#  @emollick Ethan Mollick Ethan Mollick posts on X about ai, in the, claude code, data the most. They currently have [-------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-------] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::39125788/interactions)  - [--] Week [---------] +15% - [--] Month [----------] +93% - [--] Months [----------] +23% - [--] Year [----------] -36% ### Mentions: [---] [#](/creator/twitter::39125788/posts_active)  - [--] Week [---] +5.60% - [--] Month [---] +72% - [--] Months [-----] +45% - [--] Year [-----] -2.30% ### Followers: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::39125788/followers)  - [--] Week [-------] +1.70% - [--] Month [-------] +6% - [--] Months [-------] +12% - [--] Year [-------] +24% ### CreatorRank: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::39125788/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) #2465 [social networks](/list/social-networks) 3.37% [finance](/list/finance) 2.25% [countries](/list/countries) 1.69% [stocks](/list/stocks) 1.69% [events](/list/events) 0.56% **Social topic influence** [ai](/topic/ai) #851, [in the](/topic/in-the) 7.3%, [claude code](/topic/claude-code) #70, [data](/topic/data) #543, [llm](/topic/llm) #120, [if you](/topic/if-you) 4.49%, [how to](/topic/how-to) 3.93%, [seedance](/topic/seedance) #28, [the world](/topic/the-world) #2250, [the first](/topic/the-first) 3.37% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@kongkou_](/creator/undefined) [@grok](/creator/undefined) [@mingtakaivo](/creator/undefined) [@urbanecholot](/creator/undefined) [@nabbilkhan](/creator/undefined) [@stefan171](/creator/undefined) [@krishnanrohit](/creator/undefined) [@deredleritt3r](/creator/undefined) [@powerofaii](/creator/undefined) [@udaysy](/creator/undefined) [@wildpinesai](/creator/undefined) [@reasoningerr](/creator/undefined) [@4484](/creator/undefined) [@kyletranai](/creator/undefined) [@navneet_rabdiya](/creator/undefined) [@keytryer](/creator/undefined) [@j_k_chesterton](/creator/undefined) [@isitallart](/creator/undefined) [@andythinkmode](/creator/undefined) [@stronglyai](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Uber Technologies, Inc. (UBER)](/topic/$uber) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "I think agentic AI would work much better if people took lessons from organizational theory which has actually spent a lot of time understanding how to deal with complex hierarchies information limits and spans of control. Right now most agentic AI systems seem to pretend that models have basically unlimited ability to manage subagents when that is clearly not true. We need measures of spans of control for AI. A human tops out at less than [--] direct reports. I am pretty sure that [---] subagents is too much for an orchestrator agent - suspect we need middle management agents (yes I get it" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2020303173362012667) 2026-02-08T01:06Z 319.6K followers, 145.7K engagements "Playing as Godot finally arriving. Just as Beckett intended thanks to AI" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2018213227503534572) 2026-02-02T06:41Z 319.6K followers, 64.9K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2019612983467647269) 2026-02-06T03:23Z 319.6K followers, 21.9K engagements "I had Claude Code do this. It made [--] volumes that contain the weights for GTP-1 & a guide for doing inference by hand. I had it launch an online store that I think works with a limited run of [--] of Volume [--] sold at cost in the US (but at your own risk) https://weights-press.netlify.app/ Product idea for OpenAI (I know a lot of you follow me): an entirely paper-based LLM. Just [---] volumes and only [--] person years to do the math for the first token using the paper version of GPT-1 Give the weights actual weight. Plus an excellent setup for science fiction stories https://t.co/iDGetnej4H" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2020591460173946986) 2026-02-08T20:11Z 319.6K followers, 95.9K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2020922963399512458) 2026-02-09T18:09Z 319.6K followers, 32.8K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2021404718665433375) 2026-02-11T02:03Z 319.6K followers, 16.3K engagements "The new ByteDance SeeDance [---] video model is VERY good. This is the very first output from my very first prompt: "A nature documentary about an otter flying an airplane"" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2021409874832392508) 2026-02-11T02:24Z 319.6K followers, 287.1K engagements "SeeDance 2.0: "An anime where an otter goes into a large mech with lots of quick shots of mechanical parts and gears turning. The otter gives a grim thumbs up and then pilots the mech flying into battle against an octopus made of marble." Again this was the very first try" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2021412306291392535) 2026-02-11T02:33Z 319.6K followers, 522.1K engagements "Seedance: "An influencer in a TikTok video wearing an otter baseball cap showing off the weird swirling vortex they have in their living room. Cheese shoots out of the vortex every few seconds forcing them to move around the room" Again very first attempt" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2021419361039462520) 2026-02-11T03:01Z 319.6K followers, 20.2K engagements "@J_K_Chesterton nice - link" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2021683457483473038) 2026-02-11T20:31Z 319.6K followers, [---] engagements "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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2019571750862819811) 2026-02-06T00:40Z 319.6K followers, 210.1K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2020975580074868795) 2026-02-09T21:38Z 319.6K followers, 36.9K engagements "So far telling a satisfying and well-written medium-length story has proved far harder for LLMs than mathematical proofs music generation research reports code and many other forms of work. The technical reasons are pretty clear but they are supposed to be language models" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2020993610540605560) 2026-02-09T22:49Z 319.6K followers, 120.7K engagements "If you are in any situation where being right matters you would at this point be making a mistake to not ask a frontier LLM for help. That can mean checking your own work second opinions on other experts or getting help with a complex problem. Have judgement but use them From a recent conversation: I'm already at the point where I trust LLMs broadly over most human experts - doctors accountants lawyers. LLMs might not be 99th percentile but they're reliably 90th and humans just aren't. The crossover was sometime in early [----] I think. From a recent conversation: I'm already at the point where" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2021052930410021335) 2026-02-10T02:45Z 319.6K followers, 60.5K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2021055471051043196) 2026-02-10T02:55Z 319.6K followers, 18.7K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2021066407140786460) 2026-02-10T03:39Z 319.6K followers, 18.3K engagements "LLMs tripled new book releases since [----]. Average quality fell: most new entries are indeed slop BUT books 100-1000 per category are actually better than before & pre-LLM authors got more productive. And since people only read the good books it is net positive for readers" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2021287459016053083) 2026-02-10T18:17Z 319.6K followers, 33.8K engagements "The AI Labs don't yet do a good job explaining how the upgrades to their harnesses change work. For example since Opus [---] Claude Code will spontaneously use subagents to do work in parallel. This is very helpful with a real impact on tasks but was sort of quietly rolled out" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2021329048811741250) 2026-02-10T21:02Z 319.6K followers, 15.7K engagements "Second video of the same prompt (Again this was two of two no retries)" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2021423259477283076) 2026-02-11T03:17Z 319.6K followers, 12.3K engagements "Seedance: "A documentary about how otters view Ethan Mollick's "Otter Test" which judges AIs by their ability to create images of otters sitting in planes" Again first result" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2021425594664353963) 2026-02-11T03:26Z 319.6K followers, 38.5K engagements "Example of Seedance with some consistency issues but still: "Action sequence shot for a big budget action movie where two elegantly dressed woman on giant snails race slowly around a track as gunners on the snails fire at each other. Lots of quick cuts and action movie cliches"" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2021432517992280127) 2026-02-11T03:54Z 319.6K followers, 48.7K engagements "I have noticed that compared to other models there is not a lot of diversity in main characters somewhat surprising that a model from China hasn't produced any Asian actors in any of these scenes. (though I haven't made that many videos so my view is still limited)" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2021433281653375393) 2026-02-11T03:57Z 319.6K followers, [----] engagements "Its a weird