Thursday, September 10, 2026 →
Most people don’t want to be more, do more, know more. They want to watch Netflix and die. They want the world of the Culture: an AI-run infinite vacation where they consume content for a few centuries, then autoeuthanize from boredom.
— Fernando Borretti, The Other Road
None of the AI labs are serious about sandboxing:
It looks to me like OpenAI’s sandbox for this agent suffered from the (quite naïve) assumption that GET requests cannot be used to update data.
“The world runs on desktops, but both Apple and Microsoft seem to actively despise it.”
openai gives out “resets”, but they do it for weird reasons, like to “celebrate major milestones”. yesterday one of their influencer-executives announced a reset every day regular people can’t use Astra. why do this? cryptocurrency airdrop ass business strategy
People seem to think that UPPER_CASE is correct for all shell variables. No! It is for only a subset: environment variables and constants. But upper case is so pervasive online I can’t even get AI to do it right. Sad!
Wednesday, September 2, 2026 →
I really think politicians should ask questions like, is it good that parents should have to pay Sega to get Sonic the Hedgehog on a sign for a kids birthday party? Is Sega’s interest in children’s birthday signs worthy of government protection?
Copyright is for the public. I’m still stuck on this.
I heard that A$AP Rocky’s original lyrics were
Wild for the night, CBD and Diet Sprite
But Skrillex made him change them to the album version to be more rebellious
I think washing hands before returning to work is a good idea but I wish this restaurant provided somewhere else to do it
“we’re all in this together”, by which I mean, “get the hell off my property”
Tuesday, August 11, 2026
How Claude marks AI-generated content
When a tool secretly encodes information about its user into its output, who is it aligned with?
The Anthropic savior complex is certainly genuine.
It’s always the sincere ones you have to look out for.
I’m tired of reading about how labs can run models without any safeguards but getting scolded by a fucking LLM when asking for help retrieving the Slack auth tokens on my own computer simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/…
i’m gonna do it. i warned u but u wouldn’t listen. i said this would happen. u did this, not me. im doin it. im automatically filtering emails with “login notification” and “a new trusted device” in the subject line.
You know, if someone really wanted to build and own a universal platform layer, they’d start a cellular company that sold by the byte and not by the device. Like imagine if you could add a cell connected gadget and it adds to your bill incrementally, like AWS instead of Rackspace, but for IoT.
It gets more true every year: “enshittification” is a word for disney adults
Wednesday, February 18, 2026 →
every time chat prefixes something obvious with “this is the subtle part:” I think “that haughty bitch is talking down to me”
Would CloudFlare or CloudFront please rename to something that doesn’t start with CloudF, I don’t care which.
The circle is now complete. When I left you I was but the learner. Now, I am the master.
Always disappointed to click a link on a .blog domain and find a Substack :(
This isn’t an anti Substack post I just have very different expectations for a blog vs a Substacks and I have plenty of Substacks and I do not have enough blogs.
I haven’t had a laptop in several years, and I haven’t worked from a coffee shop basically since my last bout of bad RSI in 2019. Today I spent a bunch of time working from a couple of coffee shops, including a lot of typing. The Advantage 360 is… amazing. It’s wireless and easier to move around than my ErgoDox and easier to hook up than the Voyager, and has built in palm rests. I was expecting the tables with the wrong height to bother me (bc my elbows aren’t at 90 degrees), but that hasn’t really happened, at least not yet. I don’t want to overdo this… I still probably will never work all day in a coffee shop ever again. But it looks like I can take a laptop to a coffee shop for as much as several hours and get real work done. That’s really huge for me.
I didn’t realize that every blog hosted on Typepad has been deleted. What a fucking disaster. It is sad to see such poor stewardship.