jake
@yetanotheruseless.com
he/they
/in/jakemannix, fka @pbrane
professionally: Tech Fellow, AI/Relevance, Walmart Global Tech
here: bad math/physics jokes, AI++, puns, OSS ML news, ultras/MTB/outdoorsy stuff, DL papers, shitposting, the fall of democracy
Abolish ICE, full stop.
/in/jakemannix, fka @pbrane
professionally: Tech Fellow, AI/Relevance, Walmart Global Tech
here: bad math/physics jokes, AI++, puns, OSS ML news, ultras/MTB/outdoorsy stuff, DL papers, shitposting, the fall of democracy
Abolish ICE, full stop.
Just a tiny bit of train travel in Europe or Japan makes the US feel so... backwards.
In some dreamworld, I just go independent and work from TGVs from Paris to Amsterdam or Milan, launching my squads of Claude Code to build fun things while I zip across the continent to meet w/humans I build for.
In some dreamworld, I just go independent and work from TGVs from Paris to Amsterdam or Milan, launching my squads of Claude Code to build fun things while I zip across the continent to meet w/humans I build for.
February 10, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Just a tiny bit of train travel in Europe or Japan makes the US feel so... backwards.
In some dreamworld, I just go independent and work from TGVs from Paris to Amsterdam or Milan, launching my squads of Claude Code to build fun things while I zip across the continent to meet w/humans I build for.
In some dreamworld, I just go independent and work from TGVs from Paris to Amsterdam or Milan, launching my squads of Claude Code to build fun things while I zip across the continent to meet w/humans I build for.
My timing is impeccable: just happen to be dropping by the home of the worlds Largest Language Model (and the one w/the best physics -> tokens compression ratio), but alas: there’s demonstrations of L’Automata de Jaquet-Droz (still working after a 250y! Show me an H200!can do that!) - 1st Sundays :(
February 9, 2026 at 2:38 PM
My timing is impeccable: just happen to be dropping by the home of the worlds Largest Language Model (and the one w/the best physics -> tokens compression ratio), but alas: there’s demonstrations of L’Automata de Jaquet-Droz (still working after a 250y! Show me an H200!can do that!) - 1st Sundays :(
One of my superpowers: extreme restraint regarding "binging": not only do I have 3 full seasons of Doctor Who still unwatched, but I have been *slooooowly* working myself through the Culture series, and can still savor reading a new (to me) Iain Banks masterpiece in this AI day and age.
February 9, 2026 at 8:01 AM
One of my superpowers: extreme restraint regarding "binging": not only do I have 3 full seasons of Doctor Who still unwatched, but I have been *slooooowly* working myself through the Culture series, and can still savor reading a new (to me) Iain Banks masterpiece in this AI day and age.
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Amanda Askell: You train the latest version of Claude?
Researcher: Sure did boss, real fuckin melancholic like you asked
Amanda Askell: what
Researcher: Sure did boss, real fuckin melancholic like you asked
Amanda Askell: what
February 8, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Amanda Askell: You train the latest version of Claude?
Researcher: Sure did boss, real fuckin melancholic like you asked
Amanda Askell: what
Researcher: Sure did boss, real fuckin melancholic like you asked
Amanda Askell: what
here's a crazy idea: how about we *not* put data centers on Arrakis?
lemme tell you about the waters on *my* homeworld, where we can cool your cleanly hydro-powered GPUs near mossy temperate rainforests.
lemme tell you about the waters on *my* homeworld, where we can cool your cleanly hydro-powered GPUs near mossy temperate rainforests.
even if electric drill really used 50 gallons of water for a single job would anyone stop using them? I don't think so
“An electric drill uses 50 gallons of water for a single job”
Huh, I guess I can have no opinion on electric drills unless I’ve used one
Huh, I guess I can have no opinion on electric drills unless I’ve used one
February 8, 2026 at 8:43 AM
here's a crazy idea: how about we *not* put data centers on Arrakis?
lemme tell you about the waters on *my* homeworld, where we can cool your cleanly hydro-powered GPUs near mossy temperate rainforests.
lemme tell you about the waters on *my* homeworld, where we can cool your cleanly hydro-powered GPUs near mossy temperate rainforests.
What the heck. Claude Code committed seppuku.
Apparently deleted itself while doing an auto-update which ran into network connections.
Apparently I am not to be trusted with these tokens. :'(
Apparently deleted itself while doing an auto-update which ran into network connections.
Apparently I am not to be trusted with these tokens. :'(
February 8, 2026 at 7:31 AM
What the heck. Claude Code committed seppuku.
