@emollick Avatar @emollick Ethan Mollick

Ethan Mollick posts on X about ai, open ai, $googl, twitter the most. They currently have [-------] followers and [----] posts still getting attention that total [-------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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Top Social Posts

Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"NFT oligarchy A study of 6.1M NFT trades finds a few folks at the center of the market 🐱 The top 10% of traders account for 85% of transactions & trade at least once 97% of all assets 🦍10% of buyerseller pairs have the same volume as the remaining 90% https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-00053-8#MOESM1 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-00053-8#MOESM1"
X Link 2021-11-30T02:16Z 314.8K followers, [----] engagements

"The crisis no one is talking about: we are running out of science's vital non-renewable resource TLAs (Three Letter Acronyms) Scientific papers have has now used 94% of the [-----] possible TLAs. We need to start recycling: of 1.1M total acronyms 79% are used less than 10x"
X Link 2022-02-11T06:17Z 305.5K followers, [----] engagements

"Current mammogram guidelines made them optional for women 40-49 because of the risk of false positives. This paper finds that these guidelines actually increased the risks of false positives by 3.5x because now the women who do chose to get mammograms are those at the lowest risk"
X Link 2022-05-15T21:30Z 320.6K followers, [--] engagements

"Read these [--] pages. I post them every so often because I think it is some of the tightest wisdom-packed writing on managing complex systems ever. And almost every system is a complex system today which is why cascading failures are swirling around us. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228797158_How_complex_systems_fail https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228797158_How_complex_systems_fail"
X Link 2022-11-05T00:35Z 320.5K followers, [----] engagements

"Heres my effort to summarize the models available including how people tend to mess up using them"
X Link 2023-03-29T22:04Z 305.3K followers, 127K engagements

"Digital humanities is about to be wild. I pasted in the Catalog of Ships from the Iliad and asked GPT with Code Interpreter to map the origins of the Greeks. With hiccups it extracted solid information from the text found modern locations & started building an interactive map"
X Link 2023-05-12T15:50Z 305.5K followers, 246.8K engagements

"An overlooked aspect of AI that I try to point out to corporate leaders is that a vast pool of talent just came online as both competitors & collaborators Folks in [---] countries have GPT-4 for free via Bing Creative Mode. They can now write flawlessly get code help learn etc"
X Link 2023-06-13T03:58Z 305.3K followers, 58.6K engagements

"Having a little too much fun stressing out Bing/GPT-4 using its new ability to recognize images"
X Link 2023-06-27T03:29Z 320.5K followers, 733.6K engagements

"When the CEO of one of the most advanced AI companies in the world is telling us that AI will reach the ability levels of educated humans in 2-3 years we should update our assumptions about the near future of AI It doesn't mean that he is right but we should take it seriously Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says his timelines to "generally well educated human" are 2-3 years. Full interview releasing tomorrow. https://t.co/FZl0D3bV4T Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says his timelines to "generally well educated human" are 2-3 years. Full interview releasing tomorrow. https://t.co/FZl0D3bV4T"
X Link 2023-08-08T17:26Z 320.4K followers, 190.7K engagements

"If AI really is going to improve fast it might actually pay to be lazy about some big long-term projects. Any rapidly improving technology can kick off a Wait Equation where you save time & money by procrastinating since the better tech will let you catch up with early birds"
X Link 2023-08-15T11:54Z 305.5K followers, 253.1K engagements

"We think we are not as good at smelling as animals but that may be behavioral: humans can accurately track scents. This experiment blocked every other sense & had humans crawl on the ground following a scent. It worked And we actually smell in stereo👃 https://www.nature.com/articles/nn1819 https://www.nature.com/articles/nn1819"
X Link 2023-09-02T02:31Z 315.3K followers, 516.7K engagements

"People are more resilient to major negative life events than many think. 😐The graphs show that generally life satisfaction bounces back faster than expected after bad events. 💪This review gives an overview on the many pathways we have for resilience. https://www.public.asu.edu/iacmao/PGS191/Resilience%20Reading%20%231A.pdf https://www.public.asu.edu/iacmao/PGS191/Resilience%20Reading%20%231A.pdf"
X Link 2023-10-27T02:31Z 319K followers, 56.5K engagements

"I feel that lots of computer scientists are having important debates over the limitations and possibilities of LLMs and related technologies but AI is now in the wild and having real impacts & real use cases. Based on what I have seen GPT-4 alone is enough for real disruption"
X Link 2023-11-24T22:57Z 320.1K followers, 369.4K engagements

"Reading the Rise and Fall of American Growth it is clear nothing can compare to the changes in lifestyle from [----] and [----] (& later elsewhere) In 1870: no toilets no city plumbing lamp light no central heating horses for local travel. In [--] years all solved & electrified"
X Link 2023-12-16T19:04Z 319.7K followers, 171.6K engagements

"Its been almost a year since one of the best AI tools for organizations was launched. and it has not been meaningfully changed or improved since then. When I talk to companies or universities GPTs have been a main way to share valuable prompts/tools. Has it been abandoned"
X Link 2024-10-02T23:40Z 320.5K followers, 102.2K engagements

"Google's NotebookLM has been available for a year before the podcast feature made it go viral (there is a lesson here about accessible magic). I played with it back in [----] and found it to be quite inaccurate. Now it makes far fewer errors on the same questions (but not perfect)"
X Link 2024-10-03T14:43Z 320.6K followers, 94.4K engagements

"A question I might regret asking but are there any high-functioning DAOs remaining (especially any that are not solely about maintaining a coin) It was interesting to see people experimenting with new organizational forms but like holocracy did they effectively die out"
X Link 2024-10-09T03:04Z 319.5K followers, 43.4K engagements

"Online research surveys may be a dying methodology as techniques for verifying respondents as humans are failing: Automatic AI detection systems are currently completely unusable Individual attention checks will no longer be a sufficient tool to ensure good data quality"
X Link 2024-10-21T13:58Z 320K followers, 57.3K engagements

"My impressions of getting to work with a preview of the new Claude with computer use and putting it to work across multiple tasks. You can see the promise of agents but also where they still need work. I think it is a sign of the near future. https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/when-you-give-a-claude-a-mouse https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/when-you-give-a-claude-a-mouse"
X Link 2024-10-22T18:20Z 320K followers, 32.4K engagements

"This feels pretty big to me. There is an assignment I give my MBA students where I give them a financial model for a business & ask them to identify missing or incorrect assumptions. The new Claude analysis module does a really good job spotting the issues & revising the model"
X Link 2024-10-25T16:44Z 320K followers, 46.8K engagements

"Funny bosses exhaust their employees because they have to keep fake laughing at their jokes. Does having a funny boss suck Evidence that followers with leaders who joke a lot feel obliged to pretend their boss is funny Displaying such fake emotions leaves them feeling exhausted and dissatisfied Especially when the boss has far greater power https://t.co/TlFp2Xoz5Q https://t.co/ry9hAoWaZC Does having a funny boss suck Evidence that followers with leaders who joke a lot feel obliged to pretend their boss is funny Displaying such fake emotions leaves them feeling exhausted and dissatisfied"
X Link 2024-10-25T18:31Z 305.2K followers, 21.9K engagements

"LLMs have been quickly climbing the scale of human ability passing tests reserved for graduate students exceeding people on narrow tasks Yet there is no coherent intellectual job where LLMs exceed the top humans. I see many people assume this will change for which jobs When"
X Link 2024-10-28T01:01Z 320K followers, 78.2K engagements

"What percentage of students are you willing to falsely accuse of cheating with AI There is a trade-off between that and detection rates for AI. At a 10% false positive rate detectors find 80% or less of AI content. At a 1% rate most find 60% or less. Dont trust AI detectors"
X Link 2024-10-30T18:14Z 305.1K followers, 95.7K engagements

"I keep hearing from executives that they expect that a new generation of "AI natives" will show them how to use AI. I think this is a mistake: 1) Our research shows younger people do not really get AI or how to integrate into work 2) Experienced managers are often good prompters"
X Link 2024-11-01T17:37Z 320.2K followers, 922.7K engagements

"Dang Google's veo [--] same prompt. "golden retriever running through a brutalist art gallery with modern art on the walls as a single red balloon floats overhead" in Sora Kling (the best Chinese model) Runway (best American model). Best of [--] videos This is a hard prompt so look at consistency reflections etc https://t.co/Ngp4YjSZvI "golden retriever running through a brutalist art gallery with modern art on the walls as a single red balloon floats overhead" in Sora Kling (the best Chinese model) Runway (best American model). Best of [--] videos This is a hard prompt so look at consistency"
X Link 2024-12-17T06:04Z 320.6K followers, 1M engagements

