Jason

In late August, MIT closed its chemistry building after a graduate student reported synthesizing dimethylmercury, a highly toxic compound that is fatal in small doses and can pass through ordinary latex gloves.

It’s strangely reassuring to be told that you’re wrong by an LLM.

When Anthropic appointed Ben Bernanke to its Long-Term Benefit Trust, I asked ChatGPT which economists most closely matched the worldview of each major AI lab.

The obvious problem with naming your best model Opus is that you eventually have to build a better one.

Good software quietly disappears: it stops feeling like a tool and starts feeling like an extension of how you think.

I recently finished listening to the Acquired podcast.

You can be deeply familiar with AI and still be skeptical of “agentic AI.”

Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s CEO, recently suggested that their Claude AI models might be conscious.

The End of the Crawlable Web : For most of the modern internet, there was an implicit contract between websites and search engines.

As software development shifts from requiring specialized skills—built on multiple layers of technical understanding—to describing intent in plain English (or your language of choice), the act of producing software appears to become accessible to a much w…