Social Media Briefing — July 22, 2026

Previously, these AI hacking stories were about breaches in test environments, where any question of AI breaching security was purely theoretical. This is something else. openai.com/index/huggin...

“Geologists communicated in English; and they could name things in a manner that sent shivers through the bones"

Not a whiff of LLM feel, despite the em-dashes & period-separated lists. We often focu...

“The greatest arrogance was the stealing of the sun. The second-greatest arrogance is running rivers backward. The third-greatest arrogance is trying to hold the Mississippi in place"

vs

"Flood contro...

I have been searching for the most anti-Fable writing. I feel like I need to clear my mind after reading FableProse all day, with its "naming" this & "earning" that.

I think it may be John McPhee, n...

Because Wharton professors have a sense of fun and whimsy.

We talked about Claude Code, Claude Tag, Fable, coding agent security, evals, tool design, and how Anthropic use these tools themselves

Claude Tag (Claude Code via Slack) is already landing 65% of th...

I interviewed Cat Wu and Thariq Shihipar from the Claude Code team at the AI engineer World's Fair a couple of weeks ago - the video is now out, so I've published an annotated transcript of our conve...

I got a fun photo last night of a California Brown Pelican surrounded by Elegant Terns

And "Also consider whether non-proprietary, energy-efficient, or small-scale systems suffice for your task. If not, consider how preservation of the values articulated in this Declaration may be worth...

"The increasing involvement of technology companies in mathematical research raises the risk that research questions may come to be prioritized because of their amenability to automated mathematics, r...

In many cases this leads to simplifications in reporting, such as overemphasizing the significance of automated tools and undervaluing the prior human contributions which have made those tools possibl...

“Proper evaluation is endangered if results are communicated through informal channels such as press releases or blog posts, often without any research paper or other disclosure of information necessa...