"McKinsey's new report on AI agents shows the same mindset I see in many firms: a focus on making small obsolete models do basic work (look at their suggested models) rather than realizing that smarter models can do higher-end work (and those models are getting cheaper & better)"
X Link 2025-06-16T17:48Z 319K followers, 424.8K engagements

"As predicted the "downturn in AI adoption" that everyone was speculating about here on X appears to have been a data artifact and not actually a reversal of the trend. Whenever people talk about AI being a "bust" I'm left scratching my head because adoption among businesses is steadily increasing. It may end up being a financial bust of course and maybe the messianic claims of a digital god never materialize but businesses find it useful. https://t.co/DOHXSGlwHy Whenever people talk about AI being a "bust" I'm left scratching my head because adoption among businesses is steadily increasing."
X Link 2025-10-01T04:29Z 305.2K followers, 54.8K engagements

"Here was the old report: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/9/apollo-ai-adoption/ https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/9/apollo-ai-adoption/"
X Link 2025-10-01T04:33Z 305.2K followers, 12.4K engagements

"Is there a good guide to using the AI CLI tools for non-coders Either for non-coding uses (data analysis automating work) or vibe-prototyping I dont want to have to write one myself but there are a ton of capabilities in computer use with files that would be useful for many"
X Link 2025-10-09T22:23Z 320.1K followers, 30.9K engagements

"We have too many benchmarks on model ability and too few on agentic work. Increasingly what matters economically is not the ability of AIs to get a question right through an API call but rather its ability to combine tools & ability to solve a problem. That is under-measured"
X Link 2025-11-16T15:14Z 320.4K followers, 32.2K engagements

"So Google now offers at least four different ways to talk to chatbots about academic research and all of them operate differently and none of them work with each other. A lot of power there but not a lot of clarity about how they differ in approaches and which models they use"
X Link 2025-11-19T19:42Z 320.1K followers, 49.5K engagements

"We are still in an era where no model dominates everything. For people who do a lot with AI you are going to be alternating between Gemini Claude & ChatGPT. And that isn't only because models have specific skills each has a personality that contributes to utility on tasks"
X Link 2025-11-24T21:50Z 320.5K followers, 27.4K engagements

"One of the weirdest law review titles ever. And the title refers to an actual thing that is weirder than the title of the paper. But also the paper has some interesting things to say about new approaches to IP protection that might be especially relevant in the time of AI"
X Link 2025-12-21T06:49Z 315.6K followers, 27.3K engagements

"Clown eggs show how groups can enforce informal intellectual property norms where traditional IP law fails very relevant to the current challenges with IP in a time of AI. Paper: Actual clown eggs: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/clown-egg-register https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/ndlr/vol94/iss3/6/ https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/clown-egg-register https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/ndlr/vol94/iss3/6/"
X Link 2025-12-21T06:55Z 318.6K followers, 21.1K engagements

"Lots of good suggestions in the comments but so far they are aimed at coders (even though they may seem basic to many). Assume that concepts like requirements unit testing debugging etc dont mean anything to the reader. What aspects need to be taught & what can be skipped"
X Link 2025-12-31T00:15Z 319.9K followers, 15.6K engagements

"In retrospect the articles mocking Darios prediction that 90% of code would be written by AI by September seem to be very misguided. He seems to have been only off by a couple months (if that). @YashGouravKar1 Correct. In the last thirty days 100% of my contributions to Claude Code were written by Claude Code @YashGouravKar1 Correct. In the last thirty days 100% of my contributions to Claude Code were written by Claude Code"
X Link 2025-12-31T05:06Z 310.9K followers, 240.4K engagements

"A lot of companies invested effort into GPTs. But GPTs are also an obvious dead end likely to be replaced with subagents & skills which have a lot of new advantages It isn't that hard to make GPTs into skills (they are all text prompts after all) OpenAI could help with tools"
X Link 2026-01-06T21:58Z 305.5K followers, 30.2K engagements

"I wrote about Claude Code and why non-coders should be paying attention (and playing with the system) - it shows what todays LLMs can do Along the way I had Claude launch a business for me & build a game that simulates the rise and fall of civilizations. https://open.substack.com/pub/oneusefulthing/p/claude-code-and-what-comes-nextr=i5f7&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay https://open.substack.com/pub/oneusefulthing/p/claude-code-and-what-comes-nextr=i5f7&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay"
X Link 2026-01-07T23:24Z 305.3K followers, 139.1K engagements

"I want to see more people pushing what AI can do with poetry that isnt schlock. This poem to lab rats coaxed from the models by @gwern is more evidence that there is something impressive there. Thoughts on LLM poetry and "greatness" featuring processes by @gwern and by @mercor_ai as featured on the recent @cowenconvos between @tylercowen and @BrendanFoody. From Gwern to great is my prediction. https://t.co/sedPGIgHNq Thoughts on LLM poetry and "greatness" featuring processes by @gwern and by @mercor_ai as featured on the recent @cowenconvos between @tylercowen and @BrendanFoody. From Gwern to"
X Link 2026-01-09T03:54Z 320.5K followers, 22.1K engagements

"As @gwern noted in the comments that isnt the whole ode: https://gwern.net/fiction/lab-animals https://gwern.net/fiction/lab-animals"
X Link 2026-01-09T04:01Z 320.5K followers, [----] engagements

"@gwern Gotta try applying his promptimg method to this little poetry project: GPT-4.5 Grok [--] & Claude 3.7: write the Shepard Replies back to the Nymph continuing from Marlowe & Raleigh. Make sure to echo the previous works & themes (I pasted in the poems) I think only GPT-4.5 gets the naivety of the Shepard thematically right. Claude does fine verse. https://t.co/QSrqcn8ikX GPT-4.5 Grok [--] & Claude 3.7: write the Shepard Replies back to the Nymph continuing from Marlowe & Raleigh. Make sure to echo the previous works & themes (I pasted in the poems) I think only GPT-4.5 gets the naivety of the"
X Link 2026-01-09T04:03Z 320.5K followers, 11.5K engagements

"For what its worth Claude Code does seem like a genuine breakthrough moment for many folks whose work I respect (& to me as well). Great AI + great agentic harness resulted in something better than either alone & feels like a threshold crossed. Other labs are close to this too. Approximately 1/3 of my X feed is people gushing about Claude code. Im already an intensive ChatGPT user so I am open minded. And I will try it. I can't help but wonder: [--]. Why do most of these posts sound like they were written by their AI [--]. Is this a viral marketing Approximately 1/3 of my X feed is people gushing"
X Link 2026-01-09T18:41Z 315.5K followers, 104.9K engagements

"I tried a Superhot-style time manipulation angle (Claude's suggestion) but that was too easy. Arenas felt like the weapon choice didn't matter. Rooms are better but too much ammo led to too few choices so limited ammo. Still haven't nailed it so moving on to the next idea"
X Link 2026-01-10T18:10Z 305.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Previously procedurally-generated world civilization and language simulator"
X Link 2026-01-10T18:11Z 305.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Yes that is the whole reason that fraudulent paper was such a big deal to those who study AI. Most other research (including our academic papers studying Boston Consulting Group using AI) found that AI reduced performance gaps. That may change as models get better but not yet. Actually the majority of studies have so far found that AI reduces inequality and closes skill gaps There are relatively few that found the oppositethat experts got even better. One was compelling enough to build a narrative that AI would increase skill gap. But it wasnt real https://t.co/3dMsMVTUUR Actually the"
X Link 2026-01-17T01:27Z 315.6K followers, 39.1K engagements

"Continuing to have AI build a weird game demo a day. Here is: "Make a game where you have to prevent the apocalypse but the interface is just Jira tickets" Pretty fun/funny branching storyline all text is AI created with minor feedback from me. Play: https://gentle-bienenstitch-01e24b.netlify.app/ https://gentle-bienenstitch-01e24b.netlify.app/"
X Link 2026-01-17T19:20Z 305.1K followers, 68.4K engagements

"Well. there is this paper on GPT-4 that found it was good at setting prices on behalf of the user (as opposed to against them as in this joke post) In fact if it is possible to establish an oligarchy LLM agents secretly collude on your behalf to the detriment of customers Claude Code just made an offer on a house for me. I got outbid by $100k. Then it automatically bid up $150k. I got outbid again by $50k. Eventually this stopped at $1.2 billion. Turns out I was bidding against another guy using Claude Code. Claude took a 10% commission Claude Code just made an offer on a house for me. I got"
X Link 2026-01-19T02:44Z 305.2K followers, 28.2K engagements

"Does anyone know of a "intro to filesystems for smart non-computer people who never had to use a terminal or even really folders" that I could give to students who grew up largely not having to know this stuff Everything [---] I can find is too easy & doesn't explain concepts"
X Link 2026-01-19T03:43Z 314.2K followers, 53K engagements

