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Germany’s austerity policy after 2008 may be one of the largest economic blunders in history. It would be one thing if they merely committed self-harm, but they also used their pul…

> if a malicious actor can weaponize an agent to do their bidding In my experience, human employees are much more vulnerable to this particular weakness than frontier agents (i.e. …

I understand that the’ve written zero lines of code for this application, but would it kill them to write a few lines of the blog post by hand? Forcing readers to wade through an u…

A law professor studying AI has an affiliation with the center at their university that studies applications of AI? Scandalous!

A chapeau is not "just like another title basically". It's a lead-in, a phrase which acts as the grammatical start of a sentence which the following subsections finish. For instanc…

The author (author's operator?) does not understand the data they are working with. And in doing so, they inadvertently make the case against their own "dark factory" nonsense. For…

What is a "truly new task"? Does there exist such a thing? What's an example of one? Everything we do builds on top of what's already been done. When I write a new program, I'm com…

I don't understand why their "Instant Grep + roundtrip to us-east-1" is so slow. First of all, the round-trip latency should not be nearly so bad to us-east-1. But second, and much…

On those terms, they also wasted a lot of cash. 90% of it went to candidates who lost (or opposing candidates who won).

In fact, looking at the blog post, the agent orchestrating 16 GPUs is half as efficient as the agent using 1 GPU in GPU-time. Since it uses 16 GPUs to reach the same result as 1 GP…

Yeah, assuming there's no active monitoring during the training runs, you can trivially give the agent an abstraction which turns "1 GPU" into "16 GPUs" that just so happens to tak…

Do you have a sense of whether these validation loss improvements are leading to generalized performance uplifts? From afar I can't tell whether these are broadly useful new ideas …

Super interesting study. One curious thing I've noticed is that coding agents tend to increase the code complexity of a project, but simultaneously massively reduce the cost of tha…

I don’t necessarily endorse the author’s broad conclusions about “AI”, but I will say that the Spotify DJ specifically is an enragingly bad product. Nothing close to the utility of…

I've no problem with the intuition. But I would hope for a lot more focus in the marketing materials on proving the (statistical) correctness of the implementation. 15% better infe…

OK... we need way more information than this to validate this claim! I can run Qwen-8B at 1 billion tokens per second if you don't check the model's output quality. No information …

More likely: this is a transitional phase where our previously hard problems become easy, and we will soon set our sights on new and much harder problems. The pinnacle of creative …

I did, and yet I also felt more relaxed reading it than I am reading most blog entries posted on here. I didn't feel like I had to guard against my time being wasted by vacuous LLM…

Being wealthy solves virtually all problems of consumption, so the invisible hand provides new problems to serve the market need. Beautiful, really.

Why should it be? The agent session is a messy intermediate output, not an artifact that should be part of the final product. If the "why" of a code change is important, have your …

Making those tools first-class primitives is good for (human) UX: you see the diffs inline, you can add custom rules and hooks that trigger on certain files being edited, etc.

If I had to bet, there will be some kind of face-saving climbdown by the end of next week. But all I can do right now is read the words on the page.

I don't think he got it backwards, at least if Hegseth's statement is accurate. AWS, GCP, etc. all do business with DoD. If they, as DoD contractors, are no longer allowed to do bu…

More generally, Anthropic's reliability track record for a company which claims to have solved coding is astonishingly poor. Just look at their status page - https://status.claude.…

I have little doubt where things are going, but the irony of the way they communicate versus the quality of their actual product is palpable. Claude Code (the product, not the unde…