Jacob Gable

Not from around here. Professional programmer. Amateur philosopher. Maker of things you might’ve used or read.

[Jacob Gable @jacob4u2]

Team Movie Night at Sprout

[dex @dexhorthy]

At HumanLayer, we’re on a mission to solve the AI slop code problem.

In 2025 we open-sourced our Research, Plan, Implement framework, now deployed inside fortune 500s like Block and Uber - places where shipping slop is just not an option

And that was just the beginning.

Today, we’re opening access to HumanLayer - an Agentic IDE, collaboration platform, and building blocks for your software factory.

HumanLayer enables engineers solving hard problems in complex codebases to:

> move 2-3x faster across the entire SDLC (not just coding)

> maintain rigorous standards for system architecture and program design

Hundreds of engineers at companies of all sizes are already using HumanLayer to ship fast without sacrificing quality.

I'm excited to invite you to try humanlayer today at https://t.co/cQ648EkrnG, and I'm even more excited to see what you build.

@0xblacklight and I are deeply grateful to our team, our customers who give us so much incredible energy and feedback, our investors who have always been in our corner, and our friends and family who have supported us along this crazy journey

if you're a staff or principal engineer trying to make AI coding work at scale for your team, we'd love to hear from you

as @swyx likes to say - let's make this the year of no more slop

[Ryan Dahl @rough__sea]

I miss the solitude of programming. Coffee at hand, excitement powering my fingers. Ideally disconnected from the internet.

But I aspire to be an engineer, not a poet. There are new problems and new skills to learn.

[Jacob Gable @jacob4u2]

I don’t think the OpenAI recruiter has seen my tweets about Otherman yet

[Klaas @forgebitz]

software engineering in 2026:

- your package manager is compromised
- your cloud provider blocks your account
- github itself is hacked

software is solved

[arvo färt @arvofart]

A fun fact about John Brown is how many primary sources were written by his ideological enemies disputing the propaganda that he was a deranged lunatic because they talked to him and universally found him calm and reasonable

[Emmett Shear @eshear]

It’s an honor just to be nominated

[hope hopes hoping @hopes_revenge]

it’s one big Peter Thiel’s hot tub at 3 AM and you ain’t in it

[Jacob Gable @jacob4u2]

"A board member described Sam as having 'two traits almost never seen in the same person: a strong desire to please people in any given interaction, and almost a sociopathic lack of concern for the consequences of deceiving someone.'"

https://t.co/QgRcp6fBBa

[Ryan @ohryansbelt]

The New Yorker just dropped a massive investigation into Sam Altman, based on over 100 interviews, the previously undisclosed "Ilya Memos," and Dario Amodei's 200+ pages of private notes. It's the most detailed account yet of the pattern of behavior that led to Sam's firing and rapid reinstatement at OpenAI. Here's the breakdown:

> Ilya compiled ~70 pages of Slack messages, HR documents, and photos taken on personal phones to avoid detection on company devices. He sent them to board members as disappearing messages. The first memo begins with a list headed "Sam exhibits a consistent pattern of . . ." The first item is "Lying."

> Dario kept detailed private notes for years under the heading "My Experience with OpenAI" (subheading: "Private: Do Not Share"), totaling 200+ pages. His conclusion: "The problem with OpenAI is Sam himself."

> Sam reportedly told Mira his allies were "going all out" and "finding bad things" to damage her reputation after the firing. Thrive put its planned $86B investment on hold and implied it would only close if Sam returned, giving employees financial incentive to back him.

> Sam texted Satya Nadella directly to propose the new board composition: "bret, larry summers, adam as the board and me as ceo and then bret handles the investigation." The two new members selected to oversee an independent inquiry into Sam were chosen after close conversations with Sam himself.

> Before OpenAI, senior employees at Loopt asked the board to fire Sam as CEO on two separate occasions over concerns about leadership and transparency. At Y Combinator, partners complained to Paul Graham about Sam's behavior, and Graham privately told colleagues "Sam had been lying to us all the time."

> OpenAI's superalignment team was promised 20% of the company's compute. Four people who worked on or with the team said actual resources were 1-2%, mostly on the oldest cluster with the worst chips. The team was dissolved without completing its mission.

> Sam told the board that safety features in GPT-4 had been approved by a safety panel. Helen Toner requested documentation and found the most controversial features had not been approved. Sam also never mentioned to the board that Microsoft released an early ChatGPT version in India without completing a required safety review.

> Sam made a secret pact with Greg and Ilya where he agreed to resign if they both deemed it necessary, essentially appointing his own shadow board. The actual board was alarmed when they learned about it.

> Sam struck a deal with Greg to become CEO while simultaneously telling researchers that Greg's authority would be diminished, and telling Greg something different.

> A board member described Sam as having "two traits almost never seen in the same person: a strong desire to please people in any given interaction, and almost a sociopathic lack of concern for the consequences of deceiving someone." Multiple sources independently used the word "sociopathic."

> OpenAI is reportedly preparing for an IPO at a potential $1 trillion valuation while securing government contracts spanning immigration enforcement, domestic surveillance, and autonomous weaponry in war zones.

[Jacob Gable @jacob4u2]

Having to interact with OpenAI in any professional capacity feels like being the kid in the emperor has no clothes story. Try to set up billing for a new org? Rate limiting errors on their billing page. Click around and pages start rendering blank. This is your king?

[Jacob Gable @jacob4u2]

It’s giving

[Audrey Porne @AudreyPorne]

Local comic who says "nothing is off limits" getting pretty upset by Charlie Kirk death jokes.

[Jacob Gable @jacob4u2]

Listen, I’m fully aware that shutting the fuck up is free. But….. if that’s the guy that gets you all in your feelings about violence while you are quiet about *all the other stuff*…. 🤷

[Brisk Teaching @briskteaching]

The Next level of Brisk, is now live! ➡️

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Educators can now:

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➡️ Chat with Brisk to ajustd reading levels, change formats, add prompts, and get real-time customizations.

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No more starting from scratch. You now start from Brisk’s Next Hub.

👀 Explore Brisk Next by opening your Brisk extension in Chrome or Edge and learn more here → https://t.co/uWiVZRNNa0

[patagucci perf papi @kenwheeler]

this place makes me want to buy a cabin in appalachia and never be seen again

[isaacs @izs]

RFK Jr. has said that autistic people will never have a job, go on a date, or contribute meaningfully to society.

Many of you have built careers on my contributions to society. I'm not trying to brag, but whether you love or hate it, @npmjs is for sure "meaningful".

wtf man 😡

[taylor crumpton @taylorcrumpton]

I told y’all Beyoncé has always been country.
#Grammys2025 https://t.co/BB0OTHubD9

[Chuck Naso @ChuckNaso]

Always knew I loved Bill Burr

[Bret Comnes @bcomnes]

Whats the deal with naming generics with completely useless variable names?

[John O'Nolan @JohnONolan]

Alright, I'm publishing it.

I've had a lot of questions over the last few weeks about how @Ghost is going to avoid ending up in the same situation as WordPress.

A lot of trust in open source has been broken.

So, I spent some time writing up how we structure and think about business, governance, open source, community, and ecosystems more broadly.

Our setup is pretty different to most, and while I certainly don't think we've got it all figured out — I think our model is especially relevant at this particular moment in time.

Trust, alignment and independence are critical issues that can't be ignored.

So, here are my views on the subject I care about the most.

Democratising publishing: 👇
https://t.co/KZQKiOduJP

[Cohh Carnage @CohhCarnage]

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