Scott Handsaker

The UK gave us the template. First, the traditional conservatives collapsed, hollowed out by a populist right that spoke to communities the establishment had long stopped listening to. Then came the left’s turn. Labour’s working-class base, quietly abandoned over two decades of Brahmin politics, didn’t come home. It went elsewhere. Australia is following the same sequence, just on a slower clock. And not every Labor government will feel it equally, but Victoria is different. I explain why. The canary sing has been fading for a while now. We just weren’t listening. My new piece on this very complex evolution of the traditional Right and Left in the comments section.

Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome. AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement. We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only. We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements. We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.

Today we're introducing a set of new company values at Lovable. We've grown from 20 to 150 people in the last year. As we become a bigger team, our culture makes a compounding difference. So we looked at what actually goes wrong at companies as they scale: companies stop grounding decisions in what's best for customers, people start doing things the way they've always been done, standards slip, and ownership gets shallow. The patterns are surprisingly consistent, and every value we chose is a direct response to one of them: