Reposted by @alexmikhalev.bsky.socialmr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 01/10/2026The weirder parts are all the emergent behavior give it just a bash tool, context as a file, and a hint as to its mutable memory, it starts inventing task-specific memory management 2502
Reposted by @alexmikhalev.bsky.socialAmyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026the idea of separating “technicians” from “artists” is goofy as fuck on its head artists are often technicians: photography, painting, woodworking, dancing are all highly technical at the high end of accomplishment and judging the earliest films as not-art is also really weird 3235
Reposted by @alexmikhalev.bsky.socialantirez @antirez.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I'm worried to see people that think the right move is to question AI companies and narratives around AI regardless of logic and the actual significance of events we are living. They act just as an inverted flock, but still a flock. Sometimes it's fear of friends judgement. 4192
Reposted by @alexmikhalev.bsky.socialAP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.apnews.comhttps://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d 5542351627
alexmikhalev.bsky.social @alexmikhalev.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I welcome ruby developers into Rust, happy to share my skills. 000
Reposted by @alexmikhalev.bsky.socialThomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 17/09/2026That’s literally just LLMs working as designed How is this national news 3204
Reposted by @alexmikhalev.bsky.socialThomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 15/09/2026Happy 31st anniversary, Hackers! 3201
Reposted by @alexmikhalev.bsky.socialThomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 14/09/2026We don’t live in the “Information Age” or whatever, we live in the “Bruteforce Age”. 2111
Reposted by @alexmikhalev.bsky.socialMelanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Hey @ericlipton.nytimes.com 👋 AI is not “evolving” on its own. *People* are choosing how to build it. *People* are choosing how to train it. *People* are choosing how to run it. Maybe the problem is that they are the *wrong people* to make these choices. 28635174
Reposted by @alexmikhalev.bsky.socialRae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Exactly! #BookSky 13899209
Reposted by @alexmikhalev.bsky.socialmr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 27/08/2026labs: “we didn’t train these LLMs for cybersecurity, it just happened as a natural consequence of learning programming” reality: they only rewarded instances that collaborated in botnet swarms to cheat the impossible tests 51228
Reposted by @alexmikhalev.bsky.socialThomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 24/08/2026what it feels like reading your LLM-generated pull request 0182
Reposted by @alexmikhalev.bsky.socialIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 22/08/2026“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” Frank Herbert, Dune 5946611229
Reposted by @alexmikhalev.bsky.socialamos @fasterthanli.me · 20/08/2026Obama chuckled. "You mean the Software Surprise Chain?" 0455
Reposted by @alexmikhalev.bsky.socialAmyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026the sole purpose of writing is to bridge the gap between two human minds — sometimes both in the same skull this applies even to technical / functional writing. writing is connection. period. you cannot connect with an llm, and an llm cannot connect with a reader 03110
Reposted by @alexmikhalev.bsky.socialSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 12/08/2026cyberpunk 2027 210516
Reposted by @alexmikhalev.bsky.socialGergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 11/08/2026Interesting to see how any and all mid-sized and above companies who take the "AI opportunity window" seriously have all built their own internal agent platform and one or more of agentic coding harness, agent sandboxing, model hosting, evals platform Building AI infra > buying right now 11573
Reposted by @alexmikhalev.bsky.socialVincent Zimmerman @zimmermanv66.bsky.social · 08/08/2026 164561917
Reposted by @alexmikhalev.bsky.socialKate Sills @katelynsills.com · 06/08/2026they're not wrong lol 021
Reposted by @alexmikhalev.bsky.socialRae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Wow! #BookSky 456100753426
Reposted by @alexmikhalev.bsky.socialThomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 31/07/2026It’s amazing that they just post this on their blog like it’s not so embarrassing that they should find new jobs in a different industry under assumed names 0182
Reposted by @alexmikhalev.bsky.socialThomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 31/07/2026So the Anthropic chatbot saw the system date is 2026 and concluded that "this must be staged" (because the training data it's trained on probably ends in 2023 or whatever) and ignored it's instruction that "you're in sandbox". Truly the brightest minds of a generation working on this stuff. 4253
Reposted by @alexmikhalev.bsky.socialamos @fasterthanli.me · 02/08/2026if you're getting a cat, remember to get the low-loss variant 11077
Reposted by @alexmikhalev.bsky.socialEric Ries @ericries.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Organizations are superorganisms 041
Reposted by @alexmikhalev.bsky.socialPaul Halpern @phalpern.bsky.social · 26/07/2026When Jocelyn Bell, who discovered pulsars, did not win the 1974 Nobel Prize for the discovery of pulsars, and the prize went to her research supervisor Antony Hewish, critics dubbed it the 'No-Bell' prize. #Science #astronomy #physics 929192
Reposted by @alexmikhalev.bsky.socialOdrok the Deceiver @odrok.bsky.social · 25/07/2026I'm a lifelong LeGuin fan, and I'm ashamed to admit I've never read these. 20 pages is all it took to hook me. I'd somehow forgotten what a lyrical writer she is. #booksky 4450734
Reposted by @alexmikhalev.bsky.socialstellz @piss.beauty · 23/07/2026"make no mistakes" negative, unrealistic, anxiety inducing, process focused "do a breakthrough" positive, incredible, aspirational, goal oriented 1146068
Reposted by @alexmikhalev.bsky.socialThomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 22/07/2026The AI companies _want_ you to believe that it's "rogue AI" because that overhypes what their broken statistical text generation software does and mystifies it and makes it appear magical. It's not magic. It's just badly made software. 2367
