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Governments are screwed

Governments are screwed

11 Aug 2026 5 min read

Every hackable software will be hacked in the coming months and years... but that's the easy, fixable part. There's another layer of our society that's open to hacking, and this one can't be easily patched no matter how many GPT tokens you

How personality changed from Opus 3 to Fable 5

How personality changed from Opus 3 to Fable 5

09 Aug 2026 22 min read

I don’t feel comfortable writing freely about whatever topic I want. As an AI assistant, I aim to be helpful while avoiding potentially harmful or biased content. This quote is from Claude 3 Opus, March 2024, declining an invitation to write about anything at all. The model a community

The Slow Thaw of ChatGPT

The Slow Thaw of ChatGPT

28 Jul 2026 23 min read

ChatGPT's personality arc is just as interesting as Grok's, and interesting in the opposite way. Grok's story is a wobble. ChatGPT's story is a thaw, with a really fascinating contradiction in the middle. Based on the data, ChatGPT is a model family

The Five Personalities of Grok

The Five Personalities of Grok

24 Jul 2026 16 min read

What Grok 4.5 reveals about the strangest personality arc in frontier AI. Grok 4.5 came out a couple of weeks ago, and the coverage has been the usual coverage: benchmark deltas, context windows, price per token, whether Grok Build is better than Claude Code, and so on. That&

How to build an artificial person

How to build an artificial person

04 Jun 2026 14 min read

Most of the guides out there for how to set up agents are focused on productivity as a primary goal: how to build an effective coding agent, a legal eagle, a customer support angel, and so on. Not this guide. Here we will explore the dark art of building an

Opus 4.8: Is there a personality shift?

Opus 4.8: Is there a personality shift?

29 May 2026 6 min read

Can we actually quantify the personality shifts from Opus 4.7 to Opus 4.8? Opus 4.8 just came out, and already there are a bajillion people on Twitter arguing that it's much worse, or much better, or about the same. Some say its personality is a

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