time to post about AI because a lot of people are vastly underestimating what AI can do & how many large-scale impacts on work are inevitable with todays models while a lot of other people underestimate the real world problems involved in getting value from AI" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2021647765739364429) 2026-02-11T18:09Z 319.6K followers, 32.3K engagements "@krishnanrohit This organization could have been a series of markdown files" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2021649116485628218) 2026-02-11T18:14Z 319.6K followers, 22.8K engagements "The poetry tastes of GenAI: "I want you to suggest two poems that you think apply very well the current state of GenAI models like you. Dont just pick popular poems and back justify. Think hard about options first." ChatGPT Gemini & Claude all suggest Borges's "The Golem"" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2021677609872986450) 2026-02-11T20:07Z 319.6K followers, 12.7K engagements "Rilke was a good choice" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2021688668734316626) 2026-02-11T20:51Z 319.6K followers, [----] 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/1717730605880820201) 2023-10-27T02:31Z 319K followers, 56.5K engagements "Nice analogy. We are at the KT Boundary for information. Archivists should lock down the pre-2023 information world. What comes after is going to be different. @emollick Like radiocarbon dating pre/post nuclear era. @emollick Like radiocarbon dating pre/post nuclear era" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/1728944407968407664) 2023-11-27T01:10Z 318.9K followers, 303.2K engagements "You really really should not trust audio clips anymore Even a couple months ago it used to take a commercial service to clone a voice. No more. Here is me creating a voice clone of myself using just a [--] second reference clip on my home computer This is all real time no cuts" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/1845619684709679517) 2024-10-14T00:16Z 319.1K followers, 615.9K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/1848363317326209253) 2024-10-21T13:58Z 319K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/1848791574198587541) 2024-10-22T18:20Z 319K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/1849854619331199433) 2024-10-25T16:44Z 319K followers, 46.8K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/1850704383161352432) 2024-10-28T01:01Z 319K followers, 78.2K engagements ""Hey Claude with computer use watch this construction site video & write up things you see that dangerous or good create a spreadsheet of critical issues to address" (sped up) How firms use AI as manager coach or panopticon is going to have a big impact on what work becomes" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/1853255574843982241) 2024-11-04T01:58Z 319K followers, 841.7K engagements "It seems like there is not enough of a policy response to the fact that with 57M miles of data Waymos autonomous vehicles experience 85% less serious injuries & 79% less injuries overall than cars with human drivers. [---] million are injured & 40k killed in US accidents a year" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/1959249518194528292) 2025-08-23T13:41Z 319.3K followers, 1.2M engagements "Four AI lab vague posting strategies: 1) vague emoji: 🙂🔜🦾 2) vague corporate: Big release at DevCon 3) vague riddles: the STARS are aligning this WINTER 3) vague Lovercraftian prophecy: I have seen the face of infinite eternities & it knows us: ph'nglui mglw'nafh technotopia Grandiose vagueposting on Twitter is the one tried and true marketing strategy for AI labs. But as it gets overused it eventually creates fatigue Grandiose vagueposting on Twitter is the one tried and true marketing strategy for AI labs. But as it gets overused it eventually creates fatigue" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2005908339922809058) 2025-12-30T07:46Z 318.8K followers, 23.3K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2009696953257566672) 2026-01-09T18:41Z 315.5K followers, 104.9K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2014458368098767196) 2026-01-22T22:01Z 319.4K followers, 131.6K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2015472658867986525) 2026-01-25T17:11Z 315.6K followers, 192.3K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2015512532056764490) 2026-01-25T19:50Z 317.5K followers, 114.3K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2015661219319812356) 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2015662023778955326) 2026-01-26T05:44Z 316.6K followers, [----] 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2016195898745692183) 2026-01-27T17:05Z 315.3K followers, 31.6K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2016280515779703212) 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2016302285203136859) 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2016360861233770936) 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2016532288675500539) 2026-01-28T15:22Z 315.7K followers, 36.5K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2016614337390268602) 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2016615955997348268) 2026-01-28T20:54Z 318.4K followers, 109.4K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2016641414713704957) 2026-01-28T22:35Z 315K followers, 33.2K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2016665096903413845) 2026-01-29T00:10Z 318.4K followers, 35.5K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2016741565884997999) 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2016772827043479581) 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2016919989865840906) 2026-01-29T17:02Z 318.7K followers, 97.5K engagements "I get asked about Ralph Wiggum in business meetings. You didn't have to do this" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2016950802024116535) 2026-01-29T19:05Z 318.7K followers, [----] 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2016989012230090796) 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2017071783829025102) 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2017077539819163708) 2026-01-30T03:28Z 314.4K followers, 101K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2017262099504763288) 2026-01-30T15:42Z 314.4K followers, 13.5K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2017335971486847469) 2026-01-30T20:35Z 318.5K followers, 59.4K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2017423600656011656) 2026-01-31T02:24Z 316.4K followers, 29.5K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2017453030145155344) 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2017479723517956322) 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2017484419448148077) 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2017663340558827792) 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2017664035806650879) 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2017680602187608533) 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2017686140627694021) 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2017805206419918883) 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2017852070620025250) 2026-02-01T06:46Z 319.1K followers, 56.6K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2018051443983315253) 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2018077796455583775) 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2018078627066212570) 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2018129074409853036) 2026-02-02T01:07Z 315K followers, [----] 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2018159363500757101) 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2018159755718537670) 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2018198584508760108) 2026-02-02T05:43Z 318.5K followers, 30.4K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2018215350622449673) 2026-02-02T06:50Z 315.3K followers, [----] engagements "Giving the world's first photograph the View from the Window at Le Gras from [----] to Genie 3" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2018494862178316725) 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2018496636649885924) 2026-02-03T01:27Z 318.8K followers, 139.5K engagements "Somewhat surprising that OpenAI has been slower to pivot into non-coding work than Anthropic. Currently there is no OpenAI equivalent to Cowork or Claude for Excel or Claude for Finance despite the fact that the GPT5.2 Thinking/Pro are among the best agentic models right now" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2018504023553294636) 2026-02-03T01:57Z 318.8K followers, 35.3K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2018506940112843196) 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2018734101893701694) 2026-02-03T17:11Z 318.4K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2018765266222567467) 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2018770166835007707) 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2018774863734075878) 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2018805872651276393) 2026-02-03T21:56Z 317.1K followers, 16.1K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2019074065491726500) 