Alex Wise
@awssnarkitect.bsky.social
Shitposter and lover of safety-critical complex systems
One really jarring change in my lifetime is growing up seeing "private industry only does last-mile research and implementation, public/academic needs to be the wide funnel" change to "VC has no problem funding moonshot tech that might be decades away."
Back in May, I wrote about Endolith, a company using customized microbes to extract critical minerals from mining waste.
Today the company announced its Series A fundraising round, pulling in nearly $14 million to commercialize the technology. Pretty cool.
Today the company announced its Series A fundraising round, pulling in nearly $14 million to commercialize the technology. Pretty cool.
November 13, 2025 at 5:48 PM
One really jarring change in my lifetime is growing up seeing "private industry only does last-mile research and implementation, public/academic needs to be the wide funnel" change to "VC has no problem funding moonshot tech that might be decades away."
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I reference this image like once a week
November 12, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I reference this image like once a week
Take him up on this. These stickers are fantastic. Every time I am stressed out about computers stuff I can to look at my water bottle and think about Nova and chill out a bit.
If you see me at #kubecon I have a stack of Nova stickers if you want a few.
November 12, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Take him up on this. These stickers are fantastic. Every time I am stressed out about computers stuff I can to look at my water bottle and think about Nova and chill out a bit.
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I find AI does accelerate solving complex problems, so you can get back to your to-do list.
Unfortunately, I love being immersed in long complex problems, and hate managing my top-level to-do list. So I am once again begging tech companies to make us an AI Project Manager.
Unfortunately, I love being immersed in long complex problems, and hate managing my top-level to-do list. So I am once again begging tech companies to make us an AI Project Manager.
November 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I find AI does accelerate solving complex problems, so you can get back to your to-do list.
Unfortunately, I love being immersed in long complex problems, and hate managing my top-level to-do list. So I am once again begging tech companies to make us an AI Project Manager.
Unfortunately, I love being immersed in long complex problems, and hate managing my top-level to-do list. So I am once again begging tech companies to make us an AI Project Manager.
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i think it's very bad that "agentic disinformation network, agentic nation-state level black hat, agentic revenge porn at scale" all occurred and were funded before "AI PowerPoint slide deck creation that actually looks nice" got solved
November 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
i think it's very bad that "agentic disinformation network, agentic nation-state level black hat, agentic revenge porn at scale" all occurred and were funded before "AI PowerPoint slide deck creation that actually looks nice" got solved
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Heavily dug the first two eps of Pluribus, which reminded me of a ton of recent arch philosophical TV sci-fi—stuff like Last Man in Earth, Downloaded, there’s been a shocking amount of these, some strong, some weak!—but cooler and more beautiful and bigger… and genuinely funny, in dark ways
November 11, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Heavily dug the first two eps of Pluribus, which reminded me of a ton of recent arch philosophical TV sci-fi—stuff like Last Man in Earth, Downloaded, there’s been a shocking amount of these, some strong, some weak!—but cooler and more beautiful and bigger… and genuinely funny, in dark ways
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Opening the black box of character training
Some new research from me!
Exploring how easy it is to craft personalities like sycophantic chatbots, and exploring how this will change as we move from chat to agents.
www.interconnects.ai/p/opening-th...
Some new research from me!
Exploring how easy it is to craft personalities like sycophantic chatbots, and exploring how this will change as we move from chat to agents.
www.interconnects.ai/p/opening-th...
Opening the character training pipeline
Some new research from me!
www.interconnects.ai
November 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Opening the black box of character training
Some new research from me!
Exploring how easy it is to craft personalities like sycophantic chatbots, and exploring how this will change as we move from chat to agents.
www.interconnects.ai/p/opening-th...
Some new research from me!
Exploring how easy it is to craft personalities like sycophantic chatbots, and exploring how this will change as we move from chat to agents.
www.interconnects.ai/p/opening-th...
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Billy, this is Paul DePodesta. He started with the Indians in 1996 so he knows how to run a team with five nickels and a dream. His nickname is “Google Boy.” His defect is he hasn’t worked in baseball in 10 years and the whole league uses sabermetrics now.
November 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Billy, this is Paul DePodesta. He started with the Indians in 1996 so he knows how to run a team with five nickels and a dream. His nickname is “Google Boy.” His defect is he hasn’t worked in baseball in 10 years and the whole league uses sabermetrics now.