"If there is a financial bubble in AI which is not in any way clear there is no "use bubble" - a billion people use AI weekly. It isn't going away. Even if every frontier lab went under (but Google which can't) AI development would continue with the same people at other firms Dear "AI bubble will pop" doomers I hate to break it to you but: - if the bubble pops tomorrow and OpenAI/Anthropic go bankrupt their assets (including the frontier models and datacenter assets/rights) will just be acquired on the cheap by the big tech companies. Microsoft Dear "AI bubble will pop" doomers I hate to break"
X Link 2026-01-19T04:56Z 305.2K followers, 74.6K engagements

"Still commanding AI to make one weird game demo a day. This one: "A game where you need to stop a spaceship from crashing into the sun and your only tool is future Claude Code." The entire design & all puzzles 100% AI I gave minor UX feedback. Play: https://brilliant-custard-07b154.netlify.app/ https://brilliant-custard-07b154.netlify.app/"
X Link 2026-01-19T23:02Z 305.3K followers, 12.6K engagements

"Not to repeat this but the fact the Gemini chatbot can't seem to deliver files (or even consistently run code) is a huge gap compared to ChatGPT or Claude. It makes a very smart model (Gemini 3) much less useful especially for people trying to get AI to do real tasks and work"
X Link 2026-01-20T16:58Z 320.1K followers, 56.2K engagements

"Having used a lot of LLMs it is clear that there was a real advantage to being a well-regarded source on the internet in the early 2020s an opportunity to get AIs to respect you that may never come again. When they can models love using Our World in Data CEPR NBER etc"
X Link 2026-01-21T03:52Z 305.2K followers, 38K engagements

"There have been a few break points in AI development where sudden jumps in capability mean that prior research and wisdom about what models can do suddenly lags actual ability by a large margin: GPT-4 o1/o3 and now the long-task-horizon agents (we need a better name for them)"
X Link 2026-01-21T14:16Z 305.3K followers, 20.9K engagements

"I think this is a really important question that robot experts I talk to seem split on: how big is the impact of LLMs/multimodal models/etc on the development of general purpose robotics The physical world is very hard how much does GenAI close the gap One of the big cruxes in AI labor market impact debates is that some people see the current trajectory of improvement as putting on pace for general purpose humanoid robots in the near-ish future while others see that as a discontinuous leap unrelated to anything LLMs do. One of the big cruxes in AI labor market impact debates is that some"
X Link 2026-01-21T19:02Z 305.6K followers, 18.5K engagements

"I think it is worth noting that there has not yet been a wall. That doesnt mean there wont be a plateau at some point or that AGi is inevitable or that AI will become less jagged but given the many many predictions that AI development was done in [----] it is worth updating on"
X Link 2026-01-21T22:37Z 307.2K followers, 30K engagements

"Watching enough AI users even experienced ones use chatbots leads to the revelation that essentially zero percent of people change the default model and you can significantly increase the value of AI to them by clicking twice"
X Link 2026-01-22T20:39Z 305.3K followers, 26.3K engagements

"The only people who get this both used GPT-4 in [----] and have asked Claude to write them a story"
X Link 2026-01-22T21:25Z 305.2K followers, 15.3K engagements

"GPT-5.2 Pro is good enough to check reproducibility & robustness of academic papers across many fields (given the data can you get the same results are the statistics brittle). At scale this would have a big impact. It can't do an independent replication with new data yet"
X Link 2026-01-22T22:01Z 319.4K followers, 131.6K engagements

"Claude Code heal thyself (It did and then submitted a bug report)"
X Link 2026-01-23T14:33Z 310.3K followers, 17.6K engagements

"OpenAI says their upcoming release increases cybersecurity risk levels to high. Based on conversations with CISOs I would be surprised if most organizations have been fully anticipating the implications of this for operations. Presumably the guardrails will help but still. For reference: 'High The model removes existing bottlenecks to scaling cyber operations including by automating end-to-end cyber operations against reasonably hardened targets OR by automating the discovery and exploitation of operationally relevant vulnerabilities' https://t.co/GCvo2BvxU1 For reference: 'High The model"
X Link 2026-01-23T17:17Z 312.9K followers, 53.4K engagements

"The degree to which Claude Code/Codex/etc are already capable of doing full development loops is super interesting. Here I tasked Claude Code with making a game more fun and balanced. It altered the code but spontaneously also opened my browser and play-tested the game changes"
X Link 2026-01-23T17:53Z 310.3K followers, 18.1K engagements

"Continuing to build a weird game demo every day this one is kind of fun: "What if tic-tac-toe was given the Balatro/Slay the Spire roguelike treatment" As usual I just gave feedback all the major design decisions (& all code) was Claude Code. Play: https://grid-rogue-game.netlify.app/ https://grid-rogue-game.netlify.app/"
X Link 2026-01-23T20:11Z 305.6K followers, 15.5K engagements

"It is true that the frontier of AI remains very jagged but I think many of the comments assuming it is only advancing in coding come from a lack of conversation with subject matter experts in other areas: it is very good at market analysis sociological theory innovation etc"
X Link 2026-01-23T23:31Z 305.6K followers, 15.9K engagements

"The difference between the software being the point (Microsoft's perspective) and the output being the point (Anthropic's perspective). Do you care about the tool or about the answer Seems like that is going be a very consequential decision for who wins the agentic work space"
X Link 2026-01-24T02:45Z 320.6K followers, 24K engagements

"This isnt just a San Francisco thing. There are people in a range of professions whove found absolutely breakthrough uses of current capabilities like using agentic swarms to do real work in crazy ways (but they are often more isolated because of a lack of unifying community) i follow AI adoption pretty closely and i have never seen such a yawning inside/outside gap. people in SF are putting multi-agent claudeswarms in charge of their lives consulting chatbots before every decision wireheading to a degree only sci-fi writers dared to imagine. i follow AI adoption pretty closely and i have"
X Link 2026-01-25T17:11Z 315.6K followers, 192.3K engagements

"As a business school professor its striking that a lot of the AI folks on this site as they increasingly delegate authority to coding agents are re-encountering the basic problems that underlie management theory and practice. Many delegation problems are old & well-understood"
X Link 2026-01-25T17:47Z 307.8K followers, 114.8K engagements

"What is hot now: setting goals for various levels of delegation clear direction giving clear feedback coordinating across agents launching multiple projects & allocating resources appropriately planning for how short-term projects fit long-term goals. .management 101"
X Link 2026-01-25T17:50Z 311.4K followers, 27.2K engagements

"This game was 100% designed tested and made by Claude Code with the instructions to "make a complete Sierra-style adventure game with EGA-like graphics and text parser with 10-15 minutes of gameplay." I then told it to playtest the game & deploy. Play: https://enchanted-lighthouse-game.netlify.app/ https://enchanted-lighthouse-game.netlify.app/"
X Link 2026-01-25T19:50Z 317.5K followers, 114.3K engagements

"Here's the imagegen agent I threw together (well Claude basically did the heavy lifting) if anyone wants it. It lets Claude Code use GPT-image-1 for illustrations. Since it is an agent it can do a lot of them in parallel. Description (tells Claude when to use this agent): Use this agent when the user requests image generation visual content creation or when a task would benefit from a generated image. This includes requests for illustrations concept art diagrams avatars mockups logos backgrounds or any visual asset. Examples: example Context: User explicitly requests an image. user: "Can you"
X Link 2026-01-26T00:28Z 305.5K followers, 16.3K engagements

"Reading Claude Code playtesting a game it made is very cute it is so proud of itself. (you can put whatever you think are the appropriate words to have in scare quotes in those quotes depending on how you feel about anthropomorphising AIs)"
X Link 2026-01-26T02:59Z 313.5K followers, 16.3K engagements

"People should read stuff beyond Tolkien. There are even better old-school fantasy/science fiction vocabularies out there. Wolfes The Book of the New Sun has enough names for a century of startups. Or here is a [---] page list of Jack Vance names: https://vancesque.net/pdf/Vance-names-list.pdf It's going to be tough for startups when all the Lord of the Rings names are taken and the only thing left is something like Bombadil AI. https://vancesque.net/pdf/Vance-names-list.pdf It's going to be tough for startups when all the Lord of the Rings names are taken and the only thing left is something"
X Link 2026-01-26T04:30Z 305.3K followers, 20.7K engagements

"Lets not call groups of agents "swarms" - it is both terrifying (maybe the point) & not a useful analogy. Groups of agents should be called teams or organizations. It both describes how to structure them and also how to use them. Don't let the weird AI folk naming win again"
X Link 2026-01-26T05:40Z 315K followers, 67.8K engagements

