Nathan Borror

Do not be afraid

[Nathan Borror @nathanborror]

@krzyzanowskim you would know 😂

[Nathan Borror @nathanborror]

It's crazy how much time can be spent making a text editor in 2026.

[Nathan Borror @nathanborror]

@ashleevance 😭 omg, I live there and didn’t know about this

[Nathan Borror @nathanborror]

It’s interesting to see model development echo interaction design principles — hierarchical models kinda remind me of Activity Theory.

https://t.co/U5vtIEidAb

[Nathan Borror @nathanborror]

Been slowly reading the encyclical, currently working through chapter 4. Much of the commentary is very ironic because many appear to be skimming or running it through an LLM which Leo kinda warns about on paragraph 146:

“Without careful attention, an educational system lacking in a love for truth may emerge, in which an incessant flow of information replaces the essential exercise of research, reflection and discernment.”

[Nathan Borror @nathanborror]

@yacineMTB

[Nathan Borror @nathanborror]

@TurnerNovak Everyone above H is too distracted.

[Nathan Borror @nathanborror]

@soleio 🐇

[Nathan Borror @nathanborror]

We’re gonna crave ai

[Justin Murphy @jmrphy]

This is why AI is causing such a panic reaction across the writerly class: All of the currently functioning "human" processes of writing, selecting, editing, and publishing are so cooked that machines almost deserve to take over—and the people who are guilty know it.

[Nathan Borror @nathanborror]

@soleio I have never felt fear and focus so acutely.

[Nathan Borror @nathanborror]

The art of post-training will probably always make the laity uncomfortable. Transparency would go a long way but this is the only moat so ain’t happening anytime soon.

[Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd]

🚨 BILL GURLEY: “I would encourage people to read as much as they can about Anthropic … I don't think they think they're writing software. I think they're midwifing a deity.”

JASON: “I know some of these folks … They believe they're so powerful, that they can create God.”

[Nathan Borror @nathanborror]

@PirateWires I’m glad someone else actually read it.

[Nathan Borror @nathanborror]

It leaves me wishing we had access to models that were blank slates, maybe not entirely blank so as not to be practical but blank in terms of unbiased by product outcomes the providers wish to have.

[Nathan Borror @nathanborror]

At the risk of sounding behind, I found this interview with Peter Steinberger[1] and this LessWrong[2] post illuminating. Before I naively understood LLMs as needing instruction but that's not necessarily true, they need to be primed. It's more like putting your thumb on the scale in the right parts to create a trajectory towards an specific outcome.

1. https://t.co/6RwRjjv0Vx
2. https://t.co/gcL6bCZV3t

[Nathan Borror @nathanborror]

It’s kind of unfortunate the model already has this bias.

[Nathan Borror @nathanborror]

This is fun and seems difficult to block. The output isn't strong but the scraping mechanics work. Tried parallelizing the browser sessions but everything slowed down too much and the automated scrolling didn't work as well.

[Nathan Borror @nathanborror]

@elonmusk Any way you can do a deal with Anthropic so Claude memories can be accessed by Grok?

[Nathan Borror @nathanborror]

I wish X gave me an option to make a clip from a video URL (mostly YouTube) so I didn't have to use yt-dlp and ffmpeg to make one myself.

[Nathan Borror @nathanborror]

"The call is coming from inside the house" — @pmarca