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via LinkedIn Some observations from my War of the Lance (1989) Code Harness assisted modernisation (WIP) I gave Qwen-3.8-Flash-Next a job: Reverse engineer and port War of the Lance (1989) to modern browsers.

via LinkedIn Chinese Flash models are the Coup de grâce for US AI Lab investor fantasies, or “Just because something you invented is valuable doesn’t mean you are going to extract the value” I’ve been playing around with Qwen-3.8-Flash-Next and GLM-5.3-Fl…

via LinkedIn Flash models are models distilled down from full size models, in this case from Qwen-3.8-Max, a 2.4T model requiring some 8 datacenters GPUs to run.

via LinkedIn Red Baron (1990), rhe iconic DOS Flight Sim by Sierra/Dynamix ported and upgraded for the modern web in about a week using a mostly autonomous coding agent (primarily Claude Opus 4.8, downgrading from Fable/Opus5 for better results).

via LinkedIn By next year, every major old game from the 1980-mid 1990 period will be web playable on a modern web stack.

via LinkedIn I ported Syndicate (1995) to the web. 48 hours, primarily Claude (Fable,Opus 4.8, Sonnet5 - don’t touch Opus 5 it’s bad), some Codex (5.6 sol and Luna).

via Jpmorgan Discover both sides of the agentic commerce debate, from autonomous AI purchasing to the security and reliability risks that stand in the way.

via LinkedIn Chinese token vendors are weaponising Silicon Valley’s favourite playbook against it [^1], and there’s no easy escape: Silicon Valley’s Tech Dominance Scheme is simple and brutal: Pick a winner, subsidise their to build scale, dump the compet…

via LinkedIn The papers coming out of China Frontier labs are as hard hitting frontier science as everyone else’s when it comes to “hard innovation”.

via LinkedIn Commentators babbling about Elon's "Amazing UJSD 950M infrastructure deal", don't seem to have read the actual deal.

My GreenIO / Singapore API days "Can we get real now?"

via LinkedIn Once you create downward wage pressure with coordinated layoffs you create a chain reaction, at least in an environment with no labor power (unions) to counterbalance: After 3 years of sustained layoffs kicked off by Elon and joined by everyo…

via LinkedIn AI is so amazing that you MUST tolerate your former SaaS vendors claiming ownership of your most crucial business data to train models eventually competing with your business.

via Arxiv The first paper I've found that explores the inherent incentive trap in the AI hype narrative, showing that without external intervention (read: regulation and taxation), AI is likely to cause a cascading failure of the economy system due to des…

The western video gaming industry has had a brutal few years, with record layoffs affecting almost every company and many beloved studios and brands disappearing.

via LinkedIn Look, I’m not saying there is one reason why everyone hates Sam Altman, and I’m sure not saying it’s because he’s delivering disruptive AI.

I needed a way to test-drive the new mechanical keyboard I acquired and after some conversation with Claude Code...

via LinkedIn Commerce Dead.

via Calpaterson A worthwhile to read essay diving deeper into prompt injection, using easy to understand examples exposing the seer breadth of the attack surface and hopefully convincing the reader that there's no "fix" for this problem.

via Ssrn An excellent paper to add to the pile of papers proving that generative AI is primarily lossy compression, in this case via a clever use of finetuning.

via LinkedIn Chat commerce was always a cludge, even before OpenAI used it as a fundraising narrative last year.

I stumbled on a pretty neat app called Channel Surfer which fits youtube into a classic cable TV channel format.

via Youtu TOP AI EXPERTS: AI is Coming, And We Are NOT Ready.

via LinkedIn Pre-emptively because people are yet again going into existential robot crisis over Alibaba’s self improving AI deciding to go unauthorized crypto mining in their terribly named “Let It Flow: Agentic Crafting on Rock and Roll, Building the RO…

via LinkedIn And with one stroke of the pen, the commercial web developer profession, the SEO experts, the DR agencies were gone, replaced with an automated offering guaranteed, by the great machine, revenue optimal for the it’s owners.

via Arxiv Super simple premise: If you repeat your prompt, non-reasoning LLMs performance can improve dramatically.

This is fine OS - Now with Win32 Support The this is fine OS Stack running this blog now supports win32 executables, courtesy of a full retrotick integration via a new app.

via LinkedIn I’m getting tremendous value out of AI, as are many others, however the magnitude of the layoff is a dead giveaway it’s not AI.

via Arxiv An excellent lay of the land of the massive attack surface that are AI agents, a study of which should immediately disabuse any professional from ideas that agents will be running critical functions in the economy - such as procurement - anytime…

via LinkedIn Feeling aggrieved because "Chinese AI" labs are performing "distillation attacks" against poor Anthropic and OpenAI?

Goes right to what I wrote yesterday: Big Tech is tired of giving you the illusion that online ads is more than just giving them money for reach, that you can outsmart their algorithms and beat them at their own game.

While there’s always value in exploration, frontier economics heavily favor second movers, so don’t let yourself be whipped into AI FOMO.

via LinkedIn Most founders are playing the wrong game and don't understand why.

via Nature A quality study by researchers from the Oxford Internet Institute and the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford, and published in the scientific journal Nature Medicine throwing some cold water on the o…

via LinkedIn “Age “ verification is a trojan horse meant to create access control far beyond age.

via LinkedIn You are competing for the attention of hiring managers with people who can apply to 73.000 jobs in one go.

Silicon Valley companies may be owning the ad and attention economy, but paying for ads and attention, in their eyes, is for losers.

via LinkedIn A week ago I wrote there's no difference between OpenClaw and a botnet.

via LinkedIn If the most well funded AI companies on the planet cannot secure a translation tool from prompt injected jailbreaks, what do you think the chances are anyone else can do it.

via Arxiv Study number couple-of-hundred by now showing that generative AI models are lossy storage and that benchmarks primarily measure storage and retrieval performance.

via Arxiv Humans have a habit if trying to formalize rules and best practices, package them in courses and teach them as methodologies.

via LinkedIn ... even if it deletes your production databases.

via LinkedIn There is no technical value to OpenClaw.

via LinkedIn This is a classic failure mode and it happens more often than not, due to invisible failures in data pipelines.

via LinkedIn I call these kind of posts “Tech prophecies” - the act when a TechBrophet graciously emerges from their end times bunker to grace the awaiting influencer crowd with hopeful words of tech nirvana of dystopian doom.

OpenAI whining about "unfair" competition from China is both delicious, delicious karma and the new runner-up for the definition of hypocrisy in the Oxford dictionary.

via LinkedIn It's a terrible idea to run agents bare metal, and an even worse idea to invite consumers "to try this " to not miss out on the future.

It appears to me people really struggle to look past the first order effects of AI I just copied your document into chatgpt to review it First order: "I feel so much more productive, I am getting so much more done by using AI to review all the documents."

For anyone looking for electoral salvation in the US mid term elections, I think it's time accept this is not going to happen.

via LinkedIn ...but economists.