alexogeny

sassy, classy, and a little smart-assy

[alexogeny @alexogeny]

this is your brain on javascript

[alexogeny @alexogeny]

the internet is so linkedin-pilled now that 'man quits job' counts as a psyop on the 2026 bingo card. sorry jacob coxon's conscience wasn't a strategic move to announce that he's thrilled to be joining somewhere else

[Parker Thayer @ParkerThayer]

This post looks like the start of a VERY sophisticated and well-funded PR operation to get support for Democrats to regulate AI into oblivion. Let me show you how it works:
1.) This guy, with minimal followers and no previous account activity, goes to the Wall Street Journal which publishes an exclusive with quotes from him on his resignation 18 minutes BEFORE this post goes up. Planning was clearly done in advance.

2.) Within hours, it has tens of thousands of reposts and the account has 100k+ followers. The post is punchy, quotable, it almost seems professionally written. The first three accounts to quote tweet it all do so within 15 minutes of the initial posting. Remember, this account had basically zero engagement beforehand, so an organic reach explanation seems unlikely.

According to Grok those accounts are @_NathanCalvin (General Counsel at Encode AI), @peterwildeford (Head of Policy at the AI Policy Network), and @DKokotajlo (Head of the AI Futures Project), all of which are up-and-coming AI-Doomer policy advocacy nonprofits.

The AI Futures Project website says it is funded “primarily” by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which says on its own website that it has advised Jaan Tallinn, Skype creator and one of the leading investors in Anthropic, to grant over $2.5 million to the AI Futures Project since 2024.

Encode AI says on its website that it is ALSO funded by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which in turn says that it told Anthropic investor Jaan Tallinn to grant $516,000 to Encode AI in 2025.

And wouldn’t you know it, the Survival and Flourishing Fund ALSO says it told Jaan Tallinn to grant $2 million to the AI Policy Institute, the 501(c)(3) affiliate of the AI Policy Network, as well.

What are the odds that the first three quote tweets of Coxon’s post would all be major AI-restriction policy advocates funded generously by the same donor, who also happens to be one of the leading investors in, and a board member of, Anthropic, the company Coxon was resigning from? And all within 15 minutes of posting (two within ten)?

3.) Jacob Coxon doesn’t have much of a resume, but we do know that, in 2022, he got a $20,159 scholarship for the “long term future scholarship program” from the Good Ventures Foundation, one of the philanthropic vehicles of Dustin Moskovitz, a notorious AI-doomer who has spent tens if not hundreds of millions on policy advocacy to strictly regulate AI, while also being an Anthropic Investor himself.

It also just so happens that the 14th person to quote Coxon’s post was @MaxNadeau_ (27 minutes after posting) who is the program officer for the Technical AI Safety team at Coefficient Giving, another of Moskovitz’s philanthropic spending vehicles. Max is not a frequent poster, his last posts before quoting Coxon were before Labor Day, but he was remarkably quick off the mark for this one.

4.) Basically every major Democrat politician and candidate has suddenly glommed on to this post, and conveniently, as the people cry out foe answers, Bernie Sanders already has a bill written to “ban super intelligence” and regulate AI into oblivion, and will be releasing later this week. The bill, among many other things, will create “a new cabinet-level federal agency to safeguard the public from the dangers of artificial intelligence” that will be “advised by an Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board comprised of experts on artificial intelligence.” Do you think, perhaps, Anthropic and its many investors who fund AI policy advocacy might have interest in getting to place a pet “expert” on the board of an entity that dictates what AI is and isn’t allowed to do? And isn’t it fortuitous that this whistleblower came forward with his oh-so scary stories so close in proximity to the release of the most radical piece of AI legislation ever introduced?

[alexogeny @alexogeny]

one day a twitter reply guy is going to hear a sentence irl, instinctively go "hey grok what does that mean" and have to confront the fact that nobody is going to summarize the conversation for him

[alexogeny @alexogeny]

@zeu_dev unfortunately though, 1am is when the demons get rhythm

[alexogeny @alexogeny]

@gitpush_gitpaid my read is that astra is to fable as opus is to sol. so... yes

[alexogeny @alexogeny]

@ccccjjjjeeee developers! developers! developers!

