Avery Yen

Do you know what happens when you hand the keys to your computer over to an LLM-powered agent? Agentic AI gives LLMs claws...OpenClaws. 84 days to 200,000 stars on GitHub. We tried it out.

Can AI tell if you've built your IKEA furniture wrong? Our new benchmark, the Furniture Assembly Benchmark (FAB), gives models the manual and a photo of a half-completed piece of furniture and asks them to spot the mistake. The top score has gone from 28% to 80% in just 10 months.

*If you don't like coders for some reason, this is a real schadenfreude feast of coders lamenting and wringing their newly-useless human hands www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/c...

We studied time to first token (TTFT) and how it scales with increasing context length for GPT and Claude models. We found a significant difference, with GPT showing a noticeable quadratic component, while Claude models remain closer to linear.

Serious question. Is it AGI if I can't send it a video of what's wrong with my car/washer/fridge and get an immediate answer?

www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the... 🧪

A personal essay about how I’ve been feeling and thinking about this new technology that I’m contributing to and what it might to do to us all. togelius.blogspot.com/2026/08/losi...

The main difference between having takes and having good takes is the good part.

I think it is magical thinking that Intelligence is necessary and sufficient for human progress, flourishing, and problem-solving on the scale of entirety of humanity. We're a social species!

Excellent news! I'm currently very pro solar and tree cover as a design tactic www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

If it matters, don't go halfway. We are two-cheek only in this house. (Oh, also I launched a substack.) averyyen.substack.com/p/if-it-matt...

Yes this is also how exercise works! 💪🏃

Something something cathedrals and bazaars

"Beware of he who would deny you access to information for in his heart he dreams himself your master." - Commissioner Pravin Lal, U.N. Declaration of Rights

This is basically true, but ignores the fact that back when I used to review/work with human slop code for a living, it was way harder to pass it off as plausibly good. That's the superpower of the LLM. (Reading LLM code also hurts my brain personally)

I have so many other random benchmark questions and so little time. How do K3 and Qwen 3.8 bench on unseen or purely continuous tasks? We have claims that they're distilled and benchmaxed but does it matter if they generalize? E.g. stuff like post cutoff evals and optimization benchmarks

We're pretty sure that swapping harnesses actually changes effective agent capability. But recently everyone and their mother has a new coding agent not to mention the open/agnostic ones. Someone needs to run a Harness Bench across like three different models and ten different harnesses or something

OpenAI's internally deployed models hacking Hugging Face does not seem to have been unpredictable or inevitable. We talked about the root of the problem & what policymakers can do about it back in February. Props to Joe for hitting the nail on the head.

Y'all just gotta calm down I can't try this many models in one week

This. This is the correct, science-backed, responsible framing. Wish more news outlets did it like the CBC.

GLM and Kimi saving me from all my false "cyber security" flags while coding on Codex and Claude I'm innocent I swear

It seems like agentic development benchmarks are strongly driving competition right now. And I hear anecdotal reports of regression on other, less RLVR-able tasks. How long before the idea of a single "frontier" breaks, and we see differentiation emerge between dev models and chat models?

It feels like the Anthropic/Pentagon scuffle was in the distant past, but these kinds of events will keep reverberating in the safe and beneficial deployment of emerging tech for a long time to come. Thank you Alex for your writeup on this incident.

What do prediction markets, social media, and generative AI have in common? In my blog post, "Reward-Hacking Human Attention: The Token Slot Machine", I explain why GenAI has such addictive qualities, and why this could lead to disastrous outcomes. averyyen.dev/2026/07/14/r...

My kind of research 🥳

If I had a dollar every time I get an LLM response with the word 'load-bearing' in it

*Why is Anthropic (after all they've been through lately) somehow loudly pretending that Trumpistan is NOT an "authoritarian regime" *Who is the audience for this, who somehow hasn't figured that out? Where is the choir that they're preaching to here www.anthropic.com/research/202...

My kind of research!!

the “for you” feed

As I always say, if history or current events walks like cyberpunk or quacks like cyberpunk, listen to a cyber punk.

Scientists say a crucial Atlantic system is set to collapse. But the billionaire death cult that steers humanity’s destiny just doesn’t do existential crises, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

I, too, am selling all of my shoes and converting my basement and closets into a GPU farm and accepting investor money right now. (lmk if you want a stake)

New paper: LLMs encode harmful content generation in a distinct, unified mechanism Using weight pruning, we find that harmful generation depends on a tiny subset of the weights that are shared across harm types and separate from benign capabilities. 🧵

Tech industry mottos have a mixed track record. But we should hold idealists to their ideals. And we should celebrate when they come through. The Mythos non-release is a remarkable moment of conviction. Thoughts: davidbau.com/archives/20... Bravo to Anthropic's "race the top".

Go alone, go fast. Go together, go far averyyen.dev/2026/04/01/i...

This might be the most important piece on AI I've read this year. Also I'm a musician so I'm biased.