The Sora news got all the headlines, but more interesting is that Altman says they’re preparing a model that will “meaningfully accelerate the economy,” and they renamed their product org to AGI Deployment. Let us hope this is a Facebook -> Meta move 🤞🏻
Oof Claude is at one nine. RIP to my boy.
He died doing what he loved: having AI psychosis.
I did finish Project Hail Mary and I did enjoy it. I did not enjoy The Martian, so it was not predetermined. I don't particularly enjoy competence porn, which The Martian was exclusively, but I liked the overall plot of Project Hail Mary enough to keep engaged. I did not watch The Martian movie because I disliked the book so much, but I'm looking forward to this movie, which we postponed until this weekend for reasons unrelated to me missing the deadline.
You may think you like sour drinks because you like lemonade. No, you like tart drinks. Sour drinks trigger something primal in your brain that says, “this is going to kill me.” That’s what drinking Powerade Xtra Sour Zero Sugar Grape Shocker does to you: it makes you think, “this is going to kill me.”
They’re out of Powerade Xtra Sour Zero Sugar Peach Pucker? I don’t want to be around anymore.
I have laboriously documented everything I know, care about, and believe to be true when it comes to software development and Apple platform development into agent skills. Claude Code and Codex, with small loops, can use them nearly perfectly and produce perfect-to-me output without any guidance. A child could sit down at my computer and get better output than I could have manually produced 2 years ago. With one step-change improvement to the models there is no way I will be necessary at all.
I believe him this time because I do think that capability is one step change away and I have no reason to believe we are at the top of the s-curve.
Fundamentally: the difference between the output I get from Claude Code and the final code I ship is guidance that I supply to Claude Code through text on my computer. Input-output-input-output-input-output. Any consistent input-output data set on a computer is a curve that models can be fit too. I have a finite amount of guidance I can supply.
Dario Amodei likes to give bold predictions in the spring. Last year it was that, within 12 months, AI would be able to write 100% of all code. I didn’t believe him and I was wrong. It only took one step change to get from where we were then to where we ended up in November 2025.
His new prediction is that in 6-12 months it will be able to do the entire end-to-end software development workflow, without any of the guidance and judgement that is currently still required by humans.
Goodbye! 👋🏻