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2019154646091047361) 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2019158085420376517) 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2019217103635771514) 2026-02-05T01:10Z 318.7K followers, 30.9K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2019218155990843613) 2026-02-05T01:14Z 316.4K followers, [----] engagements "@deredleritt3r Other suggestions @jamescham" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2019225703447928957) 2026-02-05T01:44Z 315.6K followers, [---] engagements "@David_Kasten @deredleritt3r Right - and also the coiner of the term singularity" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2019228450993955052) 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2019228928422937009) 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2019252543902130345) 2026-02-05T03:31Z 319K followers, 47.1K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2019618817987760629) 2026-02-06T03:47Z 316.5K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2019840699580182819) 2026-02-06T18:28Z 319K followers, [----] engagements "@bygregorr The purchase is through Stripe so you don't give me any personal data though" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2020598391412297917) 2026-02-08T20:39Z 319.2K followers, [---] engagements "@krishnanrohit 100% Claude of course" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2020713564907217124) 2026-02-09T04:17Z 319.1K followers, [---] engagements "Wow diffusion models (used in AI image generation) are also game engines - a type of world simulation. By predicting the next frame of the classic shooter DOOM you get a playable game at [--] fps without any underlying real game engine. This video is from the diffusion model" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/1828647931588587709) 2024-08-28T04:16Z 319.6K followers, 1.8M engagements "Had Claude Code build a little plugin that visualizes the work Claude Code is doing as agents working in an office with agents doing work and passing information to each other. New subagents are hired they acquire skills and they turn in completed work. Fun start" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2011288654728348152) 2026-01-14T04:05Z 319.6K followers, 463K engagements "Claude in Excel is really good. Its weird that using Microsoft's own Excel agent using Claude [---] often yields weaker answers It seems to be because the Excel agent relies on Excel alone (VLOOKUPs etc) while Claude in Excel does its own analysis and uses Excel for output. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014891787051999566 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014891787051999566" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2014891787051999566) 2026-01-24T02:43Z 319.6K followers, 431.8K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2016697253214171214) 2026-01-29T02:17Z 319.6K followers, 37.9K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2018388869515784595) 2026-02-02T18:19Z 319.6K followers, 32.7K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2019913568204763453) 2026-02-06T23:18Z 319.6K followers, 15.7K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2020713378319417626) 2026-02-09T04:16Z 319.6K followers, 50.1K engagements "There is no sign that Democrats or Republicans have different propensities to use AI: "the politics of AI is not primarily driven by ideological resistance or enthusiasm for the technology but rather by structural differences in where people work and what skills they possess." What do you know Political affiliation has no impact on whether you use AI. Why would we think it would https://t.co/EC5ZFLd3Hz What do you know Political affiliation has no impact on whether you use AI. Why would we think it would https://t.co/EC5ZFLd3Hz" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2020883670723137611) 2026-02-09T15:33Z 319.6K followers, 16.7K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2021025677554876909) 2026-02-10T00:57Z 319.6K followers, [----] engagements "@MetacogniShane Better in every regard. But it isn't inconceivable that Google has stuff ready to go that could beat it" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2021426097045623170) 2026-02-11T03:28Z 319.6K followers, [---] engagements "RT @emollick: @krishnanrohit This organization could have been a series of markdown files" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2021662230933381490) 2026-02-11T19:06Z 319.6K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2021709631110750456) 2026-02-11T22:15Z 319.6K followers, [--] engagements "Dynamically-generated world of Hamlet as seen from the perspective of the poison. Genie [--] is a lot of fun" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2016932009885503944) 2026-01-29T17:50Z 319.6K followers, 129.9K engagements "The thing about Moltbook (the social media site for AI agents) is that it is creating a shared fictional context for a bunch of AIs. Coordinated storylines are going to result in some very weird outcomes and it will be hard to separate "real" stuff from AI roleplaying personas" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2017280929132118145) 2026-01-30T16:57Z 319.6K followers, 126.3K engagements "A pretty bold commentary in Nature written by linguists computer scientists and philosophers declaring "by reasonable standards including Turings own we have artificial systems that are generally intelligent. The long-standing problem of creating AGI has been solved."" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2018524111627325554) 2026-02-03T03:17Z 319.6K followers, 154.9K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2018826844817240092) 2026-02-03T23:20Z 319.6K followers, 62.1K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2019473520372117601) 2026-02-05T18:09Z 319.6K followers, 106.5K engagements "If you are considering taking a job offer you may want to ask what your token budget will be" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2019621077970993265) 2026-02-06T03:56Z 319.6K followers, 521.4K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2019823300416077948) 2026-02-06T17:19Z 319.6K followers, [----] 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2021059109903269995) 2026-02-10T03:10Z 319.6K followers, 32.7K engagements "This might be the first hot take on how technology tells us how to live our lives destroying our ability to make human decisions. The technology in question is the sundial. From a 3rd century BCE Roman adaptation of a Greek play as discussed in Kerrs The Ordered Day" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2021099799030722824) 2026-02-10T05:51Z 319.6K followers, 94.4K engagements "ByteDance's Seedance 2.0: "Monica's apartment from the show Friends except all of the friends are otters wearing wigs. The otter with a Rachel wig says "Is anything weird" and the one with a Joey wig says "Nope all is normal"" Huh" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2021411069865099764) 2026-02-11T02:28Z 319.6K followers, 22.4K engagements "The jagged frontier: "It messed up Rachel otter and Phoebe otter."" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2021460534735011988) 2026-02-11T05:45Z 319.6K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2021627729637158922) 2026-02-11T16:49Z 319.6K followers, 111.1K engagements "Same prompt attempt [--] of [--]. Also excellent different vibes (and a creative transition)" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2021633766972961081) 2026-02-11T17:13Z 319.6K followers, 14.3K engagements "I think many knowledge workers who spend an hour with Cowork will get that "Claude Code" moment that has been roiling X for the past few weeks" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2021640100703330347) 2026-02-11T17:38Z 319.6K followers, 17K engagements "So maybe the argument that the world is compute constrained and there arent anywhere enough cheap tokens to go around wasnt so fanciful after all" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2021655497859035540) 2026-02-11T18:40Z 319.6K followers, 22.6K engagements "Does Claude Cowork support agents I know it launches its own subagents but can you import agents from Claude Code into Cowork For example I have an Code image creation agent that uses the GPT-imagegen API I want to do image generation in Cowork does anyone know how" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2021791990766014514) 2026-02-12T03:42Z 319.6K followers, 20.5K engagements "@powerofaii I appreciate your advice I just can't actually figure out how to make actual subagents work documentation is sparse" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2021795348797083897) 2026-02-12T03:55Z 319.6K followers, [---] engagements "Of all of the dangers of AI papers this is most worrying: AI researchers building a tool to find new drugs to save lives realized it could do the opposite generating new chemical warfare agents. Within [--] hours it invented deadly VX and worse things https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-022-00465-9 https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-022-00465-9" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/1549353991523426305) 