Harry Ramsay

global citizen, locally reversing entropy || nullius in verba

[Harry Ramsay @harry_ramsay]

It still absolutely floors me that humans were able to figure out the universe sufficiently such that we were able to turn this seemingly physics-defying miracle into an ordinary, everyday fact of normal travel. What a world we live in.

[Harry Ramsay @harry_ramsay]

@thsottiaux appshots being added to both main and /side chats instead of just the relevant one (e.g. the one in focus)

[Harry Ramsay @harry_ramsay]

out of curiosity, I've been trying this with GPT-5.5 - not even the Pro version, just Thinking.

it's consistently either one-shotting them or getting it on the 2nd try, & it's thinking for less than 10 seconds on average

bad news for the "it's just a stochastic parrot" crowd

[Celene is back in Portland @toasterlighting]

Today I discovered this game called "Doctordle" where you are presented with a series of symptoms and have to guess the condition

[Harry Ramsay @harry_ramsay]

kind of blows my mind that, in the past, you'd have needed an entire publishing arm to commit months of work and tons of money to do this, and now you can invoke a single Codex skill, walk away, and come back 20 minutes later to a finished and polished book

insanity

[Harry Ramsay @harry_ramsay]

fun use of Codex: taking old books that were never translated to English ("Todas as cartas", by Clarice Lispector) and:

- spinning up 6 sub-agents to translate the entire thing start to finish
- performing QA checks on translation quality
- generate cover art
- compile into epub

[Harry Ramsay @harry_ramsay]

then running more automated checks to identify and fix any formatting / layout issues

at which point, Bob is your mother's brother

[Harry Ramsay @harry_ramsay]

!!

[Magyar Péter (Ne féljetek) @magyarpeterMP]

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has just called to congratulate us on our victory.

[Sean Davis @seanmdav]

I wish every airline would do this. And by every airline, I mean every company and the owner of every public and private space on earth.

[Harry Ramsay @harry_ramsay]

@felixrieseberg could you take a look at mobile AskUserQuestion functionality? doesn’t currently seem to display, and it effectively crashes the conversation

[Harry Ramsay @harry_ramsay]

😊

[Harry Ramsay @harry_ramsay]

from my 8 year old niece:

"did you know it was Rick Astley's birthday the other day?"
me: "... how did you know that?"
her: "I heard it on the radio"

the kids are alright 😅

[Harry Ramsay @harry_ramsay]

Claude, when reviewing something written by Codex:

"It's doing the GPT thing where it mostly agrees with you and repackages what was already said, but there are a couple of useful points in there..."

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

It's going to be tough for startups when all the Lord of the Rings names are taken and the only thing left is something like Bombadil AI.

[Harry Ramsay @harry_ramsay]

First ever time making Swedish cinnamon buns 🇸🇪 (kanelbullar) and they turned out great!

we also now seemingly have a supply into 2026…

[Harry Ramsay @harry_ramsay]

firmly agree with this one.

https://t.co/KsDndMutME

see also: "society tells us to..."

does it *really*?

[Harry Ramsay @harry_ramsay]

nano banana:

"create a screenshot of what the youtube homepage would look like 10 years from now if things continue along the path of everything becoming ridiculously clickbaity"

[Harry Ramsay @harry_ramsay]

@danshipper @AnthropicAI @every managed to somehow hit the maximum conversation length before it even got to outputting a single character of its actual response.

incredible. anthropic what are you doing

[Harry Ramsay @harry_ramsay]

"let's"

on the front page of Google AI Studio? come on, guys

[Harry Ramsay @harry_ramsay]

@R_Sharfuddin_ @andrew_carter i would love to hear more about this! Tyler does SO much stuff that it almost feels like if someone invented him as a character in a novel, we'd end up dismissing it as "unrealistic", because how could anyone sustain that level of input AND output without having five clones?

[Harry Ramsay @harry_ramsay]

codex is just IRL factorio