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> The problems were baked in.
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> ## How it started
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> You could say it all started with Elon Musk’s AI FOMO — and his crusade against “wokeness.” When his AI company, xAI, announced Grok in November 2023, it was described as a chatbot with “a rebellious streak” and the ability to “answer spicy questions that are rejected by most other AI systems.” The chatbot debuted after a few months of development and just two months of training, and the announcement highlighted that Grok would have real-time knowledge of the X platform.
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> But there are inherent risks to a chatbot having both the run of the internet and X, and it’s safe to say xAI may not have taken the necessary steps to address them. Since Musk took over Twitter in 2022 and renamed it X, he laid off 30% of its global trust and safety staff and cut its number of safety engineers by 80%, Australia’s online safety watchdog said last January. As for xAI, when Grok was released, it was unclear whether xAI had a safety team already in place. When Grok 4 was released in July, it took more than a month for the company to release a model card — a practice typically seen as an industry standard, which details safety tests and potential concerns. Two weeks after Grok 4’s release, an xAI employee wrote on X that he was hiring for xAI’s safety team and that they “urgently need strong engineers/researchers.” In response to a commenter, who asked, “xAI does safety?” the original employee said xAI was “working on it.”
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Under Musk, the Grok disaster was inevitable

> If you’ve ever used a 3D printer, you may recall the wondrous feeling when you first printed something you could have never sculpted or built yourself. Download a model file, load some plastic filament, push a button, and almost like magic, a three-dimensional object appears. But the result isn’t polished and ready for mass production, and creating a novel shape requires more skills than just pushing a button. Interestingly, today’s AI coding agents feel much the same way.
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> Since November, I have used Claude Code and Claude Opus 4.5 through a personal Claude Max account to extensively experiment with AI-assisted software development (I have also used OpenAI’s Codex in a similar way, though not as frequently). Fifty projects later, I’ll be frank: I have not had this much fun with a computer since I learned BASIC on my Apple II Plus when I was 9 years old. This opinion comes not as an endorsement but as personal experience: I voluntarily undertook this project, and I paid out of pocket for both OpenAI and Anthropic’s premium AI plans.
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> Throughout my life, I have dabbled in programming as a utilitarian coder, writing small tools or scripts when needed. In my web development career, I wrote some small tools from scratch, but I primarily modified other people’s code for my needs. Since 1990, I’ve programmed in BASIC, C, Visual Basic, PHP, ASP, Perl, Python, Ruby, MUSHcode, and some others. I am not an expert in any of these languages—I learned just enough to get the job done. I have developed my own hobby games over the years using BASIC, Torque Game Engine, and Godot, so I have some idea of what makes a good architecture for a modular program that can be expanded over time.
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10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents

history

econ

> The American Founding launched a revolutionary idea: rights exist first, and government exists to secure them. It’s beautiful, transformative… and perpetually unfinished.
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> Tempting as it may be, I have no business assigning homework to readers of The Daily Economy. Perhaps, however, I can inspire with enthusiasm. 
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> Every year on the Fourth of July, while others are already enjoying grilled meat and fireworks, I reread the Declaration of Independence. This year’s reading, on the Declaration’s 250th anniversary, will be particularly special. I love the simple and elegant bridge that Thomas Jefferson constructed between abstract political philosophy and applied constitutionalism.
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> “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” There is the philosophy, a pithy distillate of the Enlightenment. Applied politics follows: “to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” The rest is magnificent. But it is secondary.
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> Alas, it’s become too fashionable to bash the American Founding, and jettison its myriad achievements because it wasn’t perfect, and its bounty did not extend immediately to all.
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A Dream of Freedom: The Enlightenment’s Unfinished Business

Stacker Saloon

saloon

charts_and_maps

World History Atlas since 3000 BC

k00b

Christianity

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vceRibYftaU

Why did the Vikings become Christians?

@billytheked playing cricket? lol

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1vsbTq7kcsQ&pp=ugUHEgVlbi1VUw%3D%3D

Music

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HRSJWM7Q8l8&pp=ugUEEgJlbg%3D%3D

Tracking Down the Girl on the Deftones’ Album 28 Years Later

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Gen_AI_Apps_Web-1.webp

The Explosive Growth of Gen AI Apps

oracle

Politics_And_Law

Who will Trump nominate as Fed Chair?

Kevin Warsh

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Rick Rieder

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Christopher Waller

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Kevin Hassett

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Judy Shelton

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Michelle Bowman

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Scott Bessent

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Stephen Miran

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Countries where cheek kissing is a common greeting

What’s bugging you? The physical contact?

> - Polymarket puts Kevin Warsh in the lead at 56% to be Trump’s next Fed chair.
> - The contract has $211.1 million in volume and resolves on a formal Senate nomination by Dec. 31, 2026.
> - Warsh has said bitcoin could serve as a sustainable store of value, similar to gold.
> 
> https://bitbo.io/news/polymarket-warsh-next-fed-chair/

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> Hans Luther was the principled and respected president of the Reichsbank—but he wouldn’t accede to Hitler’s demands.
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> Adolf Hitler’s first weeks as chancellor were filled with so many excesses and outrages—crushing states’ rights, curtailing civil liberties, intimidating opponents, rewriting election laws, raising tariffs—that it was easy to overlook one of his prime targets: the German central bank.
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> The Reichsbank president was a man named Hans Luther, a fiscal conservative who subscribed to the “golden rule” of banking, which stipulated that a country’s indebtedness should never exceed its obligations. In his adherence to protocol and policy, Luther could be “holier than the Pope,” according to Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk, who served as the German finance minister from 1932 to 1945.
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> On the afternoon of Monday, January 30, 1933, just hours after Hitler’s appointment as chancellor, Luther stood in Hitler’s office with a complaint. Nazi storm troopers, known as the SA, had forced their way into the Reichsbank building in central Berlin, despite what Luther described as “emphatic protests” by bank personnel, and hoisted a swastika flag over the bank.
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> “I pointed out to Hitler that the SA actions were against the law,” Luther recalled, “to which Hitler immediately answered that this was a revolution.” Luther informed Hitler in no uncertain terms that the Reichsbank was not part of his revolution. It was an independent fiscal entity with an international board of directors. If any flag were to be flying over the bank, it would be the national colors, not the banner of his political party. The next morning, the swastika flag was gone.
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What Happened When Hitler Took On Germany’s Central Banker

science

NASA’s Voyager Just Crossed the Edge of the Solar System

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jmo0JyGOC3M&pp=ugUEEgJlbg%3D%3D