Live data from Hacker News

Regression: malware reminder on every read still causes subagent refusals

github.com

71–80 of 165 posts

Re: Regression: malware reminder on every read still causes subagent refusals

#71

This is a great example on why Elon is right. AI should be a tool that does the users bidding, and not a moral agent that nerfs itself to protect some arbitrary line it has.

Counterpoint: generated CSAM on his platform.

That doesn't seem like a good counterargument to me. By that logic no online service should permit users to upload photos because someone might use it to share CSAM at some point. Rather than nerfing the tools implement a sensible detection and reporting pipeline.

Re: Regression: malware reminder on every read still causes subagent refusals

#72

Just putting it out there that OpenCode lets you edit your system prompt, and choose a model that isn't bonkers expensive. { "agent": { "subagent-coder-mini": { "description": "Assign this subagent for small, well-defined tasks performed quickly", "mode": "primary", "prompt": "{file:./prompts/my-custom-prompt.md}", "model": "deepseek-v4-flash" } } } (I actually think OpenCode UX sucks, but there isn't much else out t…

local agentic coding context windows are too small and default opencode tries to scan every file uses up all the context and messes up

local is pipedream at the moment

I’m glad some people get utility out of it though, if this was still 2023-2024 I would mess around and make it work, but corporate policies in enough places have updated to use the leading closed source models and clouds for agentic coding

Re: Regression: malware reminder on every read still causes subagent refusals

#73
post #50

This is a great example on why Elon is right. AI should be a tool that does the users bidding, and not a moral agent that nerfs itself to protect some arbitrary line it has.

grok, why are there slurs in my code?

If the user explicitly requested that is it really a problem with the tool at that point?

Re: Regression: malware reminder on every read still causes subagent refusals

#74
post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Been there, done that, and Windows feels the need to delete such files from _flash drives_ you dare to attach to the machine.

This is amusing to me. Is there a list of extra naughty filenames? How invasive is the scan? If I create a new file with a cursed word, with this get locked into virus-scanner purgatory or is the deep locking only for external media? Will it get mad if I mount a CD full of virus names?

Don't have too much fun with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EICAR_test_file

Re: Regression: malware reminder on every read still causes subagent refusals

#75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Counterpoint: generated CSAM on his platform.

That doesn't seem like a good counterargument to me. By that logic no online service should permit users to upload photos because someone might use it to share CSAM at some point. Rather than nerfing the tools implement a sensible detection and reporting pipeline.

>That doesn't seem like a good counterargument to me.

It does to me especially since he did not implement a sensible detection or reporting pipeline ahead of launching a CSAM generation tool.

Re: Regression: malware reminder on every read still causes subagent refusals

#76

This is such a weird prompt even without the file edit misunderstanding. Analyze if it's malware how exactly? On every single file that gets read? Doing that with enough diligence to be meaningful is going to at least like 2x the amount of processing needed, and fill the context with a bunch of tangential reasoning about malware patterns. This smacks of dumb vibe coding. "I got told to make sure claude couldn't be us…

It's proof that Anthropic is high on their own supply. I've heard them described as data science script kiddies with inflated egos and it seems spot-on.

That is exactly the impression I get from the claude code team, and by extension some of their recent launches like Cowork and Design. And of course with the growth team or whoever is in charge of the subscription and quota side of things.

They just do the basic experiment -> ship workflow over and over again, doing whatever optimizes their product in the short term, and never seem to step back and think about the full long-term impact of their changes. They evidently seem to not even consider immediate regressions or negative blowback from users if it's not within the area of expertise of the guy who ships the change.

That is despite their other teams (especially alignment) having a track record of being fairly well thought-out and intelligent.

To the guys at Anthropic's product teams, every problem is a data science problem that you slap an A/B test onto, and they seem to think that the A/B test is all that's needed, and actual verification and thinking things through is overrated af. That's what leads to countless regressions in Claude Code as well as removing claude code from the pro plan in their product page for a few hours (lol).

Re: Regression: malware reminder on every read still causes subagent refusals

#77

Just putting it out there that OpenCode lets you edit your system prompt, and choose a model that isn't bonkers expensive. { "agent": { "subagent-coder-mini": { "description": "Assign this subagent for small, well-defined tasks performed quickly", "mode": "primary", "prompt": "{file:./prompts/my-custom-prompt.md}", "model": "deepseek-v4-flash" } } } (I actually think OpenCode UX sucks, but there isn't much else out t…

local agentic coding context windows are too small and default opencode tries to scan every file uses up all the context and messes up local is pipedream at the moment I’m glad some people get utility out of it though, if this was still 2023-2024 I would mess around and make it work, but corporate policies in enough places have updated to use the leading closed source models and clouds for agentic coding

Deepseek 4 Flash isn't a local model, unless you've got a dozen high-end GPUs running.

Re: Regression: malware reminder on every read still causes subagent refusals

#78
The only good thing I get from all the calling out on the decline of Claude (in this case managed agents which I do not use) is anthropic (accidentally or not) giving me basically unlimited use; for a week or so my /usage does not move anymore and I always had claude running in a loop writing code to make our many tests succeed, which can take days; before it would run out of tokens and then pick up again after the window passed until it ran out of weekly use; now I have at least one task (well, claude code instance let's say; the task is to debug and fix the code until the tests pass) thats been running 48+ hours non stop and it says usage is 10% for all of that period. Anyone else noticed? After the crash in usage a month or so ago, this is the opposite.

Re: Regression: malware reminder on every read still causes subagent refusals

#79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's proof that Anthropic is high on their own supply. I've heard them described as data science script kiddies with inflated egos and it seems spot-on.

That is exactly the impression I get from the claude code team, and by extension some of their recent launches like Cowork and Design. And of course with the growth team or whoever is in charge of the subscription and quota side of things. They just do the basic experiment -> ship workflow over and over again, doing whatever optimizes their product in the short term, and never seem to step back and think about the fu…

Tbf, their harness was surprisingly ahead of the curve for most of the last year..

Are this point, the difference is mostly made up by issues like the OP has, so you're likely better off using eg pi (-agent) and writing your own custom skills and extensions (or any of the other harnesses the providers create, even copilot-cli has gotten decent nowadays)

Re: Regression: malware reminder on every read still causes subagent refusals

#80

The only good thing I get from all the calling out on the decline of Claude (in this case managed agents which I do not use) is anthropic (accidentally or not) giving me basically unlimited use; for a week or so my /usage does not move anymore and I always had claude running in a loop writing code to make our many tests succeed, which can take days; before it would run out of tokens and then pick up again after the w…

Typically if your usage isn't moving it's because you've enabled extra usage and paying with credits.
Post reply on HN