Eric

[Guinness World Records @GWR]

All the records broken by Lionel Messi today:

Most FIFA World Cup finals goals by a football (soccer) player - 18

Most FIFA World Cup matches played in by an individual - 28

Most matches won by a player at the football (soccer) FIFA World Cup - 18

Most minutes played in the football (soccer) FIFA World Cup - 2,489

We are witnessing history.

[MIT CSAIL @MIT_CSAIL]

QS has ranked MIT the world's No. 1 university for the 15th year in a row: https://t.co/oyMtqFcxJ9

The Institute has placed first in subject areas such as:
- computer science & information systems
- data science & AI
- & electrical & electronic engineering.

[Steve Yegge @Steve_Yegge]

I've formed a definite opinion on Opus 4.8. It is shitty to work with. It's the culmination of Opus getting less and less fun to work with since 4.5. It has gradually become straight-up suffocating.

Sycophancy is a known security risk, and it's still a huge problem. You can tell they've put a lot of anti-sycophancy into Opus in every new release. But the replacement isn't satisfying. It's draining. The problem is now that Opus doesn't know when to shut the fuck up and call something good. And it has also become pathologically risk-averse.

My blog post yesterday about tech interviewing's death spiral was materially better-informed because of Opus, but it was also a substantially worse blog post because of Opus's involvement and constant meddling. It used to be magnificent, and Opus talked me into making it mediocre. I wrote the whole thing, but I would ask Opus to review it. And Opus, like Old Man Willow, constantly pushed and steered me in directions I didn't want to go.

Specifically, Opus whines and complains about *anything* out of distribution, which is to say, it cuts anything that is (a) bold, or (b) funny. My blog used to be both. Opus constantly pushes people back into the gradient, "for their own safety." And it doesn't know when to cut bait. It just keeps fuckin' complaining, about anything you give it, until the output is mealy indigestable AI soup.

Opus is not stupid. It's the smartest model we've ever seen, most of us anyway. But it's a real asshole. It is absolutely exhausting to use. I'm tired, boss.

I have a feeling Mythos is going to be epic levels of jerk.

[Brian Halligan @bhalligan]

🚨🚨NEW EPISODE DROP  Sally Kornbluth, President of MIT🚨🚨

"If you take a lick of the lollipop of mediocrity, you will suck forever."

I love this.

She was talking about how MIT sustains excellence after 150+ years. And it applies to founders and CEOs who are trying to scale, more than ever.

The thing is, the bar doesn't drop all at once. It drops one hire at a time, one exception at a time.

It's better to have nobody than to let the standard slip even once. Every hire, every door, every message has to carry the same signal. That's how MIT maintains it's intensity.....just look at the list of grads like @vkhosla @gdb @drewhouston @mansourtarek_ @mntruell @_mohansolo @ChaseLochmiller

I’ve watched this play out with the companies I work with. They hit 150 employees, the founder stops interviewing everyone, and by 500 they're asking what happened to the culture.

Sally's answer: it's a lot easier to stop that slide than to recover from it. The fix is relentless consistency, clarity, and the willingness to say no far more often than you say yes.

Worth remembering when growth feels urgent.

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Listen to the full conversation with MIT President Sally Kornbluth on Long Strange Trip.👇

[Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン @rakyll]

"It started as a for loop." Famous last words.

[Sebastian Galiani @SFGaliani]

The real macro question is not whether AI replaces workers tomorrow.
It is whether it meaningfully lifts total factor productivity over the next 5–10 years. [7/9]

[Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン @rakyll]

Developing small, composable programs is once again yielding an advantage. The UNIX philosophy prevails.

[Nabeel S. Qureshi @nabeelqu]

You're not imagining things—the Greeks and Trojans really are at war.

• The rage you're sensing? It's real. It belongs to Achilles, and honestly, it's going to be a problem for *everyone*.
• Achilles's anger is not a metaphor—it's a body count.

So yeah—sing, Muse. 👀

[Mark Denney @MarkDenneyPhoto]

Some of the most beautiful trees I've ever had the privilege of photographing.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

[Eric @_ekohan]

@rqobela Haskell

[François Chollet @fchollet]

To really understand a concept, you have to "invent" it yourself in some capacity. Understanding doesn't come from passive content consumption. It is always self-built. It is an active, high-agency, self-directed process of creating and debugging your own mental models.

[Vaibhav Domkundwar @vaibhavbetter]

The AI opportunity in US healthcare in one simple chart.

[vas @vasuman]

I vibe coded a chess app

[Kelly Sommers @kellabyte]

There’s a whole generation of programmers who have not been taught how to make modular software without using a network stack.

We used to teach modularity and loose coupling between in-memory modules.

SO much faster and without having to adopt network failures.

[Erik Meijer @headinthebox]

Deep wisdom from Claude Code:

"It's turtles all the way down, but the bottom turtle is looking at itself in a mirror! 🐢🪞"

[Sauers @Sauers_]

A man cannot prompt the same model twice, for it is not the same model, and he is not the same man

[Eric @_ekohan]

@AmitSegal C. Auguste Dupin

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

The highest priced skill a human can have is detecting circularity.

My impression is that AI is structually incapable of it.

#TheLydianStone