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I realize this is not scalable, but I’ve come to the personal preference that sycophancy be overt. LLMs are always steering in a direction and I find it a good reminder that they a…

Just working on my own stuff so YMMV, but from a cost reduction standpoint, the two most outsized ROI wins came from making sure the agent runs all terminal commands in quiet and u…

This tweet is written as parody, but it seems self-evident from reading Trump's tweets that they do not all come directly from the president himself. Most political offices delegat…

Most programming best practices were created to solve for the same problem LLMs face: limited context. The principles around well-crafted code strove to make it modifiable by futur…

I do wonder if there will be a convergence between sodium-ion battery architectures and cheaper, renewable-powered desalination. Could industrial seawater mining be competitive as …

I think the limitation to team "let-people-do-what-they-want-even-if-it's-bad-for-them" is that it's rooted in outdated assumptions about what free will and coercion look like. Bro…

I've been running Claude Pro at home, supplemented with Deepseek configured in Claude Code. I've had decent luck throwing Opus (and briefly Fable, RIP) at architecture / product pr…

You may want to update your priors [1][2][3] 1. https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-how-solar-panels-and-... 2. https://www.fastcompany.com/91500104/google-minnesota-data-c... 3…

This is the answer for me as well. My partner and I try to be intentional about giving each other at least an evening a week to go do something social, but it doesn't work out near…

There is such a thing as "naive cynicism"

Yeah, I like the "get out of jail free" card approach. The thing I always used to hate before this era was getting stuck in a hole on something that would take days or worse to gri…

I have been building an iOS app that I had kicking around in my head for years but never had time to build. I have been a frontend UX engineer for the better part of a decade and w…

This is appalling and I agree the technology is creepy. However, human verification is already a big problem that seems like it will only grow from here. It does seem to me that th…

For many possible reasons, depending on where you live.

"But the economy" is an out-of-date framing. The cost of renewables has been plummeting for well over a decade. New renewables are now cheaper than new fossil fuel plants in most o…

Maybe this is a naive question, but why wouldn't there be market for this even for frontier models? If Anthropic wanted to burn Opus 4.6 into a chip, wouldn't there theoretically b…

The demo was so fast it highlighted a UX component of LLMs I hadn’t considered before: there’s such a thing as too fast, at least in the chatbot context. The demo answered with a p…

I tend to agree, this has been my experience with LLM-powered coding, especially more recently with the advent of new harnesses around context management and planning. I’ve been bu…

At last, our scientific literature can turn to its true purpose: mapping the entire space of arguable positions (and then some)

Yes. I think the concept you’re describing is proprioception: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprioception

I spent some very enjoyable time browsing courses and tutorials in the Santa Fe Institute’s complexity explorer![1] I wish I had encountered complexity science earlier in life. It …

The ending of the article left me feeling he had more of an axe to grind here. The mostly unspoken ideological background is that classical art is often appropriated by proponents …

Interesting. Like many people here, I've thought a great deal about what it means for LLMs to be trained on the whole available corpus of written text, but real world conversation …