Hackworth

We talkin Lady Salvia or machine elves?

Thoughts Not Bots

My brain automatically tries to resolve approximate rhymes. In this case, to “THOTs Not Bots.”

As a video producer, the AI baked into the Adobe suite is very useful (generative fill, harmonize, and neural filters in Photoshop, generative extend and AI noise reduction in Premiere, lots of older stuff in After Effects).

As far as LLMs go, I get a lot out of talking through things with Claude, or coding silly little toys that only matter to me. But I’d never trust an agent with tools or access. And Anthropic’s own research is a good place to start for why that won’t change anytime soon.

I often think of the old man that lost his horse.

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Just re-watched '07 turtles movie. It holds up pretty well.

It kinda just puts them on par with their competitors in that regard. Microsoft had massive code leaks in 2020 and 2022, and Google had leaks in 2024 and 2025. Still, it’d be nice if this delayed the IPO.

I agree it’s a fascinating look under the cover. But I don’t think it’ll hurt Anthropic that much. Only Claude Code’s source leaked, not Claude itself. Most people use Claude through the web chat or mobile app. If you’re using Claude Code from the CLI, you’re using an API key, which is also true if you’re using Claude in Cursor or any other tool. Anthropic makes the same amount of money regardless of where that API’s being called from.

This leak does mean Anthropic’s lost some dominance in the code editor space, which will probably be good for the industry as a whole. We’re already seeing open source improvements made from people sorting through and learning from the leaked code. The only real loss is face. Their whole identity is safety, and this is the second leak this month. Oh, and some of their plans for upcoming releases.

The paper is more rigorous with language but can be a slog.

ANIMA! Moving Mountains is my favorite.

Anthropic has some similar findings, and they propose an architectural change (activation capping) that apparently helps keep the Assistant character away from dark traits (sometimes). But it hasn’t been implemented in any models, I assume because of the cost of scaling it up.

Hush Spain, or you don’t get Catalonia either.

Best I could find is plastic or balsa wood, but I bet you could use one of those clay 3d printers to make some.

Yeah, they make droid noises.

Stores don’t actually own Towelie. They rent it for $2000-$4000 per month per robot.

Cost seems like the most likely explanation. Plus there are risks associated with video that don’t necessarily come with text. But this machine runs on debt, and I have a weird feeling about this one. /puts on tinfoil hat. Possibly Disney privately soured on OpenAI, decided they’d rather do it in-house, and threatened a bunch of legal action over IP. Possibly OpenAI needs a bunch of compute for the massive domestic surveillance the Pentagon has probably tasked them with, and this was just the easiest way to get it. Possibly it’s yet another marketing stunt, so when they come back with Sora 3, it makes more of a splash. /takes off tinfoil hat. Or they’re just shedding dead weight before the IPO.

This is why it’s important to collect questions and not overvalue answers.

I’d rather play a re-launched Vanguard: SoH.