I can now probably say this:
Two months ago, inside Anthropic someone suggested building a token leaderboard.
A heated internal debate followed and the decision was made to *never* ever do it… because several people inside Anthropic simply thought ahead of the consequences
Sources: Amazon has shut down an internal leaderboard that tracked employees' use of AI tools after workers tried to boost their scores with needless tasks (@rafeuddin_ / Financial Times)
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This tweet might not age well but here goes.
Using an LLM to do code generation is still code generation. It doesn't raise the level of abstraction. It does not fundamentally change the software engineering process. What we have is a new building block for the next wave of innovation in this space.
Never heard so many standout infra engineers + AI infra eng actively wanting to leave Meta than now.
A month ago they were building cutting-edge infra and then got assigned to AI data labelling
Most of them went “WTH” and now I’m the middle of interviewing
Madness from Meta
Senegal is becoming a perfect case study of what happens when revolutionary politics finally meets the realities of governing.
It’s easy to unite people against a system.
It’s much harder to run the economy, negotiate debt, satisfy voters and still maintain the purity of the movement.
A lot of liberation-style movements in Africa struggle once they transition from opposition to government because charisma and slogans eventually collide with budgets, IMF pressure and state institutions.
That’s exactly what we’re watching in Senegal right now.
Meta laying off 10% of staff when revenue is at an all-time high, revenue growth is a beast (33% YoY!!), profits at an all-time high:
just depressing
These layoffs are not because Meta needs to lay off, but because Zuck wanted to lay off for whatever reason
In the next version of Claude Code: run /usage to see a breakdown of which Skills, Agents, MCPs, and Plugins are using your tokens
CLI today, coming to Desktop next
Microsoft is obsessed with backward compatibility - even if this means slower iteration
AWS is obsessed with predictability - even if this means large strain on their devs
Google is obsessed with their devs' wellbeing - so you have to do the work their devs did not want to
Google released Antigravity CLI as the only way to use CLI now (3.5 Flash is not available in Gemini CLI anymore).
And ofcourse, they do not migrate settings/skills/MCPs anything from Gemini CLI to Antigravity CLI automatically.
Classic.
1/ We are sharing additional details regarding our investigation into unauthorized access to GitHub's internal repositories.
Yesterday we detected and contained a compromise of an employee device involving a poisoned VS Code extension. We removed the malicious extension version, isolated the endpoint, and began incident response immediately.
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.
Situation 1: dev A thinks approach X is correct, dev B thinks Y is the right way. They argue and try to convince each other.
Situation 2: dev A thinks approach X is correct, tells the LLM to implement it.
There is SO MUCH learning in Situation 1, lost when using LLMs....