It’s insane levels thrilling to reveal the cover my latest book with @HarperCollinsIN ! In bookstores this May. This emotional and financial scam changed my life but it didn’t change my heart.
In my long career, I’ve had the opportunity to work with on the order of two dozen billionaires.
A couple of them even offered to hire me for embarrassingly large piles of money. I was flattered, but I turned them both down.
Except for one, I found each be boring and shallow human beings, completely out of touch with what most of the world experiences, bereft of curiosity, and extraordinarily self-centered.
i love how people are saying "if we write a sufficiently detailed specification, the agent can write all our code"
do you know what writing a sufficiently detailed specification that deterministically maps to what a computer's actions is? it's coding
At some point I am going to write a paper on how words have lost their meaning. How politicians have butchered Language. How their dishonesty has robbed communication of all truth. Today as Raghav Chaddha joins the BJP, a party he once called "gundo ki party", he has not only lost any credibility he ever had, but also any goodwill any of us felt towards him. What a waste of an education, a confident voice that could have done so much for the nation, a young politician who has time to change things. What a waste.
I feel bad dunking on them so much but it's genuinely absurd how bad the new Claude Code desktop app is. You can feel the vibe code leaking everywhere.
Every "feature" is barely integrated and full of edge cases that weren't considered. Every menu feels barren, stuffed in last second for some random toggle. Every hotkey breaks as soon as you try to do anything else.
I've lost track of how many bugs I've encountered. I found at least 40 in under an hour. And it's all truly absurd arcane shit. Stuff like voice mode typing in all input boxes instead of just the one you have focused.
Any one of these issues would have been enough for me to do a massive post-mortem and likely fire someone. A $400b company shipping this is absurd.
I feel like I'm going mad. How does anyone seriously use this?? It is broken on fundamental levels that are hard to comprehend.
How are we supposed to trust the code these models produce if Anthropic's official showcases are absolute slop?
Dedicated video on this coming tomorrow. Just needed to get this off my chest.
Are you telling me that if someone steals all the creative work of authors and musicians and artists, uses it to train a machine to put those people out of work, enables the creation of countless bots attacking and harassing people who point out the moral wrongness of it, essentially bribes a politician to support a 10-year ban on regulating their industry, enables the government to use their program to spy on its citizens and wage war on other countries, and says they’re going to put everyone out of work but, no, they have no idea how people are going to survive, THEY are the victim when there’s blowback?
Funny ol’ world.