When I struggle to structure my thoughts about what's happening I turn to writing. Today about the recent US Anthropic ban news, what it says about power and dependency, and what it should mean for Europeans and citizens of the world. It's a long one. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/6/1…
Dangerous Technology For Americans Only lucumr.pocoo.org
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- Anthropic suspended Fable and Mythos access for foreign nationals, including its own foreign-national employees.
- Ronacher argues the shift moved from barring hostile governments to using nationality itself as the access boundary.
- Europe's structural dependency on US cloud, platforms, and AI feeds a talent drain Ronacher calls a self-reinforcing death spiral.
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Has been a while since I wrote about agentic engineering, so this time around some learnings of maintaining Pi as a junior maintainer to @mariozechner.at lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/5/24/pi...
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I had some vibes that Opus 4.8 was performing worse than older ones for some of uses that are off distribution and now I have the receipts. Latest Opus/Sonnet are causing tool invocation failures on Pi's edit tool when older ones did not! I wrote about it. lucumr.pocoo.org/202…
Better Models: Worse Tools lucumr.pocoo.org
@rntn_onx @zeeg @thdxr The model definitions that pi uses come from a few different sources including https://t.co/UcH25H1xtg and custom rules we update. It’s all a bit of a data source mess sadly.
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