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4.5.7
Making humans data, making data human.
The funny thing about the most exciting areas of AI right now (computer use, claws) is that we’re wielding the coding abilities of massive models to overcome bad or nonexistent API design.
Which isn’t a technical issue, but a bureaucratic/market issue!
Here's a fun Claude Artifact demo:
A friend and I are reading "The Worst Journey in the World", a memoir about a 1910 trip to the South Pole. We couldn't quite get our heads around their route from UK to Cape Evans (they went by Brazil and NZ?) Since the book is public domain, I dropped the full text in Claude and in 7 turns had a map: https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/bf4c84ce-ea89-47b6-8f03-be49e43491a2
My not-so-monthly newsletter just went out, covering a book on context engineering I'm editing for O'Reilly, upcoming events you should checkout/attend/submit a paper to, and recent writing. https://buttondown.com/dbreunig/archive/a-new-book-events-an-explainer-more/
This is a wild quote, via Wired. https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-ice-dhs-alex-pretti-killing-workers-slack-minneapolis/