• Anthropic has announced its new frontier models, Claude Mythos and Claude Fable 5.1.  (Anthropic)
  
  Are they any good?  No, because -
  
  
  
• Anthropic pledges to try harder to keep models under control.  (The Register)
  
  The result is a sort of virtual fetal alcohol syndrome where they panic blindly when they think you might be indirectly suggesting BAD THING and collapse screaming on the floor so that Anthropic's day-to-day model Opus has to come to the rescue.
  
  Fable also spends tokens like water.
  
  
  
• Anthropic's new Fable release is cheaper, less restrictive.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Two lies for the price of one.
  
  
  

Tech News

• AI still gives results ranging from bad to terrible when vibe coding.  But that all changes if you happen to have a 106-page spec of a task nailed down to the last bit and nanosecond.  Give Claude Opus that, and it will mechanically fill in all the requirements and write conformance tests to prove it did everything you asked and nothing you didn't ask.  And it's not stupid - if you left out something necessary it will tell you.
  
  I mean, it's not like I have a lot of 106-page specs for personal projects nailed down to the last bit and nanosecond...  But I did have one.  And now I have 10,000 lines of Rust.
  
  And a steadily increasing amount of machine code for an architecture that didn't exist last week except on paper.
  
  
  
• What am I doing?
  
  EVERYTHING.
  
  Every programming project I've ever mentioned on this blog and subsequently dropped when it got too hard or life got too busy I've gathered up and I'm feeding what I have through Claude Code.
  
  Recursively, in many cases.
  
  The updates I wanted to make to this site for many years were held back by missing features in Python and MySQL.
  
  So...  I just wrote my own.  Took an upgraded Claude subscription and couple of weeks.
  
  I also found time to slot in that retrocomputer project I spent all that time on a few years back.  I have a VM and a cross-compiler, and now I'm building a native compiler.  Then I expand that work to the other...  Five architectures, I think.  Maybe six.
  
  It even emulates my DSP and video controller designs.  It's not cycle-accurate but it's scan line accurate - it emulates the allocation of memory bandwidth at 120 accesses per scan line.
  
  In the 106 pages of specs Claude found one error - I think it's an error - where I misstated the number of memory accesses per scan line for a particular video mode, out of a couple of dozen.
  
  
  
• Bought myself another tablet - the 11" older sister to my 8" Lenovo Legion Tab.  Same CPU, RAM, and ROM, but a larger display and higher resolution - 3200x2000.  40% off on clearance and comes with pen and keyboard - the pen I already have one of and it works well; the keyboard is a wait-and-see.
  
  The newer models are faster but much more expensive, and the one high-end large tablet I have died of battery bloat.
  
  
  
• Sony is arguing in court that no reasonable customer would assume that they own what they bought.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Of course not.  You'd have to be a complete idiot to believe Sony.
  
  
  
• Who is John Galt, the new CEO of Apple?  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Or just some guy from a book.
  
  
  
• Florida has banned Flock cameras from state highways.  (WCTV)
  
  Liberals everywhere thrown into cognitive dissonance.

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