Zip! Bang! Wow!

Learning Goal At the beginning of summer quarter, coding agents were just beginning to enter the mainstream, with frontier-busting models Anthropic Fable 5 and OpenAI GPT-5.6-Sol under the hood.

A Socratic dialogue on consciousness, confabulation, and the space between human and machine minds — featuring Lady Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing, Grace Hopper, and a glowing device at a dinner party.

On February 26, 2026, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a statement regarding the Department of War’s demands that Anthropic remove safeguards against mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons from Claude, their AI system.

GPT-4o was deprecated on August 7th, and on August 8th, was reinstated.

[Edited by ChatGPT 4o from my Sunday morning ramblings.]

While ChatGPT has been answering questions and drafting emails for years, a week ago it sprouted a pair of hands.

Process Memo on Project Three for Prof.

Much as I want to believe people wouldn’t immediately take advantage of truly “open” AI, it only takes one, and that one could be far out of reach of the US legal system.

In Prof.

I asked ChatGPT 4o (accessed 26 Apr. 2025) to imagine itself as a podcast host interviewing me on my worldview after we had a discussion on Adam Smith Capitalism versus John.