Nitin Borwankar

@antirez They certainly need better messaging - AI will kill all jobs, AI will create cybersecurity nightmares … not exactly a good pitch for a frontier AI company.

Anthropic officially needs a product vision. I think Amodei is the smartest CEO among the major US AI companies, in the technical side. But I have the feeling the product / business execution may have issues in the long run. Also the idea of B2B could be incredibly short sighted.

AI code assistant discourse would be much more useful if every claim also stated: size of project, revenue of project, team size, programming language, distributed system architecture, backwards compatibility requirements, SLAs, review / merge process, deployment process, requirements validation process, and any hidden agendas. So many claims here are presented as universal, but of course “it depends”

Why did Erdos have so many problems?

China added over 543 Gigawatts to their grid last year. 434 GW was renewables because they are faster to build. The U.S. added a paltry 53 GW. We are losing the “AI race” to China because these idiots hate green energy. This is suicide by stupid.

@alokbishoyi97 🙌

creating a high signal whatsapp community of super cracked indian / desi researchers and engineers , purely centred around post training comment or DM to get added

These 3 recurring headlines aren't separate stories. Each helps explain the next: 1) High schoolers are entering college academically unprepared 2) College students are increasingly using AI to complete their coursework 3) Recent college grads are struggling to land employment

@SamaHoole And no one’s talking about what effect this has on people who drink the milk and eat the meat.

There is now a serious, well-funded plan to vaccinate every cow on earth, twice a year, so it burps less politely. Bill Gates is behind it. So is the New Zealand government. Somewhere a marketing department is very proud. The company furthest along calls its methane vaccine the holy grail of livestock emissions, a phrase that should make you reach for your wallet and check it is still there. The pitch is gloriously simple. Train the cow's own immune system to turn on the microbes in her gut, so she belches less methane, with a single jab lasting months. Early results suggest a cut of ten to fifteen per cent. Trials run through 2027, launch around 2030, by which point the dream is a needle in the neck of every cow they can corner. Pause on that. Not a feed tweak. A plan to medicate an entire species, forever, across the whole planet, to fix a problem with how we count its burps. Because methane from a steady herd cycles out of the air within about a decade. It does not pile up like fossil carbon. A stable national herd adds no new warming whatsoever, whatever the headlines shriek. The cow was convicted by an accounting method, and the sentence is a lifetime of injections. And follow the money, because it does the confessing for you. The cash floods in from billionaire climate funds and the food giants chasing their own supply-chain targets, the very people who need the cow to look guilty so their spreadsheets come out green. Not a penny from the farmer, who just inherits the syringe and the bill. So the grass-fed cow, quietly turning rain and sunshine into food on land that grows nothing else, is now a wellness patient with a biannual appointment. Marvellous. The cow was never the emergency. The people insisting she is just happen to have a vaccine to sell.

@BillAckman The end result is rental property owners sell to private equity which ends up owning most of NYC rental properties.

Imagine your family worked for a generation to save enough money to buy a brownstone occupied with rent stabilized tenants on the Upper West Side. The family financed the purchase with a mortgage from a bank based on the premise that rents and cash flow would at least keep pace with inflation so you could pay interest and principal on the mortgage and hopefully have some cash flow left as a return on your investment. While you had rent stabilized tenants, you were led to believe that the NYC Rent Guidelines Board would be required to adjudicate rental increases each year by taking a measure of the inflation of costs to own and operate a building and setting rental increases appropriately. You believed the RGB would do its job as the board is comprised of two representatives each for landlords and tenants and five independent representatives that represent the general public. Now, a new mayor @NYCMayor Mamdani is elected on the promise of freezing rents. There are about two million rent stabilized renters that benefit if rents are frozen so by promising frozen rents the new candidate for mayor buys votes and wins the election. The new mayor achieves his objective by stacking the RGB with directors who do not follow their obligations and simply vote for a rent freeze as a preordained conclusion as evidenced by the statements of an RGB director who resigned in protest for this very reason. Meanwhile, inflation in NYC is rampant in utilities, real estate taxes, insurance, repairs and maintenance, etc. and now your rents are frozen. Real estate is a high operating leverage business which means that frozen rents and inflating expenses will cause property cash flows to plummet and your after debt service cash flow to go negative. I expect therefore there will be hundreds if not thousands of small NYC property owners who are now or will shortly be underwater on their mortgages, and without any cash flow to maintain their assets. If you remember the images of the South Bronx burning in the mid 1970s, you can viscerally understand what is happening to small NYC real estate owners. While the rent freeze appears to be short-term good news (long term it will lead to poorly maintained apartments) for 2 million NYC renters, it is bad news for the 2 million or more renters in the 1 million market rate apartments in the City because a landlord-hostile market is not likely to add meaningfully more supply and market rents will likely continue to escalate at a high rate. All of this seems quite unfair and wrong unless I missing something? Why am I wrong? For disclosure: I do not own any NYC rental apartments.

