You've Been a Bad Agent
Anthropic×{Karpathy,Pope}, Themes Will Pwn You, The Warmth of a Private Subnet, Slack is Back, $100B For Charity
23 May 2026 1:26:06 Wilhelm Klopp & Matt Carey
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- Shai-Hulud and GitHub Actions: trusted publishing is no longer the gold standard, just additive
- VS Code extensions as the next attack surface: 50M install themes that can shell out and auto-update silently
- Matt's AI-native package manager pitch: vendor everything, LLM-upgrade your deps by replaying upstream commits
- Tailscale and Cloudflare Mesh maxing: the warmth of the orange cloud over the cold open internet
- Google's Santa is now Northpole Santa, and Wilhelm runs it on the Mac mini
- Wilhelm is enamoured with atc.com: Enhanced Radar's $7M raise and following his own LAX delay live from the gate
- Amp Labs' "Software After Software" manifesto and Amp Neo as remote enterprise AI engineering
- Cloud agent adoption is still slower than we expected, and the amphetamine.app commute hack
- Karpathy joins Anthropic pre-training
- Pope Leo XIV's Magnifica Humanitas: Anthropic's Chris Olah on stage at the Vatican on May 25
- Chinese token resellers at 3 to 4 cents on the dollar and the RL distillation theory behind it
- PyCon vibe check: more handwritten Python than expected, and "AI is just a tool" is still a common take
- Slack is back: Benioff finally gets it, and messaging is the only sane UI for multi-agent work
- Eric Ries on Incorruptible, founder control at Cloudflare and Anthropic, and the Philip Morris stress test
- Nan Ransohoff's $370B philanthropy wave and the pitch to pay nonprofit talent in Anthropic equity
- Will Manidis on Grindslop
Links
- Andrej Karpathy's joining Anthropic: https://x.com/karpathy/status/2056753169888334312
- Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical Magnifica Humanitas:https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-05/pope-leo-xiv-first-encyclical-magnifica-humanitas.html
- Enhanced Radar: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/enhanced-radar
- ATC app: https://www.atc.com/
- Amp Labs: https://amplabs.com/
- Will Manidis, On Grindslop: https://minutes.substack.com/p/on-grindslop
- Nan Ransohoff, The Third Wave of American Philanthropy: https://nanransohoff.substack.com/p/the-third-wave-of-american-philanthropy
- Eric Ries on Lenny's Podcast (Incorruptible): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-to-build-a-company-that-withstands
- Incorruptible by Eric Ries: https://www.incorruptible.co/
- Google Santa (archived): https://github.com/google/santa
- Northpole Santa (active fork): https://github.com/northpolesec/santa
- 10k people have the same idea within days of each other: https://substack.com/@contraptions/note/c-255396946
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