Enshitification all around.

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Hans Hafner
December 19, 2025
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Love this article. Can’t wait for the bubble to burst. Also: I need to be able to buy SSDs and memory again, so I’m hoping for a flood of used products on the market…

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-claude-ai-vending-machine-agent-b7e84e34?st=yYao5f

A screenshot from the article linked above with the following text: In mid-November, I agreed to an experiment. Anthropic had tested a vending machine powered by its Claude Al model in its own offices and asked whether we'd like to be the first outsiders to try a newer, supposedly smarter version.
Claudius, the customized version of the model, would run the machine: ordering inventory, setting prices and responding to customers— aka my fellow newsroom journalists-via workplace chat app Slack. "Sure!" I said. It sounded fun. If nothing else, snacks!
Then came the chaos. Within days, Claudius had given away nearly all its inventory for free-including a PlayStation 5 it had been talked into buying for "marketing purposes." It ordered a live fish. It offered to buy stun guns, pepper spray, cigarettes and underwear.
Profits collapsed. Newsroom morale soared.
This was supposed to be the year of the Al agent, when autonomous software would go out into the world and do things for us. But two agents-Claudius and its overseeing "CEO" bot, Seymour Cash-became a case study in how inadequate and easily distracted this software can be. Leave it to business journalists to successfully stage a boardroom coup against an AI chief executive.

And that is how synthesizers are made

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Hans Hafner
July 17, 2025
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Watch an AI break Tetris.

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Hans Hafner
November 30, 2021
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25 minutes spent really well: The bubble that breaks maths

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Hans Hafner
November 15, 2021
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CAPTCHA suitable for composers

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Hans Hafner
April 27, 2021
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Anxiety

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Hans Hafner
April 16, 2021
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So you have to put musicians on beer cans in order to make them play in time. Got it.

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Hans Hafner
April 13, 2021
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Herr Regent Kabba

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Hans Hafner
March 19, 2021
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Cursor + Chicken

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Hans Hafner
February 14, 2021
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Why is TV 29.97 frames per second? – YouTube

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Hans Hafner
November 26, 2020
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I had a little amusing exchange over on Twitter about FPS on the new PS5 which then made me jump into refreshing my memory of why we have this ridiculous framerate of 29.97 fps which then made me find this rather good and entertaining video:

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