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In my view, it's not so much the writing style itself as the lack of 'taste'. Text that clearly seems AI-written has a flat level of exuberance that's just exhausting , kind of lik…

> The attacker just needs one exploit chain, whereas the defender needs to block every avenue. Open access to models with no guardrails greatly benefits the attackers more than the…

> The saying that stuck with me was "defenders have to be right 100% of the time, while attackers only have to be right once". > You are suggesting this isn't correct? The intuitio…

> Dumb question. If "Mythos-class" models are such a problem, then... why not just let it fix everyone's code? In the specific case of cybersecurity, this is a reasonable medium-te…

> Anthropic will make the case that their models should be evaluated with the safety layer in front, because that is the only way the model is available whereas open weight models …

> I may be crucified for asking this but: is there any proof that slop matters beyond our sensibilities as developers? That's precisely what this benchmark tries to quantify. Since…

> because people have other ideas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity In a weak sense, singularities are common and should be expected every so often. In a math…

No, you'd still care. YOLO mode is about instantaneous permissions and access control, inspection of subagent prompts is about retrospective quality control. If the main model is i…

If you're deliberately displaying the image in black and white, the colour pattern is interference that should be suppressed. However, this practice was not universal, and archivis…

> I haven't yet had an agent rm -rf files. That happened to me once; I was running one of a few free-tier models in a pi-coding-agent session. The bash tool there is stateless and …

This blog post is based on a paper ( https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.14740 ). The paper is based on a simulated wargame. The wargame is of the author's own design. The wargame design do…

> fronting the inference layer with a caching prompt classifier to determine which model to use, and automatically select the lowest cost model would probably already save alot of …

> Seven tokens long input isn't very realistic, is it? The test prompt above was "Why is the sky blue?", so there's the seven tokens. I meant to highlight that because I'd expect p…

From the prompt timings above, it seems like 'prompt eval time' is the equivalent to 'processing time for input tokens'. Hyperscalers can perform this evaluation very quickly becau…

> They are all just variations of "insert a canned prompt", varying only along the dimensions of (a) how and where the prompt is installed and from where it is sourced, and (b) whi…

> You think tax incentives are what makes VC work in California but not other places in the US let alone Canada? I believe that my comment above was aligned with your premise here.…

> I'm sure a lot of Canadian tech workers would repatriate and foreign workers would immigrate to Canada if they could lower taxes across the board and make life easier for tech co…

> Even if it is common (i don't think this is required any more anyways), just why? As far as Canadian law goes, there are two factors at play in the parent's events; * NAFTA work …

> It’s territorial waters belonging to Iran and Oman. The trick is that it's still an 'international strait', or a segment of water that forms the only connection between two areas…

> I don't know enough about the current state of naval warfare but I've assumed this is related to the asymmetry that's emerged around protecting capital warships, especially in th…

> If the person using a tool is an attorney, then that communication should be protected whether it's by pen or keyboard. But the tool is not your attorney, so it can't be the orig…

> if your question is "what is the capital of france" the LLM could presumably extract out "paris" from the value vector during attention computation instead of needing the FFN for…

> That said, I was sympathetic to the recent bug reports —- to trigger one, you’d need to have a session that waited an hour doing nothing and then very specifically tested for in-…

> Since the devs on HN (& the whole world) is buying what looks like nonsense to me - what am I missing? Input tokens are expensive, since the whole model has to be run for each to…

Context length 1e6, vector length 1e3, and 1e2 model layers for 100e9 context size. Costs will go up even more with a richer latent space and more model layers, and the western fro…