits the same error that's been made in every generation since Ricardo in 1821. It builds a model with a fixed set of tasks, no new industry creation, no price effects, and firm owners who don't spend their profits, then concludes that automation is collectively self-destructive. The Pigouvian tax recommendation follows inevitably from assumptions that assume away the most powerful forces in economic history. There are six clear historical parallels going back 200 years — Ricardo (1821), Keynes (1930), the Triple Revolution memorandum to LBJ (1964), Leontief (1982), Rifkin's "End of Work" (1995), and Frey & Osborne's "47% of jobs at risk" (2013). Every one was rigorous about the displacement (the seen) and blind to the creation of entire new industries and job categories (the unseen). Every one was wrong.

🚨RESEARCHERS JUST MATHEMATICALLY PROVED THAT AI LAYOFFS WILL DESTROY THE ECONOMY.. AND EVERY CEO ALREADY KNOWS IT.. BUT NONE OF THEM CAN STOP.. Two researchers from UPenn and Boston University just published a paper called "The AI Layoff Trap".. They proved something terrifying.. Every company replacing workers with AI is also firing its own customers.. Every laid-off employee is someone who used to spend money.. When enough people lose their jobs.. Nobody can afford to buy anything.. And the companies that fired everyone go bankrupt selling products to an economy with no purchasing power.. Every CEO can see this coming.. The math is obvious.. Fire workers.. Lose customers.. Lose revenue.. Collapse.. But here's the trap.. No company can afford to stop.. If you don't automate.. Your competitor will.. They cut costs.. Undercut your prices.. Steal your market share.. And you die anyway.. So every company automates.. Knowing it's collectively suicidal.. Because the alternative is dying alone while everyone else survives.. It's a Prisoner's Dilemma.. And the researchers proved it mathematically.. The numbers are already stacking up.. Block cut nearly half its 10,000 employees this year.. CEO Jack Dorsey said AI made those roles unnecessary and that "within the next year, the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion".. Salesforce replaced 4,000 customer support agents with AI.. Goldman Sachs deployed an AI coder that lets one senior engineer do the work of a five-person team.. Over 100,000 tech workers were laid off in 2025 alone.. AI was cited as the primary driver in more than half the cases.. 80% of US workers hold jobs with tasks susceptible to AI automation.. And here's what should scare policymakers.. The researchers tested every proposed solution.. Universal Basic Income.. Doesn't fix it.. It raises living standards but doesn't change a single company's incentive to automate.. Capital income taxes.. Don't fix it.. They change profit levels but not the per-task decision to replace a human.. Worker equity and profit sharing.. Narrows the gap but can't close it.. Collective bargaining.. Can't fix it.. Because automating is a dominant strategy.. No voluntary agreement between companies is self-enforcing.. Only one thing works.. A Pigouvian automation tax.. A per-task charge that forces every company to pay for the demand it destroys when it fires a worker.. The researchers call it a "Red Queen effect".. Better AI doesn't solve the problem.. It makes it worse.. Because every company sees a bigger market share gain from automating faster than rivals.. But at the end.. Everyone automates equally.. The gains cancel out.. And the only thing left is more destroyed demand.. The paper's conclusion is devastating.. This isn't a transfer from workers to company owners.. Both sides lose.. Workers lose their income.. Companies lose their customers.. It's a deadweight loss that harms everyone.. And no market force can break the cycle.. The AI layoff trap isn't a prediction.. It's already happening.. And the math says it won't stop on its own.

Airport breakfast

Landed at VIE airport 🛬

Boarding at gate E9 today

Flying Boston->Vienna on @_austrian OS 31

Very excited for the @NASAArtemis flyby today…

@steipete Yeah, I switched to Opus on AWS Bedrock today. Same API pricing, but much better privacy and security.

Anthropic now blocks first-party harness use too 👀 claude -p --append-system-prompt 'A personal assistant running inside OpenClaw.' 'is clawd here?' → 400 Third-party apps now draw from your extra usage, not your plan limits. So yeah: bring your own coin 🪙🦞

Opening Day 2026 @ Fenway Park Let’s Go @RedSox

The interactive 36-hour tide chart shows water levels from 12 hours ago through 24 hours into the future. A gold "NOW" line marks the current moment. High tides are marked in red, low tides in teal. Sunrise and sunset appear as dashed lines, and nighttime hours are shaded darker. The green zone highlights the recommended beach walk window around low tide. Hover or tap anywhere on the chart to see the exact tide height at that time.

I built a little web app that you might like: a personal dashboard for tracking the moon 🌕, the tides, and the perfect time to walk the beach. It works with any of the 3,000+ NOAA tide stations along the US coastline. You can use the "Add to Home Screen" function on your phone to add the web app to your home screen with its own app icon.

See the current phase of the moon at a glance, complete with a visual display, illumination percentage, and countdown to the next new or full moon. Moonrise/moonset and sunrise/sunset times are calculated for your station's location.

Here is the link: moon.boston — no ads, no tracking, no signup/login required.