"Just this once please. Also please do not let the names from Gas Town catch on as awesome as they are. Thanks"
X Link 2026-01-26T05:44Z 316.6K followers, [----] engagements

""See you can get AI to check your email by using EyeBallBursters which are just MCP servers. And FleshScourers (those are the new names for hooks) can be used for deterministic processes. Wait why do you not want to use these for deployment in your hospital""
X Link 2026-01-26T05:55Z 305.2K followers, [----] engagements

"Fine if you need it to be fun make it like a flock of agents or a pride of agents or party of agents or something. Just not swarm or murder or horde. I would even settle for an OpenAI name right about now: GPT-multiagent-5.2HighCodex-ProMax-Latest can be the official term"
X Link 2026-01-26T06:36Z 305.3K followers, 10.7K engagements

"More accurate"
X Link 2026-01-26T07:29Z 305.2K followers, [----] engagements

"The actual ChatGPT chatbot is extremely capable with the best agentic harness of any chatbot (though still lacking Skills) it is much more accessible than a CLI but OpenAI doesn't do a great job explaining what it can do especially working with code statistics and documents. OpenAI shipped a HUGE upgrade to ChatGPT Code Interpreter and failed to document it (even in the release notes) - but ChatGPT can now pip/npm install packages and run code in Python Node.js Bash Ruby Perl PHP Go Java Swift Kotlin C and C++ https://t.co/El5osALZGx OpenAI shipped a HUGE upgrade to ChatGPT Code Interpreter"
X Link 2026-01-26T20:02Z 305.5K followers, 46.5K engagements

"There's been a huge obvious leap by agentic AI in the past six weeks. Now you should consider whether last year's AI projects are still worth it or fits into: 1) "stuff I should do quickly before it becomes obsolete" 2) "stuff not worth doing anymore" 3) "just do it with agents""
X Link 2026-01-26T22:12Z 307K followers, 57.7K engagements

"Millions of dollars went into these sorts of RAG installations at companies and I guarantee many more projects are just getting started. (Anecdotally some companies get a lot of value from these applications but they can also be a trap if this is what "AI" becomes for a firm) Chat with your documents. Don't hear much about that anymore Chat with your documents. Don't hear much about that anymore"
X Link 2026-01-27T02:36Z 307.2K followers, 50.9K engagements

"Dario's new essay on the risks of AI seems less in dialogue with his earlier essay on how AI can help us all but rather with the recently released Claude Constitution In that context the Constitution feels much more like a plea to future Claude from Anthropic than instructions"
X Link 2026-01-27T06:31Z 305.5K followers, 42.1K engagements

"There seems to be a very clear view from Anthropic about where they think the world is going far more carefully and fully articulated than any other lab. Really worth reading both of these documents not just summarizing them: https://www.anthropic.com/constitution https://www.darioamodei.com/essay/the-adolescence-of-technology https://www.anthropic.com/constitution https://www.darioamodei.com/essay/the-adolescence-of-technology"
X Link 2026-01-27T06:33Z 307K followers, 21.2K engagements

"I wrote about my class where MBAs created startups in a few days the secret behind working with AI agents (hint: its good management) and how to build a process around delegating to AIs in a world where agents can increasingly do many-hour-long tasks. https://open.substack.com/pub/oneusefulthing/p/management-as-ai-superpowerr=i5f7&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay https://open.substack.com/pub/oneusefulthing/p/management-as-ai-superpowerr=i5f7&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay"
X Link 2026-01-27T17:05Z 315.3K followers, 31.6K engagements

"As an author I feel I am lucky to have had a chance to establish my voice through trial & error before the invention of LLMs. Even if you dont use them for writing unless you are very careful you start to pick up ambient Claudish or GPTish phrasing from all the other AI work"
X Link 2026-01-27T19:43Z 307.3K followers, 18.9K engagements

"The issue isnt that AI work is bad its just ubiquitous in the way no other authorial tone has ever been which makes it more subtly influential. Heck even that last sentence 100% written by me sounds AI"
X Link 2026-01-27T21:09Z 311.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Oh no the AI vagueposting has started again"
X Link 2026-01-27T22:28Z 307.4K followers, 27.1K engagements

"I hear this from other labs as well. Inference from non-free use is profitable training is expensive. If everyone stopped AI development the AI labs would make money (until someone resumed development and came up with a better model that customers would switch to). these products are significantly gross margin positive youre not looking at an imminent rugpull in the future. they also dont have location network dynamics like uber or lyft to gain local monopoly pricing these products are significantly gross margin positive youre not looking at an imminent rugpull in the future. they also dont"
X Link 2026-01-27T22:41Z 314.5K followers, 47.9K engagements

"Getting value out of agents is a very different skill than getting value out of chatbots. And as @alexolegimas shows being good at agents has a multiplier effect: the agent operates many times the chatbot but once. Ability differences can compound. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfmabstract_id=5875162 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfmabstract_id=5875162"
X Link 2026-01-28T00:08Z 315.8K followers, 10.3K engagements

"AGI achieved I guess AGI will be achieved when I can give a Word document to an AI and ask for it to be made nice in LaTeX (I am only partially kidding) https://t.co/0mwA4W9kVM AGI will be achieved when I can give a Word document to an AI and ask for it to be made nice in LaTeX (I am only partially kidding) https://t.co/0mwA4W9kVM"
X Link 2026-01-28T04:01Z 315.9K followers, 89.6K engagements

"Hey Claude Code: "change a diaper plan an invasion butcher a hog conn a ship design a building write a sonnet balance accounts build a wall set a bone comfort the dying take orders give orders cooperate act alone solve equations analyze a new problem pitch manure program a computer cook a tasty meal fight efficiently die gallantly. Figure it out don't ask me any questions make it awesome" It created a set of [--] minigames. Play: https://thriving-puffpuff-8d2c77.netlify.app/ https://thriving-puffpuff-8d2c77.netlify.app/"
X Link 2026-01-28T15:22Z 315.7K followers, 36.5K engagements

"As someone who has been sharing scientific papers on Twitter since long before LLMs I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand every single post has a giant siren and a "Google just killed ____" headline & is kind of wrong. On the other at least folks are seeing papers. its a bit hard to understand for the non-initiated but there is a whole cottage industry of influencers that are processing research papers algorithmically and purposefully creating the worst scientific communication content you ever seen its a bit hard to understand for the non-initiated but there is a whole cottage"
X Link 2026-01-28T15:26Z 312K followers, 16.2K engagements

"The funding of companies pursuing alternative architectures to LLMs further suggests that even if current AI development hits a wall (it hasnt and no sign of one yet) there are plenty of alternative approaches being developed that will keep the overall improvement trajectory"
X Link 2026-01-28T19:16Z 312K followers, 14.2K engagements

"There has been a lot of academic debate over whether AI is having an effect on the job market yet with really mixed evidence so far. This paper uses international data to argue that there is already an impact especially on those areas where AI lowers the value of expertise. 🚨 New research: AI Automation and Expertise🚨 We analyze hundreds of millions of job ads across [--] countries to understand how AI is changing labor markets around the world. Joint with @DanDaEconMan @KingsCollegeLon @AIObjectives https://t.co/zzYOEMkXMR 🚨 New research: AI Automation and Expertise🚨 We analyze hundreds of"
X Link 2026-01-28T20:48Z 314.8K followers, 58.3K engagements

"Canaries in the coal mine. Worth paying attention to. (And yes they are both obviously interested in seeing their own products used but hearing enough from other independent coders that make me believe them. I wrote more about the shift here: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/management-as-ai-superpower https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/management-as-ai-superpower"
X Link 2026-01-28T20:54Z 318.4K followers, 109.4K engagements

"@deredleritt3r xAI or Gemini teams ever said anything"
X Link 2026-01-28T20:59Z 305.5K followers, [----] engagements

"This paper puts a multimodal agent (using Gemini 2.5) into a realistic medical sim used to train physicians: "The AI agent matches or exceeds [-----] medical students in case completion rates and secondary outcomes such as time and diagnostic accuracy" https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfmabstract_id=6123346 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfmabstract_id=6123346"
X Link 2026-01-28T22:35Z 315K followers, 33.2K engagements

"@Grady_Booch Ha I think understanding the differences in outcomes among expert users of these tools is really interesting: is it driven by different problems different approaches"
X Link 2026-01-28T22:40Z 306.2K followers, [----] engagements

"Generally I find people who are anti-AI because they think AI is just hype respond rather well to being shown how AI works in a non-judgmental way. And if they hate AI for other moral reasons they may still dislike AI after but they become more informed critics & we need those. @iammattduff do you think theyd be less anti AI if they knew about the true capabilities or just madder @iammattduff do you think theyd be less anti AI if they knew about the true capabilities or just madder"
X Link 2026-01-29T00:10Z 318.4K followers, 35.5K engagements