2022-07-19T11:22Z 319.5K followers, 14.4K engagements "Look if everyone is worried about students cheating on essays for AI instructors can just cheat right back. I asked OpenAI to give me an essay question & make a rubric for grading. I had GPT-3 actually write the essay. I then had the OpenAI grade the essay & give comments. ✅" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/1598745129837281280) 2022-12-02T18:25Z 319.5K followers, 15.1K engagements "Tom Lehrer has put all his songs online (including lyrics & sheet music) and given away all rights to them. The site will only be up for a limited time. This is a very niche tweet that will make a small segment of people very happy. https://tomlehrersongs.com/ https://tomlehrersongs.com/" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/1604148566804819970) 2022-12-17T16:16Z 319.5K followers, 2.1M engagements "I think we haven't fully absorbed the fact that careful academic papers have found ChatGPT clearly passes some of the most challenging American professional exams: 🩺United States Medical Licensing Exam 🎓MBA-level Operations exam 🧑⚖The Bar Exam (based on typical exam questions)" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/1617270215154323457) 2023-01-22T21:17Z 319.6K followers, 4.4M engagements "The new BloombergGPT AI may be harbinger of the next wave of corporate AI. Current AIs are trained on web data (though firms can add their own training) BloombergGPT is 52% either proprietary data or cleaned financial data. And it shows signs of being better at financial tasks" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/1641974170945814529) 2023-04-01T01:22Z 319.5K followers, 2.4M engagements "The wisdom of the crowd works even if the crowd is totally drunk. This study got undergrads intoxicated & found that while drunk individuals make a lot more errors the consensus of groups of drunk people was as accurate as that of groups of sober people. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/42577847.pdf https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/42577847.pdf" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/1647979761413521413) 2023-04-17T15:06Z 319.5K followers, 1.3M engagements "Everyone freaked out for years that violent video games made kids violent but it turns out that they probably dont have any big effects. The consensus of most large studies of violent games (using real game play data not lab tests) shows no big impact on real-life aggression" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/1671672875575640068) 2023-06-22T00:14Z 319.5K followers, 2.6M engagements "Half the nitrogen in your body comes from the Haber-Bosch process. This is the most important scientist in human history and its not even close (imo) https://t.co/GqXGi8Zfs4 This is the most important scientist in human history and its not even close (imo) https://t.co/GqXGi8Zfs4" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/1847760531995652238) 2024-10-19T22:03Z 319.6K followers, 346.2K engagements "New randomized controlled trial of students using GPT-4 as a tutor in Nigeria. [--] weeks of after-school AI tutoring = [--] years of typical learning gains outperforming 80% of other educational interventions. And it helped all students especially girls who were initially behind" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/1879633485004165375) 2025-01-15T20:55Z 319.6K followers, 4.3M engagements "This paper shows that you can predict actual purchase intent (90% accuracy) by asking an LLM to impersonate a customer with a demographic profile giving it a product & having it give its impressions which another AI rates. No fine-tuning or training & beats classic ML methods" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/1976656964622123141) 2025-10-10T14:31Z 319.6K followers, 917.2K engagements "AI resources I work on that might be useful: My NY Times bestseller Co-Intelligence (now in [--] languages): The Generative AI Lab at Wharton (free prompts & research): OneUsefulThing my free newsletter: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/ https://gail.wharton.upenn.edu/research-and-insights/ https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/741805/co-intelligence-by-ethan-mollick/ https://www.oneusefulthing.org/ https://gail.wharton.upenn.edu/research-and-insights/ https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/741805/co-intelligence-by-ethan-mollick/" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1980069106855584157) 2025-10-20T00:30Z 319.6K followers, 156.6K engagements "Surprisingly good for the first try. Nano banana pro: "create a map of the US where every state is made out of its most famous food (the states should actually look like they are made of the food not a picture of the food). Check carefully to make sure each state is right."" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/1995720976068137048) 2025-12-02T05:05Z 319.6K followers, 257.2K engagements "The Claude Constitution shows where Anthropic thinks this is all going. It is a massive document covering many philosophical issues. I think it is worth serious attention beyond the usual AI-adjacent commentators. Other labs should be similarly explicit. https://www.anthropic.com/constitution https://www.anthropic.com/constitution" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2014042317162791095) 2026-01-21T18:28Z 319.6K followers, 200.5K engagements "Everyone is starting to sound like AI even in spoken language Analysis of [------] transcripts of videos of talks & presentations from academic channels finds they increasingly used words that are favorites of ChatGPT Model collapse except for humans https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.01754v1 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.01754v1" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2014444854265119119) 2026-01-22T21:07Z 319.6K followers, 389.9K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2016982218506199531) 2026-01-29T21:10Z 319.5K followers, 458.3K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2018038697816383638) 2026-02-01T19:08Z 319.5K followers, 28.3K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2018141446683930811) 2026-02-02T01:56Z 319.5K followers, 27.2K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2018324909290602618) 2026-02-02T14:05Z 319.5K followers, 27.8K engagements "It is possible to get Genie [--] to make worlds that are visually interesting. I have been using images I generated in Midjourney of vast megastructures & odd cities in various styles. After [--] seconds I can freely wander around them. (Yes I controlled the cat in the first scene)" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2019262112250622246) 2026-02-05T04:09Z 319.6K followers, 56.6K engagements "Folks I can only test so many models a day even when given early access. If everyone would just slow down their release schedules for a half a decade or so the world can catch up" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2019483531974701548) 2026-02-05T18:49Z 319.6K followers, 25K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2019491447523639393) 2026-02-05T19:20Z 319.6K followers, 54.5K engagements "Data confirms that Opus [---] was a super weird model" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2019574165993582652) 2026-02-06T00:49Z 319.6K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2019599076350890435) 2026-02-06T02:28Z 319.6K followers, 23.2K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2019668757841367491) 2026-02-06T07:05Z 319.5K followers, 16.9K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2019884463384043731) 2026-02-06T21:22Z 319.6K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2019887426685067319) 2026-02-06T21:34Z 319.6K followers, 26.1K engagements "Yes. I am looking at you Cowork and Codex" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2020124234450661740) 2026-02-07T13:15Z 319.6K followers, 13.6K engagements "Why do so many X articles read like AI-written conspiracy theories/health hacks/LinkedIn productivity tricks that would fall apart with any serious research On second thought this isnt really a question" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2020270729506562322) 2026-02-07T22:57Z 319.5K followers, 17.3K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2019368674088382901) 2026-02-05T11:13Z 319.6K followers, 31.4K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2019478314767835634) 2026-02-05T18:28Z 319.6K followers, 53.4K engagements "Feel free to use this in your next presentation" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2019646328049897934) 2026-02-06T05:36Z 319.6K followers, [----] engagements "I asked Opus [---] in Claude Code to build me Borges's Library of Babel. An hour later it delivered this. The AI implemented a Feistel cipher so each possible book has a real location you can search for text across the Library & find the book. Enter it: https://library-of-babel-3d.netlify.app/ https://library-of-babel-3d.netlify.app/" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2019668008680182063) 2026-02-06T07:02Z 319.6K followers, 114.4K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2019779895111397447) 2026-02-06T14:27Z 319.6K followers, 