It will never not be miraculous to me that a coding agent proactively solves problems I didn't ask it to fix. So pleasant!
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It will never not be miraculous to me that a coding agent proactively solves problems I didn't ask it to fix. So pleasant!
My experience with Claude Code and Codex is just having them fix config bugs is a miraculous gift from the intelligence gods. Given the complexities of modern dev tooling, there's just always some small tweak needed to keep the damn machine running – and they always finds it
😭😭😭😭😭😭 "He said most were waiting and seeing before taking action, but that the rich 'really value the ability to move and work wherever they want, when they want, and when something like the Iran war disrupts it, they don’t like it'." www.ft.com/content/80b...
It's nice to know that NATO is starting to figure out that autonomous warfare is the future. In my discussions last week in London, I am always shocked just how much folks are preparing for yesterday's wars rather than the wars of the future. More: www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...
The combination of AI backlash and crony New York capitalism combines in proposed bills like this one, which would ban chatbots from offering any health or legal advice. These chatbots have already been invaluable to me on mundane issues – I can't imagine going back
Why does the Global South matter? Well, it represents a majority of people on Earth, and no AI company targeting trillions in market cap wants to give up half of their potential users (if not half of all profits available):
AI in the developing world is an angle that far too few are paying attention to. So I appreciate Lucy Quaggin covering the subject for SCMP. A few quotes and a link below. First, I talk about why US AI companies are paying attention to Africa at all:
It’s weird how, as a writer in say 2002, the only way to reach people in bulk was by collecting email addresses. And in 2026 the only method is… collecting email addresses
Thank you! Sad because the spreadsheet doesn’t actually have that much text
Converting a Riskgaming scoring spreadsheet (and all of its formulas) into Python code using Claude Code … and apparently Claude Code can't handle spreadsheets larger than 256kb? Am I missing something?
Fight punct junk - maintain standards!
FWIW, this is also why I think some of these publications are making a mistake when they opt-out of AI scans, since AI is generating more traffic instead of search.
But it's also why I always focus on direct traffic to @techdirt.com more than any referrer.
Catastrophic, publication-ending numbers
Google is choking the internet to death, and it's not an accident. Like all the big tech firms, they want to be the only service you interact with at all times.
I'd also suggest that unless you already know a publication exists it can be really difficult find a real one in a sea of AI slop sites. To say nothing of formerly real sites that have been gutted and turned into AI zombies.
The only subscription pubs that work are either a) hobby pubs (passion) or b) finance-related (profits). The evidence from NYT is that it is all games (entertainment) or cooking (passion) and barely news that draws people in
No discussion of tech media can get past this basic traffic fact: in the AI world, Google and social no longer refer traffic, which means that the vast majority of readers just never find you in the first place. Analysis: growtika.com/blog/tech-m...
Spending the afternoon trying to convert my first Riskgaming scenario Hampton at the Cross-Roads into an agentic AI negotiation exercise: www.luxcapital.com/riskgaming/...
How did European and UK policymakers perform in Riskgaming at Chatham House? Well, they fell into the trap of European space sovereignty just like in their everyday government positions. Interestingly, they were *more* dependent on SpaceX by the end then our betatest cohorts
Three attendees engage in conversation, exchanging cards during an event focused on European space sovereignty at Chatham House.
A group of people interacts and shares cards during an event focused on European space sovereignty at a forum.
A group of people engage in conversation, holding cards and smiling, during a defense forum event focused on European space sovereignty.
A group of people engages in lively conversation at a conference, showcasing a mix of formal attire and camaraderie.
The whole Lux Riskgaming crew had a blast hosting Dead Reckoning, our scenario on European space sovereignty at Chatham House's annual defense forum. Not the best outcome for the group (or Europe, for that matter), but lots of fun and learning all around
Had a whole hell of a lot of fun hosting Laurence Pevsner's new Riskgaming scenario Dead Reckoning in beta this past week. European space trilemma: space capabilities, autonomy or jobs? The answer was … none, basically, in both runthroughs we ran
This is a great article by Taylor Rayne in Asimov Press on the history of scent, the incredible challenges of mapping out its complexities, and how new startups like Osmo are finding novel applications for AI in digital olfaction.
One thing I love about design is that you can never be done. There is always something to improve in a product, technology, novel, etc. Just made a massive improvement to my game Hampton at the Cross-Roads from a suggestion – why didn't I think of this great improvement before?
I just learned that the U.S. is 30th in the world for public bathrooms per capita. Can we get a Make America Poop Again (MAPA) initiative going? (for those curious, Iceland is apparently number one)
New post: Why adversarial ambiguity makes prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi extraordinarily challenging to operate. Words like "invasion" and "war" are intentionally avoided in order to not trigger their consequences. Example: The U.S. hasn't declared war since WWII
