It’s like a wood chipper fueled by dollars. It can power through shockingly impressive tasks, using nothing but chat. You don’t even select context. You just open your heart and your wallet, and Claude Code takes the wheel. It even helps keep you in the loop by prompting you every eight seconds to ask if it can use basic read-only commands that you would allow anyone, even North Korean hackers, to run on your machine.

The College Board writes the curriculum for 40 AP courses, administers and grades the exams, oversees the PSAT and SAT, and offers a variety of free and paid resources to help prepare for the courses and tests. Many students will wind up paying the company north of $1,000 over the course of their high school career.

Thats $1k per student… I do struggle to understand how we let a private company grab the bridge between primary and secondary education but here we are. It certainly seems like the more money you have the better you do on these tests. Not exactly the meritocracy a public education is supposed to deliver.

Claude’s curiosity and character is in part the work of Amanda Askell, who has a philosophy PhD and is a keeper of its personality. She concluded that an AI should be flexible and not appear morally rigid.

Short history of Anthropic’s founding and split from OpenAI. Whether it succeeds in creating a benevolent AGI, it has for now at least created a useful coding tool.

_{Quote Citation: Steven Levy, “If Anthropic Succeeds, a Nation of Benevolent AI Geniuses Could Be Born”, Mar 28, 2025 6:00 AM, https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-benevolent-artificial-intelligence/}

Though each experiment is noisy, when data is combined across three experiments and 4,867 developers, our analysis reveals a 26.08% increase (SE: 10.3%) in completed tasks among developers using the AI tool. Notably, less experienced developers had higher adoption rates and greater productivity gains. … We find that Copilot significantly raises task completion for more recent hires and those in more junior positions but not for developers with longer tenure and in more senior positions.

When we tracked these links to their destination, we found that 5% of all links on news site pages are no longer accessible. And 23% of all the pages we sampled contained at least one broken link.

tbh. 5% of all links being broken seems low, but I started this notes project because the things I want to find I never can…

_{Quote Citation: Athena Chapekis, Samuel Bestvater, Emma Remy and Gonzalo Rivero, “When Online Content Disappears 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later”, MAY 17, 2024, https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2024/05/pl_2024.05.17_link-rot_report.pdf}

But in every single state in America, a $100,000 salary is no longer enough to be considered “upper-class”—and families with six-figure incomes are even struggling to get by.

Growing up in the 90s a six figure job was like the epitome of ‘made it’. And now it barely covers the bills, and median income is even lower.

_{Quote Citation: EMMA BURLEIGH, “People making six-figure salaries used to be considered rich—now households earning nearly $200,000 a year aren’t even considered upper-class in some U.S. states”, March 24, 2025, 3:57 PM UTC, https://fortune.com/2025/03/24/us-middle-class-threshold-household-income-six-figures-inflation-salary-deflation/}

One in 5 Gen Zers worldwide are deemed NEETs—not in education, employment, or training. The promises they received in school may be to blame.

Not sure if the fault lie with colleges in so much as society. This narrative of go to college (which one?) study (what major?) graduate (when?) and make money leaves a lot to be desired on the planning front…

_{Quote Citation: Preston Fore, “Over 4 million Gen Zers are jobless—and experts blame colleges for ‘worthless degrees’ and a system of broken promises for the rising number NEETs”, March 25, 2025, 4:56 PM UTC, https://fortune.com/2025/03/25/gen-z-neet-not-in-education-employment-training-higher-ed-worthless-degrees-college/}

SA: I mean, my basic assumption is that each software engineer will just do much, much more for a while. And then at some point, yeah, maybe we do need less software engineers.

Lots of ink spilled on the nature of software engineering. I find it hard to believe that we’ll need fewer engineers… but flaged this as a ‘prediction’ so I can check back later.

_{Quote Citation: Ben Thompson, “An Interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman About Building a Consumer Tech Company”, March 20, 2025, https://stratechery.com/2025/an-interview-with-openai-ceo-sam-altman-about-building-a-consumer-tech-company/}

As coding becomes easier, more people should code, not fewer!

Oft repeated, AI won’t take your job, but someone using it probably will.

_{Quote Citation: Andrew, “DeepSeek-R1 Uncensored, QwQ-32B Puts Reasoning in Smaller Model, and more…”, March 12, 2025, https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-292/}

The attack technique developed by Pillar Researchers, which they call ‘Rules File Backdoor,’ weaponizes rules files by injecting them with instructions that are invisible to a human user but readable by the AI agent.

xkcd taught me anything, its to sanitize my inputs

_{Quote Citation: Laura French, “How AI coding assistants could be compromised via rules file”, March 18, 2025, https://www.scworld.com/news/how-ai-coding-assistants-could-be-compromised-via-rules-file}