Will Thompson

agents @GoogleDeepMind

[Will Thompson @will_thompson_k]

@demishassabis @GoogleDeepMind are we finally moving in 🙏

[Will Thompson @will_thompson_k]

Jevon's paradox

[Rohan Paul @rohanpaul_ai]

Citadel Securities published this graph showing a strange phenomenon.

Job postings for software engineers are actually seeing a massive spike.

Classic example of the Jevons paradox. When AI makes coding cheaper, companies actually may need a lot more software engineers, not fewer.

When software is cheaper to build, companies naturally want to build a lot more of it. Businesses are now putting software into industries and tools where it was simply too expensive before.

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Chart from

citadelsecurities .com/news-and-insights/2026-global-intelligence-crisis/

[Will Thompson @will_thompson_k]

portfolios these day are portfyolos

[Will Thompson @will_thompson_k]

Spend enough time in England and everyone lives in a town named after a bread

[Will Thompson @will_thompson_k]

they get straight to the point

[Will Thompson @will_thompson_k]

london:

→ pub culture vibrant
→ Michelin starred meals < £100 pp
→ Apple Pay accepted _everywhere_
→ free museums
→ green city (Hamstead Heath)
→ less dense than nyc
→ 2-3 hours from all major European destinations
→ heated towel racks
→ c word used liberally

[Will Thompson @will_thompson_k]

@aidangomez How does Cohere handle internal evals?

[Will Thompson @will_thompson_k]

True. Read Anthropic’s blog post for an excellent primer.

[Aidan Gomez @aidangomez]

I don't think people have fully internalized just how broken public evaluation of models is.

[Will Thompson @will_thompson_k]

@keoneHD Why give up an edge if you have one

[Will Thompson @will_thompson_k]

A major missing feature for webMD’s self-diagnose feature is pre-test probabilities.

I shouldn’t even see the words “lupus” unless I’ve provided information that suggests it’s a non-trivial probability (age, gender, family history, etc).