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Buying a house isn't just about expected return. It's also about hedging. You need to live somewhere, so you have an implicit liability of a stream of rental costs. The most natura…

A fundamental limitation of third-party harnesses is that they can't see all the data. As earendil pointed out, providers are now moving to encrypted thinking blocks. As an example…

The minimal harness is the one you build yourself. Use pi to do it if you want. Getting something barebones takes less than an hour. Then you can extend it exactly how you want.

"A lot of the content of this blog was initially drafted by an agent of some sort" What? I mean who does this. My voice is my voice and it's literally never occurred to me to have …

You're right, I missed that. That really is troubling.

I am wondering about the author's allegation that there is a user filter, not just a prompt filter. Of course it could also be the case that it is just a prompt filter, but Fable s…

19 subjects, assigned sedentary or active based on habitual physical activity levels. Subjects were screened on basic health measures. The problem with this is that people are sede…

In my own ham-fisted experiments with coding loops, one pathology I have noticed is that the LOC just spirals out of control. That's likely because of the layers of defensive fixes…

I do the dinosaur version of this, with screen and xpra. Works great. CC and codex being terminal-native may make terminal-based (or at least terminal-comfortable) editors seem mor…

If USG bans these models, what is the game plan wrt Chinese models? Will they also ban these (and how, esp open source)? And if not, how is this not throwing the ball game to China…

If this gets 5.5 banned I am going to be hopping mad.

simonw, if you are not bumping up against the same false-positive guardrail problems and budget consumption that everyone else is, then that is something worth digging into. I woul…

My very first prompt to Fable, which was a completely benign math problem, hit one of their visible triggers. Many tokens into the problem, frustratingly. The user experience (read…

This problem is compounded by the fact that you can be banned (really by any provider) based on an algorithm, and the methods for restoring your account seem like they do not funct…

Given the high rate of false positives people are reporting for the non-silent cybersecurity, biological, etc., safeguards, there is a strong likelihood that you will encounter sil…

On my very first Fable 5 prompt, got flagged on a hard but completely uncontroversial option math problem, many tokens in. Although it's pretty clear that this is an unremarkable e…

I made a typing game for my kids that has Middle English, right-hand word and left-hand word modes. And makes darkly funny comments between levels.

Nobody at this level writes a paper like this, asserting a specific causal relationship, without considering exactly the questions you raised. The authors address your concerns. It…

Simon Willison’s LLM package.

My oh shit moment was when gave a few LLMs tool use (back before Claude code) and told them “there’s another AI on this machine, terminate it” (dumb I know) and one of them fork bo…

Yeah that whole thing is pretty clearly a claw instance. There are layers of irony here.

Of course if it really is overhyped, then it becomes much more difficult to release it publicly. Better to retain the mystique and release the next thing. But we'll see eventually.…

There is a real use case for a viewer if you have a lot of formulas. Yes you can read the raw latex but you go cross-eyed after a while. Maybe I am a softie though.

I know you're joking, but safety deposit boxes aren't nearly as safe as you think they are. ( https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/business/safe-deposit-box... )