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"THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO CAUSE FOR ALARM"

Sorry for being off-topic, but 'rouge agents' was too adorable to leave unmentioned.

_Every_ agent? I surely hope not. But it would be an interesting... artisocial experiment?

Just don't be confused if they then follow the commands side-effect free.

The fact that Orban is called Viktor as his first name meant your first sentence confused me greatly for a second.

I mean, it's understandable; having to endure a lockdown _with_ Doordash was really rough on our civilization.

Damnit, I am pretty sure I had a few-year-streak going until just now. Welp, off to the grind again, I suppose.

Nitpicky reply questioning the adherence of OP's comment to HN guidelines.

Along these lines: I really like the 'Climate Reanalyzer' project by the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine [1]. There's so much good stuff there if you click arou…

If writing goes the way music seems to be going with Angine de Poitrine gaining a huge following as a kind of allergic reaction of people against the 'AI sameness'... then we could…

I have to admit, the movements and interactions looked so uncannily natural that my intuitive suspicion was that this might be another instance of a 'fake it till you make it' demo…

I have to admit that this is also what keeps me coming back to LinkedIn. My brain is dangerously easy to motivate by dangling a virtual leaderboard in front of it.

I think what that research found is that _auto-generated_ agent instructions made results slightly worse, but human-written ones made them slightly better, presumably because anyth…

This is the first time I've heard the term 'apecode', and I will make sure to use it at every opportunity.

This is only done at the DNS level, so using a different DNS (such as Quad9) solves that issue. For background info, I can recommend [1, 2]. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux…

That's the 'built by the lowest bidder' feature. Probably pretty realistic in a lot of places.

Note that this is the Flash variant, which is only 31B parameters in total. And yet, in terms of coding performance (at least as measured by SWE-Bench Verified), it seems to be rou…

For me, these books are in the rare category of 'wait I didn't know it was allowed to come up with a story _this good_'. I envy all those that have yet to read it for the first tim…

I'm not sure whether that was intended, but 'operating at scale' actually made me laugh out loud :D

"Do you or a loved one suffer from an abundance of brain cells? Speak to your doctor today about whether The Jersey Shore might be right for you!"

"A cable!" "How do you know?" "I'm holding it!"

Unfortunately proving anything about a concrete imperative implementation is orders of magnitude more complex than working with an abstraction, because you have to deal with pesky …

While I fully agree with your sentiment, I'd like to take the opportunity to share a favorite fun-fact of mine: the frogs in the not-jumping-out experiment had their brains removed…

I generally do this via a `throw UnsupportedValueError(value)`, where the exception constructor only accepts a `never`. That way I have both a compile time check as well as an erro…