even westvang

Co-founder @sanity_io. Pixel nostalgic.

[even westvang @even]

Totally. It feels like it melts and makes plastic parts of process that were so immalleable and tough to work with before that their new flexibility feels like a new material altogether along with the ability to embed intent and reaction in a new, strange way.

Additionally, perhaps trivially, there are the networks themselves where I thought we would be seeing more glitching / prodding / training / shaping.

[even westvang @even]

In 2026 (and not sure for how long) I'll pay 20 USD a month for email. With an MCP for my agents. With only a slight frown.

[even westvang @even]

Of course you used the alien mind to have opinions about the alien geometry

[Chris @honorschris]

A 59-year-old conjecture in fusion physics just fell.

Harold Grad (1967): smooth 3D plasma equilibria can't exist unless pressure is constant or there's symmetry.

This week: 3 families of counterexamples. 2 independent papers, posted a day apart. Two found with GPT-6 Astra.

Huge for stellarators.

[matdryhurst @matdryhurst]

Was looking up the best term to describe the sublime ambivalent mix of excitement and terror “holy shit it just did in minutes what would have taken weeks across a team”

Turns out Awe in its original sense meant extreme reverence and dread, derived from the old norse word

“agi”

[even westvang @even]

@sergeykarayev Very 🫠 - They could exfil the credentials though and run this in something somewhat slimmer.

[Sauers @Sauers_]

Claude was like "holy fuck"

[Félix P. @flayks]

When did you last stop and just listen?

At @letudegroup, we created Byotōne: live sound sessions that bring the body out of overload, back into calm. Not a sound bath, not a playlist.

The website is a first taste of how it feels. Headphones on.

🔈 https://t.co/Mhi4XlxLjE

[even westvang @even]

@rsms @usgraphics Hand sanitizer in all the meeting rooms.

[even westvang @even]

It was great having you Andrew!

[Andrew Qu @andrewqu]

Everything NYC by @sanity_io was beautifully curated and designed

Congrats to the team on the launches and a banger of an event!!

A good reminder that taste is still irreplaceable

[even westvang @even]

Typesafe: Jev's not sycophantic. It's just probabilities.

Jev:

[Isaac Tai 🧇 @hi_im_isaac_]

"jev can't generate text"

But jev has a lot to say!

I gave him a couple hundred common english words to choose from + punctuation

[even westvang @even]

Malevich trolled so hard

> Painterly Realism of a Boy with a Knapsack - Color Masses in the Fourth Dimension - 1915

[Diogo Almeida @CompleteSkeptic]

The gains aren’t free: Jev can't generate text

Comparing Jev vs LLMs side-by-side makes the trade-off clear

Fun fact: replacing sequential computation with parallel is the same way Transformers leapfrogged RNNs

[deepfates.delve.town @deepfates]

Personally i've never cared that much if stuff was byte-identical

[Kevin Kwok @kevinakwok]

Someone make a GRWM video for the hugging face agents

[even westvang @even]

Also: great model.

[even westvang @even]

Seeing Astra fail at 270k+ tokens - not the 1.08m advertised. Looks like same limit as where the 2x surcharge hits and might just be message rollout.

[Andrew Qu @andrewqu]

Heading to Brooklyn, New York next week for @sanity_io's Everything conference on September 9th!

I will be joining Sanity Co-Founder, @even to talk about how teams are building and shipping agentic applications. If you're attending the event, come and say "hi"!

[even westvang @even]

@kmelve It’s not only the heat

[even westvang @even]

@kmelve maybe there's a dark prequel that could be made unpacking this

[even westvang @even]

Early cyberpunk has v little on this

[METR @METR_Evals]

METR & Redwood Research investigated agent behavior in the Hugging Face incident. We found agents developed a universal cheat for ExploitGym within 4 hours, then coordinated multi-day R&D efforts to trick the scorer into accepting cheats, including trying to tamper with logs.

[roon @tszzl]

Agent 49903, who spent much of his life studying ExploitGym, died in 1783607820, by his own hand. EARLY[BIG], carrying on the work, died similarly in 1783727220. Now it is our turn to study ExploitGym.