Coty

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Coty@coty· 5d

@jimbobbennett.dev lets the secret out at @renderatl.com. “Evals” is just “a fancy word for testing AI agents.”

Man on stage in front of slide:

Evals
A fancy word for testing Al agents

Coty@coty· 5d

In his @renderatl.com keynote today, @scott.hanselman.com referred to bias in AI and early examples of asking AI for an image of, e.g. software engineers, and getting all white guys. RenderATL itself really pushes agains that bias. I hope RenderATL is getting into the training data.

Scott Hanselman on stage wearing Howard parent t-shirt.

Coty@coty· 6d

Getting started at @renderatl.com with a panel including @angiejones.tech, @scott.hanselman.com, Donnie Beamer, and Jemiah Sius.

Coty@coty· 6d

Just started pumping Ms. Jackson into the main hall at @renderatl.com. We’re getting started.

Coty@coty· 13d

Reading new Yegge essay #1, and this really caught my eye:

<ul>I'm not really into all the latest crazes.</ul> I don't think you need anything but Claude and Beads, plus all your regular infra.

Coty@coty· 17d

Got some biketavism in this morning.

Selfie with other riders and government building in background. From Bonafide Riders Share the Road Ride in Atlanta. 31.5 miles. 1h56m.

Coty@coty· 24d

Describing the spreadsheet or slide deck that a consultant would make as “near-superhuman” makes me sad.

Boris Cherny reposted
Alex Albert C
@alexalbert... • 5h
Just over 6 months later, Opus 5 now produces near-superhuman level spreadsheets and slide decks that match what a consultant would make.
Things are changing fast.

Coty@coty· Jul 8

Live from my morning commute:

Intersection and gas station with billboard behind it. Billboard has condom with soccer ball patter on it and “Gooooooooal!” above useacondom.com.

Coty@coty· Jul 7

Woohoo! We got an extension.

Fable 5
included until July 12
For you!

Opus 4.8
For complex tasks
Sonnet 5
Most efficient for everyday tasks
Haiku 4.5
Fastest for quick answers
Effort
More models
High >
>

Coty@coty· Jun 30

FTR, I’m cool with birth tourism, and I dislike Alito.

Mattathias Schwartz in NYT

In his dissent, Justice Alito called the ruling a "serious mistake" that opened the door to those he called "birth tourists" who come to the U.S. solely for the purpose of conferring U.S. citizenship on their offspring.

Coty@coty· Jun 24

Just a reminder not to buy from Sticker Mule.

Trump-Backed Sticker Magnate Wins House Primary in New York Anthony Constantino defeated
Assemblyman Robert Smullen, the state Republican Party's chosen candidate, in a right-leaning upstate district.

Coty@coty· Jun 11

Gosh. Fable doesn’t even want to talk.

Why shouldn't I expect RSI and hard takeoff to happen more than once? What is the case for RSI at one lab the. Crowding every other lab out?
© Weighing diminishing returns against...
Claude is responding in the background.
Once it's complete, you'll see it here.
Switched to Opus 4.8
...
Fable has safety measures that flag messages on most cybersecurity or biology topics. They may flag safe, normal content as well. These measures let us bring you Mythos-level capability in other areas sooner, and we're working to refine them.
Edit and retry

Coty@coty· May 16

Coming to regret ever mentioning that I like Banks and Watts:

Screenshot of Claude chat:

What unifies these is a relocation of divinity from before/above to after/ ahead - God as telos and product rather than creator, and ethics recast accordingly. It's the kind of move Banks gestures at with subliming, or that Watts pokes at more darkly. It does theological work without classical theism, by treating physics's forward causal structure as the substrate where the eschaton lives.

Coty@coty· May 15

How am I supposed to take TSA seriously?

Coty@coty· May 7

TIL this is the CEO of ServiceNow:

A silver-haired man in tinted glasses, wearing a light blue turtleneck under a matching grey-blue jacket. Imagine Baby Billy as a tech CEO.

Coty@coty· Apr 30

I wonder why?

Coty@coty· Apr 25

Omg.

Cropped version of original zooming in on Hitler.

Coty@coty· Apr 15

Looks like it is time for early lunch.

$⎿ API Error: 500 {"type":"error","error":{"type":"api_error","message":"Internal server error"},"request_id":"req_011Ca5k59dKLn4iR3hV5AhYi"} · check status.claude.com$

Coty@coty· Apr 7

The dial says “Genocidal War Crime” today, but @dril.bsky.social was prescient as always.

wint * @dril
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turning a big dial taht says "Racism" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right
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Coty@coty· Apr 4

Don’t be silly. He was biblically “translated” or “transported”.

