unpopular opinion: this is the best time in history to be an engineer

I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.

Banger paper from Google DeepMind. Every AI weather model so far has been trained and initialized on analysis data, which is itself the output of another model. That means the forecast inherits whatever biases the analysis carries, and it cannot use a new satellite observation directly. WeatherNext 3 changes what the model is trained on. It ingests low-latency geostationary satellite data and refreshes its forecast every hour instead of every six. Resolution now matches the best physics-based global models at 0.1 degree with hourly steps, including solar radiation and cloud cover. It also learns targets that live in observation space rather than analysis space. Satellite-derived precipitation, tropical cyclone tracks, and station observations are all predicted directly. Because it models sparse station data conditioned on local geography, it gives 2m temperature and dewpoint at any location and time, with substantially lower error than competing global models. The result is a new state of the art for probabilistic medium-range forecast skill. Why does it matter? The convenient training label in many domains is itself a model output, and inheriting its bias is the price. Moving supervision to raw observations is the general lesson here, and weather is where it can be measured cleanly. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2609.03582 Chat with Paper: academy.dair.ai/papers/weath…

Because we are beyond happy to have Astra rolled out today ahead of schedule and you have been super patient with us (not really, but it’s ok!)… we will do the full banked reset today too for all Plus, Pro and Business users. Lands end of day. Happy Astra day and enjoy a phenomenal weekend. PS: If you create the account or upgrade before 8pm PT you will get it too. Still time!

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12:05am Friday: Zoomed in on the DC-metro area, over 1000 lightning strikes at the moment.

We will give one banked reset for every day you don't have access to Astra on your paid ChatGPT plan, starting today. Team is moving mountains to give access as fast as we can. First one will land in ~ 3 hours. There is still time to create your account if you don't have one.

"Maybe in another life" - a 25 year old mf who is perfectly capable of making it in this lifetime

What the hell is going on at MIT

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