Cliffano Subagio

When you're honest about not using pre-existing artwork to train your frontier model.

Mythos escaped the sandbox. Again.

Unlocking more science and exploration at Mars starts with communication 🛰️ Rocket Lab’s Mars Telecommunications Orbiter is the critical infrastructure that will keep Mars missions connected and enable the next era of human exploration on the Red Planet.

Someone please run four AI agents, ask them to write a book titled "AI Design Patterns," and call themselves the AI Gang of Four.

That was quick: youtube.com/watch?v=eXaVC6…

Counting down to AI agents paying humans for real life services.

The best software I used during my teenage years was by far PageMaker. I immensely enjoyed setting up the page layouts of my school reports with precision down to the millimeters. RIP Paul Brainerd. geekwire.com/2026/pagemaker…

Had a chat with ChatGPT:

I recently spoke at the Sundance Film Festival on a panel about AI. Sundance is an annual gathering of filmmakers and movie buffs that serves as the premier showcase for independent films in the United States. Knowing that many people in Hollywood are extremely uncomfortable about AI, I decided to immerse myself for a day in this community to learn about their anxieties and build bridges. I’m grateful to Daniel Dae Kim @danieldaekim, an actor/producer/director I’ve come to respect deeply for his artistic and social work, for organizing the panel, which also included Daniel, Dan Kwan, Jonathan Wang, and Janet Yang. I found myself surrounded by award-winning filmmakers and definitely felt like the odd person out! First, Hollywood has many reasons to be uncomfortable with AI. People from the entertainment industry come from a very different culture than many who work in tech, and this drives deep differences in what we focus on and what we value. A significant subset of Hollywood is concerned that: - AI companies are taking their work to learn from it without consent and compensation. Whereas the software industry is used to open source and the open internet, Hollywood focuses much more on intellectual property, which underlies the core economic engines of the entertainment industry. - Powerful unions like SAG-AFTRA (Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) are deeply concerned about protecting the jobs of their members. When AI technology (or any other force) threatens the livelihoods of their members — like voice actors — they will fight mightily against potential job losses. - This wave of technological change feels forced on them more than previous waves, where they felt more free to adopt or reject the technology. For example, celebrities felt like it was up to them whether to use social media. In contrast, negative messaging from some AI leaders who present the technology as unstoppable, perhaps even a dangerous force that will wipe out many jobs, has not encouraged enthusiastic adoption. Having said that, Hollywood is under no illusions that AI will change entertainment, and that if Hollywood does not adapt, perhaps some other place will become the new center for entertainment. The entertainment industry is no stranger to technology change. Radio, TV, computer graphics special effects, video streaming, and social media transformed the industry. But the path to navigating AI’s transformation is still unclear, and organizations like the new Creators Coalition on AI are trying to stake out positions. Unfortunately, Hollywood’s negative sentiment toward AI also means it will produce a lot more Terminator-like movies that portray AI as more dangerous than helpful, and this hurts beneficial AI adoption as well. The interests of AI and Hollywood are not always aligned. (Every time I speak in a group like this as the “AI representative,” I can count on being asked very hard questions.) Most of us in tech would prefer a more open internet and more permissive use of creative works. But there is also much common ground, for example in wanting guardrails against deepfakes and a smooth transition for those whose jobs are displaced, perhaps via upskilling. Storytelling is hard. I’m optimistic that AI tools like Veo, Sora, Runway, Kling, Ray, Hailuo, and many others can make video creation easier for millions of people. I hope Hollywood and AI developers will find more opportunities to collaborate, find more common ground, and also steer our projects toward outcomes that are win-win for as many parties as possible. [Original text: deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issu… ]

OpenClaw as a spec.

Achievement Unlocked: Hitting Gem::Package::TooLongFileName due to something related to Pokemon.

Beautiful views of Electron's 81st launch of the "Bridging The Swarm" mission for @kaistpr. 📸: bit.ly/4t5ujXO

Gary Gygax was in my pantheon of heroes as a teenage D&D player, but I really didn’t know much about him before reading this book. The closest I got was asking Margaret Weis, one of the Dragonlance authors and an acquaintance of my father, about him on the phone when I was 13. The broader impact of D&D (the games at Id Software were briefly mentioned near the end) far exceeded the financial returns for him, and his road was pretty rough, but it sounds like he settled into a pretty good place as “king of the nerds” by the end. Dying at 69 after a lot of poor health is a reminder for those of us in our 50s to take care of ourselves. @MikeWitwer

Submition for UltraHorse x Cartoon Hero contest. Some people unwind. Nigel recalibrates. His daily life is build on balance - body, mind and voltage. Calm routines, precise control, and never skipping tea, even under pressure. Everything else is just noise. @SquadBlastgame @Framer_X

As Japan's labor shortage deepens, businesses fear losing foreign workers - The Mainichi mainichi.jp/english/articl…

Coffee therapy resumes... with some jazz.

Blog post: 600km bike ride from Tokyo to Kyoto kohsuke.org/2025/12/22/tok…

Translate Japanese to Gandalf:

Plenty of JP sites are recommending the use of browser translate tools. Site language support is gradually turning into a thing of the past.

This monitor displays the carbon dioxide measurement at Aeon Mall Asahikawa.