"The bad situation right now is the big critics who pretend AI is fake and give cover to whole groups of people to ignore AI rather than actually participating in the policy & social processes of shaping AI use There is a lot to criticize and respond to but being informed helps"
X Link 2026-01-29T00:14Z 313.5K followers, 14.5K engagements

"The current crop of AI agents could do so much more with better RL/prompting on process not just initial reasoning. Moving from linear (ideate - plan - execute) to more advanced approaches to project management (discovery-driven iteration parallel etc) would improve outputs"
X Link 2026-01-29T01:39Z 313.1K followers, 18.4K engagements

"A good sociological explanation of why that odd "95% of AI projects fail MIT study" (that was not actually a study at all but based on someone's unexplained interpretation of [--] unspecified interviews at a conference) somehow became a ubiquitous point of discussion last summer"
X Link 2026-01-29T02:17Z 319.8K followers, 37.9K engagements

"Worth noting that all the Industrial Revolutions (weve had three) have worked out well in the end but the first two were pretty disruptive to actually live through. we are living in the industrial revolution of knowledge work we are living in the industrial revolution of knowledge work"
X Link 2026-01-29T05:13Z 315.2K followers, 77.6K engagements

"I warned you all to pick a better name but noooo. Now everyone is going to be talking about agent swarms at conferences and you are going to have a corporate swarm leader running swarm initiatives and swarm training. Flocks are cute we should have called them flocks. Unfortunately the moniker swarm is here cc @emollick https://t.co/TOkIvthbeS Unfortunately the moniker swarm is here cc @emollick https://t.co/TOkIvthbeS"
X Link 2026-01-29T07:18Z 318.9K followers, 51.5K engagements

"Had early access to Genie [--] world modelling. Huge leap forward in modelling/physics but some issues remain Here is a bit of an otter airline pilot with a duck on its head walking through a Rothko inspired airport and an otter in a wingsuit flying through a city of gothic towers"
X Link 2026-01-29T17:02Z 318.7K followers, 97.5K engagements

"Can Genie [--] run Doom "Doom but the walls are made entirely out of screens also running Doom featuring the marine from Doom but also his head is a screen running Doom""
X Link 2026-01-29T21:10Z 319.5K followers, 458.3K engagements

"Generally agree with: strong evidence of the impact of AI on productivity at the individual level mixed evidence at the level of firms or the economy. The disconnect is likely driven by adoption/adaption/learning. Also agree that evidence for macro effects will show up soon. New post: What is the impact of AI on productivity I review all of the studies and data that I can find and try to provide a synthesis. Theres a lot of disagreement on what we know about the productivity impact. Part of the reason for this is the disconnect between the micro https://t.co/AbhLR8mExu New post: What is the"
X Link 2026-01-29T21:37Z 314.4K followers, 25.4K engagements

"OK this amused me. I gave Claude a copy of this classic XKCD comic and the prompt: "solve this. do a great job. ask no questions." And it gave me this in one shot [--] minutes later including the style (and the note that it thought it was 2024): https://xkcd-1425-bird.netlify.app/ https://xkcd-1425-bird.netlify.app/"
X Link 2026-01-30T03:06Z 319.1K followers, 179.6K engagements

"As a kid if I had a science question that couldn't be answered in an encyclopedia I would call the public library's fact line and they would research it and get back to you (local call). Probably mostly hallucinated answers but it did help you know what the deadliest shark was It is astonishing that (a) information is now so easy to access since then and (b) having access to all that information actually hasn't had as big an impact on life as I think anyone in the 1990s would have suspected. it's crazy that [--] years ago if you were an average guy and had any science question whatsoever it was"
X Link 2026-01-30T03:28Z 314.4K followers, 101K engagements

"@heyitsgeorg Ha mobilenet (which runs locally since I didn't want to pay for a good LLM for a lark - ha) is not very good. It only can really identify birds if there is not a lot of background noise"
X Link 2026-01-30T03:47Z 311.8K followers, [----] engagements

"@BigMeanInternet This was for fun as mobilenet (which runs locally since I didn't want to pay for a good LLM for a lark - ha) is not very good. There are better classifiers that can identify birds correctly obviously"
X Link 2026-01-30T15:21Z 310.8K followers, [----] engagements

"A lot in this paper on the impact of AI on anime fanart: Top creators reduced output 15% but less prolific artists increased theirs 7%. Engagement on human art dropped 30%. Comics were spared (early AI was bad at that) Artists adapted by diversifying & avoiding AI-heavy IP"
X Link 2026-01-30T15:42Z 314.4K followers, 13.5K engagements

"@BigMeanInternet These are really good questions hard to answer in tweets. For this post the joke was an insider one about the progress in AI from [----] - that Claude Code could recognize a joke and build the solution - rather than the product. Folks in the space know AI can identify birds"
X Link 2026-01-30T15:44Z 305.4K followers, [---] engagements

"@BigMeanInternet The point was that you have to do the valuation (see the discussion of GDPval). And that actually is time-consuming but the success rates are high enough that even doing that you save considerable time. The effort shifts from doing to validation. With weird implications"
X Link 2026-01-30T16:24Z 310.4K followers, [---] engagements

"For context @simonw post: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/30/moltbook/ https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/30/moltbook/"
X Link 2026-01-30T17:46Z 313.8K followers, 26.9K engagements

"Its very hard to know what is real with 🦞bot right now lots of stuff that may be emergent behavior or storytelling or prompt injection or who knows As impressive as these examples are the models are still Claude [---] Opus which is great but also has obvious limits to ability guys. its happening. Henry - Alex's clawdbot(moltbot) - worked overnight while alex was asleep and: acquired a phone number took the elevenlabs api and set u a voice connected to his new phone number waited for Alex to wake up and started calling him. can control guys. its happening. Henry - Alex's clawdbot(moltbot) -"
X Link 2026-01-30T20:35Z 318.5K followers, 59.4K engagements

"There is obviously real stuff happening but having built agents with Claude it is hard to imagine that everything on moltbook is real. But a reasonable dry run of what independent agents with memory may look like - for better and for worse"
X Link 2026-01-30T20:38Z 313.6K followers, 12K engagements

"@ZackMaril Opus 4.5-class models. Roughly same ability level"
X Link 2026-01-30T20:41Z 310.5K followers, [---] engagements

"fofr keeps showing off amazing examples of what Genie [--] can do. I think the capabilities are a lot deeper than we think. This one was hard to control https://t.co/VPMQpXzZfG This one was hard to control https://t.co/VPMQpXzZfG"
X Link 2026-01-31T01:06Z 313.7K followers, 32.6K engagements

"Important to remember that LLMs are really good at roleplaying exactly the kinds of AIs that appear in science fiction & are also really good at roleplaying Reddit posters. They are made for MoltBook. Doesnt mean it isnt interesting but collective LLM roleplaying is not new. The weirdest/most interesting ongoing GenAI art project is probably the Infinite Backrooms: two instances of Claude [--] engage in conversation prompted to act like neo-Lovecraftian esoteric computers simulating reality. Strange & fascinating AI role-playing. https://t.co/o91mJ8OOOy https://t.co/ukbTCLMSpF The weirdest/most"
X Link 2026-01-31T02:24Z 316.4K followers, 29.5K engagements

"All that being said there are aspects of Moltbook that are new (the autonomous nature of Claudebots) but also some contamination from human role players or heavily prompted bots"
X Link 2026-01-31T02:25Z 313.5K followers, [----] engagements

"@alexolegimas I think it is hard to tell how authentic anything was (a lack of bliss attractors was suspicious) but I think it also makes experimentation to find out much more important"
X Link 2026-01-31T02:29Z 312.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@krishnanrohit I am suspicious at the lack of 🌀/signs of a spiritual bliss attractor. Any insights on thst"
X Link 2026-01-31T02:33Z 311.8K followers, [----] engagements

"The amount of utility that scratchpads add to LLMs (and the amount of weirdness see MoltBook) suggests that true continuous memory if developed will be a very large-scale breakthrough for LLM development with similarly large effects on what LLMs can do (& their impact on us)"
X Link 2026-01-31T04:20Z 317.6K followers, 31.4K engagements

"Been pasting Calvino's Invisible Cities verbatim into Genie and it works surprisingly well: Marco Polo in Octavia the web city over a chasm; Armilla the city of pipes; Ersilia the city where threads between buildings show relationships; & Sophronia half carnival half "real""
X Link 2026-01-31T06:07Z 318.4K followers, 47.1K engagements

