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[lauren bacon @lcbacon]

@instagram i opted into beta testing via a banner notification in the app a while ago. when i click update instagram beta in the overlay notification, this is what i see in testflight. i have no email from i’ll nor a code. help??

[lauren bacon @lcbacon]

ope here i am 🫡

[𝓲𝓬𝓮 @be_like_ice]

If you survived the emotionally unstable mother & emotionally absent father duo, how's your hyper independence, burnout and anxiety going?

[lauren bacon @lcbacon]

oh to be loved like this

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Tom Holland says that his non-alcoholic beer brand BERO will release a shandy-style drinks range in honor of Zendaya.

“Zendaya, bless her, has never been a drinker, so she’s never drank beer. She didn’t love the beers we have on sale. The idea behind the shandies was to create something authentic at the company that Z could enjoy.”

(Source: https://t.co/IwKZIfNBpb)

[lauren bacon @lcbacon]

@TiredBambooLaw absolutely long distance, especially given how terrible parking is in ktown.

[lauren bacon @lcbacon]

this app is still unmatched when it comes to drake commentary ☠️ my for you is 🔥 and full of hilarious gems. real haters and i am here for it.

[lauren bacon @lcbacon]

can someone please explain to me why so many medical buildings lock their bathrooms so you have to use a key?

[lauren bacon @lcbacon]

life is chaos and the sooner we all accept that instead of trying to control it the happier we’ll all be

[lauren bacon @lcbacon]

i’ll never forget the first time i was called an abg when i moved to sf in 2017. i had never heard the term bc i grew up in the midwest raised by white parents (hello adoption trauma). i felt so insulted and objectified. why are we doing this as a trend? banger post @bytheophana

[tiff @bytheophana]

https://t.co/H55AjNwLqC

[lauren bacon @lcbacon]

@ValentinoKhan fly me out ✈️

[lauren bacon @lcbacon]

they say romance is dead

[lauren bacon @lcbacon]

i can’t believe klay fumbled megan

[Turshija @turshija]

I got completely owned by the most sophisticated hack I've ever encountered.

I'm a developer. I know what scams look like.
This didn't look like one.

🧵

[lauren bacon @lcbacon]

okay this @djsnake x @RLGRIME x @FLOSSTRADAMUS @coachella set is filled with so many old hits these kids don’t even know

[lauren bacon @lcbacon]

had never heard of the guerrilla girls until today. catch the exhibit at the getty until april 12!

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Judging by my tl there is a growing gap in understanding of AI capability.

The first issue I think is around recency and tier of use. I think a lot of people tried the free tier of ChatGPT somewhere last year and allowed it to inform their views on AI a little too much. This is a group of reactions laughing at various quirks of the models, hallucinations, etc. Yes I also saw the viral videos of OpenAI's Advanced Voice mode fumbling simple queries like "should I drive or walk to the carwash". The thing is that these free and old/deprecated models don't reflect the capability in the latest round of state of the art agentic models of this year, especially OpenAI Codex and Claude Code.

But that brings me to the second issue. Even if people paid $200/month to use the state of the art models, a lot of the capabilities are relatively "peaky" in highly technical areas. Typical queries around search, writing, advice, etc. are *not* the domain that has made the most noticeable and dramatic strides in capability. Partly, this is due to the technical details of reinforcement learning and its use of verifiable rewards. But partly, it's also because these use cases are not sufficiently prioritized by the companies in their hillclimbing because they don't lead to as much $$$ value. The goldmines are elsewhere, and the focus comes along.

So that brings me to the second group of people, who *both* 1) pay for and use the state of the art frontier agentic models (OpenAI Codex / Claude Code) and 2) do so professionally in technical domains like programming, math and research. This group of people is subject to the highest amount of "AI Psychosis" because the recent improvements in these domains as of this year have been nothing short of staggering. When you hand a computer terminal to one of these models, you can now watch them melt programming problems that you'd normally expect to take days/weeks of work. It's this second group of people that assigns a much greater gravity to the capabilities, their slope, and various cyber-related repercussions.

TLDR the people in these two groups are speaking past each other. It really is simultaneously the case that OpenAI's free and I think slightly orphaned (?) "Advanced Voice Mode" will fumble the dumbest questions in your Instagram's reels and *at the same time*, OpenAI's highest-tier and paid Codex model will go off for 1 hour to coherently restructure an entire code base, or find and exploit vulnerabilities in computer systems. This part really works and has made dramatic strides because 2 properties: 1) these domains offer explicit reward functions that are verifiable meaning they are easily amenable to reinforcement learning training (e.g. unit tests passed yes or no, in contrast to writing, which is much harder to explicitly judge), but also 2) they are a lot more valuable in b2b settings, meaning that the biggest fraction of the team is focused on improving them. So here we are.

[lauren bacon @lcbacon]

but of course, the chat doesn’t allow you to send screenshots. now the rep (probably ai agent) is telling me to CALL THEM…when the whole point of the chat is there is zero reception at this address. @Verizon it’s not april fools day anymore. get it together. @VerizonSupport

[lauren bacon @lcbacon]

i have spent over an hour (maybe 2 at this point) trying to get help from @Verizon because there is zero reception at our new home office. they said they would send signal boosters. the link they keep sending for payment does not work. i see the errors in the browser console.

[lauren bacon @lcbacon]

everyday is april fool’s when you’re attracted to men 🫠

[lauren bacon @lcbacon]

anyone else go shopping for one thing, fill your cart, and get home WITHOUT THE ONE THING YOU NEEDED??

[kelbin @pissboymcgee]

Being in your 30s is wild because every woman you know is becoming the most beautiful version of themselves meanwhile every guy you know is losing cognitive function at a rapid rate