The Who's Who of AI

4 experts · 20 posts · 4d ago

Phillip Carter austin h.olysh.it apenwarr.ca

apenwarr.ca: Alarmed at this trend of people finally realizing MCP is a pointless abstraction, then skipping right over publishing a regular boring API, and instead launching new CLIs for agents to use for some…

apenwarr.ca: I mean, it’s not *really* baffling. It’s Conway’s Law and the people who own the API wouldn’t listen to you and you weren’t allowed to publish a second API after people saw through the MCP trick, b…

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4 experts · 11 posts · 3d ago

Tim Kellogg Eli Sennesh Michiel Bontenbal apenwarr.ca

Tim Kellogg: one thing that’s becoming more obvious is that AI labs are not, in fact, fleecing their customers with extraordinarily high prices serving models actually does cost a lot

Michiel Bontenbal: interesting choice for y axis...

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4 experts · 17 posts · 11d ago

Tim Kellogg SE Gyges Cameron apenwarr.ca

Tim Kellogg: what is Anthropic’s plan exactly? Sol kicks ass and they’re just going to *take Fable away???*

SE Gyges: i am pretty sure everything they had a plan for turned out not to happen and they're just sort of winging it atm

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4 experts · 6 posts · 5d ago

Ethan Mollick Chris Paxton jake apenwarr.ca

Ethan Mollick: I am confused about the belief that if open weights eventually dominate it will lead to the collapse of AI. If the Labs lose (which is not happening now), it isn’t because AI was useless: compute i…

apenwarr.ca: Could lead to a dotcom-level crash, which was giant but notably didn’t kill the whole Internet. Hardware providers, they suffered tremendously after the dotcom crash (see Nortel) because their buye…

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4 experts · 6 posts · 15d ago

Ryan Moulton Alex Gude Singularity's Bounty e/cc apenwarr.ca

Ryan Moulton: I wonder if the projects that are one shottable are ones that people don't feel are worth publishing because they're a commodity now.

Alex Gude : I've been noticing I have less motivation to open source work that you can just get out of an LLM now. Been wondering how this will all play out for open source. bsky.app/profile/alex...

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3 experts · 5 posts · 8d ago

Grace dan apenwarr.ca

dan: hahahahhahaha

Grace: >”local first” >looks inside >local second

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3 experts · 4 posts · 11d ago

Ethan Mollick Michiel Bontenbal apenwarr.ca

Ethan Mollick: I have been thinking about the famous chart showing how experts keep projecting linear growth in solar installations, year after year, and always get it wrong when growth is still exponential. I th…

Ethan Mollick: An example of the original graph

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2 experts · 6 posts · 15d ago

antirez.bsky.social apenwarr.ca

antirez.bsky.social: About LLMs export control. A few interesting things that people right now may not yet focus since they are "far" problems. 1. It is impossible to really take LLMs safe. They are a a few TB files wo…

antirez.bsky.social: 2. It is possible to proxy models accounts from one country to the other as long as internet exists. Creating a ban would create a huge problem of illegal sharing of LLMs access. It is impossible t…

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2 experts · 4 posts · 7d ago

jeremy.lewi.us apenwarr.ca

jeremy.lewi.us: I think @tailscale.com is remarkably well positioned to capitalize on AI agents. Intelligence is embodied and networking is critical to that.

apenwarr.ca: What would you like it to do?

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2 experts · 5 posts · 12d ago

apenwarr.ca danielroe.dev

apenwarr.ca: Finally tried fable yesterday (yes, I am still a late adopter). Like all LLMs, it still tells me as a genius. The difference is it makes it more convincing.

apenwarr.ca: In related news, if you open up its thinking trace: Fable talks like a normal person. It only breaks out the claudisms and glazing in its “official” response post thinking. It’s putting on a show.

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