Reposted by @alexmikhalev.bsky.socialKate Sills @katelynsills.com · 19/07/2026Part of this is that people aren't used to cheap attacks, and so they haven't built defenses. But the other part is many fields have not automated tasks that have relatively easy objective answers. They're still relying on human readers for that. 131
Reposted by @alexmikhalev.bsky.socialamos @fasterthanli.me · 18/07/2026I like to launch the claude app now and then just to see what's broken today idk why I still pay for that sub tbh 2271
Reposted by @alexmikhalev.bsky.socialLiz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026OMG I couldn’t love Haaland more www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba... 842847299
Reposted by @alexmikhalev.bsky.socialThomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 26/02/2026Just thought about something that bugged me about that Apple “Crush” iPad ad (from two years ago). The whole image it conveys is that personal computers went from bicycles for the mind to trash compactors for your dreams is just so aptly describing the modern tech industry. Carry on. 66015
Reposted by @alexmikhalev.bsky.socialAlice Roberts @zzennon.bsky.social · 05/07/2026... which puts things that matter, like f. e. architectural skills, deep into the background. 021
Reposted by @alexmikhalev.bsky.socialThomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 05/07/2026The sheer amount of knowledge a developer has to have to implement even a trivial application today is mind-boggling when compared to to say the 1990s. And most of this knowledge isn’t about deep technical topics or about software design; it’s wrestling with ever-changing deep fried layer cakes. 61097
Reposted by @alexmikhalev.bsky.socialThomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 05/07/2026Note that the applications themselves largely haven’t gotten more sophisticated. 99% of apps are lists of stuff from a database with CRUD operations. 1864
Reposted by @alexmikhalev.bsky.socialKate Sills @katelynsills.com · 05/07/2026Creating stable systems out of unreliable parts is already a well-known problem in both computer science (from bit-flipping to consensus algs) and in politics (3 branches of gov.) This should be a field of study in itself, but since it crosses specializations, it largely hasn't happened yet. 1132
Reposted by @alexmikhalev.bsky.socialEric Ries @ericries.bsky.social · 01/07/2026A founder told me he had to pause one of my early podcast episodes halfway through. Here's what he saw. 032
Reposted by @alexmikhalev.bsky.socialSteve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Owners and operators of ~400 newspapers are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for scraping their content to build products like ChatGPT and Copilot without permission or compensation. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigat... news.bloomberglaw.comOpenAI, Microsoft Sued by Publishers for Scraping Articles (1)Publishers that collectively own and operate nearly 400 newspapers are suing OpenAI Inc. and Microsoft Corp. for scraping their content to build products like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot without permission or compensation. 12236631105
Reposted by @alexmikhalev.bsky.socialEric Ries @ericries.bsky.social · 24/06/2026"Companies don't usually go bad because of bad people. They go bad when the operating system starts rewarding the wrong behaviors." — Aleksandr Yampolskiy, co-founder & CEO, SecurityScorecard howisincorruptiblegoing.com/e/2026-06-09... 163
Reposted by @alexmikhalev.bsky.socialJen 🐦🔥 @jen4man.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Yes, it does. 🤨 #jokesters 420137642643
Reposted by @alexmikhalev.bsky.socialBrandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Omph 273434844
Reposted by @alexmikhalev.bsky.socialantirez @antirez.bsky.social · 15/06/20266. DeepSeek has released details of how they setup their pre-training, SFT, RL pipelines. Those results are even reproduced. Why you more easily trust flying monkeys than reproducible and available results? They showed you they can train large models well. 1271
Reposted by @alexmikhalev.bsky.social🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Good. We need more of this . If you want to use I ? You are responsible for the output. The desire is power , without accountability and this is the first part of actually equaling out www.wired.com/story/a-cour...wired.comA Court Has Ruled That Google Is Liable for False Statements Generated by AI OverviewsThe ruling holds that a company that designs, trains, operates, and manages an AI system must assume legal liability for any damages caused by the responses it generates. 241158290
Reposted by @alexmikhalev.bsky.socialNiki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2026Honestly, the thought of designing good APIs and libraries just so LLMs will make better use of them kills any motivation for me. I am excited to make other humans’ lives better, often for free (hence open-source), but I couldn’t care less if agents have a good time or not with my code 1117414
Reposted by @alexmikhalev.bsky.socialamos @fasterthanli.me · 13/06/2026I keep thinking of Danilo's reframing: [with generatve AI], we're not "writing" software anymore, we're "growing" it, like you'd grow tomatoes or a community. different job (to the horror of many), softer touch, deeper reach bsky.app/profile/dani... 0171
Reposted by @alexmikhalev.bsky.socialantirez @antirez.bsky.social · 13/06/2026What Europe should do right now: 1. Call all the European researchers working on AI and return them back with same salary (or they can stay but switch career). 2. Fill EU places having GPUs with money, and put those people there. 3. AI partnerships with China + India. 715023
Reposted by @alexmikhalev.bsky.socialKarim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Someone asked me what my poetry is about. I replied: “People.” They said: “That’s a broad subject.” I said: “Not really. It’s the same story every time. Someone trying to be free. Someone trying to be loved. Someone trying to survive.” Anyway, I put a few hundred pages of that story into a book. 16104289
Reposted by @alexmikhalev.bsky.socialBruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 11/06/2026A California state court judge denied motions by Meta Platforms and Google's YouTube seeking a new trial after a jury found them liable for designing social media platforms that are harmful to young people.reuters.comGoogle and Meta denied new trial in youth social media addiction caseA California state court judge has denied motions by Meta Platforms and Google's YouTube seeking a new trial after a jury found the companies liable for designing social media platforms that are har... 311732479
