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“What if we flip the b around?” Smart using Astra so that it’s resistant to prompt injection.

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Okay Jev had less than two months in the sun. I should’ve predicted weeks.

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I knew there was a reason I had an extra cup today, I just didn’t know why. Until now. Turns out I was celebrating.

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If AI is as big as the Industrial Revolution that’s pretty scary The Industrial Revolution took hundreds of years to unfold, giving civilization time to adapt. AI will absolutely not take hundreds of years. We’re all just hoping it takes at least decades.

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This is great. PLC being centralized is a legit weakness in the Atmosphere's story and this goes a long way to mitigating it. I still want @dholms.at to be the PLC CEO, regardless of whether it makes any sense or not. We had a deal, kinda.

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Jensen got into GPUs for the love of the game. Literally.

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FYI, ChatGPT Voice mode is finally good enough to tutor you in Japanese! (and probably other languages) I've tried every version since it was released and it didn't work well enough. It's still not perfect, but the endless patience and lack of embarrassment make it incredibly productive.

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 25/09/2026

I feel exactly the same way about the kind of LLM-based AI we have today. But the AI x-risk argument is about what happens when we have "real" AI that can actually think like humans but a million times faster. There are no real experts on this and yet it does seem worth worrying about in advance.

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Stop to smell the flowers and also stop to observe the queen of the skies.

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 25/09/2026

I started Googling in Sep 1998 and stopped in Sep 2026. But I should've stopped Googling in 2025 but somehow it took me a year to spend 30 seconds doing this:

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 25/09/2026

Yet another gem from @simonwillison.net that matches my own experience over the last ~3 months. There's no way I could've built my latest ~650 KLOC system in Go without designing and understanding it precisely. It'd be a total mess, and I'm using Fable and Astra for the vast majority of my work.

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 24/09/2026

This is what giving a shit looks like in a startup btw. Same energy I brought when I was on the team and pre launch I was told we weren’t planning to translate the app, and then I pushed back hard and helped improve the Japanese translation so we could have million Japanese users sign up on launch.

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 23/09/2026

@toni.bsky.team probably time to declare a "code red" and get Bluesky Communities launched ASAP. I'm as blue-pilled and optimistic as it gets, and I deeply respect *everyone* I worked with on the team, but even I'm getting worried about how many chances remain. Feels too slow to win at this pace 🙁

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Every repo I've had access to in the last 6 months looks something like this. Productivity has increased ~10x for people who are taking advantage without becoming reckless. This is the new norm for software engineering.

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Anthropic has finally acknowledged that OpenAI has matched them. I get why it took this long, but sure was annoying.

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We should expect them to have something similar in months.

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When processing complex image/video formats/codecs, your choices are: 1. Use a memory safe language and don't bypass it with unsafe code 2. Do the work in disposable unpriviledged sandboxes 3. Get hacked

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AI is a two horse race right now:

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If the calculator was invented by a modern startup: axiom.clor.app

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 17/09/2026

Software dev is all the 2nd 80% now.

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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his sex life depends on his not understanding it.

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 16/09/2026

Most likely near-term AI security apocalypse is a zero day exploit in Supabase, or another service that exposes database access over the public internet.

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 16/09/2026

There's a very strong comparison between falsely yelling "fire" in a crowded theater and broadcasting that there's a ">10% chance AI could kill all humans within the next decade" to a billion people. It was cute 10 years ago (when it was just us nerds) but now it's time to stop.

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 15/09/2026

Funnily enough, this looks like most companies that were started pre-AI coding. New companies don't have as many cooks in the kitchen or legacy concerns to deal with. So they can just plan, generate, review, plan, generate, review, commit, push to staging, push to prod.

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 15/09/2026

Steve Yegge is a smart, experienced, and interesting person. But Gas Town is among the best public examples of AI psychosis. Don't huff your own gas people.

Gas Town was intended to be reusable, but I only ever wound up using it to build itself. Gas Town fell apart at the seams with Opus 4.7. Up through 4.6 it was working brilliantly. With 4.7 we saw the introduction of the "just two more things" tic, which prevented Opus from ever converging on being ready to do real work—it always wanted to fiddle with Gas Town itself. The Opus tic never went away, so Gas Town effectively burned down. It had other problems, too, but 4.7 was the final straw.

https://yegge.ai/essays/the-shape-of-things-to-come/

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 14/09/2026

The Bay Trail is how I ward off full blown AI psychosis.

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 14/09/2026

If William Gibson says you're living in the future, then you're living in the future.

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 14/09/2026

Great post, but I do think it went slightly too far with the ending: "...you had nothing to fear then — and (at least with respect to extinction risk!) you have nothing to fear now." These are both extraordinary claims that require evidence: a) 10% existential AI risk b) 0% existential AI risk

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 13/09/2026

Yes, developers generate more diagrams! I used to spend hours upon hours creating diagrams and now you can just ask for them and they appear in seconds.

Showing a mermaid diagram in an agentic development environment

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 13/09/2026

In case you weren't aware how the anonymous Hacker News moderators control the narrative in Silicon Valley. (Bluesky Communities can't come soon enough)

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 12/09/2026

I guess we really are doing this.

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 12/09/2026

There's no slowing down frontier models by regulation that wouldn't lead to regulatory capture. But we could simply force all AI model companies to release their model weights openly. It's the world's data after all and nothing would slow their funding/progress more effectively and universally.

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If you're still running coding agent TUIs in terminal tabs, moving to an agent multiplexer GUI with isolated workspaces is a major upgrade. With each task in its own workspace, you can manage more work in parallel and start being more ambitious about what you build.

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1. Generate and push artifacts to a git repository (ideal) and/or cloud storage. 2. Use a memory system that stores/searches all agent conversation history (transcripts) for 7-30 days, across all agents/computers.

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Yeah, be safe, download your brain from the computer.

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I get it, but worth keeping some perspective: - Omarchy $18.5 million (one-time) - The Linux Foundation ~$300 million/yr - The Mozilla Foundation ~$600 million/yr - Wikipedia ~$200 million/yr - Rust ~$5 million/yr - Python ~$4 million/yr - Apache/Gnome/FreeBSD ~$2 million/yr

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Good way to use the non-Fable 50% of your Claude subscription is with Opus as a subagent, called by Fable/Astra/Sol.

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