@profjasonpotts
Coming in under 2 weeks: HAYEK FOR OUR TIME. This short book is in the Cambridge Element series, @Cambridge_Uni @CUP_Elements, and it will be followed by a big book on Hayek in 2028 from @mitpress. Special thanks to @PeterBoettkeView quoted post on X
cambridge.org/core/books/hay…
SITUATION DETECTED: With cannabis prices crashing to historic lows, marijuana growers with massive industrial properties outfitted with heavy power, fiber, water, and HVAC are attempting to pivot into AI data centers, per Forbes.View quoted post on X
JUST IN: Vibecoder discovers previously unmapped ancient Maya settlement hidden beneath the Mexican jungle using 48 AI agents & NASA lidar data, despite having no archaeology experience.View quoted post on X
Ok, last thing, and I know it's unpopular, but on "grad students make this place run" and are "workers": when you become a professor, you will learn this is completely untrue. Love our students, but they are *students* and incredibly costly ones. 1/3View quoted post on X
quick observations from the claude fable and mythos 5.2 launch:View quoted post on X
1/ it went from doing 21% of real freelance work to 41% in one release, so agencies are about to start charging per deliverable instead of per hour!
2/ it can work 10-12 hours on its own, which basically gives every small business a night shift (might as well use it if you know what you want to build)
3/ over 90% of anthropic's own code is now written by claude, and so i think the solo $1b founder is coming soon
4/ one engineer ran 1000+ subagents for 8 days and got an operating system that boots, so the ancient software running hospitals and airlines is finally rebuildable (lots of opportunity here on rebuilding)
5/ it designed 3 working electronic devices from a single prompt, which makes 1 person hardware companies a real thing
6/ it now says "i don't know" instead of guessing, and that's what law, medicine and finance have been waiting for (this has been the biggest thorn for these industries, hard to trust guessing)
7/ 1000 agents formalized fermat's last theorem in 30 hours, so software that's mathematically proven not to break is coming for payments and medical devices
8/ mythos is only for verified orgs, which means someone is going to build a business selling what only they have access to
9/ the models are getting better at noticing when they're being tested, so testing ai out in the real world is about to become its own industry
i love new model day