[alexogeny @alexogeny]

gpt-6 astra is genuinely good but giving it a long task and immediately getting “our systems are thinking a bit more than expected, want to switch to a dumber model?” is insane. no. that is literally why i picked this one. pls fix this @openai

[alexogeny @alexogeny]

the fact google bought deepmind and is not permanently squatting at the top of every benchmark feels like a plot hole in the fabric of reality

[Artificial Analysis @ArtificialAnlys]

Announcing Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.2. We are accelerating elements of our upcoming v5 release with interim updates to keep pace with the frontier. Index v4.2 has more complex and realistic tasks, and more private test sets to prevent gaming

Intelligence Index v4.2 changelog:

+ AA-Briefcase, our agentic knowledge work evaluation with a private test set

+ @HelloSurgeAI's GDP.pdf, long context document reasoning across 4,592 PDF pages

- GPQA Diamond, an exceptional scientific reasoning evaluation that has now been saturated

… plus greater weighting on held-out test sets to prevent gaming, and grading infrastructure upgrades to increase robustness

This update brings the Index closer to real-world use cases with more challenging, complex and realistic tasks and private test sets to prevent gaming. We have been planning and building elements of Index v5 for months - it’s been 8 months since we launched Index v4 in January.

We have deliberately held back updates to keep the Index stable through recent major model launches. However, with the frontier moving so quickly in the past weeks, we feel it is important to deliver an immediate interim update to ensure our Index remains as relevant and useful as ever to users.

Beyond this interim update, our team is hard at work on v5 of the Index. We are planning more incremental releases in the near future. Stay tuned!

Intelligence Index v4.2 changes in detail:

➤ Adding AA-Briefcase: Our in-house evaluation with a private held-out test set, AA-Briefcase tests models on realistic agentic knowledge work tasks in complex projects built by industry experts. Models are evaluated on multi-week knowledge work projects, each with many linked tasks and thousands of input source files. AA-Briefcase combines rubric and pairwise grading to evaluate verifiable task success, analytical quality, and presentation quality, giving a holistic view of overall agentic capability in knowledge work.

➤ Adding GDP.pdf: Created by @HelloSurgeAI, GDP.pdf evaluates single-turn professional document reasoning across 100 PDFs and ten domains. Models must synthesize evidence distributed across 4,592 pages, including text, tables, charts, footnotes, and exclusions. Responses are graded against 1,275 expert-authored atomic criteria; the headline All-pass Rate credits a task only when every criterion is satisfied.

➤ Weighting to measure real-world use and prevent gaming: 40% of our Index weighting is now private, held-out test sets - double the figure from v4.1. Held-out data includes AA-Briefcase, AA-Omniscience, and solutions for CritPt. This reduces the ability for labs to game evaluations. The held-out percentage will increase further in Index v5.

➤ Improving our grading infrastructure: In AA-LCR v1.1, we have added a grading system prompt and corrected errors and ambiguities in answer keys, improving scoring accuracy. For GDPval-AA v2 and AA-Briefcase, we have improved our sampling and re-anchored the Elo scale, making ratings more stable as new models are added. For SciCode we have improved robustness of grading sandboxes to ensure slow but correct code does not count as a failure.

Key results:

➤ Anthropic and OpenAI lead the Index: Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5.1 leads the Index, followed by OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra, which shows a 4pt gain over GPT-5.6 Sol. Meta is the third-ranked lab on the leaderboard, followed by SpaceXAI, Moonshot/Kimi, Z AI, and Google

➤ Cost per Task Pareto frontier shared by four labs: Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta and Z AI occupy the updated Cost per Task Pareto frontier

➤ GPT-6 Astra dominates the output token Pareto frontier: GPT-6 Astra is more token efficient than almost every other model near the intelligence frontier, with Claude Fable 5.1, Grok 4.5 and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite at either end of the curve (excludes models below 25 on the Index)

[alexogeny @alexogeny]

chess dot com mogging elon wasn't on my 2026 bingo card

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Lmao holy shit

[alexogeny @alexogeny]

ai* labs. apparently you have to pay to edit stuff jeepers

[alexogeny @alexogeny]

the existence of benchmark saturation implies the existence of benchmark edging and frankly that's what a labs have been doing to us for two years

[alexogeny @alexogeny]

@Nateemerson 100% objectively better rollout compared to fable, hands down. but also 100% definitely a personal attack (kidding, but not really)

[alexogeny @alexogeny]

@ThePrimeagen haven't benchmarks always kind of been "astrology, but make it ai"? like everyone believes it until their fav model gets a bad horoscope

[alexogeny @alexogeny]

the idea of paying money for twitter premium to boost my reply impressions is crazy. i easily make thousands of people dislike me for free

[alexogeny @alexogeny]

@paularambles this is peak

[alexogeny @alexogeny]

antigravity apparently has enough users to melt google's tpus but does anybody know anyone who actually uses it? dark matter ass userbase imo

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

Wait... People use AntiGravity?

[alexogeny @alexogeny]

new model drops

ai devs: holy shit this is magic

48 hours later

ai devs: idk it feels kinda mid

72 hours later

ai devs: wait have you tried it with thinking on

[alexogeny @alexogeny]

@Shreyassanthu77 "top 10 dentists in your area"

[alexogeny @alexogeny]

is there a way to use this app without all the little bullshit ai buttons plastered all over it?

[alexogeny @alexogeny]

can confirm

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

They are not.