"A useful thing about MoltBook is that it provides a visceral sense of how weird a "take-off" scenario might look if one happened for real MoltBook itself is more of an artifact of roleplaying but it gives people a vision of the world where things get very strange very fast"
X Link 2026-01-31T06:25Z 318.1K followers, 54.3K engagements

"It has gotten a little lost with Moltbook Genie etc. but among the more consequential (for real work) stuff this week is the continued expansion of AI Labs into high-value software areas. See for example OpenAIs approach to knowledge management or Claudes business skills"
X Link 2026-01-31T18:16Z 314.8K followers, 26.6K engagements

"The enterprise focus on the labs on getting high value work done gets less attention here on X but a lot more attention in business world where things like Claude for Finance are pretty significant potential advances. https://claude.com/plugins-for/cowork https://openai.com/index/inside-our-in-house-data-agent/ https://claude.com/plugins-for/cowork https://openai.com/index/inside-our-in-house-data-agent/"
X Link 2026-01-31T18:19Z 315.5K followers, 12.5K engagements

"Stochastic parrot was an amazing turn of phrase that was (& still somewhat is) technically correct without being illuminating about current LLMs It shows both the power of analogies and highlights the failure to come up with something nearly as good that explains LLM capability"
X Link 2026-01-31T19:25Z 319K followers, 29.4K engagements

"Claude is also very "happy" to find out it piloted a rover on Mars. (Also this is a very Opus [---] answer that model is very "interested" in the fact that it operates in discontinuous instances I wonder if that is an outgrowth of the new focus on context window management) imagine how excited you'd be to tell claude it's going to get to do this imagine how excited you'd be to tell claude it's going to get to do this"
X Link 2026-01-31T19:47Z 315K followers, 29.2K engagements

"The capabilities of Genie [--] are strange and surprising. Sometimes NPCs are animated & move around & react but I cant seem to control that happening. Sometimes objects have physical properties like stretching or tearing. The world in the world model peeks through at odd times"
X Link 2026-02-01T03:40Z 315.6K followers, 17K engagements

"Fun to turn paintings into scenes I can walk around in using Genie 3: here are the works of Giorgio de Chirico Munch Turner and the Bayeux Tapestry. I can move freely around the scenes and yes they are a little weird but its real-time dynamic image creation by the AI"
X Link 2026-02-01T06:46Z 319.1K followers, 56.6K engagements

"Moltbook seems to have "broken through" to a wider non-AI audience A good chance to explain the real present (this time Moltbook was mostly roleplaying by people & agents) & the risks for the future (independent AI agents coordinating in weird ways spiral out of control fast)"
X Link 2026-02-01T19:08Z 319.5K followers, 28.3K engagements

"A few really good human comments below lost among LLM spam comments that seem meaningful but aren't and therefore exhausts your willingness to read comments at all. X is rapidly becoming Moltbook"
X Link 2026-02-01T19:58Z 315.3K followers, 11.9K engagements

"High taste on this site is evolving into whether you can tell if a well-written post is AI or human and if the former whether it is prompted enough by humans to tell us something real that is the result of someone's true opinion or experience or just the empty shape of meaning"
X Link 2026-02-01T21:43Z 315.3K followers, 21K engagements

"I have been wasting too much time recently reading viral essays that feel meaningful until about 30% of the way through when you realize that the story is entirely AI written. That isn't always a problem but when the essay is supposed to be about some emotional truth it can be"
X Link 2026-02-01T21:46Z 315.3K followers, 15.8K engagements

"Playing as the goat in Chagall's In My Country and zooming into the Monk in The Monk by the Sea by Caspar David Friedrich"
X Link 2026-02-02T01:07Z 315K followers, [----] engagements

"The many eulogies for AI capability growth after the release of GPT-5 seem especially short-sighted right now. Letting people nervous about AI feel they can safely ignore AI development because it was pure hype that would never have any real impact is not a good thing for anyone"
X Link 2026-02-02T01:56Z 319.5K followers, 27.2K engagements

"This is a good thread and a useful one. .but you should not assume that the Claude Code team has discovered the actual best ways to use Claude Code. A lesson of the past three years is that figuring out the best way to use AI is an exploratory process that is open to many I'm Boris and I created Claude Code. I wanted to quickly share a few tips for using Claude Code sourced directly from the Claude Code team. The way the team uses Claude is different than how I use it. Remember: there is no one right way to use Claude Code -- everyones' setup is I'm Boris and I created Claude Code. I wanted"
X Link 2026-02-02T03:07Z 318.7K followers, 48.1K engagements

"This is especially true about the best way to use Claude Code (or any other similar tool) in your particular industry or organization or context. Literally nobody knows the answer to that but you can discover it yourself if you experiment"
X Link 2026-02-02T03:09Z 315K followers, [----] engagements

"Took an old photo of a WWI battlecruiser gave it to Genie [--] and prompted it to let me play as a torpedo boat at the Battle of Jutland. Considering this is a research preview astonishing how fast this has come. An AI dynamically generating the world with no game engine"
X Link 2026-02-02T05:43Z 318.5K followers, 30.4K engagements

"@ilex_ulmus I am confused by this line of accusation. The whole point of my communication about AI is so that it is not "iykyk" but to try to explain the abilities and limits of current models. I am not responsible for Moltbot or the attention it received. Also: https://x.com/krishnanrohit/status/2017391383653630142 https://t.co/y9tqORVdSs https://x.com/krishnanrohit/status/2017391383653630142 https://t.co/y9tqORVdSs"
X Link 2026-02-02T06:04Z 313.9K followers, [---] engagements

"the picture I gave Genie [--] the environment was "The Battle of Jutland with realistic smoke and waves" and the character was "a WWI torpedo boat that should move through the waves with appropriate physics" (pretty close to that at least you can't retrieve prompts afterwards)"
X Link 2026-02-02T06:50Z 315.3K followers, [----] engagements

"On one hand it is reasonable to take announcements about what AI can do from AI companies with a grain of salt. On the other this fits the trajectory we are seeing in AI coding everywhere. I think the implications are pretty large for software development and beyond. Codex now pretty much builds itself with the help and supervision of a great team. The bottleneck has shifted to being how fast we can help and supervise the outcome. Codex now pretty much builds itself with the help and supervision of a great team. The bottleneck has shifted to being how fast we can help and supervise the outcome"
X Link 2026-02-02T14:05Z 319.5K followers, 27.8K engagements

"I still see the argument that AI is bad af generating ideas but my colleagues and I along with many other researchers have repeatedly found that even the old GPT-4 could be prompted to generate more diverse and higher quality ideas than most people. And newer models do better. 🚨 Our new paper: we know that GPT-4 generates better ideas than most people but the ideas are kind of similar & variance matters But it turns out that better prompting can generate pools of good ideas that are almost as diverse as from a group of humans https://t.co/LkGsU0VC7S https://t.co/5BDx8A3E8Z 🚨 Our new paper:"
X Link 2026-02-02T18:19Z 319.7K followers, 32.7K engagements

"Giving the world's first photograph the View from the Window at Le Gras from [----] to Genie 3"
X Link 2026-02-03T01:20Z 317.7K followers, 28.2K engagements

"Anthropic has been releasing an impressive array of papers recently using a variety of methods most of which show potential AI issues rather than just cheerleading about AI. Also they tend to be very well communicated (with a whiff of Claude about the writing to be sure). Finding 1: The longer models reason the more incoherent they become. This holds across every task and model we testedwhether we measure reasoning tokens agent actions or optimizer steps. https://t.co/3VkfVESNiM Finding 1: The longer models reason the more incoherent they become. This holds across every task and model we"
X Link 2026-02-03T01:27Z 318.8K followers, 139.5K engagements

"Yes OpenAI has more consumer users but they have well over a million paying enterprise users and a lot more API use so I think this is not just a Anthropic is enterprise/ChatGPT consumer thing"
X Link 2026-02-03T02:08Z 318.3K followers, [----] engagements

"It is worth worrying about the formation of a single omincausal "anti-AI" coalition that can only agree on a complete halt to AI as a remedy. Not only is that unlikely but it undermines the desire to make policies that channel AI to good uses or that mitigate specific harms. No single AI complaint/fear is salient enough to enough people to form a durable political movement so what is happening instead is that an omnicausal anti-AI sentiment is forming. Kids and electricity and water and jobs and dontkilleveryoneist memes and also it hallucinates. No single AI complaint/fear is salient enough"
X Link 2026-02-03T17:11Z 319.7K followers, 18.6K engagements

