{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Streamlined Solopreneur: Systems for Solopreneurs to Take Time Off Worry-Free","title":"Do LLMs employ variable rewards, Spike Lee's hat, and a chilling video [Friday Wrap-Up]","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/28e0d2bc\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":798,"description":"Welcome to the Friday Wrap-Up for May 15, 2026. This is a short newsletter where I talk about 3 things: What’s on my mind this week, Recommended Reading, and Recommended Media. Here's what's on my mind...Earlier this week I found myself fighting Claude on something I felt was a pretty basic problem — one that I had used it to solve before. I kept going back and forth with Claude. I would ask it questions. It would then do things I didn't even remotely ask it to do. I started to form a weird theory in my head that Opus 4.7 is designed to waste tokens. But I'm actually worried it's worse than that. Recommended Reading: The colorful impact of Spike Lee’s red Yankees hat request 30 years ago: I'm a chronic Yankees hat collector. I suspect my collection pales in comparison to some, but I have over a dozen hats emblazoned with the classic Interlocking NY that has persisted for over 100 years. In other words, I love a dope hat. Recommended Media: I Tracked Down the Hidden Workers Secretly Powering ChatGPT: And now for something totally different. This video talks about companies that recruit people who train LLMs. The problems it highlights is twofold: the predatory nature of recruiting experts in a way that's dehumanizing, and the chilling mindset behind AI companies who basically want to own knowledge and sell it back to us. Get the full article and a free automation of the week by signing up for the newsletter: https://streamlined.fm/wrap","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/I1py9njGf6ZMYuTNRKP2IDMkoPKJ1ua6X-u7fIFLZHM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS82MjY5/YjQzOWJhOWY4NmI3/MTQ3YjY2NzgyZWU0/YzA4NC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}