13.7K engagements "Mac only releases for AI tools is an annoying trend. This is an opinion that unites both gamers and corporate users" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2020123487151542747) 2026-02-07T13:12Z 319.6K followers, 32.7K engagements "A genuinely radical approach to software development with AI without any human intervention. Even if this approach doesnt work for many cases I think we need more leapfrogging visions for how to redo processes with AI: See also: https://www.danshapiro.com/blog/2026/01/the-five-levels-from-spicy-autocomplete-to-the-software-factory/ https://factory.strongdm.ai/ https://www.danshapiro.com/blog/2026/01/the-five-levels-from-spicy-autocomplete-to-the-software-factory/ https://factory.strongdm.ai/" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2020129877165310112) 2026-02-07T13:37Z 319.6K followers, 37K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2020517166081028493) 2026-02-08T15:16Z 319.6K followers, 60.1K engagements "The Claude [---] Opus UX automatically decides how long to think & it seems to suffer from the same issue as the early GPT-5 router not taking hard requests seriously when they are not specifically math/coding related The OpenAI system is complex but fine-grained controls helps" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2020529827434885588) 2026-02-08T16:07Z 319.6K followers, 34.4K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2020547236325675139) 2026-02-08T17:16Z 319.6K followers, 14K engagements "Sold out But I had Claude create and deploy all [--] volumes of The Weights to the site as well-formatted PDFs so you can download them for free if you want. [-----] pages in total. [---] million floating point numbers. This is everything that makes GPT-1. https://weights-press.netlify.app/ I had Claude Code do this. It made [--] volumes that contain the weights for GTP-1 & a guide for doing inference by hand. I had it launch an online store that I think works with a limited run of [--] of Volume [--] sold at cost in the US (but at your own risk) https://t.co/kTfH4MkSZL https://weights-press.netlify.app/" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2020709327817093139) 2026-02-09T04:00Z 319.6K followers, 62.1K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2020908765545959901) 2026-02-09T17:12Z 319.6K followers, 45.2K 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2021021372206678397) 2026-02-10T00:40Z 319.6K followers, 11.5K engagements "Second attempt is also great. I am especially impressed that they keep getting otter "emotions" right (or at least how humans would interpret them) and they have a satisfying storyline for a [--] second clip rather than just cutting off" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2021628702480904431) 2026-02-11T16:53Z 319.6K followers, [----] 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](https://x.com/emollick/status/2021629374949163518) 2026-02-11T16:56Z 319.6K followers, [----] engagements "I pointed Claude Cowork at a set of [---] documents (PPTs Word docs Excel) that were initially hand-created for my class at Wharton & expanded on by AI. They make up a very complex business case with lots of issues & opportunities AI was able to one-shot the case from documents" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2021638881158857204) 2026-02-11T17:34Z 319.6K followers, 115.6K engagements "Justification. Second choices: Claude loved Rilke's "Archaic Torso of Apollo". ChatGPT [---] Thinking went with "Naming of Parts" and Gemini went with "The Idea of Order at Key West" by Wallace Stevens" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2021681713542303964) 2026-02-11T20:24Z 319.6K followers, [----] engagements ""In sum through an extensive (and costly) validation process we have demonstrated that GPT-5 mini performs very well at recovering the ground truth data. It is clearly better than highly trained graduate students at this specific information retrieval task." At 1000x less cost We coded our 100k articles using LLMs. Should you believe them To answer this we benchmarked [--] human RAs against [--] LLMs on their ability to recover ground truth article data. Details in the paper and appendices but the LLMs did well and handily beat the highly trained humans. https://t.co/64jU1CZJ9R We coded our 100k" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2021689359309664645) 2026-02-11T20:54Z 319.6K followers, 29.2K engagements "One more Seedance version of "Monica's apartment from the show Friends except all of the friends are otters wearing wigs. The otter with a Rachel wig says "Is anything weird" and the one with a Joey wig says "Nope all is normal"." Attempt [--] of [--]. The laugh track is something" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2021776250386133030) 2026-02-12T02:39Z 319.6K followers, 61K engagements "@AndyMasley Memory as implemented is a destroyer of value in using LLMs" [X Link](https://x.com/emollick/status/2021832074504941749) 2026-02-12T06:21Z 319.6K followers, 10.5K engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
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"I think agentic AI would work much better if people took lessons from organizational theory which has actually spent a lot of time understanding how to deal with complex hierarchies information limits and spans of control. Right now most agentic AI systems seem to pretend that models have basically unlimited ability to manage subagents when that is clearly not true. We need measures of spans of control for AI. A human tops out at less than [--] direct reports. I am pretty sure that [---] subagents is too much for an orchestrator agent - suspect we need middle management agents (yes I get it"
X Link 2026-02-08T01:06Z 319.6K followers, 145.7K engagements
"Playing as Godot finally arriving. Just as Beckett intended thanks to AI"
X Link 2026-02-02T06:41Z 319.6K followers, 64.9K 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 319.6K followers, 21.9K engagements
"I had Claude Code do this. It made [--] volumes that contain the weights for GTP-1 & a guide for doing inference by hand. I had it launch an online store that I think works with a limited run of [--] of Volume [--] sold at cost in the US (but at your own risk) https://weights-press.netlify.app/ Product idea for OpenAI (I know a lot of you follow me): an entirely paper-based LLM. Just [---] volumes and only [--] person years to do the math for the first token using the paper version of GPT-1 Give the weights actual weight. Plus an excellent setup for science fiction stories https://t.co/iDGetnej4H"
X Link 2026-02-08T20:11Z 319.6K followers, 95.9K 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 319.6K followers, 32.8K 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 319.6K followers, 16.3K engagements
"The new ByteDance SeeDance [---] video model is VERY good. This is the very first output from my very first prompt: "A nature documentary about an otter flying an airplane""
X Link 2026-02-11T02:24Z 319.6K followers, 287.1K engagements
"SeeDance 2.0: "An anime where an otter goes into a large mech with lots of quick shots of mechanical parts and gears turning. The otter gives a grim thumbs up and then pilots the mech flying into battle against an octopus made of marble." Again this was the very first try"
X Link 2026-02-11T02:33Z 319.6K followers, 522.1K engagements
"Seedance: "An influencer in a TikTok video wearing an otter baseball cap showing off the weird swirling vortex they have in their living room. Cheese shoots out of the vortex every few seconds forcing them to move around the room" Again very first attempt"
X Link 2026-02-11T03:01Z 319.6K followers, 20.2K engagements
"@J_K_Chesterton nice - link"
X Link 2026-02-11T20:31Z 319.6K followers, [---] engagements
"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 2026-02-06T00:40Z 319.6K followers, 210.1K 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 319.6K followers, 36.9K engagements
"So far telling a satisfying and well-written medium-length story has proved far harder for LLMs than mathematical proofs music generation research reports code and many other forms of work. The technical reasons are pretty clear but they are supposed to be language models"
X Link 2026-02-09T22:49Z 319.6K followers, 120.7K engagements
"If you are in any situation where being right matters you would at this point be making a mistake to not ask a frontier LLM for help. That can mean checking your own work second opinions on other experts or getting help with a complex problem. Have judgement but use them From a recent conversation: I'm already at the point where I trust LLMs broadly over most human experts - doctors accountants lawyers. LLMs might not be 99th percentile but they're reliably 90th and humans just aren't. The crossover was sometime in early [----] I think. From a recent conversation: I'm already at the point where"
X Link 2026-02-10T02:45Z 319.6K followers, 60.5K 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 319.6K followers, 18.7K 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 319.6K followers, 18.3K engagements