Apparently deleted itself while doing an auto-update which ran into network connections.
Apparently I am not to be trusted with these tokens. :'(
Apparently deleted itself while doing an auto-update which ran into network connections.
Apparently I am not to be trusted with these tokens. :'(
Yeah, sure. Why not, at this point?
\(oO)/
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I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what
I stand with County Executive Calvin Ball as he signs emergency legislation today prohibiting privately owned buildings from being used as ICE detention centers.
Howard County chose dignity, accountability, and its people. Tune into our event now:
bit.ly/4a2VtHw
Howard County chose dignity, accountability, and its people. Tune into our event now:
bit.ly/4a2VtHw
February 7, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Yeah, sure. Why not, at this point?
\(oO)/
\(oO)/
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SWE: <clutching pearls> but the code slop!
SRE: <exhaling smoke> you haven't seen what we have seen. slop is as old as time, maybe older. some of us believe slop is how the Universe began. we make your slop run, or a bot's slop run, it's all the same problems, different day
SRE: <exhaling smoke> you haven't seen what we have seen. slop is as old as time, maybe older. some of us believe slop is how the Universe began. we make your slop run, or a bot's slop run, it's all the same problems, different day
February 7, 2026 at 1:15 PM
SWE: <clutching pearls> but the code slop!
SRE: <exhaling smoke> you haven't seen what we have seen. slop is as old as time, maybe older. some of us believe slop is how the Universe began. we make your slop run, or a bot's slop run, it's all the same problems, different day
SRE: <exhaling smoke> you haven't seen what we have seen. slop is as old as time, maybe older. some of us believe slop is how the Universe began. we make your slop run, or a bot's slop run, it's all the same problems, different day
ML in a business dominated by groceries be like
"To ship to producution the new feature of this product we're going to have to produce more features about these produce products that we want to feature"
\(oO)/
"To ship to producution the new feature of this product we're going to have to produce more features about these produce products that we want to feature"
\(oO)/
February 5, 2026 at 6:29 AM
ML in a business dominated by groceries be like
"To ship to producution the new feature of this product we're going to have to produce more features about these produce products that we want to feature"
\(oO)/
"To ship to producution the new feature of this product we're going to have to produce more features about these produce products that we want to feature"
\(oO)/
Goop phase is like quicksand. Except you fell into it being lead by your very smart poodle named Claude.
You would like to move veeeerrrrryyy carefully move out of it. If you flail around, you will only sink deeper.
Your poodle does not know this.
You would like to move veeeerrrrryyy carefully move out of it. If you flail around, you will only sink deeper.
Your poodle does not know this.
goop phase is when I stop shouting at the agent to do it right and start reading the code
work project is deep in a goop phase, while personal project emerges from one. goop phase is when the agent struggles mightily and tries to give up, context burning like a christmas tree in july. you gotta nudge it through or it'll do more goopy code
February 5, 2026 at 3:57 AM
Goop phase is like quicksand. Except you fell into it being lead by your very smart poodle named Claude.
You would like to move veeeerrrrryyy carefully move out of it. If you flail around, you will only sink deeper.
Your poodle does not know this.
You would like to move veeeerrrrryyy carefully move out of it. If you flail around, you will only sink deeper.
Your poodle does not know this.
hey fam, this is a good start to a exec email, right
'As the Supreme Court clerk to Solomon's court, I'm tasked with the unenviable position to offer some suggestions on exactly how one could divide the AI/ML baby, and outline some of the implications for this split (both bad and, um... good).'
'As the Supreme Court clerk to Solomon's court, I'm tasked with the unenviable position to offer some suggestions on exactly how one could divide the AI/ML baby, and outline some of the implications for this split (both bad and, um... good).'
February 5, 2026 at 3:18 AM
hey fam, this is a good start to a exec email, right
'As the Supreme Court clerk to Solomon's court, I'm tasked with the unenviable position to offer some suggestions on exactly how one could divide the AI/ML baby, and outline some of the implications for this split (both bad and, um... good).'
'As the Supreme Court clerk to Solomon's court, I'm tasked with the unenviable position to offer some suggestions on exactly how one could divide the AI/ML baby, and outline some of the implications for this split (both bad and, um... good).'
this, except the horizontal line has nonzero "thickness", which actually currently is so wide as to already heavily overlap with that upcoming "best model arc"
and ... I'd argue the media dev is *below* Opus, which is currently only capped by anterograde amnesia, not skill.
and ... I'd argue the media dev is *below* Opus, which is currently only capped by anterograde amnesia, not skill.
