Cal Newport
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Podcast Appearances
And even though the examples they were giving... So they just said, scheming just started rising.
I guess AI is becoming sentient.
And then I looked at the biggest spike.
I was like, well, this day in February on this chart had the biggest spike.
It was like, oh, there was this one tweet about OpenClaw erasing someone's emails, and then it got retweeted.
It went super viral.
I was like, okay, great.
You just...
The real headline of this article, letting people write their own agents leads to terrible agents.
That's it.
And also, Opus is not doing that.
The stupid OpenClaw program you wrote that's prompting Opus and then taking action on your computer based on what it says is deleting your files.
The program you wrote that you gave access to your files and just said, whatever we get from this prompt...
execute it is a race in your files.
Opus can't do anything.
It can produce tokens.
But here's the other point I want to make about mythos that I don't think is being made.
And it reminds you of the Sherlock Holmes story of the dog that didn't bark, right?
Where the actual piece of evidence that mattered is not what you heard, but what you didn't hear.
This is what I think the real story here is, is you did not hear Dario Amadei in the lead up to the Mythos release in the last year, let's say, or the last two years.