Gergely Orosz

Official source is Anthropic, who say they received a directive from the US government directly www.anthropic.com/news/fable-m...

Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 anthropic.com

Full article: techcrunch.com/2026/06/12/m... Been writing about exactly this this the last several weeks in paid @Pragmatic_Eng issues, in The Pulse, here btw newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/s/the-pulse

Meta's months-old AI unit is a soul-crushing gulag, say the engineers stuck inside it | TechCrunch techcrunch.com

What I’m hearing: Instagram’s Trust and Safery org absolutely gutted the last few weeks. ~60% of the org gone - between layoffs and forced reassignments to data labelling. All while “AI maxxing” pushed a bunch of bugs to prod. And hence why today’s massive Instagram account takeover happening.

Well this is massive: - Every non-US company sees how they can be cut off from US vendors with a snap of a finger. Non-US vendors getting free advertisement - What does this mean for US AI labs’ offices and employees outside the US? Reads pretty draconian What a mess

Well, that's a first. An enterpreneur who I met at a cafe a while back and was a nice guy and said we'd follow up perhaps just sent me an AI-genereated pitch. This wiped out the personal connection I had in my mind with this person. How do people not realize AI does this?

So apparently after Meta leadership: - Force reassigned some of the best devs on teams to AI data labelling fulltime - Laid off another 10% - Started to record every dev’s screen in the US 24/7 They now realized that it has indeed started to destroy their eng culture. And now trying to walk back

Seeing how SOTA models are evolving: becoming more restrictive in usage (decided by the company), less transparent (you cannot tell if the AI lab nerfed your model) + less private (your prompts are stored, no opt out) makes me much more interested in open models + local inference

Things I really dislike about Fable: 1. Anthropic collects my prompt history, stores it, and does whatever they want with it for 30 days. No opt-out 2. They can nerf their most expensive model without telling me, billing me the same amount, wasting my time. Whenever they want

Situation 1: dev A thinks approach X is correct, dev B thinks Y is the right way. They argue and try to convince each other. Situation 2: dev A thinks approach X is correct, tells the LLM to implement it. There is SO MUCH learning in Situation 1, lost when using LLMs....

Meta had a SEV-0 outage today… less than two weeks after Meta’s most embarrassing undetected-for-too-long account takeover (also an outage) It’s impossible to unsee Meta pushing AI for code + reviews and the end result being more massive outages vs before They are connected

I am so fed up with products I pay for polluting the user interface with AI-related visual clutter Google Docs now has a Gemini button hovering with no way to turn off. I do NOT want it or need it. I pay for Google Workspace, but do not want Gemini, do not need Gemini, and yet cannot turn it off

Wild to see every VC funded and publicly traded tech company rebrand to being an AI company Paging company —> the platform for AI-first operations CDN —> AI Cloud Helpdesk software —> AI-powered helpdesk platform o11y —> AI-powered intelligent o11y Everywhere…