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Jack Danger @jackdanger.com · 24/09/2026

The characters in AI are anthropomorphic, so describing them in human terms is meaningful. The shoggoth underneath is not, and anthropomorphizing it does not help readers understand bsky.app/profile/coli...

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Jack Danger @jackdanger.com · 15/09/2026

not exaggerating - I think they may have forgotten that free compute is something that only exists briefly, in bubbles, at only some companies

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Jack Danger @jackdanger.com · 15/09/2026

Every warning-against-AI written by a frontier labs employee makes me wonder if they even know that someone has to actually *pay* for the computers to execute software

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Jack Danger @jackdanger.com · 13/09/2026

I appreciated this. Especially the parts about paying more attention to the rule-making than the models

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Jack Danger @jackdanger.com · 11/09/2026

fucking hell 👏👏👏👏

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Jack Danger @jackdanger.com · 20/08/2026

Anthropic is misaligned with humanity because I don’t want to end up talking like that

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Jack Danger @jackdanger.com · 16/08/2026

constantly foiled by the major vendors charging per million tokens and then lowering (concept/token) density to increase revenue

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Jack Danger @jackdanger.com · 15/08/2026

Serious question: How are eng leaders bringing their teams safely through this AI shit? There is so much to learn, so much to grieve, so much fun to be had, and everybody is handling it differently.

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Sam Rose @samwho.dev · 13/08/2026

This might be the most beautiful thing I've read in my life. What a privilege to be alive in 2026. ordinaryabundance.com

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Ordinary Abundance

A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.

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Jack Danger @jackdanger.com · 10/08/2026

Just got The Predator’s Table by @kimcrayton1.bsky.social and she’s pulling zero punches

Photo of the book The Predator’s Table, including a pull quote on a white man who sends emails on behalf of a woman because the recipients don’t give her work the same value when her name is attached

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Jack Danger @jackdanger.com · 09/08/2026

This is amazing. I wonder whether there’s any benefit to freezing this middle layer(s) after RL backprop has optimized it and see if other layers can then learn further

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Jack Danger @jackdanger.com · 04/08/2026

Two AI truths through which I see everything: * commoditization is inherent - everything is a race to the bottom because there is zero stickiness anywhere * what you can do with AI is limited by your own knowledge

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Jack Danger @jackdanger.com · 04/08/2026

So the bots can learn how to retrieve better? /s

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Jack Danger @jackdanger.com · 02/08/2026

Love this. 100k tokens once can save trillions of instructions per second forever (and fewer pieces of hardware in use at once)

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Jack Danger @jackdanger.com · 02/08/2026

I’m not sure I’d buy the idea of AI addiction (people destroy themselves and their families to feed an addiction), but it obviously generates intense dependency (like phones do)

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Jack Danger @jackdanger.com · 02/08/2026

Now that I can offload the configuration repair to an LLM it's finally worth it to have a hand-tuned Linux machine

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Jack Danger @jackdanger.com · 02/08/2026

If I have to read shit like “the gate is not the lever, it’s the seam” one more time I’m gonna lose it

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Jack Danger @jackdanger.com · 29/07/2026

I’ve been working on a longform blog post, but I realized the whole takeaway is this: computer science degree matter again. Source code is free forever, but actually running software has not become any easier.

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Jack Danger @jackdanger.com · 29/07/2026

It would go a long way to show good faith and remove troll connotations if you first outlined what you think, and the limitations of what you think when you asked. To me, the question came off like a mix of engagement farming and false incredulity

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Jack Danger @jackdanger.com · 18/07/2026

Rage Against The Machine‘s “Testify” music video (directed by Michael Moore) was literally about how the candidates were interchangeable

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Jack Danger @jackdanger.com · 16/07/2026

You got a chortle out of me

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Jack Danger @jackdanger.com · 14/07/2026

omg I thought of a word for it: "Claudchés" It's not X, it's Y. The A is the B, and it's the X The key insight is A isn't just B, it's X etc.

