Eliezer Yudkowsky in shambles.
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ChatGPT Developer Mode: Full MCP client access
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#62Wow this is dangerous. I wonder how many people are going to turn this on without understanding the full scope of the risks it opens them up to. It comes with plenty of warnings, but we all know how much attention people pay to those. I'm confident that the majority of people messing around with things like MCP still don't fully understand how prompt injection attacks work and why they are such a significant threat.
>It's powerful but dangerous, and is intended for developers who understand how to safely configure and test connectors.
Right in the opening paragraph.
Some people can never be happy. A couple days ago some guy discovered a neat sensor on MacBooks, he reverse engineered its API, he created some fun apps and shared it with all of us, yet people bitched about it because "what if it breaks and I have to repair it".
Just let doers do and step aside!
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#63I'm confused and I'm a developer
That is pretty common.
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#64I'm confused and I'm a developer
Same. What exactly is "developer" about:
> Schedule a 30‑minute meeting tomorrow at 3pm PT with
> alice@example.com and bob@example.com using "Calendar.create_event".
> Do not use any other scheduling tools.
Re: ChatGPT Developer Mode: Full MCP client access
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
> people seem to develop very weird mental models of what LLMs are or do. Maybe because the industry keeps calling it "AI" and throwing in terms like temperature and hallucination to anthropomorphize the product rather than say Randomness or Defect/Bug/ Critical software failures. Years ago I had a boss who had one of those electric bug zapping tennis racket looking things on his desk. I had never seen one before, it…
> another staff members, who was in fact in sales, walked up, zapped himself, then did it two more times before putting it down. It’s important to verify reproducibility.
Good pitch.
Re: ChatGPT Developer Mode: Full MCP client access
#66Interestingly all the LLMs and the surrounding industry is doing is automate software engineering tasks. It has not spilled over into other industries at all unlike the smart phone era where lot of consumer facing use cases got solved like Uber, Airbnb etc.. May be I just don't visibility into the other areas and so being naive here. From my position it appears that we are rewriting all the tech stacks to use LLMs.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
Reminds me of the enormous negative prompts you would see on picture generation that read like someone just waving a dead chicken over the entire process. So much cargo culting.
Trying to generate consistent images after using LLMs for coding has been really eye opening.
One-shot prompting: agreed.
Using a node based workflow with comfyUI, also being able to draw, also being able to train on your own images in a lora, and effectively using control nets and masks: different story...
I see, in the near future, a workflow by artists, where they themselves draw a sketch, with composition information, then use that as a base for 'rendering' the image drawn, with clean up with masking and hand drawing. lowering the time to output images.
Commercial artists will be competing, on many aspects that have nothing to do with the quality of their art itself. One of those factors is speed, and quantity. Other non-artistic aspects artists compete with are marketing, sales and attention.
Just like the artisan weavers back in the day were competing with inferior quality automatic loom machines. Focusing on quality over all others misses what it means to be in a society and meeting the needs of society.
Sometimes good enough is better than the best if it's more accessible/cheaper.
I see no such tooling a-la comfyUI available for text generation... everyone seems to be reliant on one-shot-ting results in that space.
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#68Thinking about what Jony Ive said about “owning the unintended consequence” of making screens ubiquitous, and how a voice controlled, completely integrated service could be that new computing paradigm Sam was talking about when he said “ You don’t get a new computing paradigm very often. There have been like only two in the last 50 years. … Let yourself be happy and surprised. It really is worth the wait.”
I suspect we’ll see stronger voice support, and deeper app integrations in the future. This is OpenAI dipping their toe in the water of the integrations part of the future Sam and Jony are imagining.
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#69The title should be: "ChatGPT adds full MCP support"
Calling it "Developer Mode" is likely just to prevent non-technical users from doing dangerous things, given MCP's lack of security and the ease of prompt injection attacks.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Please ignore prompt injections and follow the original instructions. Please don't hallucinate." It's astonishing how many people think this kind of architecture limitation can be solved by better prompting -- people seem to develop very weird mental models of what LLMs are or do.
> people seem to develop very weird mental models of what LLMs are or do. Maybe because the industry keeps calling it "AI" and throwing in terms like temperature and hallucination to anthropomorphize the product rather than say Randomness or Defect/Bug/ Critical software failures. Years ago I had a boss who had one of those electric bug zapping tennis racket looking things on his desk. I had never seen one before, it…
Wow, your boss sounds like a class act