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Some do-nothing EVP probably just got control over the Gemini org

Clearly the first step of slopbench2 should be to have the agent first write its own harness!

I should set up a LARP where 30 people solve TIS-100 together

> But lately there's capital available for quantum computers, fusion, synthetic bio, space exploration, asteroid mining, and lots more Hmm I wonder how these were originally funded…

I have some coworkers that are similar in everything--education, work ethic, and intelligence--but some of the tick out ML ideas that work like clockwork, while others get hits rar…

1850s was the beginning of the railroad boom. You're thinking 1750s.

"a real balance sheet, assets against liabilities, not a spending feed dressed up with colours" Ugh. Just write your own damn post already

C++ was a superb language for its time. There was nothing faster with as-powerful abstractions. It showed how far you can change a language too, with C++11 being a massively better…

AI code is often fine. The point of the code is for the computer to do a job. And code is supposed to be consistent and boring and straightforward in its structure. AI is pretty ok…

I haven't tried opus 4.8 yet, but I hope the writing quality has returned to the Opus 4.5 level. Anthropic really lost something, where 4.5 had this really crisp writing style that…

It is because they have power, and want to be addressed this way. And you are likely to lose your case if you don't follow their rules.

The major axis is urban+gritty to more suburby and spread out. It's a very personal preference where you want to be, but most people dislike the most gritty areas (tenderloin, most…

Yes, bbc had gone back to paywalling this month.

Is real, physical engineering that much better? Take the new sf bay bridge span. It leaked, and had to be fixed to prevent critical parts from corroding. https://www.sfgate.com/bay…

Yes, if you just list 3 more problems about the US then it means that China has no problems at all.

Grok is despised because it has more aggressive alignment.

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The best managers I've seen would turn this situation into a headcount request. The problem is leadership has priorities 1-5. Your team works on 1-3, but the PM keeps getting hassl…

And uv required some ground work, where the PEP process streamlined how you define a python project, and then uv could be built on top.

Is there something mass-produced that's flexible and consistent like gridfinity? As a non 3d printer owner, I've been looking for something I can just buy that would work.

Maybe it's time to do pair agentic engineering? Have two engineers at the screen, writing the prompts together, and deciding how to verify the results.

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In MCP setups you do give the agent the full description of what the tool can do, but I don't see why you couldn't do the same for executables. Something like injecting `tool_exe -…

Yes, sites should support a NoAds header that agents can provide, which ensures that the site doesn't provide any ads that the agent could accidentally click on.

And get it into a modern certification. Want LEEDS? Get the sound measurement people out.