Oh wow, I just found out there's a suikoden game I never played

I made a techno remix out of a song I recorded with an acoustic guitar in 2011, and asked Opus 5.5 for a music video with a JavaScript-forward art style. (It’s DDR optimized. Anyone else here plays DDR and is interested in steps?) 🧵

Made with Claude Opus 5.5. The fearmongering about AI always makes us forget that NOTHING WENT FOOM, as was always predicted. Send this to your doomer friend who has a very high P(Doom). Accelerate.

Honestly wish I could have worked in AI safety, I did try last summer when I was unemployed and there was no way in at a salary that would support my family. So much cash around but very few on-ramps for people with startup leadership experience.

the future is ai agents managing a small team of unreliable humans

There's just something about the random bolding of words and matter-of-fact tone that is hilarious.

This is why the Chinese models will win

🦔The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association says insurers paid out nearly $1 billion more than usual from AI-assisted hospital documentation in 2024-2025. Hospitals use AI to scan records and find secondary diagnoses that human reviewers missed. More diagnoses means higher reimbursements. But treatment levels haven't gone up. BCBSA's SVP of data science said AI is "identifying more billable conditions, not sicker patients." Insurers now deploy their own AI to deny those same claims. Patients pay for both through higher premiums. My Take This might be the most American healthcare story I've ever read. Hospitals bought AI to find more things to bill for. Insurers bought AI to deny those bills. The technology cost money on each end and the tab went straight to patients through higher premiums. A billion dollars moved and no one got any healthier. The only thing that changed was the size of the invoices. Two sides of a trillion-dollar industry found a new tool to fight over the same pool of money and the person in the hospital bed pays for all of it. Premiums go up, denials go up, and the AI vendors collect from everyone. If you want to know who AI works for, stop reading the press releases and look at where the money goes. In healthcare it went straight into the billing department. Hedgie🤗

Today is the day that AI passed the "financial modeling Turing test" for me. A "push button" build from scratch Skill that one-shotted a model on $MU that is indistinguishable (to me) from a model that a junior analyst would build from scratch. With full, impeccable adherence to all aspects of who i like to format, design & build models (took a few turns to dial it in). Opus 5.5 is unbelievable.

“My late brother Francis, staying with a French family to improve his knowledge of the language, was helping himself to cheese at dinner. The plateau included a wedge of brie, and the inexperienced Englishman, instead of slicing along the side, cut off the point, or nose. His hostess, exercising that special French skill in making foreign visitors feel at ease, remarked: ‘Je n’ai jamais vu personne qui découpât comme ça le nez d’un brie.’ Francis said that he distinctly heard, in the air above the family dining-table, the sharp hiss of the circumflex over the third person singular of the past subjunctive.” — John Sturrock, London Review of Books 1996

turns out when you have too many GPUs for your own good you can do stupid stuff such as pre-training a foundation model with constrained decoding on PTX -- that is, it does not speak natural language, it's tokenizer is PTX, it's thoughts are PTX, it's all PTX 🧵

🚨 Claude sonnet Leaks: Beats GPT-6 Sol > Sonnet 5.5 is set to launch tomorrow at 2 PM New York time > It's now Final stages before release > Early testing puts it ahead of GPT-6 Sol > Expected to sit much closer to Opus 5.5 in capability > Could be significantly cheaper than Opus 5.5 > A dedicated "claude-sonnet-5-5" model identifier has already been spotted are you ready for Sonnet 5.5 tomorrow?

In the end I think what makes humans stand out is how quickly we adapt to distribution shifts. Taste is contextual not just something you can bake into weights. It is not fixed. Taste comes from adaption.

I asked an L7 engineer at openai if they could build an isolated vlan with strict outbound 443 with ip whitelist They said they cant. They dont know how

New reading glasses work so I was startled by the grain of the paper in a book I’m reading. It’s been a while since I’ve been able to see it.

glad they published but i continue to think OAI's sandboxing skillz are mediocre. pwned by classic GET then DNS escapes… if you want to do ai control at least have the aesthetic sense to do it with the type of paranoid unix greybeards who run sshd with a port knocking protocol