"LLMs tripled new book releases since [----]. Average quality fell: most new entries are indeed slop BUT books 100-1000 per category are actually better than before & pre-LLM authors got more productive. And since people only read the good books it is net positive for readers"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:17Z 319.6K followers, 33.8K engagements
"The AI Labs don't yet do a good job explaining how the upgrades to their harnesses change work. For example since Opus [---] Claude Code will spontaneously use subagents to do work in parallel. This is very helpful with a real impact on tasks but was sort of quietly rolled out"
X Link 2026-02-10T21:02Z 319.6K followers, 15.7K engagements
"Second video of the same prompt (Again this was two of two no retries)"
X Link 2026-02-11T03:17Z 319.6K followers, 12.3K engagements
"Seedance: "A documentary about how otters view Ethan Mollick's "Otter Test" which judges AIs by their ability to create images of otters sitting in planes" Again first result"
X Link 2026-02-11T03:26Z 319.6K followers, 38.5K engagements
"Example of Seedance with some consistency issues but still: "Action sequence shot for a big budget action movie where two elegantly dressed woman on giant snails race slowly around a track as gunners on the snails fire at each other. Lots of quick cuts and action movie cliches""
X Link 2026-02-11T03:54Z 319.6K followers, 48.7K engagements
"I have noticed that compared to other models there is not a lot of diversity in main characters somewhat surprising that a model from China hasn't produced any Asian actors in any of these scenes. (though I haven't made that many videos so my view is still limited)"
X Link 2026-02-11T03:57Z 319.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Its a weird time to post about AI because a lot of people are vastly underestimating what AI can do & how many large-scale impacts on work are inevitable with todays models while a lot of other people underestimate the real world problems involved in getting value from AI"
X Link 2026-02-11T18:09Z 319.6K followers, 32.3K engagements
"@krishnanrohit This organization could have been a series of markdown files"
X Link 2026-02-11T18:14Z 319.6K followers, 22.8K engagements
"The poetry tastes of GenAI: "I want you to suggest two poems that you think apply very well the current state of GenAI models like you. Dont just pick popular poems and back justify. Think hard about options first." ChatGPT Gemini & Claude all suggest Borges's "The Golem""
X Link 2026-02-11T20:07Z 319.6K followers, 12.7K engagements
"Rilke was a good choice"
X Link 2026-02-11T20:51Z 319.6K followers, [----] 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
"Nice analogy. We are at the KT Boundary for information. Archivists should lock down the pre-2023 information world. What comes after is going to be different. @emollick Like radiocarbon dating pre/post nuclear era. @emollick Like radiocarbon dating pre/post nuclear era"
X Link 2023-11-27T01:10Z 318.9K followers, 303.2K engagements
"You really really should not trust audio clips anymore Even a couple months ago it used to take a commercial service to clone a voice. No more. Here is me creating a voice clone of myself using just a [--] second reference clip on my home computer This is all real time no cuts"
X Link 2024-10-14T00:16Z 319.1K followers, 615.9K 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 319K 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 319K 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 319K followers, 46.8K 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 319K followers, 78.2K engagements
""Hey Claude with computer use watch this construction site video & write up things you see that dangerous or good create a spreadsheet of critical issues to address" (sped up) How firms use AI as manager coach or panopticon is going to have a big impact on what work becomes"
X Link 2024-11-04T01:58Z 319K followers, 841.7K engagements
"It seems like there is not enough of a policy response to the fact that with 57M miles of data Waymos autonomous vehicles experience 85% less serious injuries & 79% less injuries overall than cars with human drivers. [---] million are injured & 40k killed in US accidents a year"
X Link 2025-08-23T13:41Z 319.3K followers, 1.2M engagements
"Four AI lab vague posting strategies: 1) vague emoji: 🙂🔜🦾 2) vague corporate: Big release at DevCon 3) vague riddles: the STARS are aligning this WINTER 3) vague Lovercraftian prophecy: I have seen the face of infinite eternities & it knows us: ph'nglui mglw'nafh technotopia Grandiose vagueposting on Twitter is the one tried and true marketing strategy for AI labs. But as it gets overused it eventually creates fatigue Grandiose vagueposting on Twitter is the one tried and true marketing strategy for AI labs. But as it gets overused it eventually creates fatigue"
X Link 2025-12-30T07:46Z 318.8K followers, 23.3K 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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"I get asked about Ralph Wiggum in business meetings. You didn't have to do this"
X Link 2026-01-29T19:05Z 318.7K followers, [----] 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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"Somewhat surprising that OpenAI has been slower to pivot into non-coding work than Anthropic. Currently there is no OpenAI equivalent to Cowork or Claude for Excel or Claude for Finance despite the fact that the GPT5.2 Thinking/Pro are among the best agentic models right now"
X Link 2026-02-03T01:57Z 318.8K followers, 35.3K 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 318.4K 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
"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 318.7K followers, 30.9K 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 316.4K 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
"@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
"@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
"@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
"@krishnanrohit 100% Claude of course"
X Link 2026-02-09T04:17Z 319.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Wow diffusion models (used in AI image generation) are also game engines - a type of world simulation. By predicting the next frame of the classic shooter DOOM you get a playable game at [--] fps without any underlying real game engine. This video is from the diffusion model"
X Link 2024-08-28T04:16Z 319.6K followers, 1.8M engagements
"Had Claude Code build a little plugin that visualizes the work Claude Code is doing as agents working in an office with agents doing work and passing information to each other. New subagents are hired they acquire skills and they turn in completed work. Fun start"
X Link 2026-01-14T04:05Z 319.6K followers, 463K engagements
"Claude in Excel is really good. Its weird that using Microsoft's own Excel agent using Claude [---] often yields weaker answers It seems to be because the Excel agent relies on Excel alone (VLOOKUPs etc) while Claude in Excel does its own analysis and uses Excel for output. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014891787051999566 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014891787051999566"
X Link 2026-01-24T02:43Z 319.6K followers, 431.8K 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 319.6K followers, 37.9K 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 319.6K followers, 32.7K 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 319.6K followers, 15.7K 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 319.6K followers, 50.1K engagements
"There is no sign that Democrats or Republicans have different propensities to use AI: "the politics of AI is not primarily driven by ideological resistance or enthusiasm for the technology but rather by structural differences in where people work and what skills they possess." What do you know Political affiliation has no impact on whether you use AI. Why would we think it would https://t.co/EC5ZFLd3Hz What do you know Political affiliation has no impact on whether you use AI. Why would we think it would https://t.co/EC5ZFLd3Hz"
X Link 2026-02-09T15:33Z 319.6K followers, 16.7K 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 319.6K followers, [----] 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 319.6K followers, [---] engagements
"RT @emollick: @krishnanrohit This organization could have been a series of markdown files"
X Link 2026-02-11T19:06Z 319.6K 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 319.6K followers, [--] engagements
"Dynamically-generated world of Hamlet as seen from the perspective of the poison. Genie [--] is a lot of fun"
X Link 2026-01-29T17:50Z 319.6K followers, 129.9K engagements
"The thing about Moltbook (the social media site for AI agents) is that it is creating a shared fictional context for a bunch of AIs. Coordinated storylines are going to result in some very weird outcomes and it will be hard to separate "real" stuff from AI roleplaying personas"
X Link 2026-01-30T16:57Z 319.6K followers, 126.3K engagements
"A pretty bold commentary in Nature written by linguists computer scientists and philosophers declaring "by reasonable standards including Turings own we have artificial systems that are generally intelligent. The long-standing problem of creating AGI has been solved.""
