Milan Weibel 🔷
@weibac.bsky.social
computer toucher. here for AI mostly.
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Milan Weibel 🔷
@weibac.bsky.social
· Sep 23
british coders be like innit()
Dario throws punches:
- criticizes AI doomerism
- calls xAI irresponsible albeit without naming them
- voices concern AI could enable authoritarianism, even in countries considered democracies today
www.darioamodei.com/essay/the-ad...
- criticizes AI doomerism
- calls xAI irresponsible albeit without naming them
- voices concern AI could enable authoritarianism, even in countries considered democracies today
www.darioamodei.com/essay/the-ad...
Dario Amodei — The Adolescence of Technology
Confronting and Overcoming the Risks of Powerful AI
www.darioamodei.com
January 27, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Dario throws punches:
- criticizes AI doomerism
- calls xAI irresponsible albeit without naming them
- voices concern AI could enable authoritarianism, even in countries considered democracies today
www.darioamodei.com/essay/the-ad...
- criticizes AI doomerism
- calls xAI irresponsible albeit without naming them
- voices concern AI could enable authoritarianism, even in countries considered democracies today
www.darioamodei.com/essay/the-ad...
widely reported that coding agents are less useful in brownfield settings
how much of it is just a context engineering issue?
how much of it is just a context engineering issue?
January 24, 2026 at 1:56 AM
widely reported that coding agents are less useful in brownfield settings
how much of it is just a context engineering issue?
how much of it is just a context engineering issue?
"'Should developers still look at code?' will become one of the most divisive and heated debates over the coming years. You might be offended by the question, and find it absurd anyone is asking. But it’s a sincere question and the answer will change faster than you think."
I have Gas Town derangement syndrome and spent the last few weeks writing thousands of words on agent orchestration patterns; how they shift our bottlenecks and force us to ask whether and when we should stop looking at code
maggieappleton.com/gastown
maggieappleton.com/gastown
Gas Town’s Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale
On agent orchestration patterns, why design and critical thinking are the new bottlenecks, and whether we should let go of looking at code
maggieappleton.com
January 23, 2026 at 11:54 PM
"'Should developers still look at code?' will become one of the most divisive and heated debates over the coming years. You might be offended by the question, and find it absurd anyone is asking. But it’s a sincere question and the answer will change faster than you think."
the only admissible use for AI in coding is for OCR so you can code with fountain pen and paper
January 22, 2026 at 1:29 AM
the only admissible use for AI in coding is for OCR so you can code with fountain pen and paper
i wonder how much of claude code was written by claude code
January 20, 2026 at 9:43 PM
i wonder how much of claude code was written by claude code
heck yea compute OSINT
xAI's Colossus 2 data center is running, but likely won't reach 1 GW of power until May, despite prior claims by Elon Musk.
Our updated analysis shows the facility lacks the cooling capacity to run 550,000 Blackwell GPUs at full power, even in winter conditions.
Our updated analysis shows the facility lacks the cooling capacity to run 550,000 Blackwell GPUs at full power, even in winter conditions.
January 19, 2026 at 11:30 PM
heck yea compute OSINT
we could have LLMs debate our issues among themselves for us while we go touch grass
vibe arguing
January 19, 2026 at 11:28 PM
we could have LLMs debate our issues among themselves for us while we go touch grass
enshittifying our potable water reads like satire
Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
January 18, 2026 at 9:23 PM
enshittifying our potable water reads like satire
to what extent did readers of the national security strategy document released last year expect recent developments in US foreign policy?
to what extent is the document predictive of future action?
to what extent is the document predictive of future action?
