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Hallucination as a service – Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Medium)
LLMs are going to replace all employees by a few weeks ago, according to Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic about this time last year. And yet Claude can’t be accurate between the contents of two very simple sources that it provides. Here’s the dialogue in chat: Thomas: Is busybox missing on GHA runners for arm…
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The 2026 Pivot That Tells You The Party Is Over
Allbirds sold its shoe brand last month. This week it announced a pivot to AI compute infrastructure. The stock tripled on the press release. The new name is NewBird AI. If you have been working in or around the tech industry for more than one hype cycle, you have seen this before. Not something like…
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You Cannot Truck Your Way Around the Strait of Hormuz: A Back-of-the-Napkin Catastrophe
Never Underestimate the Bandwidth of a Station Wagon Full of Hard Drives There’s an old saying in computing—often attributed to Andrew Tanenbaum—that you should “never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.” The modern version uses hard drives, and the math still checks out beautifully. Say you need…