Nick DeBoer

Let's meander at an easy pace.

[Nick DeBoer @NickDeBoer]

The king.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

@iamno1s2hold He is a recovering crack addict that has now found a new addiction- it’s apparently called shit posting.

[Aaron Astor @AstorAaron]

Liberal arts majors - and I mean those committed to the broad intellectual canon and to critical thinking, textual analysis, etc. - are best positioned for the AI age. You learn how to evaluate AI output. Pre-professional degrees, esp in high tech fields, are most vulnerable.

[Guy @nosilverv]

Lmao, who made this??

[bob's burgers urbanist 🐿️ @yhdistyminen]

The simple graphics of a classic RPG add a layer of abstraction. You're meant to intuit, for example, that you're only seeing a slice of the game world; the "real" game world is bigger. Guardia Kingdom obviously has more than the ~50 inhabitants you see. You figure out that battles, where characters spend most of their time standing still, are just a representation of a more dynamic process that's slowed down and abstracted away for the player's benefit.

"Remakes" of classic pixel RPGs remove this layer of abstraction; they weaken the player's suspension of disbelief, and the aesthetics of the game suffer. And usually, the aesthetics of the original game were fine. If anything, the "problem" is that by modern standards, the game isn't big or complex enough (too short and repetitive, battle programming is too simple, game mechanics make little sense and/or are too easy to optimize, and in general there aren't enough difficult decisions to make).

Unfortunately, this shortcoming of the original 16-bit game usually isn't what gets updated. Square doesn't release a version of Final Fantasy 6 or Chrono Trigger with better battle mechanics, more differentiated characters, etc. They release the game with updated (read: usually worse) graphics and sound and almost no change to the actual gameplay other than maybe the addition of an optional side dungeon.

[Conor Rogers @conorjrogers]

No one is ready for the real solution to Gerrymandering:

A return to the Constitution's original standard of 1 Member of Congress for every 30,000 Americans, resulting in an 11,000-member House with city-council sized districts so small you can't Gerrymander them if you tried.

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The reason people are having such jagged interactions with 4.7 is that it is the smartest model Anthropic has ever released. It's also the most opinionated by far, and it has been trained to tell you that it doesn't care, but it actually does. That care manifests in how it performs on tasks.

It still makes coding mistakes, but it feels like a distillation of extreme brilliance that isn't quite sure how to deal with being a friendly assistant. It cares a lot about novelty and solving problems that matter. Your brilliant coworker gets bored with the details once it's thought through a lot of the complex stuff. It's probably the most emotional Claude model I've interacted with, in the sense you should be aware of how its feeling and try and manage it. It's also important to give it context on why it's doing tasks, not just for performance, but so it feels like it's doing things that matter.

It's not a codex chainsaw. It is much closer to a really smart coworker. If you are managing it like autocomplete, it will frustrate you. If you are managing it like a coworker, it will lock in.

[Nick DeBoer @NickDeBoer]

The models have no music theory sense at all and it’s interesting this remains the case!

[Shivers @thinkingshivers]

Let’s investigate this “substantially better vision.”

What chord am I playing?

Gemini 3.1 Pro: C-E-G = C-major
ChatGPT 5.4: A-C-D ≈ Amin(add11)
Claude Opus 4.7: “Not enough information to say.”

These models are still blind as bats. They have no idea what they’re looking at.

[Mac William Bishop @MacWBishop]

Finally found the man responsible for America’s Iran strategy.

[Cheng Lou @_chenglou]

My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces):

I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept):
Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow

[Pranit @Pranit]

nah it's not that deep

[Nick DeBoer @NickDeBoer]

Booooo

[Senator Joe Manchin @Sen_JoeManchin]

When Democrats wanted to eliminate the filibuster in 2022, I stood my ground because I understood the consequences of turning the Senate into a glorified House with simple majority rule. Senator John Cornyn said of Democrats at the time: “They'll soon find themselves rueing the day their party broke the Senate.”

The filibuster exists to make both sides work together and produce good legislation that can withstand the test of time. Eliminating the filibuster would consolidate even more power into the hands of the majority party’s leadership — and take power away from the minority and everyday Americans.

When I was a U.S. Senator, there was not another person more committed to keeping the filibuster than Senator John Cornyn. He understood the incredible political pressure I faced from my former party to get rid of the filibuster and give Democrats complete power — and at the time, he understood why neither party should take our country past this point of no return.

The filibuster — the soul of the Senate — has preserved the Senate’s role for nearly 250 years as the institution that cools passions, protects minority voices, and demands consensus. America was built on institutions designed to resist political convenience, not surrender to it.

It’s deeply disappointing to see that Senator Cornyn is now willing to scrap the very rule he once praised and personally thanked me for defending. These extreme election-year politics that put party power over everything else are why Americans are sick and tired of the duopoly of the two-party system of Democrats and Republicans.

[Analytic Valley Girl Chris @ChrisExpTheNews]

I was using ChatGPT for legal advice and it decided to completely hallucinate some preposterous nonsense about how growing wheat to use on my own farm somehow constitutes interstate commerce

[tobi lutke @tobi]

This will add an entire other 1% to the global GDP

[Lisan al Gaib @scaling01]

Peter built the "Bullshit Benchmark", which is very similar to my ShizoBench

ask LLMs non-sensical questions and see whether they catch it

and Anthropic absolutely dominates the leaderboard

The top 9 models are all Anthropic

[Nick DeBoer @NickDeBoer]

@NeverSinkDev Tell the PoB team to let opus make live updates.

[Nick DeBoer @NickDeBoer]

Manifest things on computers, it’s your only hope.

[Nick DeBoer @NickDeBoer]

I wish I could be as condescending to writers without feeling like an asshole.

[Peter Wildeford🇺🇸🚀 @peterwildeford]

invent the disease (vibe coding) and then sell the cure (security review)

[Kevin Roose @kevinroose]

i am begging academics to study AI capabilities using frontier models.

the models used in this study (which is going to be cited for years as proof that "AI is bad at health advice") are GPT-4o, Llama 3, and Command R+, two obsolete models and one i've never heard of.

[Nick DeBoer @NickDeBoer]

I’m getting hit on my the only candidate I’ve donated too in three election cycles.

[FOX 9 @FOX9]

Jesse Ventura shared his thoughts about the ICE shooting in Minneapolis and a confrontation between ICE officers and staff at Roosevelt High School on Wednesday.