Lukens Orthwein

working toward world’s first superhuman vintage cube AI | developing a new competitive-first TCG | Founder and CEO of Channel AI

[Lukens Orthwein @lukensort]

@terribadmtg Best format

[Lukens Orthwein @lukensort]

One Mac Studio running all agent sessions, all my accounts logged in on different Chrome profiles, Tailscale website that keeps track of everything and simple commands to tmux connect to any session from any device, daemon tracking usage across all accounts and waiting for right time to automatically swap login, Telegram emergency login prompt alerts, and a Grok Bot that gives periodic high level updates across all my agents when I’m AFK

[Lukens Orthwein @lukensort]

Finally got around to fully automating personal Claude code cli account load balancing today 🙏🏼 currently juggling 5 Claude, 2 codex, 1 grok, and dabbling with Argon

[Lukens Orthwein @lukensort]

@kiaran_ritchie LoL didn’t release on steam

[Lukens Orthwein @lukensort]

@petersellis @PerryALPHA @X @SpaceX Congrats Peter!

[Lukens Orthwein @lukensort]

@mcnabbd The return to small teams like the 80s and 90s is going to revitalize the industry, finally! It’s less clear to me what the right division of labor should be at the game studio of the future if/when it extends beyond a single dev

[Lukens Orthwein @lukensort]

Very impressed with Argon on legal tasks and some research synthesis…pleasantly surprised. Opus 5.5 still dominates as daily driver, though. Never use Fable anymore

[Lukens Orthwein @lukensort]

@Cartoonhistory2 Watching this first chance I get

[Tim Sweeney @TimSweeneyEpic]

@SoftEngineer Yep. For decades, developers have used computer tools to make games for computers. And now that computer tools are finally getting really good, they want developers to forego the good new tools and stick with the old worse tools.

[Tim Sweeney @TimSweeneyEpic]

This is exactly what's happening.

[Lukens Orthwein @lukensort]

@TimSweeneyEpic Massive consumer surplus across the board, and also a time for transformational new studios to emerge that redefine what a live service can be

[Lukens Orthwein @lukensort]

@JNavok This pendulum is about to swing in the opposite direction

[Lukens Orthwein @lukensort]

@PsyopAnime Absolutely

[Gali @Gfilche]

I feel like 95% of America has no idea @Tesla FSD exists

[Lukens Orthwein @lukensort]

@PsyopAnime 🔥

[Lukens Orthwein @lukensort]

@PassagePress Audiobook when?

[Steven Sinofsky @stevesi]

Our framework for reporting model misalignment https://t.co/kUph7jo6Ve // if you scrape away all the anthropomorphic language, all the nonsense about thinking, cheating, communicating these are BUGS. They might be architectural flaws inherent in LLMs. They might be bugs in pre or post processing. They might be trivial fixes or super to impossibly difficult.

BUT THEY ARE BUGS. They are not consciousness, thinking/reasoning, cheating, or doing anything else like a person. The software is just doing dumb stuff it should not do.

If an old school SQL query-based report returned a NULL set but still printed the report with whatever was left over in the buffer we would not say it "ignored our instructions to produce a valid report" which is literally implied in every computer interaction...we would say it "f'ed up and there's a bug."

One of these is ridiculous. It says "agent preparing a financial model could not find the requested historical data. Its summary proposed inventing reasonable historical values and withholding that fact unless asked." Not unlike a report that just used random cached memory instead of actual data—a real bug from another era where storage was measured in megabytes.

I ask anyone who has ever experienced an hallucination, (a) did you ask it "oh hey don't make sh*t up" or (b) "if you make sh*t up please be sure to tell me" or if not, did any model ever tell you "here's the answer and FYI I made this up." Of course not.

THESE ARE BUGS. THE SOFTWARE ISN'T WORKING.

Just because it looks like it works, or it showers the results in endless obsequious and smart-sounding language, or because it has really bad error reporting doesn't mean it is acting like some malevolent shady actor. It is acting like broken software.

Every recalc bug in Excel looked like Excel worked. We never thought once that it was Excel's fault for "choosing to interpret math incorrectly." Every data-loss bug in Word was not because Word "chose not to tell the author that a file was corrupt" but it was because Word wasn't working and it was our fault. When Windows hung it was not because the scheduler was secretly conspiring against its instructions to schedule processes fairly.

Enough with the mumbo jumbo. Please build software. It isn't a magic show. This is engineering.

[Lukens Orthwein @lukensort]

@Tocelot @Lakezhealme I have faith AI will also make these new remakes, expansions, and balance patches cheaper to produce and thus more regular

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

@Austen He thinks he will be put in charge of the most powerful transnational organization in history and strongarm the USA. Saying he would hand everything over to "the right set of government" is obviously predicated on the assumption that it is run by him and his stooges, not Trump.

[Choblin @choblin29]

🚨Holy Shit. President Trump has now officially rejected Dario Amodei, Sam Altman and Elon Musk's call to slow frontier AI.

Speaking in Ireland today, Trump said the US cannot risk losing its lead over China, said guardrails are possible, and dismissed parts of the safety push as 'negative forces' warning about 'things that won't happen.'

Amodei, Altman and Musk are asking to slow down.

Trump's answer is no. wth