Evan Fields

A few more microfictions, still no LLMs.

A few microfictions, very much inspired by Quiet Pine Trees.

Anthropic recently released Claude 4 Sonnet and Claude 4 Opus, and I’ve been using them at work for the last two days. 4 Opus seems okay, but 4 Sonnet feels “off” – less sharp than 3.7 Sonnet.

I’m deeply fond of weighty phrases – little snippets with cultural gravitas and mystical overtones.

Warning: fully political post, which is not the typical genre here and not the vibe I’m mostly trying to cultivate.

Like many people with my demographics, I’ve long had strongly materialist and utilitarian philosophical intuitions.

There’s a great bagel shop near my house that has consistently long lines on weekend mornings.

I’ve been reading Jeff Kaufman’s blog for years because he’s well known in the effective altruist1 space and local to the Boston area.

Since roughly 2009, I’ve wrestled daily with how to be a moral eater.

tldr: microplane 2% seed chocolate into fully melted chocolate at 94F and shake the heck out of it.