There is a risk, when coding using AI, that you’re letting the AI do stuff you know well. Things that you could’ve built. But it’s more valuable to let it build things that are outside your knowledge domain. Low level circuit programming? Advanced maths? Gaming?
"Using coding agents well is taking every inch of my 25 years of experience as a software engineer, and it is mentally exhausting.
I can fire up four agents in parallel and have them work on four different problems, and by 11am I am wiped out for the day.
There is a limit on human cognition. Even if you're not reviewing everything they're doing, how much you can hold in your head at one time. There's a sort of personal skill that we have to learn, which is finding our new limits. What is a responsible way for us to not burn out, and for us to use the time that we have?" @simonw
Aliens is the greatest action sci-fi of all time, and Weaver was the perfect bad-ass heroine without being an insufferable do-it-all, know-it-all girlboss figurine. The 1980s really got almost everything right.
Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network.
In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome.
AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement.
We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only.
We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements.
We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.
🇺🇸🇬🇱 If the United States attacks, invades or annexes Greenland, it would be the geopolitical equivalent of committing state suicide.
This isn’t some distant territory. Greenland belongs to Denmark - a NATO member, an ally.
If the U.S. seizes land from a NATO country, this doesn’t trigger “strongly worded statements.” It triggers the end of NATO.
Because NATO’s core promise is collective defense: an attack on one is an attack on all.
Now imagine the attacker is the United States.
In that moment the alliance collapses because the leader becomes the predator.
And once that trust is broken, it doesn’t reset in four years.
🧨 What happens next?
1) Europe expels the U.S. militarily
Europe will demand closure of U.S. bases across the continent: Ramstein, Aviano, Lakenheath, and more.
America’s ability to project power into Europe, the Middle East, and Africa shrinks overnight.
2) It also kills the U.S.’s bilateral defense architecture — the DCAs
People forget: after 2022, the U.S. built a whole NATO+ infrastructure through Defense Cooperation Agreements — including Sweden’s DCA. These agreements grant the U.S. access to bases, airfields, ports, stockpiles, logistics routes.
Annex Greenland and these deals become politically radioactive.
European parliaments will freeze them. Governments will suspend access.
The U.S. won’t just lose allies.
It loses the physical infrastructure that makes U.S. power possible in Europe.
3) EU responds as a bloc
The EU has its own mutual defense clause (Article 42.7 TEU).
Europe will be compelled to treat the U.S. as an aggressor state.
4) The dollar and U.S. debt become vulnerable
America’s global position rests on trust — including trust in the dollar.
An imperial land grab against Europe shatters that. Reserve diversification accelerates. Debt costs rise. Inflation becomes structural.
5) Corporate America gets crushed
in the world’s richest market
This becomes economic war.
U.S. companies aren’t “penalized” — they’re treated as enemy-state assets.
6) The EU-US trade agreement package will be frozen or killed
The EU is currently debating an EU–US trade agreement package. If Washington turns into a territorial aggressor against a European democracy, Europe won’t “keep doing business as usual.”
It will delay, suspend, or cancel the deal entirely.
Especially now, when the U.S. has announced tariffs on allies — Denmark, Sweden, Norway, France, Germany, the UK, Finland, and the Netherlands — explicitly tied to the Greenland dispute.
And that will hit American consumers first: higher tariffs, higher prices, disrupted supply chains — at a moment when Americans can least afford it.
🔥 And the most insane part?
It hands Russia and China the strategic victory of the century.
A self-inflicted rupture of the West — achieved without Moscow or Beijing firing a shot.
Invading or annexing Greenland is not strength.
It’s not leadership.
It’s not “America First.”
It’s America alone.
And it’s the fastest way for the United States to destroy the Western alliance system that made it the most powerful nation on earth.
It’s madness.
And I say this as someone who loves the United States — and cares deeply about its future.