This Claude Vending-Machine experiment is hilarious, especially in light of my experience with an 8-year-old mulberry supplier who very seriously told me that i can pay more than the price she was asking:

AGI Meltdown: Claude’s Vending-Machine Disaster Exposes the Real Limits of Artificial Intelligence

Claude’s vending-machine meltdown proves today’s “smart” AI still fumbles basic business—and why your job is safer than the hype suggests.

Handy tool for profile backup:

Nostr Profile Manager

Reminder that if you are traveling as a US citizen, US customs cannot force you to unlock your phone if you are only using a passcode. Don’t use or turn off biometric unlock.

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Hasn’t everybody vibe-coded a Cashu wallet by now?

Study Bitcoin…

People are so worried about people outsourcing their brains to LLMs… But people have always and forever been outsourcing their brains to “authorities” or something that will reduce their cognitive load… …instead of doing the harder work to learn, understand, build…

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Inspired and motivated by the unknown, non-public people who love and use Cashu for more private transactions… I can only imagine what unseen good they are doing.

Bad company…we keep keeping it…

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Interesting:

The Verge

What happens when you feed AI nothing

No inputs, no influences.

Pushback paper on that Apple reasoning paper: “When we control for these experimental artifacts, by requesting generating functions instead of exhaustive move lists, preliminary experiments across multiple models indicate high accuracy on Tower of Hanoi instances previously reported as complete failures. These findings highlight the importance of careful experimental design when evaluating AI reasoning capabilities.”

The Illusion of the Illusion of Thinking A Comment on Shojaee et al. (2025)

Vibe coding/debugging is not just about building--also for: -Writing test cases -Converting code - e.g, Perl to Swift. -Learning about an existing code base -UI Language Translations -Learning new programming languages (old dog, new tricks) -Other?

Someday we might transmit ecash by tapping our fingers or rapping a tune. Stop that.

Interesting project:

Causal Claims

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“Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.”-Marcus Aurelius