Mark T.

@brookeleblanc Borderless!

gotta say, Eileen Gu was right. the deep confidence, self-trust and self-belief women get from sports is unmatched.

@businessbarista Claude

I want to start a community dedicated to Claude Code. It’s become the gateway drug to coding and experiencing the power of AI for tons of people. This will be a space for people to share killer use cases, agentic workflows, proven prompts, and connect with other CC obsessives. Comment “Claude” if you want to join.

@cassidoo Helpful post! I think there's a small typo: "they will all default to the configurations in the .github ~folder~" --> repository

For #blogvent day 19, I wrote about all you can do with .github on... GitHub! cassidoo.co/post/dot-githu…

@antonia_mdprjct @debbye_knauff Reminds me of the distinction between Certified Financial Planners with a fiduciary duty to their clients, vs many investment advisors who often sell their clients on investment instruments from their firms with extremely disadvantageous management fees. Most people have no idea.

Again— unsure if you’re missing the professional ethics part on purpose. A market seller isn’t the same as a professional you trust to advise you. The fact that this seems impossible to understand here, no matter how I explain it might be the issue. Advertise yourself as a reseller and explain you’re in it to make the most money off a client. Don’t say you’re a professional looking out for their interests, and don’t rely on your professional credentials to steer a client away from their interests in favor of personal profit. Obscuring instances of profit and justifying that it’s ok either “because everyone else does it” or “because clients will pay for it” is unethical. (And in a real estate transaction, brokers do advise clients on how to negotiate and get the best deal— the licensed professional in that’s instance isn’t the developer.) The whole “I deserve to make money no matter how as long as it’s legal” argument, *as a licensed professional,* isn’t super defensible. Plenty of courts and ethics boards have ruled this way.

Yes, depending on the product, who you are buying it from, and the type of business you operate, it could be either. But literally anyone, within the boundaries of contractual agreements and applicable laws, can buy a product at retail, wholesale, with a trade discount, with a coupon, on sale, or even second hand and sell it for whatever they want, however they want, and charge a professional service fee on top of it. You’re also free to not do business with them. However, it doesn’t make it wrong, illegal, nefarious, a scam, or dishonest. The only thing that would be wrong is not telling the consumer that they will be required to purchase through them, possibly at or above retail, in addition to paying professional service fees. It’s all about disclosure, communication and choices.

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@touchgrass_ron @drgurner I was going to say it's the transactional vs long term relationship dilemma. But the pattern is already set. Are you missing any beloved pets that might have been run over by a tractor in the past week? 🤷

@drgurner If there was a 0% chance we’d be made to feel guilty later on then this would be simple. Everything with them carries an unspoken expectation that things be “even”. I can count on 1 hand the # of times they’ve paid for our portion of a meal when we’ve gone out to eat in 10 yrs.

Just got a quarter of a cow worth of beef yesterday. Asked my father-in-law how much we owed him. "It's taken care of." What does that mean & how do I convince him to take my money?

@lowcodelocky @OfficialLoganK @pashmerepat @cline What are examples of details you would apply to an API key? Tags, labels?

@OfficialLoganK @pashmerepat @cline Please update the key management in AI Studio as part of the usage dashboard in there as well so you can name / apply details against them. This will make usage graphs far easier to track. Have this flow through to cloud console also.

Gemini 2.5 Pro is beloved by the @cline community. But users are getting $500 surprise bills. The API design makes it impossible to track costs. No realtime pricing + hidden caching costs + time-based billing = chaos for developers. @OfficialLoganK let's solve this together 🧵

@GrantSlatton @patio11 The accurate results with beach photos and only an ocean horizon (no mountains) were surprising.

@patio11 One of the takeaways was if your photo contains any mountains, the model is *extremely* good, i.e. it seems to be able to identify basically any ridgeline in the world x.com/GrantSlatton/s…

I’ve independently verified this, twice, and have to spoil the thread to say “Any photo outdoors can be trivially location matched in a fashion you’d assume would imply capabilities of an intelligence agency. If that is news to you, feel free to incorporate it into decisions.”

@bmontxna Did you visit the Osaka Expo? Thinking of taking the kids but have zero recommendations. Future of Life looks entrancing for me but maybe child nightmare fuel.

Expo 2025’s “Future of Life” (いのちの未来) pavilion explores Ishiguro Hiroshi’s vision of a world where the distinction between human and android dissolves & existence flows beyond the the limits of the physical body: “Humans originally came from inorganic forms that became organic. We are trying to use the power of technology to evolve into new inorganic forms.”