January 17, 2026 at 8:51 PM
to what extent did readers of the national security strategy document released last year expect recent developments in US foreign policy?
to what extent is the document predictive of future action?
to what extent is the document predictive of future action?
claim on venezuela's future
worst case is basically libya without oil. Best case seems to be the regime slowly dies into managed warlordism
January 12, 2026 at 9:51 PM
claim on venezuela's future
so are hard context window limits not gonna be a thing going forward
Introducing DroPE: Extending Context by Dropping Positional Embeddings
We found embeddings like RoPE aid training but bottleneck long-sequence generalization. Our solution’s simple: treat them as a temporary training scaffold, not a permanent necessity.
arxiv.org/abs/2512.12167
pub.sakana.ai/DroPE
We found embeddings like RoPE aid training but bottleneck long-sequence generalization. Our solution’s simple: treat them as a temporary training scaffold, not a permanent necessity.
arxiv.org/abs/2512.12167
pub.sakana.ai/DroPE
January 12, 2026 at 2:17 PM
so are hard context window limits not gonna be a thing going forward
"tokens are subword units" is technically true but most people imagine subwords to mean characters or syllables rather than bytes
January 11, 2026 at 9:54 PM
"tokens are subword units" is technically true but most people imagine subwords to mean characters or syllables rather than bytes
kinda sad about this
looks like some people on my side did an harassment
looks like some people on my side did an harassment
January 10, 2026 at 4:12 PM
kinda sad about this
looks like some people on my side did an harassment
looks like some people on my side did an harassment
good thread:
Some vibe-coding thoughts: I think the zero-coding-experience vibe coders miss how much of what impresses them when Claude produces what they perceive to be a fully functional app comes from the ready-built frameworks that enable the construction of such apps just by writing some boilerplate.
January 9, 2026 at 12:12 AM
good thread:
elon bad but i genuinely appreciate this aspect of starlink
2am in Iran, protests still ongoing. Some info leaking out via Starlink.
January 8, 2026 at 11:05 PM
elon bad but i genuinely appreciate this aspect of starlink
cool kids don't do acausal reasoning
January 7, 2026 at 12:38 AM
cool kids don't do acausal reasoning
conceiving of AIs as instrumentally rational agents that maximize their utility functions is at the core of (early/mainline) lesswrong thought
I think this is where the "rational" part of rationalism (economic rationality rather than philosophical rationalism), and Yudkowsky's interest in decision theory, actually originate
January 5, 2026 at 10:16 PM
conceiving of AIs as instrumentally rational agents that maximize their utility functions is at the core of (early/mainline) lesswrong thought
claim
33/ Russian political scientist Gleb Kuznetsov says that the US operation was essentially a show for the TV cameras after Maduro was sold out by his own side:
January 4, 2026 at 8:19 PM
claim
so what happens if venezuelan VP delcy rodriguez doesn't cooperate? she's the new president and the regime continues? far from ideal outcome
January 3, 2026 at 8:51 PM
so what happens if venezuelan VP delcy rodriguez doesn't cooperate? she's the new president and the regime continues? far from ideal outcome
the venezuelan diaspora over here is of course jubilant
January 3, 2026 at 6:41 PM
the venezuelan diaspora over here is of course jubilant
chilean news have been covering the venezuela situation all day
they look to me subtly in favor of the US operation
they look to me subtly in favor of the US operation
January 3, 2026 at 6:39 PM
chilean news have been covering the venezuela situation all day
they look to me subtly in favor of the US operation
they look to me subtly in favor of the US operation
claim: codex is better than claude at implementing big features/refactors because it reads more before writing
This post was a massive success so wanna repost it here. Dunno if BlueSky is now more open for these topics? steipete.me/posts/2025/s...
Shipping at Inference-Speed | Peter Steinberger
Why I stopped reading code and started watching it stream by.
steipete.me
January 1, 2026 at 9:04 PM
claim: codex is better than claude at implementing big features/refactors because it reads more before writing
anyways happy new year
January 1, 2026 at 5:27 AM
anyways happy new year
is it bad if the first thing that came to mind after reading this is the three logicians walk into a bar joke
January 1, 2026 at 5:15 AM
is it bad if the first thing that came to mind after reading this is the three logicians walk into a bar joke