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your country should be massively overprovisioned for food and electricity or you have done it wrong
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
your country should be massively overprovisioned for food and electricity or you have done it wrong
Mojo looks very cool and if I see Chris on 3 more podcasts I will spend a weekend playing with it.
Coming tomorrow on @pragmaticengineer.com - with Chris Lattner!
November 4, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Mojo looks very cool and if I see Chris on 3 more podcasts I will spend a weekend playing with it.
The amount of ad fraud that buyers put up with is an indictment of the entire profession. Kevin Frisch's report from Uber should have shook the foundation of performance internet marketing. The purpose of the system is clearly not to find eyeballs, it's to spend marketing budget.
quick proof they’re doing this
November 4, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The amount of ad fraud that buyers put up with is an indictment of the entire profession. Kevin Frisch's report from Uber should have shook the foundation of performance internet marketing. The purpose of the system is clearly not to find eyeballs, it's to spend marketing budget.
what if we let our caches touch under the stars?
Cache to Cache: let agents communicate in KV cache latent space
Instead of con concatenating the text from one agent into another, just concatenate their KV cache directly
this is dumb, how do i get it now???
fuvty.github.io/C2C_Project_...
Instead of con concatenating the text from one agent into another, just concatenate their KV cache directly
this is dumb, how do i get it now???
fuvty.github.io/C2C_Project_...
November 4, 2025 at 2:25 AM
what if we let our caches touch under the stars?
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Can't believe we're engaging in such #lesbaru erasure, on the week of @krisnova.net's birthday no less 😔
November 3, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Can't believe we're engaging in such #lesbaru erasure, on the week of @krisnova.net's birthday no less 😔
I do this on purpose tho:
- Wirt from Garden Wall
- Dirk Gently
- The doctor from that one scene when Jodie Whittaker is in space jail.
- The moon from ISTTVG
- The kid from Monster Squad w/ the Stephen King Rules shirt.
normie costumes gtfo
- Wirt from Garden Wall
- Dirk Gently
- The doctor from that one scene when Jodie Whittaker is in space jail.
- The moon from ISTTVG
- The kid from Monster Squad w/ the Stephen King Rules shirt.
normie costumes gtfo
Praying that no one has to endure this agony this Halloween
October 31, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I do this on purpose tho:
- Wirt from Garden Wall
- Dirk Gently
- The doctor from that one scene when Jodie Whittaker is in space jail.
- The moon from ISTTVG
- The kid from Monster Squad w/ the Stephen King Rules shirt.
normie costumes gtfo
- Wirt from Garden Wall
- Dirk Gently
- The doctor from that one scene when Jodie Whittaker is in space jail.
- The moon from ISTTVG
- The kid from Monster Squad w/ the Stephen King Rules shirt.
normie costumes gtfo
My grandfather when a baseball game went to extra innings: “Gee whiz, we’re getting free baseball!”
Social media in 2025 when a game goes to extra innings: “I am acutely aware of my mortality and can feel the flesh rotting off my bones.”
Social media in 2025 when a game goes to extra innings: “I am acutely aware of my mortality and can feel the flesh rotting off my bones.”
October 28, 2025 at 2:53 PM
My grandfather when a baseball game went to extra innings: “Gee whiz, we’re getting free baseball!”
Social media in 2025 when a game goes to extra innings: “I am acutely aware of my mortality and can feel the flesh rotting off my bones.”
Social media in 2025 when a game goes to extra innings: “I am acutely aware of my mortality and can feel the flesh rotting off my bones.”
My dad retired last year and is really struggling w/ getting sucked into youtube rabbit holes and not knowing what to trust. I got him signed up for a free gemini trial and taught him how to run a Deep Research report.
It's been very helpful.
It's been very helpful.
So this is very true of pure inference, and is what ChatGPT looked like 18 months or so ago.
Now, with RAG advances and agentic reasoning, they are far better at going online, getting sources, checking assumptions, etc.
(absolutely not perfect and you should still be skeptical of output)
Now, with RAG advances and agentic reasoning, they are far better at going online, getting sources, checking assumptions, etc.
(absolutely not perfect and you should still be skeptical of output)
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
October 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM
My dad retired last year and is really struggling w/ getting sucked into youtube rabbit holes and not knowing what to trust. I got him signed up for a free gemini trial and taught him how to run a Deep Research report.
It's been very helpful.
It's been very helpful.
This would have been a better concept for Megalopolis.
concept: central park replaced by recursively smaller versions of manhattan until we hit singularity
October 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
This would have been a better concept for Megalopolis.
