The Best Model I Couldn't Keep
Anthropic released Fable 5 on June 9, then pulled it three days later. It helped finish my agency dashboard, and I doubt anything like it comes back soon.
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The AI That Stays at Home
Paying a small monthly fee and sending prompts to distant servers has become the normal way to use AI. Running a capable model on your own machine has always been an option on paper, but the time required to make it work has kept it niche.
Beginner Again
There is a version of this story that is clean and motivating. This is not that version, this is the one with imposter syndrome, slow progress, and the strange feeling of being experienced and a complete beginner at the same time.
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Skiff For Nothing
Skiff was an amazing product. A serious end-to-end encrypted workspace. Notion bought it, shut it down, and replaced it with an overhyped Gmail wrapper that now is facing the same fate.
The Best Model I Couldn't Keep
Anthropic released Fable 5 on June 9, then pulled it three days later. It helped finish my agency dashboard, and I doubt anything like it comes back soon.
The AI That Stays at Home
Paying a small monthly fee and sending prompts to distant servers has become the normal way to use AI. Running a capable model on your own machine has always been an option on paper, but the time required to make it work has kept it niche.
The Mob Won. Blender Lost
Anthropic offered Blender 240.000€ a year in ongoing funding. Four programmer jobs. The community revolted, and three days later the Foundation folded. Here's why it bothers me.
Every Good Name is Taken
A couple of weeks ago I decided to try to build an RSS reader. I grabbed my notebook, listed every feature I wanted, and started imagining the UI. The code is coming together. The name, however, is proving much harder than I expected.
When the Cloud Reminded Me Who's Really in Control
Last week the platforms I count on for client work failed one after another. Not in some dramatic collapse, but at the exact moments I needed them most.
The Glass Wall
Anthropic announced a model too capable to release publicly. Project Glasswing is the response, and it cuts right to the heart of who controls the tools the whole internet runs on.
Between You and the Tool
John O'Nolan built a CLI for Ghost on a whim, used it for an hour, and found it hard to go back to the browser. I was thinking about a version of the same problem, but from a different angle.
The Format That Outlasted Everything
I've been reading through RSS feeds since 2007. Every platform built on top of the format has disappointed me, but the format itself never has.