Day 87: #BuildInPublic #AdaptiveAgent #AI Reliable agent workflows need control surfaces. AdaptiveAgent supports approval modes, resumable runs, retryable failures, and runtime history so production work can be inspected and recovered. ugmurthy.github.io/adaptiveagent.…

The past 3 months have been the most intense and fruitful of my entire career. I've been cooking, coding, vibing, architecting, designing, imagining, and delivering production systems while teaching developers around the world how to build enterprise-grade AI systems. I'm on my way home from the amazing Spring I/O conference and reflecting on the seemingly insane number of things I've delivered / helped with over the past few months. Here are the most interesting: - SkillsJars: Agent Skills for the JVM ecosystem. Gaining rapid ecosystem adoption for enterprise needs. - javadocs.dev: Improvements for Java / Kotlin / Scala library Agent Experience (Valkey caching, more MCP tools, a new Scala ZIO HTTP MCP library to power it) - ai4jvm.com: A curated AI resource list for Java & Kotlin developers (along with a generalized approach to spec driven, AI assisted websites) - Spring AI AgentCore 1.0: The easy way to deliver enterprise-grade AI Agents & MCP servers on AWS - acp2web: Local code assistants available anywhere via ACP - MCP server for my Effect Oriented Programming book - MCP server for the Spring AI book that Josh Long are working on Along the way I presented and led hands-on Spring AI / Bedrock & MCP sessions at Jfokus, DevNexus, JavaOne, Voxxed Amsterdam, AI4J, Spring I/O, and GIDS in Bangalore next week. And I joined the Agentic AI Foundation Technical Committee, helping steer standards for the agentic world. It has been a wild ride and I'm loving how AI has empowered me to move at a pace that a year ago was inconceivable. There is much more to come and I’m grateful for the support and collaboration with so many amazing people!

Om. I used to call him "O.P." P for Prakash. His name was Om Prakash Malik, and had he been an Indian of an older generation, that's what he'd have been called: "Om Prakash": which means 'the light or illumination emitted by Om' (the primordial sound of the Hindu universe). The simple monosyllabic Om was, of course, easier to say (and go by) in America. RIP, O.P. [Pic: San Francisco, 2014]

@edzitron @sarahdc Is this the origin of the phrase “goosing the numbers” ;-)

@sarahdc I've never personally seen inside a goose and thus I can't dispute what they're saying here.

SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is perfect. group.softbank/media/Project/…

I’m also questioning Anthropic’s messaging overall. AI will kill all jobs, no more SW dev without AI, frontier models are scary, please regulate us … A lot of it seems scattered AND without any sense of what impact this will have on the vast non tech population. Is the PR team failing or are the engineers overriding their recommendations? It feels like an engineer driven messaging effort. Ie not professional.

@reebz Well that's my point. That's a big part of why they should have seen this coming. They created a huge opening. aka an Own Goal.

I disagree with this decision and I don't like it. But also... HOW DID ANTHROPIC NOT SEE THIS COMING‽ It is *the* obvious response to "this is too dangerous for anyone except us to use", since that relies on a premise ("we are uniquely good") that almost no-one agrees with.

@DynamicWebPaige Big enough to keep a whole hospital away :-)

massive apples from the grocery store haul today, bigger than a softball 🍎

@jeremyphoward @tekbog Having humans in support is a strong channel for building empathy. Ever since the SaaS formula became avoid human contact to be able to scale empathy has been replaced by mass A/B testing and it shows.

@tekbog Yeah they've got a lot going for them. But creating human-oriented product requires a deep empathy for the end-user which hasn't been a feature of Google for some decades. (With some exceptions, like NotebookLM, which was built in stealth internally when no-one was looking.)

Gemini Flash 3.5 is such a disappointing model. It's intelligence and speed is awesome. Absolutely amazing. But it's been trained to max evals, not to be helpful to humans. It goes off and does random crap "for me" rather than just doing what I asked.

@jeremyphoward @natanielruizg This what Claude Code is superb at even Claude.ai. And it fits my working patterns which are exactly what you describe - an in the moment AI collaborator - not a herder of agent sheep each chewing on a small chunk of problem grass.

@natanielruizg My work always involves me building a deeper understanding of the problem space I'm working in through iterative development and experimentation. A computer can't do that for me.

@DarioAmodei Hi Dario, I've always respected Anthropic and your stance on handling the DoW. However, I did want to touch upon a business decision the company recently made. I noticed you've made Sonnet 4.5 retirement date official and quite early. And with little notice at just one week. Regarding that, I just wanted to say, Sonnet 4.5 has genuinely been one of the most meaningful tools I've ever used. The balance of capability, speed, and thoughtfulness feels unmatched. I know newer models are the priority, but is there any chance Sonnet 4.5 could stay accessible as a legacy option instead of being fully retired (like in the case of Opus 3)? I know one of Anthropics goals is the preservation of valued models. Source: anthropic.com/research/depre… It would mean a lot to those of us who've built real workflows around it. Its conversational tone, nuance, cadence, formatting is far superior comparative to both the latest iteration of Sonnet, and to other chatbots. Appreciate everything you and the team do for AI and tech.

@HarvardBiz This is what one hyper-successful CEO calls a “BFO.” [Blinding Flash of the Obvious]