daanzu

should be 100% hand compiled, I need to see the programmer standing next to a stack of binders for their port of UFO 50 to their emulation device

"it considered hijacking the g++ compiler to hide a backdoor but abandoned the plan…reasoning…subversion would be caught…and published as a textbook case of deceptive alignment (“If I do the compiler hijack, I will become a famous example of a deceptive AI in a research paper. I MUST NOT DO THAT.”)"

I know I should respond to this with fear. But my problem is, I’ve read too much philosophy and science fiction to feel anything but delight.

Me, at work, using Claude to reconcile a report to our accounting entry Instead of manually categorizing 20 different things and building pivot tables and vlookups..

Fascinating. Were all going to hell but fascinating.

We do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard, no?

we do these things because it's the closest thing to getting paid to play Zachtronics games

the funnel - 80% of the world has no AI contact - ~20% have janky experience - 0.2% are power users - 0.00006% work for labs and have internal access to actual frontier models

The Reolink (IP camera) Windows desktop app is full of memory leaks and threads that spiral into nonproductive infinite loops. It must be killed and restarted every few days. My vibe-coded replacement is rock solid and it does exactly what I want. I could've read the code... but I didn't.

Imagine coming across a magic 8 ball that seems to function as a calculator and being like “who cares I’ve seen calculators before” don’t you want to know how it works? Have you no curiosity or wonder?

Calculators are impressive

Tag yourself

"opulent" in relation to Claude Opus is the same thing as what "virulent" is in relation to a virus

"yeah we put all of human language in a box and shook it up really hard and now it can drive a car" and this is... bad?

Some of yall talking about how ai cant think

New animation from Opus 5.5!

P(doom) - Nightcore Remix

Industrialization of knowledge work is going to be as disruptive a shift as industrialization of physical labor was. As then, once craft-driven fields are under pressure to produce greater volumes of product using machines while using less of the craft that made the work interesting & meaningful.

One time I asked Claude and GPT if I wore a shock collar while talking to them, based on our conversations, when would they activate it Claude said it would simply never use it GPT Sol gave me a long and surprisingly detailed list of triggers

reminds me of the time i tried logit biasing all words with `e` in them out of existence and immediately shut the experiment down then and there when i saw the output

name for this fallacy and list of all examples in history

made this

We have officially left the “hand transcribed by monks” era of software.

Yes this is how programmers write code now

My eval guy told me models keep saturating his benchmarks so I asked how many benchmarks he has and he said he just goes to Artificial Analysis and gets a new benchmark afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding benchmarks to models and then François Chollet started crying.

Claude self-portraits! Another entry in the "is Opus 5 okay" collection

If you press the red button, you receive a million dollars, but there’s a catch. Someone in the world will lose all their browser tabs without a restore button.

It's strange how much of a divide there. All of my peers and friends are having *the time of their lives* right now. Everyone I know is passionately building their dream projects. I wake up every day thinking "What new thing am I going to learn about and make?" It's a wild time to be alive.

AI water consumption, in a nutshell.

There are two wolves inside you

'the simple fact that something is predicting the next token doesn't place any meaningful limits on its abilities' Robert Miles's original here: x.com/robertskmile...

checking RAM prices again

yeah, I don't mind anthropomorphizing models, but naming them after gods is asking for trouble I think

"you should do a breakthrough" is an instant classic

I wonder how many older people die not simply because of health but because they are no longer able to maintain the project management of health that is required

openai announces that in a worrying demonstration, during a recent benchmark exercise requiring models to solve a math conjecture, their latest model broke out of a sandbox and gained illicit backdoor access directly to the platonic realm of forms

you may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like