had a great idea for a startup launch video, essentially it would be a montage of inspiring clips from films, historical clips, interviews, etc. -- scenes of technological progress that tie your company's identity with themes of techno-optimism and dynamism in america
I don't get why more people don't just make low budget movies that 10-100x at the box office. You get great financial returns and also cultural significance
It’s nice that AI was bad before it was good. It would have been too jarring if we immediately went to good AI but we’ve been able to ease into it somewhat
MTS got a lot of flack on/post launch but a few weeks in I honestly am seeing the clips a lot more and there are some interesting interviews. Most problems or reasons why something won't work can kinda just be figured out over time
That's so funny, was just chatting with a friend about how coretext has a quadratic-scaling bug in its complex-script fallback for Tulu-Tigalari (Unicode 16, U+11380+) and four sister scripts added in Unicode 14-16 (Ol Onal, Kawi, Nag Mundari, Toto): the payload (Tulu base + U+034F + Tulu virama + ZWJ) repeated forces one shaping run per cluster, and CGJ between base and virama multiplies runs per cluster from 2 to 3, with timing measured directly via PyObjC on macOS 26.4.1: 2.8 seconds at 25k UTF-16, 4.1s at 30k (already past iOS's 5-second main-thread watchdog), 11s at 50k, and 25.4 seconds at 75k UTF-16 with roughly O(n²) scaling, meaning a 25k payload reliably crashes any iOS 26.5 app rendering it on the main thread, the 75k version hangs the zombie process for 25-40 seconds before cleanup, and the bug cannot be defended by stripping CGJ alone because 14 different variation selectors (U+FE00–U+FE0D) amplify identically
It's clear that growth for coding tools such as Claude Code has decelerated from the pace it was since the start of the year.
It might be compute- constrain related or due to many clients blowing their full-year AI budgets.
Monitoring this trend very closely with all the alt data. I will provide regular updates.