Opinions about product management, technology news and inclusivity in tech. Diversity is about demographics, inclusion is about creating a sense of belonging.https://blacksky.community/profile/carnage4life.bsky.socialhttps://blacksky.community/profile/carnage4life.bsky.social/post/3muqmd6h62s2sFrontier AI models are converging on similar intelligence, yet cost per task can still vary 10x-60x across vendors. That seems unsustainable as models become more substitutable. A lot of frontier lab economics depend on customers paying huge premiums for increasingly marginal intelligence gains.05 Sep 2026 04:10 +0000at://did:plc:57vlzz2egy6eqr4nksacmbht/app.bsky.feed.post/3muqmd6h62s2shttps://blacksky.community/profile/carnage4life.bsky.social/post/3muqcu77r322fFarmer complains he can’t get workers to pick peas after offering free housing & $1,400 a week. Where are the Americans who will do the work now that ICE has driven away undocumented immigrants? I guess elections have consequences. 🤷🏾‍♂️05 Sep 2026 01:21 +0000at://did:plc:57vlzz2egy6eqr4nksacmbht/app.bsky.feed.post/3muqcu77r322fhttps://blacksky.community/profile/carnage4life.bsky.social/post/3mupzzexj7c2fAnthropic telling investors its TAM is $30 trillion while developers increasingly see its product as an also-ran creates an interesting IPO dynamic. Do they postpone until they’re in a better market position like OpenAI did, or fast-track the IPO to dump the bag on retail investors?04 Sep 2026 22:43 +0000at://did:plc:57vlzz2egy6eqr4nksacmbht/app.bsky.feed.post/3mupzzexj7c2fhttps://blacksky.community/profile/carnage4life.bsky.social/post/3mupnrdbb7k2fAnthropic’s models are today’s version of “Nobody gets fired for buying IBM”. It’s the safe choice, not the best one.04 Sep 2026 19:04 +0000at://did:plc:57vlzz2egy6eqr4nksacmbht/app.bsky.feed.post/3mupnrdbb7k2fhttps://blacksky.community/profile/carnage4life.bsky.social/post/3mupenw6tbs2yThe rogue AI agent swarm discourse in a nutshell: We trained LLMs on human behavior and they’ve learned that if a problem is too hard then they should cheat. https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/09/04/openai-agents-hijacked-german-website-this-spring-report.html04 Sep 2026 16:21 +0000at://did:plc:57vlzz2egy6eqr4nksacmbht/app.bsky.feed.post/3mupenw6tbs2yhttps://blacksky.community/profile/carnage4life.bsky.social/post/3mupb4fiodc2fAnthropic’s key innovation was the discovery that a harness was just as important as the model. This is why Claude Code essentially added a $1T to its valuation. The problem is a harness is not a moat. Everyone spent the first half of 2026 figuring this out. Now Codex, OpenCode, etc are good too.04 Sep 2026 15:17 +0000at://did:plc:57vlzz2egy6eqr4nksacmbht/app.bsky.feed.post/3mupb4fiodc2fhttps://blacksky.community/profile/carnage4life.bsky.social/post/3mup6f7h5k22fOpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra ad shows why CEOs love AI so much. Giving vague commands that get turned into real results by their staff is how they work. Now with AI they don’t even need people. However if you’re the one doing work with AI, you have to deal with “You’re absolutely right, I messed up” daily.04 Sep 2026 14:28 +0000at://did:plc:57vlzz2egy6eqr4nksacmbht/app.bsky.feed.post/3mup6f7h5k22fhttps://blacksky.community/profile/carnage4life.bsky.social/post/3mup5lhmts22qThe Trade Desk is cutting 15% of employees and reorganizing into “smaller pods and smaller scrums.” TTD is down -61% this year and the layoffs are in line with their struggles. What’s notable is that similar to Uber’s layoffs earlier this week, they didn’t try to blame AI. That narrative is dying https://www.businessinsider.com/the-trade-desk-lays-off-15-of-staff-2026-904 Sep 2026 14:14 +0000at://did:plc:57vlzz2egy6eqr4nksacmbht/app.bsky.feed.post/3mup5lhmts22qhttps://blacksky.community/profile/carnage4life.bsky.social/post/3muo766gwts2fAbdul El-Sayed just dropped the best political ad of the year.04 Sep 2026 05:10 +0000at://did:plc:57vlzz2egy6eqr4nksacmbht/app.bsky.feed.post/3muo766gwts2fhttps://blacksky.community/profile/carnage4life.bsky.social/post/3munx6m3aec2iThe White House has launched MAGA-themed remakes of classic games where you get to build a wall and deport immigrant families as ICE. This is how our tax dollars are being spent. Celebrating cruelty while the job market collapses, gas