I stayed up until 3am on the 404 page.
The 404 page. The little "oops, this doesn't exist" screen you only hit when something's broken. Maybe three people ever land on it.
I gave it a joke. A whole personality. For three people.
That's where I'm at. I'm building a new website for the newsletter, a real home for bleh.ai instead of the duct tape it runs on now, and I'm losing whole nights to corners nobody will visit. I've never been more excited about anything.
I'm building it with Claude, my coworker. Me pointing, it typing, both of us arguing about spacing.
And mid-build, it leveled up on me.
Anthropic dropped Claude Sonnet 5, cheaper and sharper, built to actually do things and run on its own for a stretch. It's the new default on my plan. The broke plan. So the exact robot helping me build this thing just got better overnight, for free. Show-off.
Remember the velvet rope? The models locked behind the guest list?
The rope came down. The government dropped the export restrictions. Claude Mythos 5 and Fable 5, the two big Anthropic models nobody could touch, come back online today.
Why the change of heart? Asian labs started shipping models just as strong. Lock up the American ones and the rest of the world just shops elsewhere. Funny how fast the door opens then.
And then there's Etched.
A chip startup came out of nowhere with a $5 billion price tag and a billion in orders, built to out-run Nvidia at the thing everyone needs. A whole chip. From scratch.
But the chip isn't for me. The billion-dollar models aren't really for me either.
This site is. Every last corner of it, down to the 404 page, made for the one person who actually shows up.
You. Always you.
Okay. Back to it. The button won't pick its own color.
See you tomorrow, and soon, somewhere a little nicer.
-Melly