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When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement

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Re: When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement

#391

It's comforting to know that Anthropic's most capable model, Mythos, is named for the Lovecraftian universe replete with horrifying evil gods with complete indifference to humanity. Nothing at all to worry about.

Mythos is just Greek for myth, epic story, etc. The next biggest thing after Opus.

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#392

It's comforting to know that Anthropic's most capable model, Mythos, is named for the Lovecraftian universe replete with horrifying evil gods with complete indifference to humanity. Nothing at all to worry about.

Mythos is just Greek for myth, epic story, etc. The next biggest thing after Opus.

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Re: When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement

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What I can’t get over is that there have been exactly zero software breakthroughs since vibe coding started, other than vibe coding itself. Claude is amazing, that’s true. But if it was as amazing as this article implies, I’d expect some breakthrough outside of AI itself. Rewriting a Zig program in unsafe Rust? Not a breakthrough. Finding a bunch of security vulns? Maybe that’s sort of a breakthrough though it’s unde…

Its in a weird space right now.

These models are actually extremely good but they are far from an intelligence unto themselves. Truth is if someone told you they could build these things 5 years ago, you d write them a check for a trillion dollars. Problem is once we got them, we realized they are not all that. Its like a mecha suit in a universe, where mecha suits are abundant and cheap. Someone has to climb into them everyday and put in the work for it to be effective.

So now the skeptics are saying this technology is overrated. And the optimists are accusing the skeptics of moving goal posts.

Re: When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> For each frame our pipeline constructs a scene graph with React then > -> layouts elements > -> rasterizes them to a 2d screen > -> diffs that against the previous screen > -> finally uses the diff to generate ANSI sequences to draw Yup. Overengineering.

It's like the Citrix of AI :-D

OOF. As a former Citrix admin, I felt that burn in my bones.

An upvote well earned.

Re: When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement

#395

What I can’t get over is that there have been exactly zero software breakthroughs since vibe coding started, other than vibe coding itself. Claude is amazing, that’s true. But if it was as amazing as this article implies, I’d expect some breakthrough outside of AI itself. Rewriting a Zig program in unsafe Rust? Not a breakthrough. Finding a bunch of security vulns? Maybe that’s sort of a breakthrough though it’s unde…

The breakthroughs in mass state surveillance are coming, never fear.

Re: When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement

#396

What I can’t get over is that there have been exactly zero software breakthroughs since vibe coding started, other than vibe coding itself. Claude is amazing, that’s true. But if it was as amazing as this article implies, I’d expect some breakthrough outside of AI itself. Rewriting a Zig program in unsafe Rust? Not a breakthrough. Finding a bunch of security vulns? Maybe that’s sort of a breakthrough though it’s unde…

Its in a weird space right now. These models are actually extremely good but they are far from an intelligence unto themselves. Truth is if someone told you they could build these things 5 years ago, you d write them a check for a trillion dollars. Problem is once we got them, we realized they are not all that. Its like a mecha suit in a universe, where mecha suits are abundant and cheap. Someone has to climb into th…

I think we are learning in real-time what intelligence re. humans is as we go along.

Humans only what they know, until they acquire more information about what's possible.

The goal post narrative is stupid to begin with.

Re: When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement

#397

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just watched copilot today turn a 8 line fix into 500 lines, so, yeah, verbosity is a big side effect

It occurs to me this pattern might be the average code we humans have produced. We all have made those quick fixes, copy-pastas, and dirty hacks... they learned it somewhere! I also assume that some of the behavior is an artifact of their training regime.

So with LLM outputting average code, and people using LLM more and more, I guess the average code will become worse over time ?

Re: When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

This might explain it, in the opposite way it was meant to: https://fxtwitter.com/trq212/status/2014051501786931427 > Most people's mental model of Claude Code is that "it's just a TUI" but it should really be closer to "a small game engine".

> https://fxtwitter.com What is this?

Proxy that makes Twitter links embed on discord, for whatever reason. Something about api access without accounts I assume

Re: When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement

#400

I find any and all claims like this ridiculous from a company who can't build a terminal application that uses less than a gigabyte of RAM.

So would you take these claims seriously if they came from OpenAI (since Codex is a pretty lean CLI app)?

If so, I think it would be in the spirit of HN to discuss the subject matter of the blogpost (increasingly autonomous coding towards the end goal of RSI) as if the blog post was indeed from OpenAI. OpenAI is, by all accounts, going through a very similar process anyways.

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