David Colarusso

AGI_is_here_finial_final.md

I'm still reeling over a divorce hypo I saw this week where the party names where Fitzwilliam & Elizabeth Darcy. I can't explain the amount of discomfort this caused me. I was like, "Noooooo!" the closest analog is what the new films did to Han and Leia. The proper ending is "happily ever after."

I'm still reeling over a divorce hypo I saw this week where the party names where Fitzwilliam & Elizabeth Darcy. I can't explain the amount of discomfort this caused me. I was like, "Noooooo!" the closest analog is what the new films did to Han and Leia. The proper ending is "happily ever after."

It's at least worth an interesting discussion of AI work slop and the burden shifting that occurs when you produce BS that requires someone else to sift through all of your "work product."

Looks like I have a new case for next year's AI & the Law class.

Evey once in a while I remember Holmes fought the Klan.

When shaping your research agenda, your objective is to find the weirdest niche possible that still has the potential to change everything.

"this is wildly upsetting and also a potential law review article"

So @davidcrespo.bsky.social made me blog: lu.is/2026/03/on-m...

TLDR: generalist LLMs are not lawyers, and evaluating them that way is a waste of time. Evaluating LLMs with useful specialized prompts (and eventually, with specialized legal harnesses) is where the work must happen.

**harnesses** link is malformed "www.philschmid.de/agent-harness-2026" I mean, I was able to add "https://" myself, but I thought you'd like to know.

AI vs. the Pentagon the real alignment problem is Pete Hegseth

And here's a nice summary of where we're at, along with some analysis. This is s solid post. h/t @frankpasquale.bsky.social

that they have kept their relationship intensely private to the point that this is how we find out is probably the best sign they might actually make it

anyway, rules are rules, here is the exact moment she fell in love

Yes! I will go to my deathbed trying to get people to stop conflating nonjusticiable with legal.

There is no path back to "normal" that doesn't go through impeachment & conviction. "To initiate a war of aggression... is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime..." At least that’s what we said when we hanged the Nazis. See avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/09-30-46...

Sen. Tammy Duckworth: "If there was ever a time for Republicans to find their spines, it's now, when the Commander in Chief readily admits that he is choosing to put our troops' lives at risk without a legitimate imminent threat to our homeland or our citizens."

My worry is they do realize

There is no path back to "normal" that doesn't go through impeachment & conviction. "To initiate a war of aggression... is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime..." At least that’s what we said when we hanged the Nazis. See avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/09-30-46...

Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth Anthropic's response to the Secretary of War and advice for customers

We get closer and closer to that legal case for next year’s AI & the Law class.

Dean Ball wrote Trump's AI plan. 👀

You know the one all the AI bros were so excited about and for which they thought it was so important to back Trump to get.

Trump orders all federal agencies to phase out use of Anthropic technology President Donald Trump says he's ordering all federal agencies to phase out use of Anthropic technology after the company’s unusually public dispute with the Pentagon over artificial intelligence safe...

Well, there it is.

Why All Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Are Historians SFF authors are the front-line practitioners who put the fruits of history’s craft into daily practice, sharing it in doses the public can consume, combining, treating, administering, customizing, …

Ooh! My new essay is up on Strange Horizons!
Deliberately provocative title 😈
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Here's something I said earlier in the week, and I stand by it. "They" in this thread is Anthropic.

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Good vibes, bad vendors AI coding works now. Here's how to think about it.

Here’s how I’ve been thinking about AI-assisted engineering / vibe coding: its pros and cons, the underlying power dynamics, and its implications. Please enjoy. Or please enjoy flaming me. One of the two. werd.io/good-vibes-b...

Anthropic won’t budge as Pentagon escalates AI dispute | TechCrunch The Pentagon has given Anthropic until Friday to loosen AI guardrails or face potential penalties, escalating a high-stakes dispute that raises questions about government leverage, vendor dependence, ...

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If they don't fold and just lose a lot of DoD-related business, it tells you something either about their planned path to profit or, gasp, their performance of principles. Which given their framing as the "AI Safety folks" are pretty strongly intertwined.

Yeah, I strongly doubt this is the path it takes, more likely they lose the DoD contract and all other contractors are told they "can't use Claude." That's a lot of money though. So, Anthropic could fold. Would be interesting if they didn't.

Defense Dept. and Anthropic Square Off in Dispute Over A.I. Safety

More reporting here. "Anthropic told defense officials that it did not want its A.I. used for mass surveillance of Americans or deployed in autonomous weapons that had no humans in the loop..."