I think ppl working in the technology industry should understand that middle America is starting to hate us in a really visceral, potentially unrecoverable way
Itโs totally self-defeating and irrational on the part of middle America, but itโs very real and getting worse fast
This whole narrative arc seems entirely memoryholed
Perhaps more interestingly, the many indications that Anthropic staff themselves were genuinely convinced that theyโd reached extremely steep RSI have also been memoryholed
One thing Iโd like to see from the big labs as a public service now that thereโs cheap video generators is infinite scroll but for 3blue1brown or Sal Khan-style instructional videos
Put the slop cannon and the last two decades of psyop development to good use
Over the last week weโve audited all our GPU code written by Opus 4.8 and have found a lot of perf goofs
We have no way of knowing whether what we found was honest goof or intentional nerf, either way you should audit all your performance critical Opus 4.8 code with Codex 5.5