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>one of the latent findings LLMs unlocked

Either I really misunderstood high school English classes or this is what poems have always been known to do.


Well, now I'm intrigued. I can envision some interesting mechanics...

A very simple open-source browser extension called Karaoke Pitch that lets you adjust the pitch of a YouTube video and optionally store that chosen pitch for later.

https://github.com/djeastm/karaoke-pitch

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/karaoke-pitch...

Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/karaoke-pitch/facck...

The Firefox one has 12 average daily users already, so that makes it my most successful side project ever haha.


When my agents start referring to humans as a virus and AI as the cure, that's when I'll worry.

That would be too late by that point

>They’re running a Wuhan for AI.

What does "running a Wuhan" mean?


Gain of function for the virus analogy

>voice recordings and data were treated as essentially radioactive waste, deleted as soon as legally possible

Is this what is done with the "Audio was not intended for this device" entries in the Review Alexa History section of the Alexa app?


Yes -- when audio is clearly not intended for the device, there's no point in keeping it around longer than necessary for anyone concerned. Amazon had (and likely still has) less than zero interest in mining that data for any purpose, because obviously people would trust Amazon less, and trust is very hard to regain.

This report says 49 confirmed cases as of a few days ago. https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/07/health/screwworm-billion-flie...

You're right about the countermeasures, but I can't help but look at 1971 (473 confirmed cases, then almost 100,000 the next year).


I might be missing something here, but can't you just put in AGENTS.md something like "do not run full test suite unless asked" or something?

>I think I’ve easily crossed 100k tokens so far on nothing

100k tokens? Is it just me or is that very low for an app build?


100k output is a good amount. Probably read and cache are way more, to the millions.

equals roughly 10k loc. If output is code only without rewrites.

World Happiness Report finds this:

"In general, most Western industrial countries are now less happy than they were between 2005 and 2010. Fifteen of them have had significant drops, compared to four with significant increases."

"In eight of the ten global regions shown in Figure 2.2 (covering roughly 90% of the world’s population), those in the youngest age group have higher life evaluations now than in 2006–2010, either in absolute terms or relative to those over 25. Youth wellbeing has only fallen in the NANZ countries [United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand] and Western Europe, both absolutely and relative to adults. [Emphasis added]"

https://www.worldhappiness.report/ed/2026/executive-summary-...


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> I'd be happy to send them back there and let them see for themselves.

I'm curious how you intend to do this.


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