PopJoy Lab

internet culture lab
building things in digital culture

[PopJoy Lab @PopJoyLab]

We’ve always liked the idea of playing chess through letters. But it’s not something you easily find.

So we built our own.

Slowmate, a chess game where every move is delivered like a letter, over time.
No timers. No rush. Just waiting.

Try it here: https://t.co/4KyWueVXuD

[PopJoy Lab @PopJoyLab]

Anthropic’s latest report:

⚠️ Claude now writes >80% of their code; humans are being sidelined.
🚨 Full autonomy risks a total loss of control as AI builds its own successors. ❌ Staff admit feeling "nothing I do matters anymore."

The loop is closing fast and we aren't ready.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

Our internal data shows Claude is accelerating AI development—a possible path to recursive self-improvement, or AI autonomously building a more capable successor.

It’s happening faster than we thought, and the implications deserve greater attention. https://t.co/OVVPJO7VQx

[PopJoy Lab @PopJoyLab]

the AI era is starting to feel real

not because of the models

because the labs are becoming infrastructure

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

Anthropic has confidentially submitted a draft S-1 registration statement to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Pending completion of SEC review, this gives us the option to pursue an initial public offering.

Read more: https://t.co/onGZAhRLvD

[PopJoy Lab @PopJoyLab]

half of internet culture is people creating things

the other half is people trying to figure out why those things exist

[PopJoy Lab @PopJoyLab]

imagine explaining to someone in 2015 that a company accidentally spent $500M because employees talked too much to an AI

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

NEW: AI consultant reveals a client accidentally spent $500,000,000.00 in a single month after failing to set employee limits on Claude usage.

[PopJoy Lab @PopJoyLab]

the best ideas usually start as “this is stupid” and end as “why does this actually work”

[PopJoy Lab @PopJoyLab]

new internet culture lab rule:

if an idea sounds weird at 3am, it probably deserves a prototype

[PopJoy Lab @PopJoyLab]

something new is forming.
an internet culture lab is being built.

Popjoy Lab.
experiments in digital culture, ideas, and strange internet systems.

soon.

[PopJoy Lab @PopJoyLab]

AI becoming powerful isn’t the scary part.

humans giving powerful tools to irresponsible systems always has been.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

In the era of #ArtificialIntelligence, when human dignity is threatened by new forms of dehumanization, ours is the pressing duty to remain profoundly human. We must lovingly safeguard the grandeur of humanity bestowed upon us and revealed in its fullness in Christ, the splendor of which no machine can ever replace. #MagnificaHumanitas
https://t.co/6i9MWs6LJl

[PopJoy Lab @PopJoyLab]

2026 tech discourse:
AI this
AI that

meanwhile the real flex is still execution ⚡️

[PopJoy Lab @PopJoyLab]

curious what the interview questions were like

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.

[PopJoy Lab @PopJoyLab]

From Popjoy Lab: Slowmate

A chess game where moves arrive like letters, over time.
No timers. No rush. Just waiting.

Try it: https://t.co/4KyWueVXuD

[PopJoy Lab @PopJoyLab]

old workflow:
meetings → approvals → debugging → suffering

new workflow:
ship 🚀

[PopJoy Lab @PopJoyLab]

“AI will double your team’s throughput”

ok but who’s doubling our coffee throughput ☕️😵‍💫

builders in the room know what’s up!

[PopJoy Lab @PopJoyLab]

new week

building something small from Popjoy Lab

might share it soon 👀

have a good week

[PopJoy Lab @PopJoyLab]

new week, new Popjoy Lab ideas

let’s see what actually gets built

[PopJoy Lab @PopJoyLab]

Popjoy Lab is basically me
trying things and seeing what sticks

[PopJoy Lab @PopJoyLab]

day 1: i’ll build something useful
day 3: web3 red flag detector
Popjoy Lab is going well

[PopJoy Lab @PopJoyLab]

trying something with Popjoy Lab:

build small
ship fast
don’t overthink
repeat

let’s see where this goes

[PopJoy Lab @PopJoyLab]

people ignore obvious red flags in #web3

so i made a tool that literally highlights them for you

type:
“bad tokenomics”
“no community”
“shady team”

→ and watch it light up

🌐 live: https://t.co/UerfsL6ZgN
💻 github (add patterns): https://t.co/IeZAgLpcP8