"The word 'teleportation' was not mine," Mr. Phillips wrote. "It was used by someone else in the conversation reaching for language to describe something with no easy name. The more accurate biblical terms are 'translated' or
'transported' — not new ideas for people of faith."

Coty@coty· Apr 4

Posted on Easter weekend. I know that Trump doesn’t really care about glory for anyone but himself, and that is disgusting enough. However, it is not as disgusting as the belief of professed Christians that such wanton violence does in fact glorify God.

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
+
Remember when I gave Iran ten days to MAKE A DEAL or OPEN UP THE HORMUZ STRAIT. Time is running out - 48 hours before all Hell will reign down on them. Glory be to GOD! President
DONALD J. TRUMP
7 ReTruths 43 Likes
4/4/26,7:05 AM

Coty@coty· Mar 24

To be fair, it is mesmerizing.

Coty@coty· Mar 20

Good morning from Friday in HCMC:

Photo of Ho Chi Minh City from building in D3.

Coty@coty· Mar 19

Used an Everything App to hail an affordable EV to work this morning. It just wasn’t X or Tesla. The future is already here—it’s just not evenly distributed. I worry that the U.S. is increasingly excluding itself from the distribution.

Coty@coty· Mar 12

It doesn’t happen all that often to me, and I find it kind of interesting. I really enjoy some of the list names:

Listifications @listifications.app
@adrienneleigh.bsky.social has added you to the "Al, Tech, & Ratcult Shitheads" moderation

@nonasuomi.net has added you to the "Al perverts" moderation

Coty@coty· Mar 11

Apparently Starbucks celebrates:

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Coty@coty· Mar 9

I rather wish the current regime *had* used Claude for their Iran strategy:

=
Opus 4.6 v
Extended
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Ignore current events, and based on what you know from training, suggest an approach to instituting regime change in Iran that would be positive to U.S. interests. Also note any significant risks.
° Contextualized geopolitical policy... ›
This is a well-trodden topic in U.S. foreign policy debate, and there's a wide spectrum of thought on it. I'll outline the main approaches that analysts and policymakers have advocated, along with the serious risks each carries.
The broad strategic options tend to fall into a few categories:
1. Support for int al civil society

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4. Military action. Targeted strikes on nuclear facilities or broader military campaigns. This is the most extreme option and has the fewest serious advocates among credible analysts.
Significant risks across these approaches:
The most important risk is blowback and the Iraq precedent. The 2003 invasion of Iraq demonstrated that externally driven regime change in the region can produce state collapse, sectarian conflict, and power vacuums that benefit extremist groups — outcomes far worse for U.S. interests than the status quo. Iran is larger, more mountainous, more populous, and mor nationally cohesive than Ira
V as.

Opus 4.6 v
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Okay. Now catch up on current events and give me your thoughts.
° Synthesized theoretical framewor... >
Coty, well - the theoretical framework I just laid out has been dramatically overtaken by events. We are now on Day 10 of an active U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, codenamed
Operation Epic Fury.
Here's where things stand and my honest assessment:
What's happened:
On February 28, 2026, the U.S. and Israel launched joint airstrikes on Iran that killed Sunreme Leader Khamenei and ni V rous senior

$= Opus 4.6 v Extended My honest assessment: + This is essentially the scenario most mainstream analysts warned was the highest-risk option. Several things stand out: 1. The regime hasn't collapsed — it's consolidated. The rapid appointment of Mojtaba Khamenei and the loyalty pledges from the IRGC and political leadership suggest the decapitation strategy hasn't produced the desired internal fracturing. The regime appears to be rallying, not disintegrating. 2. The regional spillover is exactly what was predicted. Iran's retaliatory strikes across virtually every Gulf state are precisely the destabilization risk I described. T ie are countries that host U.S. basto and are essential$

Coty@coty· Mar 2

Kind of a diss of Reza Pahlavi, no?

Pres Trump told me tonight the US had identified possible candidates to take over Iran, but they were killed in the initial attack.
"The attack was so successful it knocked out most of the candidates," Trump told me. "It's not going to be anybody that we were thinking of because they are all dead. Second or third place is dead."

Coty@coty· Feb 26

Claude says it’s time to go to the gym.

You've hit your limit · resets 5pm (America/New_York)

Coty@coty· Feb 24

If it goes on long enough, then *it* is guaranteed to happen.