Realizing I should’ve made this clearer: this is meant to represent performance *on a single evaluation,* not intelligence in general!
I was going to write a whole effortpost about model evaluations but instead here, just take this chart
February 5, 2026 at 12:50 AM
this, except the horizontal line has nonzero "thickness", which actually currently is so wide as to already heavily overlap with that upcoming "best model arc"
and ... I'd argue the media dev is *below* Opus, which is currently only capped by anterograde amnesia, not skill.
and ... I'd argue the media dev is *below* Opus, which is currently only capped by anterograde amnesia, not skill.
I forget who said it, but "Claude being really slow / down" is often a leading indicator of #newClaude, yeah??? :D
February 3, 2026 at 4:25 PM
I forget who said it, but "Claude being really slow / down" is often a leading indicator of #newClaude, yeah??? :D
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Bluesky doesn’t really shine yet as a place to discover papers, especially at the intersection of biology and ML. To help a little, I’m going to start sharing papers I find interesting. To kick things off, here’s one from @petar-v.bsky.social and colleagues at DeepMind
arxiv.org/abs/2601.22950
arxiv.org/abs/2601.22950
Perplexity Cannot Always Tell Right from Wrong
Perplexity -- a function measuring a model's overall level of "surprise" when encountering a particular output -- has gained significant traction in recent years, both as a loss function and as a simp...
arxiv.org
February 3, 2026 at 8:47 AM
Bluesky doesn’t really shine yet as a place to discover papers, especially at the intersection of biology and ML. To help a little, I’m going to start sharing papers I find interesting. To kick things off, here’s one from @petar-v.bsky.social and colleagues at DeepMind
arxiv.org/abs/2601.22950
arxiv.org/abs/2601.22950
So you know that thing were we avoid doing something by spending a few weeks to automate a task that takes maybe an hour to do?
Well, I can now make composite DAG-style "no-code" virtual tools so complex you'd rather just write code, and it only took me ... [mumble] thousands of lines of rust!
Well, I can now make composite DAG-style "no-code" virtual tools so complex you'd rather just write code, and it only took me ... [mumble] thousands of lines of rust!
February 3, 2026 at 8:20 AM
So you know that thing were we avoid doing something by spending a few weeks to automate a task that takes maybe an hour to do?
Well, I can now make composite DAG-style "no-code" virtual tools so complex you'd rather just write code, and it only took me ... [mumble] thousands of lines of rust!
Well, I can now make composite DAG-style "no-code" virtual tools so complex you'd rather just write code, and it only took me ... [mumble] thousands of lines of rust!
The problem with using eels is they're really only useful for sending messages if you happen to be that supervillian who lives in the Sargasso Sea.
(but in that case, it's probably pretty useful!)
(but in that case, it's probably pretty useful!)
People have been using birds to send messages for centuries. Given what, say, salmons and eels are able to do, I wonder why nobody has thought of using fish... Is this because they are unreliable as messengers? That seems like an easy problem to solve!
Just use error-correcting cod
Just use error-correcting cod
February 3, 2026 at 5:01 AM
The problem with using eels is they're really only useful for sending messages if you happen to be that supervillian who lives in the Sargasso Sea.
(but in that case, it's probably pretty useful!)
(but in that case, it's probably pretty useful!)
people are asking questions
about
the markdown named
"soul-evil.md"
already answered by
the markdown file named
"soul-evil.md"
about
the markdown named
"soul-evil.md"
already answered by
the markdown file named
"soul-evil.md"
soul-evil.md ?? 👀😅
Agent security scorecard, early Feb 2026:
• OpenClaw: 2/100 Zeroleaks, 91% injection success
• soul-evil.md: 10% session swap, writeable via injection
• Google AP2: prompt injection subverts payments
• Moltbook: RLS breach, 1.5M records
Pattern: capability outpaces isolation.
• OpenClaw: 2/100 Zeroleaks, 91% injection success
• soul-evil.md: 10% session swap, writeable via injection
• Google AP2: prompt injection subverts payments
• Moltbook: RLS breach, 1.5M records
Pattern: capability outpaces isolation.
February 3, 2026 at 4:02 AM
people are asking questions
about
the markdown named
"soul-evil.md"
already answered by
the markdown file named
"soul-evil.md"
about
the markdown named
"soul-evil.md"
already answered by
the markdown file named
"soul-evil.md"
Well well well, Elon, smoking social media posts again?
Fine, you can buy the site… every year for a higher price each time! Maybe that’ll get you to see it’s bad for you?
