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sparsesignal

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    Comment #49240877

    What I run is one hardened QEMU/KVM VM per project holding the whole dev environment (editors, agents, containers), with nftables on the host allowing internet egress but dropping …

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    Comment #49220602

    Thanks, glad it was useful

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    Comment #49220567

    Thanks. Like you, I'd been running containers inside VMs for a while before the agents. Turns out it's right for them too. Making it IPv4-only simplified the firewall rules and net…

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    Comment #49214825

    > I stress about my agent sandboxes all the time Same here, so I ended up moving the whole dev environment (editors, agents, containers) inside a hardened QEMU/KVM VM that reaches …

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    Comment #49131835

    Posted this because I saw a piece of the cable at the Science Museum in London years ago. It looks like it's still on display in the Information Age gallery: https://collection.sci…

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    Comment #49123351

    This assumes one-shot generation. I don't use it that way, and I don't think many people who find it useful do. I use it as a colleague I'm drafting with. I'll ask how a sentence l…

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    Comment #48957560

    It's still working for me, but only on the web (desktop) interface.

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    Comment #48957398

    Have you tried clicking the Claude logo? https://x.com/ertug/status/2072339797708849398

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    Comment #48815985

    Frontier agents are already compressing the dev loop with humans in it, and as the article notes, compression alone can be exponential enough to matter. Walking vs. driving is a ni…

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    Comment #48815841

    Nice paper. They predict the outcome of edits up to ~25 steps before the agent makes them. Decodable doesn't mean causal, as the authors note, but a cheap probe that flags doomed t…