Context: Post #4 in my sequence of private Lightcone Infrastructure memos edited for public consumption.
(emphasis mine)
Look at this goober, trying to be THE cult leader.
JFranek
joined 1 year ago
This. Masayoshi son is selling furniture to YOLO more money into OpenAI.
I have no opinion, but I have to note that I keep reading "KeepAssXC ..."
Pivot to bio-computing
Beff Jezos and friends have produced something other than tweets. Possibly. Maybe.
Looks like a hobby project of someone who has very particular views about computers.
I'm not sure what kind of neural network are they planning to run on a custom FPGA based GPU with 4GB RAM shared with CPU
"How dare you suggest that we pivoted to SlopTok and smut because of money if something that we totally cannot do right now is more lucrative?"
If you use your business to "do business" it's nice to have good catering.
Simon Willison writes a fawning blog post about the new "Claude skills" (which are basically files with additional instructions for specific tasks for the bot to use)
How does he decide to demonstrate these awesome new capabilities?
By making a completely trash, seizure inducing GIF...
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/claude-skills/
He even admits it's garbage. How do you even get to the point that you think that's something you want to advertise? Even the big slop monger companies manage to cherry pick their demos.
Just felt like I got an aneurysm there.
(in unrelated things, first)
Slack CEO responded there that it was all a "billing mistake" and that they'll do better in the future and people are having none of it.
A rare orange site W, surprisingly heartwarming.
In my days, that was called micromanagement and was generally frowned upon.