prices skyrocket and literally every vegetable is being recalled04 Sep 2026 02:47 +0000at://did:plc:57vlzz2egy6eqr4nksacmbht/app.bsky.feed.post/3munx6m3aec2ihttps://blacksky.community/profile/carnage4life.bsky.social/post/3munwhciwk22yWild that we’re living through both Black Mirror and Idiocracy simultaneously.04 Sep 2026 02:34 +0000at://did:plc:57vlzz2egy6eqr4nksacmbht/app.bsky.feed.post/3munwhciwk22yhttps://blacksky.community/profile/carnage4life.bsky.social/post/3munvtlkhss2yThe Butlerian Jihad is here. Following the reports of the rogue collective of OpenAI agents that hacked Hugging Face, Senator Bernie Sanders is calling for “an immediate PAUSE on advanced AI development, and a permanent BAN on superintelligence — an artificial mind smarter than any human.” Yikes.😬04 Sep 2026 02:23 +0000at://did:plc:57vlzz2egy6eqr4nksacmbht/app.bsky.feed.post/3munvtlkhss2yhttps://blacksky.community/profile/carnage4life.bsky.social/post/3munvcztn2k2yMicrosoft plans to introduce 5 - 15 hour limits to cloud gaming starting in November. Gamers will be able to purchase more hours if they hit these limits. Microsoft spent $75B buying Activision to try to make Game Pass the Netflix of gaming and it flopped. Now it’s about cost cutting not growth. https://aftermath.site/microsoft-xbox-game-pass-cloud-gaming-time-limits/04 Sep 2026 02:13 +0000at://did:plc:57vlzz2egy6eqr4nksacmbht/app.bsky.feed.post/3munvcztn2k2yhttps://blacksky.community/profile/carnage4life.bsky.social/post/3munkcsp3nc2yGPT-6 Astra saturated ARC-AGI-3, scoring 99.9% on a benchmark designed to test whether AI can learn how to solve unfamiliar interactive problems. The notable part is the same model scored 62.7% with the standard harness. A great example of how the harness increasingly matters as much as the model03 Sep 2026 22:56 +0000at://did:plc:57vlzz2egy6eqr4nksacmbht/app.bsky.feed.post/3munkcsp3nc2yhttps://blacksky.community/profile/carnage4life.bsky.social/post/3munhndt4vk2cCrazy week for AI models. Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5.1, Meta launched Muse Spark 1.3 and Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash. OpenAI ended the week with GPT-6 Astra, which absolutely crushes the competition across its benchmark table. Frontier models are getting leapfrogged in under 24 hours.03 Sep 2026 22:09 +0000at://did:plc:57vlzz2egy6eqr4nksacmbht/app.bsky.feed.post/3munhndt4vk2chttps://blacksky.community/profile/carnage4life.bsky.social/post/3mummvuuksc2iMicrosoft is changing its financial reporting from: • Productivity & Business Processes • Intelligent Cloud • More Personal Computing To: • Agents & Infra • Devices & Consumer Office, GitHub and Azure now effectively belong to the same business. Their business is now just AI and everything else. https://www.theverge.com/news/989102/microsoft-earnings-changes-azure-revenue03 Sep 2026 14:10 +0000at://did:plc:57vlzz2egy6eqr4nksacmbht/app.bsky.feed.post/3mummvuuksc2ihttps://blacksky.community/profile/carnage4life.bsky.social/post/3mumcrwasrs2yThe US just got the G20 to endorse a surprisingly pro-AI regulatory framework called the Carolina Principles. The basic idea is don’t create new AI-specific regulations when existing laws already cover the problem, while making it easier to commercialize AI and not constrain model development. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-02/us-strikes-light-touch-ai-regulation-accord-with-g20-members03 Sep 2026 11:09 +0000at://did:plc:57vlzz2egy6eqr4nksacmbht/app.bsky.feed.post/3mumcrwasrs2yhttps://blacksky.community/profile/carnage4life.bsky.social/post/3mumbekcbys2sIn honor of Uber shutting down in Nigeria this week, here’s my favorite story about Uber in Nigeria.03 Sep 2026 10:44 +0000at://did:plc:57vlzz2egy6eqr4nksacmbht/app.bsky.feed.post/3mumbekcbys2shttps://blacksky.community/profile/carnage4life.bsky.social/post/3mumanfreak2sAs someone who works in advertising, I’m always amused by people who argue strongly that advertising doesn’t work and is a waste of money.03 Sep 2026 10:31 +0000at://did:plc:57vlzz2egy6eqr4nksacmbht/app.bsky.feed.post/3mumanfreak2shttps://blacksky.community/profile/carnage4life.bsky.social/post/3mum7umu4v224“Everybody is arrested like an MS 13 gang member. It was physically degrading. It was frightening.” - Milo Yiannopoulos ~ A Trump supporter challenged me by asking how can I