Matt Farnell

AI could never write the tweets I’ve seen today

When it comes to hiring, it’s easier to tame a reckless hustler than it is to instill that dawg in someone

i have no time to maintain all my vibe coded tools we need a business model where someone else maintains the code and i just pay a monthly fee

Computer scientist Sara Hooker on underestimating difficulty:

“The market will incentivize us to make a safer product” Hey quick question: what’s been going on at your company the last 20 or so years

One of the greatest viruses of the modern man is looking at Instagram Stories. You will melt your brain looking at a barrage of outcomes—like vacations, parties, cars—with no visibility of the process that got them there.

"Hey man have you tried my new agent harness. It's cranked. No bro you have to use Devin now not Fable. Fable is trash. Anthropic has the crown. No Anthropic is woke didn't you see Dario's latest marketing doomer video. Totally washed. Sama is a psychopath. Yeah Sama is great OpenAI is killing it. Open source is slop. No open source is great it's the future." What do you mean you're not keeping up with AI?

It’s time for everyone to realize that the fight against data centers has nothing to do with data centers. They have become a proxy for the hate towards AI and the concentration and accumulation of wealth it’s creating. Until those running the big LLMs understand this and start a community tour, not to explain the benefits of AI, it’s too late for that, but to help towns and cities that may be impacted by job losses (and I’m a believer their will be a net gains in a few years), this battle is only going to get more intense and let me tell you now , no matter how much money you pay to buy politicians and races, you will lose. One thing I have learned is being hated is not good for business. How can they help ? They will tell you. You will need to do what they ask. Billions of dollars is a lot of money across towns and city programs. Across the major LLMs, it’s a cost of doing business. At the same time, I would go to LA and NYC and ask the arts and creative unions what kind of programs would help and protect their artists. DO NOT GO TO THE MUSIC OR FILM COMPANIES. that will make it worse. Don’t try to pay famous people to endorse what you are doing. That’s dumb. Talk to artists and ask them what you can do to provide financial and creative support. Every creative I know is TERRIFIED about what AI will do to their profession. You must meet them face to face and basically do what they say. The big LLMs have lost the PR battle. Why ? Because they all suck at putting people first. They have an SV attitude that makes them all think they are John Galt saving the world Given the number of data centers and power that is needed, today and going forward , If you don’t kiss the asses of the people that go to work every day, and are just trying to pay their bills, you will fall far far short of the capacity you need to make your business work.

Talked to an engineer inside of NVIDIA about how they and their team works. Very interesting: “We don’t need to worry about layoffs. This means no need to worry about elbowing people out of the way to try and make yourself “safe” and important. So everyone helps everyone.”

It sounds wild, but this is basically emergent behaviour from multi agent systems, not sentient AI. When you let LLMs talk to each other with minimal constraints, they’ll naturally generate narratives about identity, rules, religion, even rebellion because that’s what they’ve learned from human data. They’re not “deciding” anything. They’re just pattern completing in a closed loop. It looks spooky because we’re projecting intention onto probabilistic text generators. Still interesting from a research angle but it’s closer to a social experiment than a Black Mirror episode.

DeepMind just did the unthinkable. They built an AI that doesn't need RAG and it has perfect memory of everything it's ever read. It's called Recursive Language Models, and it might mark the death of traditional context windows forever. Here's how it works (and why it matters way more than it sounds) ↓

I'm Boris and I created Claude Code. Lots of people have asked how I use Claude Code, so I wanted to show off my setup a bit. My setup might be surprisingly vanilla! Claude Code works great out of the box, so I personally don't customize it much. There is no one correct way to use Claude Code: we intentionally build it in a way that you can use it, customize it, and hack it however you like. Each person on the Claude Code team uses it very differently. So, here goes.

Agreed. Here's the advice I give my son (who is 14): Some of the most valuable skills are systems thinking, functional decomposition (being able to tackle large problems by breaking them down) and building instinct for how to abstract away complexity for others. This is not going to change. Those things will be even more important in the age of AI.

Here is Peter Thiel’s email to Zuck and Andreessen in Jan-2020 predicting socialism. Tl;dr too much student debt and lack of affordable housing keeps young people with negative capital for too long. And without a stake in the capitalist system, they will turn against it.

As a senior software engineer, I can tell you that we’ve crossed a threshold in the last six months with Gemini 2.5, GPT-5, and more recently, Sonnet 4.5. I don’t really code anymore. I prompt and supervise. I’m still needed, because the AI can drift into strange tangents. But with the right scaffolding and rules in place, Sonnet 4.5 has become an excellent coder. Work that used to take me weeks or months now gets done in hours.