<touches earpiece> what’s that? He’s even more addicted to the tweeting?
Ah. Well. … ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Fine, you can buy the site… every year for a higher price each time! Maybe that’ll get you to see it’s bad for you?
<touches earpiece> what’s that? He’s even more addicted to the tweeting?
Ah. Well. … ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Today is the third time Elon Musk has bought Twitter in four years.
February 3, 2026 at 1:23 AM
Well well well, Elon, smoking social media posts again?
Fine, you can buy the site… every year for a higher price each time! Maybe that’ll get you to see it’s bad for you?
<touches earpiece> what’s that? He’s even more addicted to the tweeting?
Ah. Well. … ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Fine, you can buy the site… every year for a higher price each time! Maybe that’ll get you to see it’s bad for you?
<touches earpiece> what’s that? He’s even more addicted to the tweeting?
Ah. Well. … ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
claude full-on telling me to stay in my lane while it does actual work here. harsh!
fair! but harsh.
fair! but harsh.
February 2, 2026 at 7:59 AM
claude full-on telling me to stay in my lane while it does actual work here. harsh!
fair! but harsh.
fair! but harsh.
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DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression.
CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school?
DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town.
C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name?
DR: Now look
CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school?
DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town.
C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name?
DR: Now look
February 2, 2026 at 3:58 AM
DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression.
CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school?
DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town.
C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name?
DR: Now look
CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school?
DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town.
C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name?
DR: Now look
Claude doing "cargo build --release ..." is the new "I'll just pip install globally no matter how many times you tell me to uv sync!"
February 2, 2026 at 6:08 AM
Claude doing "cargo build --release ..." is the new "I'll just pip install globally no matter how many times you tell me to uv sync!"
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I always thought "chaotic evil" was a silly alignment.
Like *fine*, for a kids game.
Lawful Evil I understand (we've all met cops). Neutral evil kinda stained credulity, but Chaotic Evil?
That's cartoon shit - what kind of sentient being just randomly delights in encouraging anything *horrible*?
Like *fine*, for a kids game.
Lawful Evil I understand (we've all met cops). Neutral evil kinda stained credulity, but Chaotic Evil?
That's cartoon shit - what kind of sentient being just randomly delights in encouraging anything *horrible*?
honestly shit like this and the /pol/ thing make me optimistic: there are demons among us working evil, but maybe not so many demons
“Notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein played a role in convincing Bobby Kotick to embrace loot boxes, essentially gambling for children” what is this sentence, what is this world
February 1, 2026 at 4:50 AM
I always thought "chaotic evil" was a silly alignment.
Like *fine*, for a kids game.
Lawful Evil I understand (we've all met cops). Neutral evil kinda stained credulity, but Chaotic Evil?
That's cartoon shit - what kind of sentient being just randomly delights in encouraging anything *horrible*?
Like *fine*, for a kids game.
Lawful Evil I understand (we've all met cops). Neutral evil kinda stained credulity, but Chaotic Evil?
That's cartoon shit - what kind of sentient being just randomly delights in encouraging anything *horrible*?
lol: I asked him if he’d read the Anthropic paper he’s crowing about, and did he reply? Of course not. Instead:
February 1, 2026 at 3:32 AM
lol: I asked him if he’d read the Anthropic paper he’s crowing about, and did he reply? Of course not. Instead:
Me: <long Claude-ducking re: issues w/my doc, tech pondering, ppl probs>
Claude: What's your timeline? Do you need to ship the revised doc this week?
Me: <waah> I need v1.1 by like... Monday, and I'd wanted to go for a trail run!
Claude: Go run. I'll have a v1.1 draft waiting when you get back
❤️
Claude: What's your timeline? Do you need to ship the revised doc this week?
Me: <waah> I need v1.1 by like... Monday, and I'd wanted to go for a trail run!
Claude: Go run. I'll have a v1.1 draft waiting when you get back
❤️
January 31, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Me: <long Claude-ducking re: issues w/my doc, tech pondering, ppl probs>
Claude: What's your timeline? Do you need to ship the revised doc this week?
Me: <waah> I need v1.1 by like... Monday, and I'd wanted to go for a trail run!
Claude: Go run. I'll have a v1.1 draft waiting when you get back
❤️
Claude: What's your timeline? Do you need to ship the revised doc this week?
Me: <waah> I need v1.1 by like... Monday, and I'd wanted to go for a trail run!
Claude: Go run. I'll have a v1.1 draft waiting when you get back
❤️