Knicks in five!

<p><i>As before I asked Claude.ai to do the show notes. I added links. As always if you really want to know what I said you have to listen to the podcast.</i></p><p>Dave's first podcast in almost a month, which felt longer to him. His system has been in pieces while he moved his work to a new Mac running the new Frontier, codenamed Atlantis.</p><p>The code written with Claude Code sometimes makes wrong assumptions. Dave explains the idea of a "source of truth": what runs has gone through many layers of processing, so when something breaks, the cause could be anywhere.</p><p>His first post to Scripting News from the new setup worked the first time. It also produced a new motto, "Knicks in five," which leads to memories of his grandfather's season tickets at the Garden and the 1969 Knicks.</p><p>Next he rebuilt utils.js to add the new motto. That change worked, but the next level up broke. Along the way: the comforting beep he wants in every app, and Apple's new dock icons, which make him relearn things that didn't actually change.</p><p>On the press: in 2010 Facebook's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Graph_protocol">Open Graph API</a> exposed user data openly, and reporters loved it. In 2016 the same data made <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica">Cambridge Analytica</a> a scandal. Dave says journalists have no source of truth about technology.</p><p>Dave calls the end-of-civilization framing of AI a distraction from real threats like climate change and nuclear weapons. The real risk is mundane: imagine a bank that warned it "can make mistakes." He has seen Claude Code write files it had no right to touch.</p><p>He also says that given a well-specified task, it will blow you away. In May, Claude got Frontier's 2014 open source release running on modern hardware overnight.</p><p>He compares it to building a new house next to an old one: you move in, rearrange, and walk back to the old house when you need to. Frontier, which he thought nobody would ever know about, exists again, and he feels like a weight has been lifted.</p>