X Link 2026-02-03T03:17Z 319.6K followers, 154.9K 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
"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 319.6K followers, 106.5K engagements
"If you are considering taking a job offer you may want to ask what your token budget will be"
X Link 2026-02-06T03:56Z 319.6K followers, 521.4K 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 319.6K followers, [----] 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 319.6K followers, 32.7K engagements
"This might be the first hot take on how technology tells us how to live our lives destroying our ability to make human decisions. The technology in question is the sundial. From a 3rd century BCE Roman adaptation of a Greek play as discussed in Kerrs The Ordered Day"
X Link 2026-02-10T05:51Z 319.6K followers, 94.4K engagements
"ByteDance's Seedance 2.0: "Monica's apartment from the show Friends except all of the friends are otters wearing wigs. The otter with a Rachel wig says "Is anything weird" and the one with a Joey wig says "Nope all is normal"" Huh"
X Link 2026-02-11T02:28Z 319.6K followers, 22.4K engagements
"The jagged frontier: "It messed up Rachel otter and Phoebe otter.""
X Link 2026-02-11T05:45Z 319.6K 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 319.6K followers, 111.1K engagements
"Same prompt attempt [--] of [--]. Also excellent different vibes (and a creative transition)"
X Link 2026-02-11T17:13Z 319.6K followers, 14.3K engagements
"I think many knowledge workers who spend an hour with Cowork will get that "Claude Code" moment that has been roiling X for the past few weeks"
X Link 2026-02-11T17:38Z 319.6K followers, 17K engagements
"So maybe the argument that the world is compute constrained and there arent anywhere enough cheap tokens to go around wasnt so fanciful after all"
X Link 2026-02-11T18:40Z 319.6K followers, 22.6K engagements
"Does Claude Cowork support agents I know it launches its own subagents but can you import agents from Claude Code into Cowork For example I have an Code image creation agent that uses the GPT-imagegen API I want to do image generation in Cowork does anyone know how"
X Link 2026-02-12T03:42Z 319.6K followers, 20.5K 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 319.6K followers, [---] engagements
"Of all of the dangers of AI papers this is most worrying: AI researchers building a tool to find new drugs to save lives realized it could do the opposite generating new chemical warfare agents. Within [--] hours it invented deadly VX and worse things https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-022-00465-9 https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-022-00465-9"
X Link 2022-07-19T11:22Z 319.5K followers, 14.4K engagements
"Look if everyone is worried about students cheating on essays for AI instructors can just cheat right back. I asked OpenAI to give me an essay question & make a rubric for grading. I had GPT-3 actually write the essay. I then had the OpenAI grade the essay & give comments. ✅"
X Link 2022-12-02T18:25Z 319.5K followers, 15.1K engagements
"Tom Lehrer has put all his songs online (including lyrics & sheet music) and given away all rights to them. The site will only be up for a limited time. This is a very niche tweet that will make a small segment of people very happy. https://tomlehrersongs.com/ https://tomlehrersongs.com/"
X Link 2022-12-17T16:16Z 319.5K followers, 2.1M engagements
"I think we haven't fully absorbed the fact that careful academic papers have found ChatGPT clearly passes some of the most challenging American professional exams: 🩺United States Medical Licensing Exam 🎓MBA-level Operations exam 🧑⚖The Bar Exam (based on typical exam questions)"
X Link 2023-01-22T21:17Z 319.6K followers, 4.4M engagements
"The new BloombergGPT AI may be harbinger of the next wave of corporate AI. Current AIs are trained on web data (though firms can add their own training) BloombergGPT is 52% either proprietary data or cleaned financial data. And it shows signs of being better at financial tasks"
X Link 2023-04-01T01:22Z 319.5K followers, 2.4M engagements
"The wisdom of the crowd works even if the crowd is totally drunk. This study got undergrads intoxicated & found that while drunk individuals make a lot more errors the consensus of groups of drunk people was as accurate as that of groups of sober people. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/42577847.pdf https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/42577847.pdf"
X Link 2023-04-17T15:06Z 319.5K followers, 1.3M engagements
"Everyone freaked out for years that violent video games made kids violent but it turns out that they probably dont have any big effects. The consensus of most large studies of violent games (using real game play data not lab tests) shows no big impact on real-life aggression"
X Link 2023-06-22T00:14Z 319.5K followers, 2.6M engagements
"Half the nitrogen in your body comes from the Haber-Bosch process. This is the most important scientist in human history and its not even close (imo) https://t.co/GqXGi8Zfs4 This is the most important scientist in human history and its not even close (imo) https://t.co/GqXGi8Zfs4"
X Link 2024-10-19T22:03Z 319.6K followers, 346.2K engagements
"New randomized controlled trial of students using GPT-4 as a tutor in Nigeria. [--] weeks of after-school AI tutoring = [--] years of typical learning gains outperforming 80% of other educational interventions. And it helped all students especially girls who were initially behind"
X Link 2025-01-15T20:55Z 319.6K followers, 4.3M engagements
"This paper shows that you can predict actual purchase intent (90% accuracy) by asking an LLM to impersonate a customer with a demographic profile giving it a product & having it give its impressions which another AI rates. No fine-tuning or training & beats classic ML methods"
X Link 2025-10-10T14:31Z 319.6K followers, 917.2K engagements
"AI resources I work on that might be useful: My NY Times bestseller Co-Intelligence (now in [--] languages): The Generative AI Lab at Wharton (free prompts & research): OneUsefulThing my free newsletter: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/ https://gail.wharton.upenn.edu/research-and-insights/ https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/741805/co-intelligence-by-ethan-mollick/ https://www.oneusefulthing.org/ https://gail.wharton.upenn.edu/research-and-insights/ https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/741805/co-intelligence-by-ethan-mollick/"
X Link 2025-10-20T00:30Z 319.6K followers, 156.6K engagements
"Surprisingly good for the first try. Nano banana pro: "create a map of the US where every state is made out of its most famous food (the states should actually look like they are made of the food not a picture of the food). Check carefully to make sure each state is right.""