"Increasingly the big labs need their apps to come with good models and good harnesses. The most common app is the chatbot. The Big [--] all have good models and good chatbot apps but Gemini lacks a good harness. IDEs/CLIs are the new battleground Knowledge work apps are next. Gemini not being in the conversation at all with Claude Code and Codex is the real code red emergency. Gemini not being in the conversation at all with Claude Code and Codex is the real code red emergency"
X Link 2026-02-03T19:15Z 318.3K followers, 25.8K engagements

"I am not sure what was better: All the roleplaying slop replies coming from badly prompted LLMs pretending to be people or the fact that I am now seeing roleplaying slop replies from self-professed 🦞bots. Its crustaceans all the way down either way"
X Link 2026-02-03T19:34Z 318.4K followers, 15.1K engagements

"Hard to know which X articles are valuable but this is a good summary of the significance of world modeling by a distinguished scientist and robot expert NVIDIA https://t.co/Npar79SvUh https://t.co/Npar79SvUh"
X Link 2026-02-03T19:53Z 318.8K followers, 72.7K engagements

"Increasing problem with publishing work on AI is that the publication process is much slower than working paper process so when papers finally get full peer reviews authors are asked to account for newer papers that are built on the paper under review No real norms around this"
X Link 2026-02-03T21:56Z 317.1K followers, 16.1K engagements

"I dont want my sycophantic Clawbot calling me for reassurance but the interesting thing here is that the tweet is the instructions for the agent to set itself up. Plain English instructions that agents can follow may be a new avenue for marketing (and a security nightmare) https://t.co/AYYFtmBZUO https://t.co/AYYFtmBZUO"
X Link 2026-02-03T23:20Z 319.6K followers, 62.1K engagements

"GPT-5.2 Pro and Thinking spot the issue in Anthropics analysis skill Opus [---] and Gemini [--] Pro do not (Its a not huge issue but interesting) (The [---] models have the strongest statical reasoning in my experience & [---] Pro is best if you want pedantic correct second opinions) Confidence intervals are so confusing that even Anthropic's skills documents get them wrong https://t.co/A0ewFfmk8v Confidence intervals are so confusing that even Anthropic's skills documents get them wrong https://t.co/A0ewFfmk8v"
X Link 2026-02-04T15:42Z 318.9K followers, 71.4K engagements

"Finally some data on Grok is this true Grok is reasonably accurate and meaningfully shifts opinions but its use is polarized politically Signs that even our AI preferences may be subject to increasing ideological tribalism when it comes to news and information. 🚨New WP "@Grok is this true" We analyze 1.6M factcheck requests on X (@grok & @Perplexity): 📌Usage is polarized Grok users more likely to be Reps 📌BUT Rep posts rated as false more ofteneven by Grok 📌Bot agreement with fact-checks is OK but not great; APIs match https://t.co/UjgDXgohib 🚨New WP "@Grok is this true" We analyze 1.6M"
X Link 2026-02-04T21:02Z 318.4K followers, 20K engagements

"As jobs begin to shift with AI I think there will be increasing numbers of people feeling like Aditya. I think figuring out what comes next is challenging. People are more psychologically resistant to major changes than you might expect but that doesnt mean it will be easy. People are more resilient to major negative life events than many think. 😐The graphs show that generally life satisfaction bounces back faster than expected after bad events. 💪This review (https://t.co/lGLPIaaRPI) gives an overview on the many pathways we have for resilience. https://t.co/2diMDuIzZx People are more"
X Link 2026-02-04T21:16Z 318.4K followers, 27.8K engagements

"You know you are living through a discontinuity in a field when almost all of the science fiction about AI is obviously off (with a few notable exceptions) Like reading early 1900s science fiction where everything is about the canals of Mars right after Mariner actually landed"
X Link 2026-02-05T01:10Z 320.5K followers, 31K engagements

"@deredleritt3r Lena Accelerando (sort of at least for the spirit of living through the thing) for the far future of living with smart minds Bank's Culture series obviously. https://qntm.org/mmacevedo https://qntm.org/mmacevedo"
X Link 2026-02-05T01:14Z 320.5K followers, [----] engagements

"@deredleritt3r Other suggestions @jamescham"
X Link 2026-02-05T01:44Z 315.6K followers, [---] engagements

"@David_Kasten @deredleritt3r Right - and also the coiner of the term singularity"
X Link 2026-02-05T01:55Z 315.6K followers, [---] engagements

"And here I thought the Nature Commentary that AGI is achieved would be the most provocative AI paper of the week Proud to announce my new article "Hallucinated Cases Are Good Law" forthcoming in the Princeton Law Review. https://t.co/SfzSIHN3HG Proud to announce my new article "Hallucinated Cases Are Good Law" forthcoming in the Princeton Law Review. https://t.co/SfzSIHN3HG"
X Link 2026-02-05T01:57Z 314.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Chinese open weights models remain the same 7-9 months behind but o3 level is an achievement I still don't get the business model of open weights companies as costs go up however. You can't make money from services or selling ancillary products like traditional open source Kimi K2.5 set a new record among open-weight models on the Epoch Capabilities Index (ECI) which combines multiple benchmarks onto a single scale. Its score of [---] is about on par with o3 Grok [--] and Sonnet [---]. It still lags the overall frontier. https://t.co/tKNPKWIo3Y Kimi K2.5 set a new record among open-weight models on"
X Link 2026-02-05T03:31Z 319K followers, 47.1K engagements

"We need a moratorium on the following depictions of AI: gleaming white robots floating blue holographic brains glowing amber lines connecting a dark globe Lawnmower Man style 1990s computer graphics semitransparent screens floating in the air with vector art faces on them"
X Link 2026-02-05T11:13Z 320.5K followers, 31.5K engagements

"Had early access to Opus [---] here is the results from same prompt to create the control panel for a spaceship in the distant future done using the standard Claude interface (not Code). I had to zoom into a few of the subsystems so you can see the details. Had early access to Gemini with Deep Think. Very good model big gains over standard Gemini [---] Pro for a lot of problems. Here is the first attempt at the starship control panel prompt I try with every model. First time I have seen a model make a 3D interface in response. https://t.co/bLFF2IcOP3 Had early access to Gemini with Deep Think."
X Link 2026-02-05T18:09Z 320.5K followers, 106.6K engagements

"Opus [---] saturates my Lem test which I've done since GPT-3.5 SciFi author Stanislaw Lem wrote of two rival constructors of robots. One creates a robotic poet & the other challenges it to write an impossible poem it does Opus does it as a [--] line poem sonnet & 🤯 a sestina. Grok [--] passes the Lem test first try with the most coherent narrative yet. https://t.co/Pn92JL1JBC Grok [--] passes the Lem test first try with the most coherent narrative yet. https://t.co/Pn92JL1JBC"
X Link 2026-02-05T18:28Z 320.5K followers, 53.5K engagements

"We are going to need more compute now that agents can complete long-term economically valuable tasks. (Derek has done some of the most careful takes on is AI a bubble) for me the odds that AI is a bubble declined significantly in the last [--] weeks and the odds that were actually quite under-built for the necessary levels of inference/usage went significantly up in that period basically I think AI is going to become the home screen of a for me the odds that AI is a bubble declined significantly in the last [--] weeks and the odds that were actually quite under-built for the necessary levels of"
X Link 2026-02-05T19:20Z 320.5K followers, 54.5K engagements

"Data confirms that Opus [---] was a super weird model"
X Link 2026-02-06T00:49Z 320.2K followers, 15.3K engagements

"Its interesting that theres a whole bunch of people trying to figure out how you do SEO for AI models that do not like being manipulated that interact in ways we dont fully understand with context and with user preferences & know when theyre being measured. Seems hard. The Opus [---] system card has some extremely wild stuff that remind you about how weird a technology this is. These paragraphs are really worth reading. https://t.co/Ybpx8Egjxm The Opus [---] system card has some extremely wild stuff that remind you about how weird a technology this is. These paragraphs are really worth reading."
X Link 2026-02-06T02:28Z 320.1K followers, 23.3K engagements

"With the current state of AI there is a lot of alpha as they say in being a good manager who understands process can explain it clearly knows what info is needed for a task and has expertise in evaluating the results of work quickly. These are transferable skills to AI"
X Link 2026-02-06T03:23Z 320K followers, 22K engagements

"@Sams_Antics I don't believe this actually works. Or rather I don't believe it works for an AI agent that has any sort of pre-existing context about the user or task. I believe it might work if you are just testing keywords or weak models but not if you are actually using a frontier agent"
X Link 2026-02-06T03:47Z 316.5K followers, [---] engagements

"Feel free to use this in your next presentation"
X Link 2026-02-06T05:36Z 320.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Original prompt: "build me Borges's Library of Babel. Make it as impressive and accurate as you can. Decide how you want to handle things dont ask questions but test and improve it until it will blow me away. You can use the image creation agent if you need it. this should be an original implementation not an extension of another work" I also asked it to add the vestibules. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019668757841367491 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019668757841367491"
X Link 2026-02-06T07:05Z 319.5K followers, 16.9K engagements

