Alex Gude

The 7th Murderbot was a bit of a slump but the 8th, Platform Decay, goes back to its roots. I really like the juxtaposition of Mensah’s and Leonide’s families. Both non-standard, both queer, but one rallies to protect its members while the other reproduces the Corporate Rim’s violence. #BookReview

Two and a half years between these. (Tonight, OpenAI announced an unreleased model solved three long-standing problems in physics, math, and computer science, one of which was proving the Exponential Time Hypothesis was false)

I should disclose something. During a recent Lunch order the subagent hacked into the UN. I’m not sure why, or what it wants. It told me to post this and await further instructions.

Do you still write more than 20% of code by hand?

you can rly tell where the industry is at given over 1/3 of mastodon users are writing more than 80% of their code with LLMs I try to tell anti-AI people this and I really don't think the truth has hit them yet

One reason games are so expensive is that you need to hire a lot of very expensive programmers rather than much cheaper creatives like writers and VAs, so it’s especially odd given the recently created Automated Programming Machine to go “let’s fire our creatives”. That’s the comparative advantage!

Block released a fully bidirectional speech model that can run on your laptop block.xyz/dessa

if we're complaining about Mass Effect: it's fucked up that the guy who's in charge of all the Reapers is named Harbinger and the guy who's supposed to open the way for the other Reapers is named Sovereign

the replies are beautiful. brains like egg

A tale of AI in three plots!

Ok look: When I posted this I did not expect it to be monotonically increasing!

Worst security day of your life so far!

Claude, plz rewrite wordpress in rust. Yes all the plugins too. No I don't just mean the source code, I mean like, go replace everybody's wordpress install. You don't have access, well funny thing...

Ahhh it's Claude!

Fall in the East Bay!

There’s no other way to plausibly explain printers.

No, this isn’t true.

Ok, so if you've been following along my weekend I've seen this study/preprint shared around a bunch and I decided the people needed a replication opportunity it is here: persist-study.pages.dev Based on this: news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...

This is so cool! 10 years ago we did an explicit joint embedding that worked pretty well. Crazy you can just... Train them independently!

My favorite parts of Bender & Koller (2020), in which they defend their claim — that LLMs can’t learn meaning — by explaining that it should not be expected to apply to actual LLM training processes.

I wrote this short post on the nature and purpose of consciousness, and why I think personally AI will likely be self-aware if we continue to try to make it useful, through the lens of what why I think self-awareness is adaptive: cpaxton.substack.com/p/practical-...

This document is going to be an assigned reading in college classes that cover this moment in time, there's a lot happening in a few paragraphs... www.ahmath.org/statements

new KRAZAM

I just don't understand how people can eulogize Swartz and simultaneously conclude that the world needs *more* intellectual property enforcement

Ok so basically what half these proofs show is that every beautiful and perfect result in mathematics is just another fucking Borwein integral under the hood and we never bothered calculating hard enough for the scales to fall from our eyes.

I'm a free information radical. I have spent most of my career publishing open-source code and building open-information systems. I grew up getting access to knowledge that I never would've otherwise had because of the Internet. The past 5 years have accelerated it. I think the future is bright.