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Jack Danger @jackdanger.com · 12/07/2026

Alfred Nobel was mistakenly believed dead and his obit written honestly. He read it and sought to change his life, establishing the Nobel Prize. McConnell and Graham have destroyed countless communities and impoverished millions because of their failed moral compasses.

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Jack Danger @jackdanger.com · 12/07/2026

They both can’t afford to run it now, and won’t be able to charge for it at all if a better model comes out for cheap. Almost like these economics don’t make sense. it’s good but it’s not $1K/day/person good

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Jack Danger @jackdanger.com · 06/07/2026

FWIW this is true of most frontier models still. But, yeah, extra so with Fable

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Jack Danger @jackdanger.com · 21/06/2026

It really is a delight. I sat behind Whitfield Diffie at a sea chanty singalong in SF a few years back. I love pointing out to new engineers that they, too, might invent something amazing - because the great inventors are all so clearly regular people

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Jack Danger @jackdanger.com · 21/06/2026

I love Steve’s writing on systems thinking but his predictions about government are predictably incorrect. He wrote with extreme certainty that it would be impossible for the gov’t to legalize pot. Here we are

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Jack Danger @jackdanger.com · 19/06/2026

i can’t explain it but this is the best post on bluesky

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Jack Danger @jackdanger.com · 16/06/2026

I meant to add “public“

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Jack Danger @jackdanger.com · 16/06/2026

A shared, written space for talking about the work that’s full of everything from design one-pagers to runtime artifacts

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Jack Danger @jackdanger.com · 15/06/2026

Earn much Consume little Give generously Celebrate life I heard that once from a man who devoted his life - and his family’s life - to living among and serving the global urban poor. Brave good men reveal folks like Thiel and Elon as the children they are

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Jack Danger @jackdanger.com · 15/06/2026

I see folks interpreting the SpaceX IPO as a call to be more like Elon. Richness is giving to others more than you take, creating value that wouldn’t exist without you, and leaving every person better than you found them. Invest in your own internal moral compass and generate joy for yourself.

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Jack Danger @jackdanger.com · 13/06/2026

If you want: * The public to think AI is scary * To pump up mentions of your name before IPO * To stop losing $400/query I imagine you might shut down your giant uses-8-racks-to-answer-questions model when any fed gives you a chance

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Jack Danger @jackdanger.com · 13/06/2026

I thought Python would be the default language of the future because the folks who built LLMs used it the most. These days I'm doing everything in Rust because only correctness and performance matters if I'm not seeing the code anyway

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Jack Danger @jackdanger.com · 13/06/2026

When you realize you're carefully reading an article fully written by Opus

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Jack Danger @jackdanger.com · 12/06/2026

Anthropic, as a company, has many strengths. But their leadership exists in a realm where everything is free. So nothing about their products or tooling is informed by customer cost-sensitivity

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Jack Danger @jackdanger.com · 12/06/2026

It's clear it was trained on its own attempts to work autonomously, rewarded for any progress

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Jack Danger @jackdanger.com · 10/06/2026

When inference prices go up (likely this summer IMO) software engineering will look even more like engineering: methodical and intuitive cost/value trade-offs over a complex system

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Jack Danger @jackdanger.com · 05/06/2026

really, really predictable ways

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Jack Danger @jackdanger.com · 05/06/2026

isotropic.org/papers/chick...

A screenshot of the famous 'chicken paper' form Doug Zongker at the University of Washington that looks just like a regular 3-page academic paper but literally every word, caption, header, and diagram is just the word 'chicken' over and over

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Jack Danger @jackdanger.com · 05/06/2026

I'm using Opus 4.8 for some extremely difficult software problems and it's failing in consistent ways. It's like mentoring a promising junior engineer (that moves at 10,000x human speed). Feels like it's asymptotically approaching autonomy, but every step toward it is exponentially more expensive

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Jack Danger @jackdanger.com · 05/06/2026

AI has massive value but the _value capture_ story is very weak

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