It’s gotten better about it but I loved how it would give a time estimate for a feature as if it were a human SWE team. “authentication? that’ll be about a week of effort…”
The ChatGPT subreddit is absolutely hilarious. LLMs just output statistically likely responses, and a statistically likely response to being asked to do some work is "I'll have that done by...". So apparently in some cases ChatGPT had just been telling users it'll get back to them later.
1/2
1/2
October 26, 2025 at 3:30 AM
It’s gotten better about it but I loved how it would give a time estimate for a feature as if it were a human SWE team. “authentication? that’ll be about a week of effort…”
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a perfect CVSS 10 😍
CVE-2025-12220 - Busybox 1.31.1 - Multiple Known Vulnerabilities
CVE ID : CVE-2025-12220
Published : Oct. 25, 2025, 4:15 p.m. | 45 minutes ago
Description : Busybox 1.31.1 - Multiple Known Vulnerabilities.This issue affects BLU-IC2: through 1.19.5; BLU-IC4: through 1.19....
CVE ID : CVE-2025-12220
Published : Oct. 25, 2025, 4:15 p.m. | 45 minutes ago
Description : Busybox 1.31.1 - Multiple Known Vulnerabilities.This issue affects BLU-IC2: through 1.19.5; BLU-IC4: through 1.19....
CVE-2025-12220 - Busybox 1.31.1 - Multiple Known Vulnerabilities
Busybox 1.31.1 - Multiple Known Vulnerabilities.This issue affects BLU-IC2: through 1.19.5; BLU-IC4: through 1.19.5.
cvefeed.io
October 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
a perfect CVSS 10 😍
Campaign 4 has a real “my first character vs my 40th character” energy.
October 25, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Campaign 4 has a real “my first character vs my 40th character” energy.
If multi-agent coding paradigms are going to be a thing, shouldn't we have some kind of version control that assumes multiple processes on the filesystem will be making changes to the same files across directories at the same time?
Idc how good they get with git, it's not designed for that.
Idc how good they get with git, it's not designed for that.
October 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
If multi-agent coding paradigms are going to be a thing, shouldn't we have some kind of version control that assumes multiple processes on the filesystem will be making changes to the same files across directories at the same time?
Idc how good they get with git, it's not designed for that.
Idc how good they get with git, it's not designed for that.
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jane if you are reading this you have a moral obligation to do whatever you have to do including baldfaced lying to and extorting netflix executives to get this done right
Netflix has emerged victorious in a competitive bidding situation for BLACK HOLE, a series adaptation of Charles Burns’ bestselling comic with Jane Schoenbrun at the helm:
‘I Saw the TV Glow’ Director to Adapt ‘Black Hole’ Comic as Netflix Series
Netflix has emerged victorious in a competitive bidding situation for Black Hole, a series adaptation of Charles Burns’ bestselling comic, Deadline reports. New Regency will be the co-studio alongside...
bloody-disgusting.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:13 AM
jane if you are reading this you have a moral obligation to do whatever you have to do including baldfaced lying to and extorting netflix executives to get this done right
ugh layoff season is upon us. I hope you all get through it unscathed.
October 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
ugh layoff season is upon us. I hope you all get through it unscathed.
I was working at a cannabis tech startup and we had just finished migrating all of our apps to a single portal in Auth0. Then Auth0 took an 8-hour outage on 4/20. All our customers were hard down. By hour 3 we made the call to shim in an alternate auth provider on the fly.
#hugOps story time! Quote this and tell me the biggest incident you ever saw in production. It’s inevitable, it’s gonna happen, and learning from incidents is way better than shitting on people trying to fix them.
I’ll start :)
hazelweakly.me/blog/mother-...
I’ll start :)
hazelweakly.me/blog/mother-...
October 21, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I was working at a cannabis tech startup and we had just finished migrating all of our apps to a single portal in Auth0. Then Auth0 took an 8-hour outage on 4/20. All our customers were hard down. By hour 3 we made the call to shim in an alternate auth provider on the fly.
OK I watched the Karpathy interview, and what was the claim people were worked up about? Just that his timeline for AGI is longer than others? Like, it all seemed pretty anodyne. I liked the bit about tutors. That'd be a cool future.
October 20, 2025 at 7:21 PM
OK I watched the Karpathy interview, and what was the claim people were worked up about? Just that his timeline for AGI is longer than others? Like, it all seemed pretty anodyne. I liked the bit about tutors. That'd be a cool future.