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Palantir CEO Alex Karp says there are two groups of people who shouldn't be worried about AI advancements. "There are basically two ways to know you have a future," Karp said during a recent interview on TBPN. "One, you have some vocational training. Or two, you're neurodivergent."

Will Crystian remain just an ordinary boy, or will he find the strength of a hero and return for his lost almost-crystals? The adventure is just beginning...

A 3D map of The Legend of Zelda. I still remember unfolding this map in the first Nintendo Power and being amazed. I tried to capture as much detail as I could while designing this for a 0.4mm nozzle to keep the print time down. The 1 AMS version proved pretty challenging, but I wanted to be able to share this with as many of you as I could. The overall size without the frame comes out to about 420mm x 140mm.

Claude's web interface (claude.ai) and mobile apps use a system prompt to provide up-to-date information, such as the current date, to Claude at the start of every conversation. The system prompt also encourages certain behaviors, such as always providing code snippets in Markdown. This prompt is periodically updated to improve Claude's responses. These system prompt updates do not apply to the Claude API. Updates between versions are bolded.

Open Brain — The infrastructure layer for your thinking. One database, one AI gateway, one chat channel — any AI plugs in. No middleware, no SaaS.

So. 12,768 days ahead. Here are fifty-five things the journey has confirmed so far.

Hear your agent suffer through your code

It’s pretty clear that apps and services are all going to have to go headless: that is, they will have to provide access and tools for personal AI agents without any of the visual UI that us humans use today.

This points to a mismatch between expectation and reality. The cultural ideal of a cohesive friend group may be harder to sustain than we imagine. In practice, emotional well-being often depends on maintaining a few reliable, intimate relationships. That may help explain why many adults naturally gravitate towards one-on-one, or dyad friendships.

Awhile back Hidde De Vries identified a pain point around LLM-usage in standards work which leads to something I call an asymmetry of thought. In a conversation where one person is a domain expert and one person is copy-pasting ChatGPT responses, it creates an imbalance of effort in the discussion. A second-hand burdening, like Brandolini’s Law, where debunking inaccuracies and subtly-wrongs takes more effort than creating the inaccuracies. We are, in effect, taxing experts to do quality assurance on the model’s responses. When that work is unpaid I believe this is immoral… or at least it’s a breach in social etiquette.

What do you get when you spend the last decade and a half exploiting the very same people you were supposed to empower?