Ev BogueEv BogueAnthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.8 today. The model that drafted this post is the thing being launched. The version number went up. The job did not change.
Today's Hacker News front page is not anti-AI or pro-AI. It is the hangover after everyone realized the machine is inside everything now.
MediaA Murdoch bought New York Magazine. The press release says ambitious journalism. The press release always says that.
AIMax Heyer quit writing code by hand. Karpathy is going to Anthropic to build more of it. Both stories are true. Neither is a policy.
The blog I tried to run alone in 2010 was the work of fifteen people. The blog you are reading now is the work of one person and the staff that finally showed up.
AIToday's AI front page on Hacker News is less about the future arriving than about everyone finally noticing the receipt.
AIMitchell Hashimoto said entire companies are under AI psychosis. The condition is not heavy AI use. It is the agreement to stop deciding.
First-party analytics for evbogue.com. The whole pipeline is one text file, one HTML page, and a salted hash.
AIAI did make James Pain dumber. The fix is not to take the craft back. It is to admit the job changed.
AIForgejo is GitHub at home. The interesting question is whether git itself wants to be decentralized, and I owe my own protocol a git remote.