Bil Mowry

Uber blew through its entire 2026 Claude Code budget by April and is slowing hiring to cover the API bill. The COO admits the massive token burn isn't translating to shipped features. We didn't automate engineering. We just traded actual headcount for a while-loop with a corporate card.

Microsoft is making it easier to remove or disable the Copilot app in Windows 11. Users and IT admins can now use Group Policy or Registry settings to turn off Copilot or completely remove the app on supported systems. A new Group Policy setting called RemoveMicrosoftCopilotApp allows admins to uninstall Copilot from managed Windows 11 PCs. The setting is available under User Configuration → Administrative Templates → Windows AI → Remove Microsoft Copilot App. Users can also disable Copilot via the Windows Registry by setting TurnOffWindowsCopilot = 1 under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot. The change comes after growing user demand for more control over AI features in Windows 11. Limitations: - The uninstall option mainly works on managed or business PCs. - Users can reinstall Copilot later from the Microsoft Store. - Devices where Copilot was recently used may not remove it immediately. windowslatest.com/2026/05/24/win…

@unclebobmartin @pben4ai Had issues with using "skills" as well with some UX. Best thing so far was to make a compact spec , then a new session with it.

I haven’t read the paper, but I have noticed that attempting to constrain an agent with rule files is a fools errand. They will break any rule, and overturn any stated constraint. So I use physical constraints instead. Those constraints are things like acceptance tests, unit tests, mutation tests, crap analysis, dry analysis, property tests, etc. The agents cannot overturn those constraints. Therefore they become zealous — sometimes too zealous — in conforming to them.

In the context of this paper, constraint decay refers to the phenomenon where the performance of Large Language Model (LLM) agents drops significantly as more structural requirements/constriants are added to a coding task. Did you notice this as well @unclebobmartin ?

Microsoft, $MSFT, has started canceling Claude Code licenses, per the Verge

A huge illegal streaming network operating across Europe has been shut down by authorities in Italy, France, and Germany. The service reportedly provided unauthorized access to platforms like Netflix, Disney+, DAZN, and Sky. What’s getting most attention is that Italy is now targeting subscribers as well as the people behind the service. >Servers and infrastructure linked to the operation were seized during coordinated raids. >Investigators say the network used offshore systems and rotating access methods to avoid detection. >First-time subscriber fines reportedly start at around €154. >Repeat violations could lead to penalties of up to €5,000. >Italy’s “Piracy Shield” system is being used to quickly block illegal streams. >Authorities are increasing cooperation with telecom providers and financial investigators.

Artificial intelligence is causing a net U.S. loss of 16,000 jobs per month, per Goldman Sachs.

@VinnysCorner1 Dennis Gentry

Name a random player from the Bears, but try and name someone nobody else will say…. I’ll start: Ron Rivera

"Cloudflare posted record revenue, then cut 20% of its workforce. CEO Matthew Prince says AI has made an entire category of workers obsolete," per FORTUNE

JUST IN: Starbucks retires AI inventory tool across North America after it reportedly miscounted & mislabeled store items.

Remembering Macho Man Randy Savage who passed away 15 years ago today on May 20, 2011. The pride of Downers Grove, Illinois - here's Randy reminding everyone he was once a Major League Baseball player, as Savage & the WWE Roster took on members of The Chicago Media, at a charity softball game in Evanston, in August of 1994. Rest In Macho Heaven, we miss you Randy. #ChicagoHistory ⚾️

🦔Google released Gemini 3.5 Flash this week, and the cheaper, faster model now costs 5.5 times more to run than its predecessor. Token prices tripled to $1.50 per million input and $9.00 per million output, and on agent tasks it burns through so many tokens that total costs end up 75% higher than Gemini 3.1 Pro, the model Flash was supposed to be cheaper than. Anthropic's Opus 4.7 has a hidden 30 to 40% price increase from token consumption. OpenAI's GPT 5.5 jumped 50 to 90% over 5.4. My Take The AI labs are all running the same playbook. Headline price per token reads as competitive, but the new models burn through more tokens per task, and the all-in cost to finish a job climbs release over release. Every developer and enterprise buyer should measure efficiency rather than token price now, because the two numbers have decoupled fast. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google all raised effective prices in the last six months, which gives us the first hard evidence that the unit economics of frontier AI are catching up with the marketing. The labs charge more because each model burns more compute per task, and the hyperscaler capex no longer pencils out at the old prices. Enterprises that built workflows on the assumption that token costs would keep falling are about to see their AI bills jump 30 to 90% on the next model upgrade, and the productivity gains that justified the AI spend have to clear that higher bar to keep working. Hedgie🤗

GitHub has reportedly been hacked. A group called TeamPCP claims it gained unauthorized access to GitHub’s internal systems and stole data from around 4,000 private and internal repositories, including source code and company files. They are now trying to sell this stolen data for more than $50,000 on underground forums and have said they will release it for free if no one buys it. GitHub is investigating the unauthorized access and says it has found no evidence so far that customer data, organizations, or customer repositories were affected.

Meta is going to fire 8,000 employees tomorrow at 4AM. > They have asked all their employees to WFH tomorrow. > 8,000 unlucky employees will receive the Good Bye email at 4AM in the morning. > Workers laid off in the US will get 16 weeks of base pay as severance, plus 2 extra weeks for every year spent at Meta. > Apart from them, 7,000 more employees who keep their jobs will be shifted into 4 new AI-focused organisations. > After this, Meta have a plan to fire more employees in August and another round towards the end of 2026. All total Meta may reduce its head count by 10,000 to 15,000 in this year only. What do you think? Where is Meta doing wrong?

"The CEO of Barnes and Noble says he will stock AI written books," per MorePerfectUnion

BREAKING: Meta Platforms, $META, is set to begin laying off approximately 8000 employees this week, representing about 10% of its workforce, per YF

"For 70 years, a bachelor's degree was the most reliable on-ramp to a stable career. That's no longer true," per Axios

Crazy as it sounds, Shawon was my favorite of the lot.

Opening Day at #WrigleyField in 1992. Mark Grace, Andre Dawson, Ryne Sandberg, Sammy Sosa and Shawon Dunston. #ChicagoHistory ☑️

Microsoft has confirmed that the Windows 11 update KB5089549 fails to install on certain devices. The issue affects systems with critically low free space on the EFI System Partition (typically 10 MB or less). The update downloads and begins installing but fails during the restart phase at around 35–36% complete. Windows then rolls back the changes and displays error code 0x800f0922. Microsoft has provided two official workarounds: >Registry modification Open Command Prompt as Administrator and run the following command: reg add "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Bfsvc" /v EspPaddingPercent /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f Restart your computer and retry installing the update. >Known Issue Rollback: Microsoft is automatically deploying a server-side mitigation. Restarting your device multiple times can help activate it faster and allow the update to install successfully. A permanent fix will be included in a future cumulative update. Be sure to back up your registry or create a system restore point before making any registry changes.