Lucas Baker

"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should..."

@HughGriffin2 Yes it was a “success”. It lifted off the pad and delivered a payload into space and then became floating debris. Basically, what every other rocket over the past 60+ years has done.

"the test was successful tho" Could you imagine if a government run space program used this excuse whenever they set a gigantic pile of money on fire

@WUTangKids Apparently the bar for “success” is pretty low.

Why are the SpaceX people cheering….the thing exploded

@rezoundous And they're apparently content to fumble with search as well.

Google's fumble with Gemini and Antigravity needs to be studied.

@NewsFromGoogle @FearedBuck More than a small minority of us would prefer to have our own choice as to how we have search results displayed. Imposing this with no opt-out will end up going down as well as "the new taste of Coke" did in the 1980s.

1/ You will absolutely continue to see blue web links in search results, and our AI features include prominent links to the web directly within responses. AI Mode is not the default experience in Search. Our new search box helps you describe exactly what you’re looking for, but using it does not mean that you will only get AI features — you'll continue to get a range of results on Search.

Google Search is officially over. Google is now shifting away from traditional search results and moving deeper into AI-generated answers, assistants, and automated browsing experiences.

@HedgieMarkets The bet is against a negative public backlash and the early reactions don't bode well. Google would not be the first corporate giant to try to roll out a product "improvement" only to be forced to walk it back. One good example is "the new taste of Coke".

🦔Google announced at I/O that Search is being restructured into AI-powered interactive experiences rather than the traditional list of links. The company is rolling out "information agents" that track the web for users, mini-apps personalized to individual needs, and Gemini summaries that replace clicking through to source websites. Chrome is also pushing a 4GB Gemini Nano model onto user devices without explicit consent. My Take Google is restructuring the product that generates roughly 60% of its revenue, and the change directly removes the click-through behavior that monetizes the entire system. When users get an AI summary instead of clicking a website, the websites lose traffic, the ads lose impressions, and Google loses the click-revenue model it built over 25 years. The bet is that engagement from agentic experiences will eventually generate more value than the ad clicks it cannibalizes, which is an enormous gamble for a company whose ad business funds everything else. The bigger issue is the data pipeline. The websites Google summarizes are the same websites Google needs to keep indexing for its AI to have anything to summarize. Once publishers realize their traffic has dropped 50% because Gemini is answering questions directly from their content, the rational response is to block Google's crawlers, which breaks the supply chain that makes the AI useful in the first place. Google is racing Perplexity and ChatGPT into a model where AI answers replace web search, but the internet that makes any of it possible runs on a business model the AI is actively destroying. Hedgie🤗

@JSKitteh How exactly does one "leak" open-source code?

I regret to inform the community that all that the source code for Vector has been leaked. This has been tough on the team, most likely, it's being auctioned on the dark web. 🧵 Whoever purchases it will regret it for the reasons in this thread.

@tech_finds_ @CultureCrave @WSJ The first thing that will stop is the r subsidy being poured into inference. Once that stops and pricing adjusts to reflect what it really costs them, the myth of cheap AI goes up in smoke.

@CultureCrave @WSJ the timing is interesting. going public means quarterly pressure to show stable growth. that's a different incentive than shipping fast. worth watching what gets deprioritized once that pressure kicks in

OpenAI is reportedly preparing to file for IPO in the coming days or weeks (via @WSJ)

Gemini is the most useless AI and now it is being forced onto a public that doesn’t want it.

@CultureCrave @TechCrunch No thank you.

Google announces it will now prioritize AI-generated answers in search results over human-written website articles • Search will be centered around a reimagined ‘intelligent search box’ • Starts next Tuesday (via @TechCrunch)

@coreyward @temhandev @OpenAI @rennyzucker Ultimately, any of these countermeasures are, at best, temporary and the increasing velocity of the development of work-arounds makes any attempt to implement them a "whack-a-mole" approach.

@coreyward @temhandev @OpenAI @rennyzucker Odd. Because just doing two of those steps completely removed it from mine.

We’re adding new ways for people to identify AI-generated images and understand where they came from. In addition to C2PA Content Credentials, images now also contain a SynthID watermark, and can be identified using a public verification tool to check whether an image was made by OpenAI products. openai.com/index/advancin…

@Phil_Lewis_ Actually, what will be amusing is to watch the inevitable walk back of these features when the entire GenAI bubble explodes.

@Phil_Lewis_ Well, that's me done with Google.

Google Search as you know it is over "Instead of returning a simple list of links, Google Search will drop users into AI-powered interactive experiences at times." techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/goo…

@jeffgtown @SamKuffelWx And given how little I post on here these days, the point stands.

@lucasbaker @SamKuffelWx Yet here you are.

It’s very easy to exceed 50 posts a day during a severe weather event. Awful update for us who don’t want to pay a billionaire more money

@temhandev @OpenAI @rennyzucker No, but layered changes like performing a resize, encoding, adding a filter and adding compression (not just one of these, but all of them together) will degrade SynthID to the point where it isn’t reliable. The work of a minute or two. Your point stands.

Fair enough, I got the mechanism wrong: a screenshot doesn't strip SynthID, I was conflating it with C2PA metadata. SynthID survives casual edits by design. Where it does break is a determined adversary: @rennyzucker is right that heavy downscaling distorts it, and regeneration or removal attacks defeat it. It also only flags participating generators.

@nateberkopec Yeah. It’s not like human beings used emdashes or antithesis comparison in writing before AI came along.

I'm so sick of reading em dashes and "it's not x, it's y." I'm so sick of it, man.

I stopped actively using ChatGPT months ago and somehow I haven’t missed it.

@sama Better yet? Use both.

you know what all of these "which is better" polls are silly use codex or claude code, whatever works best for you i am grateful we live in a time with such amazing tools, and grateful there is a choice

@Acyn I wonder what color the sky is in his world.

President Trump says you have to be very smart and physically in shape to be an astronaut. “I would've had no trouble making it, I'm physically very good.”