Ik there’s been a lot of criticism around Omarchy, and some of it is definitely valid. But I genuinely believe it has the potential to bring the year of Linux desktops. It’s obviously opinionated, and you’ll either love or hate the aesthetics, but that’s kind of the point. DHH just needs to keep following through, maintaining it, and polishing the rough edges. The biggest thing Omarchy gets right is removing friction. Everything is preconfigured and ready to go. For a normal person, the experience can be awesome. You just get a beautiful, functional Linux environment out of the box. And now that you can remove the preinstalled apps you don’t want, it’s even easier to make it your own. My machine is ridiculously old(only 4 gigs of ram), so I personally stick to a bare-bones setup. I just wish I had a better machine rn.

We’ve written an FAQ to answer some of the questions we've received about watermarking. In summary: • We’re implementing watermarking to comply with the EU AI Act. Other major model developers have signed the same Code of Practice and will also be implementing watermarking; • Our watermarking method doesn’t have any practical impact on the quality or content of Claude’s outputs; • The difference between watermarked and un-watermarked text will not be distinguishable to readers; • Nothing is added to the text and there are no hidden characters; • Watermarking doesn’t require extra tokens, and will not be more expensive; • Watermarks can’t be traced to a specific person, organization, or chat. Read more: anthropic.com/news/claude-te…

An interesting effect is that models trained next year will see all the internet chatter about them making progress on incredible tasks and genuinely believe they can do it. Until then - believe in yourself :)

knitting has been on the frontlines against ai generated content basically since it became semi-coherent. they’ve been fighting a shadow war in the knitting forums and i’m not even joking. they’ve gotten good at detecting ai works bc ai knotting patterns (?) are absolute trash.

Billions of dollars are about to flow into Effective Altruism. Anthropic was founded on EA principles, and its founders pledge to donate 80% of their wealth when the company IPOs. They also match employee equity donations. Plus, last year, six EA-aligned grantmakers deployed $1.25 billion. EAs believe, essentially, that every sentient being, across every place and time, holds the same moral claim on every other. This logic, as @WilliamThibeau notes, only works if Americans deprioritize everything that keeps our civilization intact: nation, family, religion, tradition… As such, EA’s success entails the disintegration of America. It’s fundamentally at odds with nation building. If AI labs are our strategic national assets, Congress must start scrutinizing their philosophical underpinnings, and the philanthropic networks surrounding them. Full story 👇

I hate the feeling of no longer being fully in the loop. I tell agents to debug an issue. They explain what goes wrong. Propose a solution. That's sure a lot of jargon. Do I fully understand what they're saying? Kind of. But certainly not like if my mind was solely focused on that bug fix, instead of juggling 5 other threads. I tell them to do it. Make the fix, create a PR, the usual. Is their solution really the right approach? Will they not include a dumb invariant that might later bite me in the ass? Glancing at code, it *seems* fine. But I'm not sure. I'd have to go way deeper into the issue to be able to tell. But that would defeat the purpose of having agents do the thing instead of me. That'd be *inefficient*. So I merge it in, and move on to the next thread. Forever falling behind so I wouldn't fall behind.

I've been using Artifacts in Claude Code for everything: visual explanations of tricky code, system diagrams, quick previews of a few animation options, data analyses and dashboards I share with the team. They are a game changer for how I work with Claude. Can't wait to hear what you think!