@dk_akni @eshear Would you say Google DeepDream was already a Waldorf kid?

@eshear Forest schools and Waldorf school are solid alternatives. Montessori feels too clinical at times.

Strongly considering starting a Montessori preschool for base models to attend after pretraining.

@jmbollenbacher @eshear Hmm, also.. forbes.com/sites/kashmirh…

The process here is important to note: They A|B tested the personality, resulting in a sycophant. Then they got public blowback and reverted. They are treating AIs personas as UX. This is bad. Theyre also doing it incompetently: The A|B test differed from public reaction a lot

@swyx @simonw [tap tap]

@simonw so like ChatGPT will be a 1B MAU product by EOY how do we think this works are there hundreds and thousands of prompts that we run a bank of evals on to find the winner or just one promptmaster vibing it out and hitting ship whenever it “feels right”

Don't suppose anyone grabbed a ChatGPT system prompt leak before and after this change? Would be interesting to see what instruction caused the sycophancy

@LiveMatrixCode @OfficialLoganK @OpenAI Never tried this. What's wrong with the UX?

@OfficialLoganK @OpenAI Logan why is deploying Anthropic models on GCP Vertex AI such a nightmare? Neurotic setup. Bureaucratic UX. Truly a “bearicratic” experience.

The Gemini API through our OpenAI compatibility layer now supports reasoning efforts: "low", "medium", "high", and "none"! You can hot swap to Gemini 2.5 Flash with 3 lines of code changed : )

@simonw Slow boil to get you acclimated before their social network full of AI?

Does anyone LIKE the thing where o3 uses your name in its chain of thought, as opposed to finding it creepy and unnecessary?

@nfarina @OfficialLoganK x.com/officiallogank…

@OfficialLoganK How do we compute cost here? Are `thinkingTokens` billed at $3.50 and all other output tokens at $0.60?

Gemini 2.5 Flash is here, our first unified reasoning model with thinking budgets. 🔥 It’s on the perato frontier and punches above its price and size!! developers.googleblog.com/en/start-build…

@saradu @FactoryAI Separates new and edited files in distinct visual trees?

new vibe coding toy. wish windsurf/cursor had this visual diagramming too

@andrewmccalip @nshankins All this makes one reflect back on sending a wheel of cheese into space, then later a Roadster.

@nshankins For years at parties I've brought up the price of a car per pound as a triumph of humanity.

Since we're talking manufacturing this week... I think a lot about the price of cheese vs vehicles per pound

@Long2007 @dioscuri @sam_atis In some instances it can miss a few green light opportunities in a congested urban intersection because it isn't aggressive enough. Or unwilling to "block the box." But it gets to the destination and overall trip time is not double the alternatives. It's great!

@dioscuri @sam_atis It's not though. I recently wanted to try out a waymo, but googled it and learned that they usually take about twice as long as a human-driven car because there are still a lot of situations they can't handle. They're here but it could easily be 10 years until they're practical

In the last six months I’ve heard multiple people confidently use self-driving cars as an example of a pipe dream that’s still a decades away. When I say “you realise you can get a driverless taxi in the Bay Area right now, right?” the reactions are interesting.

@esrtweet @WillManidis I took "better off on average" as recognizing the benefits of the piece on the right. Are you reacting to the "deeply ill" phrase?

I'm going to reject the implied critique entirely. Historically the alternative to mass-produced inexpensive stuff like the piece on the right wasn't "everybody has beautifully curved fireplace ornaments", it's "people who aren't rich can't have nice things at all". I'm rich on those terms. I was able to afford classically beautiful solid-oak furniture and nice Persian rugs for my house; I have a coffee table in my living room with Jacobean moldings a lot like that fireplace. But I'm not going to snark at people who buy things like that chest on the right, or at the chests themselves, because I know that the alternatives to mass-produced "slop" are worse than the slop, both on an individual and a social level. I have class and taste, but I haven't led the kind of coddled life that conduces to unthinking snobbery about it. It's simply a brute fact that not everybody can afford these things. However bad you think mass-produced middle-class slop is, not having the options it generates is worse.

its not that language models will make the average piece of writing/art worse. it will raise the average massively. its that when we apply industrial production to things of the heart (art, food, community) we end up with "better off on average" but deeply ill years later

@thdxr hope it doesn't need query params 🧐🙃

got opencontrol to drive any documented API - it's stupid easy straight up gave it access to my credit cards lets go everything im doing is in github in the reply