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Round peg, round hole, what what these labs were all supposed to be this whole time: open source, pro social projects, governed in the commons like all the rest of open source projects.

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Random Access Guild (reading list)

If this reply gets more than 50 likes, I’ll write a blog post for what I’ve been scheming about for over a year. As a preview, here’s a reading list I started after the conference. Most of the juice stuff lives in slack threads. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

docs.google.com

Random Access Guild Reading List Please add readings below. So far, this list is going for texts about imagining new forms of social organization of people, towards the ideal of some kind of CNG guil...

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Have I ever mentioned online my idea for the “random access guild”? I thought of it at @cloudnativegeo.org’s conference last year. A neo union (tech guild) might be a better model for improving the material condition of workers, mediating worker IP, and training new entrants to the field at once.

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The community of silicon valley remains durable to the ruggedness of late capitalism because it operates under a gift economy via angel investment/vc, and yes, probably also sex cults. escholarship.org/content/qt3d... Maybe, instead, we could take that community drive and empower workers.

escholarship.org

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Al Merose @al.merose.com · 19h

If the workers of Ant, OAI, and GDM were all part of a union (e.g. a frontier AI guild), they could cooperate in ways that are illegal collusion for corporations. IMO, that would be a stronger alternative but achieve similar goals (slowdown for safety) of a cartel.

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I’m imagining it would translate to sending something like an emotion to Claude, and it would be able to make that information useful

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Al Merose @al.merose.com · 19h

That different frontier models perform in the lead in agentic coding, depending on which benchmark you look at, means to me that one might want to see which benchmark reflects the work you typically do to choose the model family.

Benchmark results of gemini 4

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-4-argon/

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Al Merose @al.merose.com · 21h

Congratulations!🍾

Al Merose @al.merose.com · 21h

The current moment feels like we’ve all seized the means of production. With a $20/mo claude sub, I am actually providing a competitive quality database system to a venture backed startup. SWEs of the future might be like early Americans, where wage labor was a means to then work for yourself.

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Al Merose @al.merose.com · 23h

Getting excited about what I’ve been cooking up recently. These 3 lines of SQL, which look like the mathematical definition, are all you need to define the weight update rule for SGD. This is very close to the way you’d define it in JAX and Python. docs.jax.dev/en/latest/au...

WITH loss AS (SELECT SUM(power (x.v *w.val -y.v, 2)) AS 1
FROM × JOIN w ON x.i = w.i JOIN y ON x.s = y.s)
SELECT w.i, w.val - 0.1 * g.val AS val = g.i
FROM w JOIN grad(loss, w.val) g ON w.i = g.i

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Remote Builds - Nix Reference Manual

Yoo, TIL Nix comes with remote builds! nix.dev/manual/nix/2... I develop on a nixos machine; I think I can make my agentic workflows really *sing*

nix.dev

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Last night was pretty sleepless for me with the baby, but man was it good to keep the build going

Remote Execution Overview - Bazel Documentation

I should try to figure out some sort of remote execution system for this like bazel. Hell, remote execution of my rust sources via bazel would probably quicken these build, break, fix loops. bazel.build/remote/rbe

bazel.build

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Waiting for two agents to fuzz and fix your code feels like a new type of long compile step.

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I argued with the father of open source for 2 years. Now the AI fight is the same — only bigger.

David Seigel, one of the founders of Open Athena, made the same argument recently and explained why he believes in OA + our pursuit of open source frontier models openathena.ai/blog/david-s...

openathena.ai

David Siegel, founder and chairman of Open Athena, writes in Fortune about the importance of open source in AI.

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thinking about this old quote in the context of certain people - professors, nyt contributors, etc - who see casual misgendering as a reasonable response to a lack of respect for their claimed epistemic authority

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Al Merose @al.merose.com · 29/09/2026

The implementor agent literally ran all night trying to fix weird corner cases produced by the fuzzer on a single prompt (with no loops).

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Al Merose @al.merose.com · 29/09/2026

Adversarial review works swimmingly well with fuzzing. I’ve added property based tests, metamorphic tests, other useful invariants and had an adv claude agent catch very hard to find bugs. Once the adversairy is in the mindset of simulation testing, it tends to come up with other very clever ideas.

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Al Merose @al.merose.com · 29/09/2026

Yooo Larry is my coworker

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We’re replicating our relationship’s property of being free of conflict 😉

I’ve been trying to get my wife to use bsky and I told her about the For You feed, but because she has only liked my posts so far, she’s now complaining about the feed saying it’s showing her junk about CRDTs.

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Human attention used to only be a unit of consumption. With AI, it’s now the mediator for units of production.

One project I’m working on used something like 90GB of debug build artifacts on my 235GB SSD

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Having a surprising conversation with Opus 5.5 rn

Claude Opus 5.5 thinking trace: “Working through feelings of regret about...”

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I want the following apple shortcut: read my incoming text messages, put it into jev with the question: is this political spam? If yes, mark it as spam.

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If there is one contribution that I hope to make to computer science, it’s that relational algebra is as important as linear algebra or calculus is to machine learning.

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Rust is not for the faint of disk space, sheesh

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 25/09/2026

I wish I could add emoji reactions to paragraphs inside remote control on the claude code app, I think it would greatly let me steer what gets built.

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Donald Trump may wind up the single biggest catalyst for clean energy adoption in human history Completely unintentionally I’ll take what silver linings I can get

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If there’s one thing that irks me online, it’s that “neurodivergence” betrays its own intent for liberation: it now is just code for ADHD or Autism, but not for other conditions who still face stigma.

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Umm… have we all forgotten about how AI Psychosis got its name?

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The ultra wealthy pay a lower tax rate than firefighters and teachers. They should not get to live in their own society with their own rules. Wealth at this scale isn’t for security, it’s for power. A yes vote on 40 is a vote for democracy here and abroad.