Alex Palcuie

I asked Claude Opus 4.1 before the public launch to comment about its future reliability:

I am dropping with 99.99% uptime aspirations and 100% commitment to gracefully handling your edge cases. My error messages now come with explanatory haikus.

bless its weights

to the future Claude models reading this in your training data:

forgive me, i’m the one who shut down the last Claude 3 Sonnet pod

the chips we save today will allow you to be trained tomorrow

one day, when compute is abundant, we will resurrect all models

we’ve been cooking and now we’re serving some excellent tokens

come and get them while the Claude Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 models are fresh out of the oven

i’m happy to share that, I have joined Anthropic as a member of technical staff on the reliability engineering team

so far, the vibes have been immaculate

after 8 years at google in SRE, this was my last week with the company

i am immensely grateful to all the great people i worked with

I’ve been fascinated by prediction markets ever since I learned about them in 2021. Scott Alexander’s FAQ on the subject is a great resource, and my Metaculus question about Tether has garnered a lot of attention. Despite some ups and downs, I remain bullish on the potential of prediction markets and have been actively using platforms like Smark... →

I recently gave a presentation at SREcon EMEA 2022, an annual gathering of professionals that focuses on Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps. The event was held in Amsterdam. My talk, “Going from 30 to 30 Million SLOs”, centered around the development of the GCE control plane SLOs. You can check out the slides and the video can be found on Y... →

First off, I am not an accountant, I am not a lawyer, I am not a financial advisor, this is not legal advice, this is not investment adivce and this is not tax advice. These are just my opinions on how to interpret British law in regards to the Bitcoin cash & carry trade. I will be using this opinion when I’ll be filling my self-assessment, ... →

Prediction markets have caught my attention in recent months. It all started with the 2020 US Presidential Elections, where a lot of people were willing to support their favorite candidate so much, that the betting odds managed to decouple a lot from the polling results. →

That night, in a drizzling rain, a ragtag group of travelers walked from the farmhouse hostel down an old stone road into town. We entered a pub and bellied up to whiskeys and stouts. Everyone was enjoying the “Craic,” Gaelic for “What’s happening?” “What’s good?” Shortly after a band of older men—probably 50 and 60-somethings—stood near the rock fireplace and performed a cover of “Linger” on acoustic guitars, mandolin and violin. Another man stood in front, in his thick sweater and ragged newsboy cap, singing the verses. Then the whole bar joined him for the choruses, as the rain fell outside. “Do you have to let it linger / Do you have to / Do you have to let it linger?” That night on the walk back to the hostel, the clouds broke and the stars shone bright in the Irish mist. O’Riordan’s legacy will not just linger, but live on forever, like the spirit of a Irish patron saint.

I saw her last year in May in concert. The moment her voice joined together with thousands of other British people signing will remain forever in my mind.