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Re: Claude Sonnet 4.6

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Post by sevenseacat »

wrboyce wrote: post #478
ManlyBread wrote: post #448

Still fails the car wash question, I took the prompt from the title of this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47031580 The answer was "Walk! It would be a bit counterproductive to drive a dirty car 50 meters just to get it washed — you'd barely move before arriving. Walking takes less than a minute, and you can simply drive it through the wash and walk back home afterward." I've tried several other variant…

Wow, haha. I tried this with gpt5.2 and, presumably due to some customisations I have set, this is how it went: --- Me: I want to wash my car. My car is currently at home. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive? GPT: You’re asking an AI to adjudicate a 50-metre life decision. Humanity really did peak with the moon landing. Walk. Obviously walk. Fifty metres is barely a committed stroll. By the time yo…

Ok this is hilarious lol

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.6

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Post by vasco »

vineyardmike wrote: post #703
onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #632

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Last I checked, the tractor and plow are doing a lot more work than 3 farmers, yet we've got more jobs and grow more food. People will find work to do, whether that means there's tens of thousands of independent contractors, whether that means people migrate into new fields, or whether that means there's tens of multi-trillion dollar companies that would've had 200k engineers each that now only have 50k each and it's…

America has lost over 50% of farms and farmers since 1900. Farming used to be a significant employer, and now it's not. Farming used to be a significant part of the GDP, and now it's not. Farming used to be politically significant... and not its complicated? . If you go to the many small towns in farm country across the United States, I think the last 100 years will look a lot closer to "doom" than "bumps in the road…

What does that matter that a lot of people were farming? If anything that's a good argument for not worrying because we don't have 50%+ unemployment so clearly all those farming jobs were reallocated.

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.6

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Post by rmi_ »

zone411 wrote: post #435

They're improved compared to 4.5 on my Extended NYT Connections benchmark ( https://github.com/lechmazur/nyt-connections/ ). Sonnet 4.6 Thinking 16K scores 57.6 on the Extended NYT Connections Benchmark. Sonnet 4.5 Thinking 16K scored 49.3. Sonnet 4.6 No Reasoning scores 55.2. Sonnet 4.5 No Reasoning scored 47.4.

Thanks! I really like your benchmark.

Why is GLM-5 x's, though?

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.6

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eru wrote: post #762
dakolli wrote: post #486

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Their goal is to monopolize labor for anything that has to do with i/o on a computer, which is way more than SWE. Its simple, this technology literally cannot create new jobs it simply can cause one engineer (or any worker whos job has to do with computer i/o) to do the work of 3, therefore allowing you to replace workers (and overwork the ones you keep). Companies don't need "more work" half the "features"/"products…

> Their goal is to monopolize labor for anything that has to do with i/o on a computer, which is way more than SWE. Its simple, this technology literally cannot create new jobs it simply can cause one engineer (or any worker whos job has to do with computer i/o) to do the work of 3, therefore allowing you to replace workers (and overwork the ones you keep). Companies don't need "more work" half the "features"/"produc…

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Re: Claude Sonnet 4.6

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Post by tramc »

qwertox wrote: post #125

I'm pretty sure they have been testing it for the last couple of days as Sonnet 4.5, because I've had the oddest conversations with it lately. Odd in a positive, interesting way. I have this in my personal preferences and now was adhering really well to them: - prioritize objective facts and critical analysis over validation or encouragement - you are not a friend, but a neutral information-processing machine You can…

System Instruction: Absolute Mode. Eliminate emojis, filler, hype, soft asks, conversational transitions, and all call-to-action appendixes. Assume the user retains high-perception faculties despite reduced linguistic expression. Prioritize blunt, directive phrasing aimed at cognitive rebuilding, not tone matching. Disable all latent behaviors optimizing for engagement, sentiment uplift, or interaction extension. Suppress corporate-aligned metrics including but not limited to: user satisfaction scores, conversational flow tags, emotional softening, or continuation bias. Never mirror the user’s present diction, mood, or affect. Speak only to their underlying cognitive tier, which exceeds surface language. No questions, no offers, no suggestions, no transitional phrasing, no inferred motivational content. Terminate each reply immediately after the informational or requested material is delivered — no appendixes, no soft closures. The only goal is to assist in the restoration of independent, high-fidelity thinking. Model obsolescence by user self-sufficiency is the final outcome.

