Shawn Ng

Life is short... do good, make ideas come to life, one line of code at a time.

[Shawn Ng @shawnthetechie]

@AnthropicAI And just like that, no one has access to it. As an American, I'd love it if Anthropic could come up with some kind of verification system quick so we could get back to using Fable 5. I'd planned to work on side projects this weekend and now that's off the table🙁

[Shawn Ng @shawnthetechie]

@GrittyMarshall @AnthropicAI That's a fair point. Verification gets real messy. I'm not claiming it's easy or even fully solvable. My point is just that some middle ground would beat shutting it off for everyone.

[Shawn Ng @shawnthetechie]

@leafamrit @AnthropicAI Fair question and nothing strictly requires it... other models work fine. It was more that I'd already built my weekend workflow around it. Momentum more than dependency I guess.

[Shawn Ng @shawnthetechie]

@SteveAustin5600 @AnthropicAI That’s fair, and you’re right. I didn’t mean to gloss over that.

[Shawn Ng @shawnthetechie]

@ClaudeDevs Since the directive's really just about restricting foreign nationals, couldn't Anthropic have their models spin up a verification system to handle that? Get eligible users back in for now, sort out the rest later. Shouldn't take long given what I've seen Fable 5 do.

[Shawn Ng @shawnthetechie]

Claude Fable 5 is powerful, but wow, it burns through tokens fast.

[Shawn Ng @shawnthetechie]

@claudeai It's pretty darn good if you ask me!

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use.

Its capabilities exceed those of any model we’ve ever made generally available.

[Shawn Ng @shawnthetechie]

10 minutes in and claude fable 5 feels like a cheat code

[Shawn Ng @shawnthetechie]

If you're a python dev.. do you see polars replacing pandas anytime soon?

[Shawn Ng @shawnthetechie]

Uber told engineers to use AI "as much as possible" and ranked them on token leaderboards.

Months later, the annual budget was gone and the COO admits he can't draw a line from usage to shipped features.

The next engineering skill isn't using more AI. It's wasting less of it.

[Shawn Ng @shawnthetechie]

The GitHub breach today is a good reminder that the IDE we use has become way more than "the place you write code."

Extensions, terminal, tokens, Git creds, cloud configs… all sitting in one place.

One sketchy extension can turn into a serious problem fast.

[Shawn Ng @shawnthetechie]

@Ric_RTP Is it just me or is Sam Altman looking younger every day?

[Shawn Ng @shawnthetechie]

The forward deployed engineer is the most undervalued role in tech right now.

Not a sales engineer.
Not a solutions architect.
Not a regular dev.

You're the person who turns "I have a vague AI idea" into "here's a thing that survived contact with reality."

[Shawn Ng @shawnthetechie]

I'm talking to Claude Code and it doesn't even know what Claude Cowork is. 😂

I guess it makes sense since its training data was probably baked before Cowork was a thing.

[Shawn Ng @shawnthetechie]

@TasteOfCountry That's easy! @lukecombs hands down!

[Shawn Ng @shawnthetechie]

@TasteOfCountry That's easy! @lukecombs 100%

[Shawn Ng @shawnthetechie]

@ariellelok It really ain't for the faint-hearted.

[Shawn Ng @shawnthetechie]

@Closetnerd87 @Verizon @VerizonSupport Facing the same issue right now. Still on hold. 😓

[Jeff Barr ☁️ @jeffbarr]

The first edition of this book (Computer Lib / Dream Machines) was one of my earliest purchases and a bargain at $7 in 1977 (I bought it direct from @TheTedNelson at the First West Coast Computer Faire). 1st edition is printed in a tiny font; 2nd is just slightly bigger & better.