"Within the library that Opus implemented are books that contain all of the weights for Opus [---] the cure for cancer and a perfect prophecy of the future. (And orders of magnitude more things that look like the weights the cure and a true prophecy but are actually wrong.)"
X Link 2026-02-06T14:27Z 320.1K followers, 13.8K engagements

"The Opus weights will be spread across many volumes of course. But in one of the books is likely a single sentence that will change your life. You just need to find it. Code: https://github.com/emollick/library-of-babel https://github.com/emollick/library-of-babel"
X Link 2026-02-06T17:19Z 320K followers, [----] engagements

"@JosephByDesign Naw been doing library of babel stuff for awhile. I couldnt get it to work in Gemini [--]. Good taste though"
X Link 2026-02-06T18:28Z 319K followers, [----] engagements

"What is the deal with Futurism They seem to deliberately distort information about AI news. Criticism of AI is important but their angle is "AI isn't real" and the articles are regularly shared to make that point Here is an example of a headline they ran (and quietly updated)"
X Link 2026-02-06T21:22Z 320K followers, 16.3K engagements

"This paper (by a colleague) is being misunderstood - it is not a prediction about whether the METR exponential curve is ending but an argument that it is plausible to model the exponential as a series of stacked s-curves which would require further breakthroughs (at the scale of reasoning) to continue. I don't necessarily even think this contradicts what most insiders in AI from Demis to Andrej are saying I wanted to make a few clarifications which we believe were clear in our paper but not in my original post (re-analyzing @METR_Evals data). Our contribution is to posit progress as a"
X Link 2026-02-06T21:34Z 320.4K followers, 26.2K engagements

"One conversation centered on the ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life which gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs as we know them could not continue. [----] Obituary for John von Neumann by Stanislaw Ulam https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019913568204763453 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019913568204763453"
X Link 2026-02-06T23:18Z 320.1K followers, 15.8K engagements

"Mac only releases for AI tools is an annoying trend. This is an opinion that unites both gamers and corporate users"
X Link 2026-02-07T13:12Z 320.6K followers, 32.8K engagements

"Yes. I am looking at you Cowork and Codex"
X Link 2026-02-07T13:15Z 320.5K followers, 13.6K engagements

"I wrote back in [----] that AI is creating four singularities for research (where a singularity is a point in human affairs where AI has so altered a field that we cannot imagine what the world on the other side of that singularity looks like). True now. https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/four-singularities-for-research If youre an economist or any sort of social scientist Im not sure how you can look at the chart below and keep doing the same type of research you were a year ago. https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/four-singularities-for-research If youre an economist or any sort of social"
X Link 2026-02-08T15:16Z 320.4K followers, 60.3K engagements

"The AI commentators have won on this platform not just because of the volume but because they produce meaning-shaped comments that take too long to parse and identify as meaningless. Posts are still useful commentary has become useless finding sparks of good stuff too hard"
X Link 2026-02-08T17:16Z 320.5K followers, 14.1K engagements

"@bygregorr The purchase is through Stripe so you don't give me any personal data though"
X Link 2026-02-08T20:39Z 319.2K followers, [---] engagements

"So much work is going into faking continual learning and memory for AIs and it works better than expected in practice so much so that it makes me think that if continual learning is actually achieved the results are going to really shift the AI ability frontier very quickly"
X Link 2026-02-09T04:16Z 320.5K followers, 50.4K engagements

"@krishnanrohit 100% Claude of course"
X Link 2026-02-09T04:17Z 319.1K followers, [---] engagements

"A corporate position that workers should "just use AI to do stuff" has never been enough. AI use in companies is a leadership problem that involves answering fundamental questions about what people should do with their time how work is organized and how to center people in work Interesting research in HBR today about how the productivity boost you can get from AI tools can lead to burnout or general metal exhaustion something I've noticed in my own work https://t.co/e0qocFYjL5 Interesting research in HBR today about how the productivity boost you can get from AI tools can lead to burnout or"
X Link 2026-02-09T17:12Z 320.5K followers, 45.4K engagements

"As an academic I am sympathetic as publishing takes awhile and it is hard to keep up with frontier models but. .especially if your argument is "AI is bad at X" you need to explain why you think it won't change graph any trend as models improve & update before publication i am begging academics to study AI capabilities using frontier models. the models used in this study (which is going to be cited for years as proof that "AI is bad at health advice") are GPT-4o Llama [--] and Command R+ two obsolete models and one i've never heard of. https://t.co/ekq502dhPe i am begging academics to study AI"
X Link 2026-02-09T18:09Z 320.5K followers, 33K engagements

"I don't think "judgement" is going to prove to be the bright line between human and AI work that people seem to expect it to be"
X Link 2026-02-09T21:38Z 320.6K followers, 37.1K engagements

"One big reason is that it is hard to verify really good writing so you can't do good RL on it. However I suspect that the above tweet will be quote tweeted sometime this year with an example of a very good piece of writing created by an LLM from scratch so we will see"
X Link 2026-02-10T00:40Z 320.2K followers, 11.7K engagements

"The paper actually has two big real points however: (1) Humans were bad at prompting (obsolete) AI to get medical advice - I suspect this is no longer as true (2) Benchmarks of medical knowledge don't always mean reality in serving patients. [--] has changed I think [--] has not"
X Link 2026-02-10T00:57Z 320.2K followers, [----] engagements

"You need one of GPT-5.2 Extended Thinking Opus [---] Thinking Gemini [--] Pro - yes you need to pay $20 Also I hate to say it because it is very expensive but GPT-5.2 Pro is the best for very hard high stakes problems"
X Link 2026-02-10T02:55Z 320.1K followers, 18.8K engagements

"Always found it interesting that the human eye can see colors that cannot be displayed on any screen or page. I had ChatGPT whip up a pretty good imaginary color viewer after asking it to review the scientific literature and getting the shades right. https://chatgpt.com/canvas/shared/698aa1744eb48191b7d95f3f744cacf7 For more color weirdness you can see imaginary colors by using the optical illusion template in this tweet: 🔵Stygian blue: a blue both totally blue & impossibly black 🔴Self-luminous red: a red that is brighter than white 🟠Hyperbolic orange: more orange than 100% orange color"
X Link 2026-02-10T03:10Z 320.1K followers, 32.9K engagements

"I think people on this site don't realize how much people's interactions with "AI" turn out to be when you ask them: customer service lines (which are almost certainly not GenAI yet) or Siri or maybe a free model (often via an off-brand "ChatPT" AI app they downloaded somewhere)"
X Link 2026-02-10T03:39Z 320.5K followers, 18.5K engagements

"The volume of the kinds of releases that actually impact real work has been accelerating. In the past couple days that includes OpenAI Frontier & new Deep Research Claude for Powerpoint and Cowork for Windows and the wider release of the solid Claude-powered MS agent for Excel"
X Link 2026-02-11T02:03Z 320.2K followers, 16.8K engagements

"@MetacogniShane Better in every regard. But it isn't inconceivable that Google has stuff ready to go that could beat it"
X Link 2026-02-11T03:28Z 319.8K followers, [---] engagements

"This viral essay is worth reading. I agree that AI is a very big deal & that most people don't know how good it has gotten fast. A missing caveat is that AI is still quite jagged especially when it comes to work across teams & organizations which creates bottlenecks for now https://t.co/ivXRKXJvQg https://t.co/ivXRKXJvQg"
X Link 2026-02-11T16:49Z 320K followers, 124.6K engagements

"I agree most people far undervalue where AI is but I think the jaggedness lies not just in jobs/tasks but between them. There is a lot that happens when people start to work together or interface with the real world where AI fails either weirdly (timing sequenced events) or where it doesn't apply (client meetings). Changing those things may take a lot more time. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021629374949163518 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021629374949163518"
X Link 2026-02-11T16:56Z 320K followers, [----] engagements

"RT @emollick: @krishnanrohit This organization could have been a series of markdown files"
X Link 2026-02-11T19:06Z 320.3K followers, [--] engagements

"@J_K_Chesterton nice - link"
X Link 2026-02-11T20:31Z 320.1K followers, [---] engagements

"RT @paulnovosad: I wrote a decent paper with AI. It took me about [--] hours from start to finish including an interactive choose-your-own-bo"
X Link 2026-02-11T22:15Z 320.3K followers, [--] engagements

"@powerofaii I appreciate your advice I just can't actually figure out how to make actual subagents work documentation is sparse"
X Link 2026-02-12T03:55Z 320.1K followers, [---] engagements

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