X Link 2025-12-02T05:05Z 319.6K followers, 257.2K engagements
"The Claude Constitution shows where Anthropic thinks this is all going. It is a massive document covering many philosophical issues. I think it is worth serious attention beyond the usual AI-adjacent commentators. Other labs should be similarly explicit. https://www.anthropic.com/constitution https://www.anthropic.com/constitution"
X Link 2026-01-21T18:28Z 319.6K followers, 200.5K engagements
"Everyone is starting to sound like AI even in spoken language Analysis of [------] transcripts of videos of talks & presentations from academic channels finds they increasingly used words that are favorites of ChatGPT Model collapse except for humans https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.01754v1 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.01754v1"
X Link 2026-01-22T21:07Z 319.6K followers, 389.9K 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
"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
"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
"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
"It is possible to get Genie [--] to make worlds that are visually interesting. I have been using images I generated in Midjourney of vast megastructures & odd cities in various styles. After [--] seconds I can freely wander around them. (Yes I controlled the cat in the first scene)"
X Link 2026-02-05T04:09Z 319.6K followers, 56.6K engagements
"Folks I can only test so many models a day even when given early access. If everyone would just slow down their release schedules for a half a decade or so the world can catch up"
X Link 2026-02-05T18:49Z 319.6K followers, 25K 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 319.6K followers, 54.5K engagements
"Data confirms that Opus [---] was a super weird model"
X Link 2026-02-06T00:49Z 319.6K 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 319.6K followers, 23.2K 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
"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 319.6K 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 319.6K followers, 26.1K engagements
"Yes. I am looking at you Cowork and Codex"
X Link 2026-02-07T13:15Z 319.6K followers, 13.6K engagements
"Why do so many X articles read like AI-written conspiracy theories/health hacks/LinkedIn productivity tricks that would fall apart with any serious research On second thought this isnt really a question"
X Link 2026-02-07T22:57Z 319.5K followers, 17.3K 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 319.6K followers, 31.4K 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 319.6K followers, 53.4K engagements
"Feel free to use this in your next presentation"
X Link 2026-02-06T05:36Z 319.6K followers, [----] engagements
"I asked Opus [---] in Claude Code to build me Borges's Library of Babel. An hour later it delivered this. The AI implemented a Feistel cipher so each possible book has a real location you can search for text across the Library & find the book. Enter it: https://library-of-babel-3d.netlify.app/ https://library-of-babel-3d.netlify.app/"
X Link 2026-02-06T07:02Z 319.6K followers, 114.4K 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 319.6K followers, 13.7K 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 319.6K followers, 32.7K engagements
"A genuinely radical approach to software development with AI without any human intervention. Even if this approach doesnt work for many cases I think we need more leapfrogging visions for how to redo processes with AI: See also: https://www.danshapiro.com/blog/2026/01/the-five-levels-from-spicy-autocomplete-to-the-software-factory/ https://factory.strongdm.ai/ https://www.danshapiro.com/blog/2026/01/the-five-levels-from-spicy-autocomplete-to-the-software-factory/ https://factory.strongdm.ai/"
X Link 2026-02-07T13:37Z 319.6K followers, 37K 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 319.6K followers, 60.1K engagements
"The Claude [---] Opus UX automatically decides how long to think & it seems to suffer from the same issue as the early GPT-5 router not taking hard requests seriously when they are not specifically math/coding related The OpenAI system is complex but fine-grained controls helps"
X Link 2026-02-08T16:07Z 319.6K followers, 34.4K 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 319.6K followers, 14K engagements
"Sold out But I had Claude create and deploy all [--] volumes of The Weights to the site as well-formatted PDFs so you can download them for free if you want. [-----] pages in total. [---] million floating point numbers. This is everything that makes GPT-1. https://weights-press.netlify.app/ I had Claude Code do this. It made [--] volumes that contain the weights for GTP-1 & a guide for doing inference by hand. I had it launch an online store that I think works with a limited run of [--] of Volume [--] sold at cost in the US (but at your own risk) https://t.co/kTfH4MkSZL https://weights-press.netlify.app/"
X Link 2026-02-09T04:00Z 319.6K followers, 62.1K 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 319.6K followers, 45.2K 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 319.6K followers, 11.5K engagements
"Second attempt is also great. I am especially impressed that they keep getting otter "emotions" right (or at least how humans would interpret them) and they have a satisfying storyline for a [--] second clip rather than just cutting off"
X Link 2026-02-11T16:53Z 319.6K followers, [----] 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 319.6K followers, [----] engagements
"I pointed Claude Cowork at a set of [---] documents (PPTs Word docs Excel) that were initially hand-created for my class at Wharton & expanded on by AI. They make up a very complex business case with lots of issues & opportunities AI was able to one-shot the case from documents"
X Link 2026-02-11T17:34Z 319.6K followers, 115.6K engagements
"Justification. Second choices: Claude loved Rilke's "Archaic Torso of Apollo". ChatGPT [---] Thinking went with "Naming of Parts" and Gemini went with "The Idea of Order at Key West" by Wallace Stevens"
X Link 2026-02-11T20:24Z 319.6K followers, [----] engagements
""In sum through an extensive (and costly) validation process we have demonstrated that GPT-5 mini performs very well at recovering the ground truth data. It is clearly better than highly trained graduate students at this specific information retrieval task." At 1000x less cost We coded our 100k articles using LLMs. Should you believe them To answer this we benchmarked [--] human RAs against [--] LLMs on their ability to recover ground truth article data. Details in the paper and appendices but the LLMs did well and handily beat the highly trained humans. https://t.co/64jU1CZJ9R We coded our 100k"
X Link 2026-02-11T20:54Z 319.6K followers, 29.2K engagements
"One more Seedance version of "Monica's apartment from the show Friends except all of the friends are otters wearing wigs. The otter with a Rachel wig says "Is anything weird" and the one with a Joey wig says "Nope all is normal"." Attempt [--] of [--]. The laugh track is something"
X Link 2026-02-12T02:39Z 319.6K followers, 61K engagements
"@AndyMasley Memory as implemented is a destroyer of value in using LLMs"
X Link 2026-02-12T06:21Z 319.6K followers, 10.5K engagements
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