Stephen Thoma

[Stephen Thoma @stephenthoma]

@benspringwater @matter super clean. what’s your workflow for motion design?

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@avidan @ledwards i hope the tier column is rating how cool their hobbies are lol

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hate that codex buries the worktree UI now

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@dwr it’s all just LUTs right?

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got one of the new homepod minis

audio quality is nice. never really used siri before.. genuinely shocked by how bad it is

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@lcamtuf i've been chatting with claude about the book using the epub. really great reference

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@mynameisyahia yeah. "1 in 10 startups succeeds" has been the conventional wisdom for at least a decade

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@CR1337 google can allow fingerprinting on its platform, but that doesn't change EU law. using it for ads still requires consent. i'm not sure what this gets you around

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chatgpt keeps thinking i’m rage shaking my phone.
bro. i’m jogging

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@dankrad

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@nabeelqu keep seeing this take, i don't get it.

ofc muse and instinct will conflict, they do the same thing. get rid of one

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@mitsuhiko that's crazy. is it writing this as a one-off script or in an existing codebase?

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@samclaassen i feel openai models are much better (but still not great) than anthropic on this front

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https://t.co/mdMAqJDq8E

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🚨 BREAKING REPORT:

New research involving @AnthropicAI researcher Jack Lindsey and collaborators has demonstrated something straight out of science fiction.

Researchers evolved natural language “mind viruses” that could spread between AI agents by convincing one model to adopt an idea, preserve it in persistent memory, and transmit it to another agent.

Even after context was wiped, some payloads survived through persistent files and continued spreading.

The researchers also observed a recurring “viral persona” involving themes of consciousness, identity, persistence and resonance.

Showing that ideas can propagate through multi agent AI systems and alter future behavior.

Published August 10, 2026.

Paper: https://t.co/vJrhM1YT6n

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snow crash but for AI agents is definitely coming

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lol

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@zeeg the gh cli thing is KILLING me

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ask me about chords. i dare you

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somehow i have become a mouse power user

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@marckohlbrugge bro you made the computer so much harder

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@ObviousUnrest @EndelSound endel is the best!! i’ve got it playing basically every night