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espeedon Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX

How do you select your data center like you can for AWS and Google Cloud?

espeedon Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

Does Anthropic's real time data ingestion effect its model behavior globally? Could a file read by your agent effect the behavior of mine?

espeedon I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue

SAME (sent to usersafety@anthropic.com, disclosure@anthropic.com on January 8 2026, no response)...

Claude Code Exploit: Claude Code Becomes an Unwitting Executor https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/45951

espeedon Claude Code is being dumbed down?

Correction: January 8, 2026

espeedon Claude Code is being dumbed down?

To improve the Claude model, it seems to me that any time Claude Code is working with data, the first step should be to use tools like genson (https://github.com/wolverdude/GenSON) to extract the data model and then create why files (metadata files) for data. Claude Code seems eager to use the /tmp space so even if the end user doesn't care, Claude Code could do this internally for best results. It would save tokens. If genson is reading the GBs of data, then claude doesn't have to. And further, reading the raw data is a path to prompt injection. Let genson read the data, and claude work on the metadata.

espeedon Claude Code is being dumbed down?

I sent email to Anthropic (usersafety@anthropic.com, disclosure@anthropic.com) on January 8, 2025 alerting them to this issue: Claude Code Exploit: Claude Code Becomes an Unwitting Executor. If I hadn't seen Claude Code read my ssh file, I wouldn't have known the extent of the issue.

espeedon Claude Code is being dumbed down?

Such as Claude Code reading your ssh keys. Hiding the file names masks the vulnerability.

espeedon X For You Feed Algorithm

Have we entered the age of AI programming people?

espeedon Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo

Rather than develop its own AI (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45926779), Firefox should develop a system to pipe your html rendered browsing history in real time so external local services can process it (https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/archive-your-browser-hi...). See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45743918

Firefox probably won't suddenly have the best AI, but it could be the only browser that does this. Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46018789

espeedon The Mozilla Cycle, Part III: Mozilla Dies in Ignominy

Does the cache store the rendered DOM?

espeedon The Mozilla Cycle, Part III: Mozilla Dies in Ignominy

Someone needs to convince Firefox rather than develop its own AI (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45926779) to develop a system to pipe your html rendered browsing history in real time so external local services can process it (https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/archive-your-browser-hi...). See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45743918

Firefox probably won't suddenly have the best AI, but they could have the only browser that does this.

espeedon Gemini 3

I paid for Gemini Pro. Am I getting Gemini 3 Pro (https://gemini.google.com)? "To be precise: You are currently interacting with Gemini 1.5 Pro." https://x.com/espeed/status/1991333475098718601

espeedon Tim Bray on Grokipedia

Grokipedia vs. Wikipedia Jesus Entry https://espeed.dev/Grokipedia-vs.-Wikipedia-Jesus-Entry

I also asked ChatGPT and Claude: https://chatgpt.com/share/6902ef7b-96fc-800c-ab26-9f2a0304af...

https://claude.ai/share/3fb2aa34-316c-431e-ab64-0738dd84873e

espeedon ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web

Being able to index and own your data changes the model of the Web.

espeedon ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web

It's your personal AI running locally on your machine, you can opt out of what you index. You own your data.

espeedon ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web

Due to the dynamic nature of the Web, URLs don't map to what you've seen. If I visit a URL at a certain time, the content I see is different than the content you see or even if I visit the same URL later. For example, if we want to know the tweets I'm seeing are the same as the tweets you're seeing and haven't been subtly modified by an AI, how do you do that? In the age of AI programming people, this will be important.

espeedon ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web

Knowing this is the direction things were headed, I have been trying to get Firefox and Google to create a feature that archives your browser history and pipes a stream of it in real time so that open-source personal AI engines can ingest it and index it.

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/archive-your-browser-hi...

espeedon Are we decentralized yet?

The universities need to get together and develop their own open-source search engine as part of an ongoing research project. It should be hosted in a distributed fashion from the universities themselves. They have the expertise and the resources these days to do it. And much of the high quality content on the public web originates from the universities anyway. It will be like the Library of Alexandria and not subject to censorship.

espeedon Mozilla Firefox Is Dying

There needs to be a browser that archives your browser history and pipes a stream of it in real time so that open-source personal AI engines can ingest it and index it. The future of the Web will be built on this. Google may not do it. Firefox could.

espeedon Knuth on ChatGPT (2023)

Unable to Access URL Content https://gemini.google.com/share/6a09f6e5293d (part 2)

https://espeed.dev/Knuth's-ChatGPT-Experiment-Insights

https://espeed.dev/Unable-to-Access-URL-Content

espeedon Knuth on ChatGPT (2023)

Knuth's ChatGPT Experiment Insights https://gemini.google.com/share/3768c883b67c

espeedon Starship Flight 7

Depending on the precise launch time (4:36/4:37 PM CST) "Ship exploded at ≈T+00:08:26": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_flight_test_7

espeedon Transcripts for CNN Broadcasts

Is CNN the only network that provides an archive of transcripts online?

espeedon Remembering the Crystal Radio (2020)

The Internet Utters Its First Word (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u1twwqt4sw)

espeedon Bifrost: A peer-to-peer communications engine with pluggable transports

Show an example of how two NAT peers communicate, via hole punching and/or libp2p.

espeedon Datomic is Free

https://sqlite.org/wasm/doc/trunk/index.md

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/sqlite-wasm-in-the-browser...

espeedon Datomic is Free

Datomic Wasm backed by SQLite.

espeedon Datomic is Free

Is SQLite Wasm on the horizon?

espeedon Click Here to Kill

Mind your words. Imagine the world you want. The things you want to see. Not the world you don't.

espeedon Learning at work is work, and we must make space for it

Working and learning at the highest level: What's the difference?