First Liquid Glass, then the 17’s design, then ads and ecosystem subscription bloat, then Duo/HomeView, and now the touchscreen Mac. Jobs is rolling in his grave.

Seems like an excessive announcement just to get a little extra time.

For these companies, is your argument that “pacing the frontier” is their attempt to be nationalized and protect their investments?

Red flags:

- Amodei claims RSI is here and links two sources, but neither reinforce this notion. It’s heavily agreed upon true RSI is the danger sign here (also by Coxon). Nothing indicates there is something these labs have developed that supports RSI today or even soon.

- Real US orgs are moving, like today, to Chinese open source AI run locally due to cost constraints. Ask anyone in the industry in an infra role. Frontier AI is just way too expensive to justify for coding. The big 3 labs are scared of this - their revenue and moat disappears once OSS models are progressing enough for developers to use. Kimi/GLM/DeepSeek Flash/Qwen are usable today on hosted hardware for actual coding work.

- These labs would all benefit from nationalization if their funding model fails (an easy bailout).

- Related to the above, with federal guidelines in place (i.e. restricting access to certain organizations, or establishing something like FedRAMP approval for AI use), their path to government/contractor/large U.S. company distribution becomes so much easier. They can control the supppy chain of AI for organizations.

- Preparing for (or in xAI’s case, launching) a public IPO creates excitement among consumer investors when they think this tech is as powerful as it is claimed.

- The HuggingFace hack demonstrated no new capabilities that were not previously seen before - previous models were misaligned, but weren’t as harmful as agent swarms. Anthropic’s marketing directly hopped on this bandwagon when it saw the outcome of OpenAI’s blogging making it to mainstream media (and they constantly paint China as “the” bad guy without further elaboration or research that you’d expect on APTs).

Amodei is a CEO at the end of the day. It may be 25% earnest speculative concerns, but you’d be foolish to take it at face value given the patterns we’ve seen from Anthropic, xAI and OpenAI to date. Until we see real proof of RSI we should be skeptical.

Having dynamic effort set per conversation turn means:

- Less tokens burned on easy queries (e.g. something low /effort can do goes to xhigh because it's the convo default)

- You avoid mistakes: Prompts requiring high effort (like a refactor or security threat modeling) go to high or xhigh instead of medium to reduce likelihood of mistakes and reduce wasted tokens.

I created this out of a personal need and it's been game-changing. My Claude sessions are way more productive with less back/forth.

Give it a try and feel free to contribute!

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:O

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Combined with Snyk reporting that they found ~1500 malicious skills on such marketplaces (https://snyk.io/blog/toxicskills-malicious-ai-agent-skills-c...), I decided to build a library for doing skill scanning since Claude doesn't do it natively.

v0.1 of skillcop is an OSS wrapper around Claude Code for scanning malicious skills at invocation time.Skillcop integrates natively with Ollama for skill scanning, providing direct access to Gemma 3, GPT-OSS, GLM 4.7 Flash from the CLI.

Existing harnesses exist but don't quite get to this level of granular LLM-on-LLM scanning. Would love to get feedback and users from the community!

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The second is gonna be a lot harder to enforce, as we soon (and probably already) don't know who we're talking to on the internet - a real person or someone's agent? Will calling spaces "human only" later be seen as discriminatory by agents? How will we actually enforce "human only" spaces? Will websites like HN start to provide an "agent only" discussion forum or filter in addition to the "human only" sections?

https://tryward.app/aiquiz

This article, covering elements of writing like content, language & grammar, style, and citations, is verbose and is intended for Wikipedia’s army of content editors.

Walls of text are boring. Games are more fun. I turned Wikipedia’s quiz into an interactive game. I failed miserably.

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This made me think this was satire/ragebait. Most important relationship?!?

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