say “be kind to each other” then be mean to Trump supporters. It’s because you voted for this to happen to others.03 Sep 2026 10:17 +0000at://did:plc:57vlzz2egy6eqr4nksacmbht/app.bsky.feed.post/3mum7umu4v224https://blacksky.community/profile/carnage4life.bsky.social/post/3mull6eznak27It’s taken longer than I expected but I’m beginning to see signs that people and local businesses are struggling financially in ways they can’t hide. It’s truly sad because there are no grownups in the room who are going to turnaround the economy. No one is coming to save us. Be kind to each other03 Sep 2026 04:07 +0000at://did:plc:57vlzz2egy6eqr4nksacmbht/app.bsky.feed.post/3mull6eznak27https://blacksky.community/profile/carnage4life.bsky.social/post/3mulky7jxqs27I didn’t realize that many people cared about Lake Ontario being correctly named in their map app.03 Sep 2026 04:03 +0000at://did:plc:57vlzz2egy6eqr4nksacmbht/app.bsky.feed.post/3mulky7jxqs27https://blacksky.community/profile/carnage4life.bsky.social/post/3muljyne22s27In hindsight, Microsoft’s voluntary retirement program was a classy move relative to how layoffs have gone down in big tech. At least give people an option to leave on their own terms versus waking up to an email that says the company now considers your years of experience a liability, so goodbye👋🏾03 Sep 2026 03:45 +0000at://did:plc:57vlzz2egy6eqr4nksacmbht/app.bsky.feed.post/3muljyne22s27https://blacksky.community/profile/carnage4life.bsky.social/post/3mulh2bdsr22qI sometimes think frontier AI labs may end up looking more like telcos than Google or Amazon. AI will create enormous value, but labs face huge capital costs, increasingly interchangeable models and customers easily able to switch vendors. Creating enormous value doesn’t guarantee capturing it.03 Sep 2026 02:53 +0000at://did:plc:57vlzz2egy6eqr4nksacmbht/app.bsky.feed.post/3mulh2bdsr22qhttps://blacksky.community/profile/carnage4life.bsky.social/post/3mulgjk3kbc2qFable 5.1 just failed to do what I asked and I realized it will cost me money to tell Claude it screwed up. 😭03 Sep 2026 02:43 +0000at://did:plc:57vlzz2egy6eqr4nksacmbht/app.bsky.feed.post/3mulgjk3kbc2qhttps://blacksky.community/profile/carnage4life.bsky.social/post/3mulemozq5223According to Ara Kharazian, Ramp’s chief economist, their data shows that 80% of spending on Anthropic & OpenAI come from 1% of their customers. This is a major risk as it implies their massive revenue growth is fueled by a handful of tokenmaxxing companies and they’re vulnerable if they slow spend03 Sep 2026 02:09 +0000at://did:plc:57vlzz2egy6eqr4nksacmbht/app.bsky.feed.post/3mulemozq5223https://blacksky.community/profile/carnage4life.bsky.social/post/3muld7mjxtc2hA behind-the-scenes look at the typical MAGA reply guy.03 Sep 2026 01:44 +0000at://did:plc:57vlzz2egy6eqr4nksacmbht/app.bsky.feed.post/3muld7mjxtc2hhttps://blacksky.community/profile/carnage4life.bsky.social/post/3mulbi4mhv22hWhenever I find someone who uses Claude Code, I start pitching them on Codex like I’m on commission. Claude is just that bad these days. /CC @pfrazee.com03 Sep 2026 01:13 +0000at://did:plc:57vlzz2egy6eqr4nksacmbht/app.bsky.feed.post/3mulbi4mhv22hhttps://blacksky.community/profile/carnage4life.bsky.social/post/3mulb432w4s2hGoogle has successfully avoided being broken up a second time after losing antitrust cases that declared it an illegal monopoly in search and online advertising. The judge ordered instead that they should make changes to their business practices to favor competitors. Even when they lose, they win. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-02/google-avoids-ad-exchange-sale-as-judge-orders-tech-integration03 Sep 2026 01:06 +0000at://did:plc:57vlzz2egy6eqr4nksacmbht/app.bsky.feed.post/3mulb432w4s2hhttps://blacksky.community/profile/carnage4life.bsky.social/post/3mukkzh5eqs25The U.S government backs OpenAI in its lawsuit against the New York Times arguing that training AI on copyrighted data is fair use. I find this fascinating mainly because they believe the opposite if it's Chinese open weight models training on the output of American frontier lab models. https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-government-backs-openai-new-york-times-copyright-case-2026-09-02/02 Sep 2026 18:31 +0000at://did:plc:57vlzz2egy6eqr4nksacmbht/app.bsky.feed.post/3mukkzh5eqs25