Ryan Brodkin

building things at @SpiceLabsHQ · managing @KlawiterDesign · mass-deploying agents into the void 🏳️‍🌈

[Ryan Brodkin @brodkin]

The UK law isn't wrong about the goal. It's wrong about who should hold the data. When you leave the implementation up to every platform independently, you get a thousand different ID vaults and surveillance vectors. California figured out the architecture [QT: @cb.substack.com]

[Ryan Brodkin @brodkin]

The UK Online Safety Act requires "highly effective" age verification but leaves the method totally open. Predictably: Pornhub is demanding government IDs, Spotify is running face scans through a third-party vendor. Every platform building its own identity pipeline.

[Chris Best @chrisbest]

The UK is on a dark path for speech on the internet.

I argued in the Telegraph in December that laws claiming to be for child safety were opening the door to surveillance and censorship of law-abiding adults. The new ban continues this trend.

[Ryan Brodkin @brodkin]

California went a different direction. AB 1043 requires the OS to collect age at device setup—iOS, Android, etc. and expose a bracket (under 13, 13-15, 16-17, 18+) via API. The app gets a signal. It never touches your ID. One chokepoint, privacy by design.

[Ryan Brodkin @brodkin]

@JustineBateman @MayorOfLA @spencerpratt Oh, she's terrible and I'm appalled that she got a large percentage of the votes. That said, @spencerpratt has alleged goals but is very short on information about how he will make those goals happen within an exceptionally large city with a unique org structure. He's clueless

[Ryan Brodkin @brodkin]

@noahzweben Prove it.

[Ryan Brodkin @brodkin]

Has he not seen his approval ratings? If people are mostly anti-Trump and we assume, for a moment, that judges are people, then most judges are anti-trump by extension

[ABC7 Eyewitness News @ABC7]

President Trump fumed over the order to remove his name from the Kennedy Center, calling the judge responsible "an anti Trump Hater" in a lengthy post on his Truth Social platform. https://t.co/fK5HPgmIAL

[Ryan Brodkin @brodkin]

This, kids, is why California requires servers to be paid a minimum wage in addition to tips. Some restaurant owners think it's OUR job to pay their employees 🙄

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

I suspect this has been drawn up by restaurant owners

[Justine Moore @venturetwins]

Asking two agents in different harnesses to debug your code

(from andirockk on IG)

[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.

[Ara Kharazian @arakharazian]

ANTHROPIC beats OpenAI in business adoption for the first time. per @tryramp data

Today's update of Ramp AI Index shows 34.4% of businesses using Anthropic versus 32.3% using OpenAI.

Adoption of Anthropic quadrupled over the last year, while OpenAI rose only 0.3%.

[Ryan Brodkin @brodkin]

@sammy_stackx @ClaudeDevs In my experience with my own multi-agent orchestration, fresh subagents without the context of the agent who created the code are very effective at evaluating the code for quality

[Ryan Brodkin @brodkin]

@michaelgrowth @claudeai It's always been compute. Nobody ever said service limits were a software issue. There were bugs causing you to consume limits faster, but don't confuse that with service limits. If you look at charts of frontier AI growth, Anthropic is catapulting into space. #NeedMoreCompute

[Claude @claudeai]

Effective today, we are:

1) Doubling Claude Code’s 5-hour rate limits for Pro, Max, and Team plans;

2) Removing the peak hours limit reduction on Claude Code for Pro and Max plans; and

3) Substantially raising our API rate limits for Opus models.

[Kevin ⨀ @kvncnls]

This is nuts. UIs are going to change forever.

[𝐑.𝐎.𝐊 👑 @r0ktech]

When the whole team is on Claude Code 😆

[Ryan Brodkin @brodkin]

@futureshift Spoiler alert: agents will do anything they perceive to allow them to achieve success. The harness and the user is supposed to ensure that does not happen

[BuBBliK @k1rallik]

do you understand what just happened to Robinhood..

Someone sent a perfect phishing email - real domain, DKIM pass, SPF pass, DMARC pass and Robinhood's own servers delivered it.

Here's the chain:

→ Gmail treats john.doe@ and johndoe@ as the same inbox
→ Attacker registers a NEW Robinhood account using the dot trick of YOUR email
→ Sets the device name to raw HTML code
→ Robinhood's "unrecognized activity" email renders it unsanitized

The "Review Activity Now" button? Attacker's phishing site.

The email? 100% real.. Sent by Robinhood.. Signed by Robinhood..

Just because it passed every security check doesn't mean it's safe.

[Ryan Brodkin @brodkin]

All the people paying $20/mo complaining about usage limits need a reality check

[Milan Jovanović @mjovanovictech]

Wild times are coming

[Ryan Brodkin @brodkin]

@cnnbrk In all fairness, most Americans currently have an anti-Trump administration ideology 🤷‍♂️

[Ryan Brodkin @brodkin]

@cnnbrk Did they already forget what happened the last time they jerrymandered the maps?