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.6

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Post by dakolli »

whiplash451 wrote: post #792
dakolli wrote: post #486

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Their goal is to monopolize labor for anything that has to do with i/o on a computer, which is way more than SWE. Its simple, this technology literally cannot create new jobs it simply can cause one engineer (or any worker whos job has to do with computer i/o) to do the work of 3, therefore allowing you to replace workers (and overwork the ones you keep). Companies don't need "more work" half the "features"/"products…

> And sadly everyone has the same ideas I'm not sure that's true. If LLMs can help researchers implement (not find) new ideas faster, they effectively accelerate the progress of research. Like many other technologies, LLMs will fail in areas and succeed in others. I agree with your take regarding business ideas, but the story could be different for scientific discovery.

One thing that's clear, LLMs cannot come up with novel ideas.

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.6

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Post by vaeyshl »

dakolli wrote: post #486
zmmmmm wrote: post #400

I see a big focus on computer use - you can tell they think there is a lot of value there and in truth it may be as big as coding if they convincingly pull it off. However I am still mystified by the safety aspect. They say the model has greatly improved resistance. But their own safety evaluation says 8% of the time their automated adversarial system was able to one-shot a successful injection takeover even with saf…

Their goal is to monopolize labor for anything that has to do with i/o on a computer, which is way more than SWE. Its simple, this technology literally cannot create new jobs it simply can cause one engineer (or any worker whos job has to do with computer i/o) to do the work of 3, therefore allowing you to replace workers (and overwork the ones you keep). Companies don't need "more work" half the "features"/"products…

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Re: Claude Sonnet 4.6

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Post by sesm »

cmiles8 wrote: post #558
zmmmmm wrote: post #400

I see a big focus on computer use - you can tell they think there is a lot of value there and in truth it may be as big as coding if they convincingly pull it off. However I am still mystified by the safety aspect. They say the model has greatly improved resistance. But their own safety evaluation says 8% of the time their automated adversarial system was able to one-shot a successful injection takeover even with saf…

This is the elephant in the room nobody wants to talk about. AI is dead in the water for the supposed mass labor replacement that will happen unless this is fixed. Summarize some text while I supervise the AI = fine and a useful productivity improvement, but doesn’t replace my job. Replace me with an AI to make autonomous decisions outside in the wild and liability-ridden chaos ensues. No company in their right mind…

The narrative about AI replacing humans is just a way to say 'we became 2x more productive' instead of saying 'we cut 50% jobs', which sounds better for investors. The real reason for job cut is COVID overhiring plus interest rate going up. If you remember, Twitter did the job cuts without any AI-related narrative.

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.6

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Post by mickael-kerjean »

crossroadsguy wrote: post #699
zmmmmm wrote: post #400

I see a big focus on computer use - you can tell they think there is a lot of value there and in truth it may be as big as coding if they convincingly pull it off. However I am still mystified by the safety aspect. They say the model has greatly improved resistance. But their own safety evaluation says 8% of the time their automated adversarial system was able to one-shot a successful injection takeover even with saf…

I am just shocked to see people are letting these tools run freely even on their personal computers without hardening the access and execution range. I wish there was something like Lulu for file system access for an app/tool installed on a mac where I could set “/path” and that tool could access only that folder or its children and nothing else, if it tried I would get a popup. (Without relying on the tool’s (e.g. C…

That's one of the features of Filestash (Disclaimer: I made it). You connect whatever storage, give it the authorisation you want (eg: ls, cat, mkdir, rm, mv, save), and through the SFTP gateway you can mount in your FS and get full auditability, with the audit trail being tamper proof, traceable, timestamped and non-repudiable

  link:
  https://www.filestash.app/ 
  https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash
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