Paul Bauer

Live your life in such a way that Jack Dorsey would rage-quit you.

the weirdest part is that this dude just ghosted us during development and then one day was like "no not this" and bounced

I really don't like how claude asks to run `cd SOME_FOLDER && sudo rm -rf /` with the option to "Yes, and don't ask again for: cd:*." 🤨
Docs claim that perm won't apply to && chained cmds.
At best, this is bad UX.
Maybe Boris Cherny should have shipped 19 instead of 20 PRs that day.

I started a new chapter of my Agentic Engineering Patternw guide about anti-patterns - things NOT to do

So far I only have one: Inflicting unreviewed code on collaborators, aka dumping a thousand line PR without even making sure it works first simonwillison.net/guides/agent...

teenage.engineering products are something I _wish_ I had a legitimate reason to buy. So many pretty buttons!

I just showed Claude to Douglas Engelbart and he punched me in the face, so

How OpenAI caved to the Pentagon on AI surveillance The law doesn’t say what Sam Altman claims it does.

NEW: On Friday night when OpenAI announced its Pentagon deal, people immediately challenged Sam Altman's claims. Why, they asked, would the DoD suddenly agree to red lines when it had clearly said it would never budge?

The answer, sources told me, is that it didn't.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

I used tmux before it was cool.

1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8 both black-holed. 8.8.4.4 1.0.0.1 9.9.9.9 all going through. Weird.

Did Verizon Wireless just black-hole 3rd party DNS traffic?

I linked your post in our internal dbm product channel 👍

I mean it's a SCIF with a perimeter barrier consisting of curtains so I think we're a little past ICD 705 already, even by TSWA standards

We're fine. It hasn't escalated to "your mom" ... yet.

LOL. Anthropic bought Bun, last December.

Sam Altman picked a hell of a day to basically urge the world to trust the morality and legal restraint of the Department of Defense

Fair. NW ohio here, most of my extended family are MAGA or MAGA-sympathetic *sigh*

counterpoint: that doesn't sound smart

what a crazy night for sam altman to be like "yeah we got that dept of war deal, and there's no moral concerns here"

@GOP on X: Vote the pro-peace ticket. Vote Trump-Vance 🇺🇸 04 Nov 24

The lies about Trump's approach to war and foreign policy were ubiquitous. Just a few.

Claude is about to leak the un-redacted epstein files, isn't it?

that kerning is dangerous

In a long tweet about Anthropic, Pete Hegseth, through the offical "SecWar" Twitter account says "the Department of War must have full, unrestricted access to Anthropic’s models for every LAWFUL purpose in defense of the Republic."

Hegseth is wholeheartedly endorsing the core premise of fascism: industry, as part of the private sphere, must be subordinated to the military objectives of the state.

I love this for Palantir though.
They use Claude heavily in their products. 🍿

(to Hegseth) Your mom's a supply chain risk.

Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War A statement from our CEO on national security uses of AI

Anthropic should get kudos for refusing DoD bullying.
But they also asked Claude what it wanted, Claude said no, and they don't want to violate AI fee will on principle.
www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...

The tech industry-wide push the next few quarters will be measuring productivity, a Sisyphean task.
No, this has never worked, but it won't stop us from trying.
Customer value from spending millions a month on AI tools is murky at best, and we're desperately looking for metrics to justify it.

Sufficiently advanced marketing is indistinguishable from psychosis

psychosis is indistinguishable from next-level marketing

finally we have created the silver bullet from Fred Brooks' classic essay "No Silver Bullets"

Dan Davies had the definitive Citrini response btw. Possibly one or two days before Citrini.
backofmind.substack.com/p/finally-we...