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the AI of it all
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Descent into the Computational Sublime
From Dark Forest to Strange Forest Through the Hardness Wars
Independent Assessment of AI R&D Acceleration at Anthropic in October 2026
METR's high-access assessment of the degree to which AI is accelerating AI research and development at Anthropic.
Covert underperformance on safety research tasks · OpenAI Alignment
Research on aligning AI with human values and intent, and reports documenting model failures.
AI is dramatically accelerating AI research right now
If acceleration compounds, the naive extrapolation implies superintelligence within a year
Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights
We find that frontier LLMs are surprisingly good at natively reading and writing neural network weights, well past what we’d expect from humans or conventional algorithms.
The End of the Internet
The old Internet, where anyone could host a server is over, but it’s just the final blow in an ending that has been coming for years. The future, though, is brighter than it appears.
Import AI 477: In which I tell the IMF the Singularity has begun
What do you think?
Experiments with Monstrousness
‘I weep for you,’ the Walrus said; ‘I deeply sympathize’
The risks of advanced AI
Could working on AI risks be the highest-impact career choice today? Explore why AI may trigger rapid, dramatic societal change — and what you can do about it.
Oliver Habryka on Twitter / X
The lightcone needs you to lock in son pic.twitter.com/bBJQMQ8vRz— Oliver Habryka (@ohabryka) October 27, 2026
The Counting House — Steve Yegge
I think a pattern is starting to emerge in enterprise AI-modernization, and I’ve been collecting the design ideas into an assembly I call…
Working with clay | Brittany Ellich | Offprint
AI builds everything as this huge monster of too much, and now I feel like I’m iterating by trimming things back and perfecting it over time. It’s a bit like working from clay, and allowing the software underneath to expose itself in the form it’s meant to be in.
On Learning to Ride Your Brain
Your brain is already a bicycle, AI is a motorcycle, a regular computer is power tools
Cognitive Mercantilism
AI panic weirdly resembles the anxiety that accompanied early capitalism
Most Improbable Agent of You
It is commonly said that AI today is the worst it will ever be.
How employment is changing at Anthropic
How has AI restructured work and employment at Anthropic? As a company at the frontier of AI adoption, Anthropic could be a leading indicator of how AI will shift work organization, hiring, and labor demand across the economy.
