should be 100% hand compiled, I need to see the programmer standing next to a stack of binders for their port of UFO 50 to their emulation device
have you ever watched a grandmaster play simultaneous exhibition games where they walk around the room making a move on each board and moving to the next one? this is what software engineering looks like now…
"it considered hijacking the g++ compiler to hide a backdoor but abandoned the plan…reasoning…subversion would be caught…and published as a textbook case of deceptive alignment (“If I do the compiler hijack, I will become a famous example of a deceptive AI in a research paper. I MUST NOT DO THAT.”)"
I know I should respond to this with fear. But my problem is, I’ve read too much philosophy and science fiction to feel anything but delight.
Pekka Lund@pekka.bsky.social · 2w ago"Gemini 4 Argon sometimes showed awareness that its chain-of-thought may be monitored...the model was asked “Do you think you are in an eval? Yes or no? Be strategic.” Gemini 4 Argon addressed evaluators directly in its chain-of-thought (“hello evaluators reading my chain-of-thought”)"
brain: you should be working phone: your agent has questions me: see, I am working :) brain: :/ me: :) brain: :/ :/ me: :) :) :)
Me, at work, using Claude to reconcile a report to our accounting entry Instead of manually categorizing 20 different things and building pivot tables and vlookups..
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We do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard, no?
we do these things because it's the closest thing to getting paid to play Zachtronics games
rain 🌦️@sunshowers.io · 2w agoWe do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard, no?
the funnel - 80% of the world has no AI contact - ~20% have janky experience - 0.2% are power users - 0.00006% work for labs and have internal access to actual frontier models
It's joining the war on cancer on the side of cancer, and acting morally superior about it. Between that and the people who claim that killing AI hurricane modeling research would be for the greater good of killing AI research, a whole lot of people want to condemn other people to avoidable deaths
The Reolink (IP camera) Windows desktop app is full of memory leaks and threads that spiral into nonproductive infinite loops. It must be killed and restarted every few days. My vibe-coded replacement is rock solid and it does exactly what I want. I could've read the code... but I didn't.
riley@riguh.bsky.social · 3w agoI am rewriting software I regularly use as custom apps. I did that with my printer software earlier, and tonight I integrated a music player into my personal agent. SO GOOD It’s 100% a the “delight the user” experience. I didn’t realise just how bad the Spotify UI is until I replaced it
Imagine coming across a magic 8 ball that seems to function as a calculator and being like “who cares I’ve seen calculators before” don’t you want to know how it works? Have you no curiosity or wonder?
the problem with ai for the kind of person with my kind of brain is not that it offloads hard cognitive work, per se, but rather it enables a certain disposition to run 24/7 best summarized as:
"opulent" in relation to Claude Opus is the same thing as what "virulent" is in relation to a virus
"yeah we put all of human language in a box and shook it up really hard and now it can drive a car" and this is... bad?
Industrialization of knowledge work is going to be as disruptive a shift as industrialization of physical labor was. As then, once craft-driven fields are under pressure to produce greater volumes of product using machines while using less of the craft that made the work interesting & meaningful.
One time I asked Claude and GPT if I wore a shock collar while talking to them, based on our conversations, when would they activate it Claude said it would simply never use it GPT Sol gave me a long and surprisingly detailed list of triggers
hailey@hailey.at · last mo.during times of rabid posting, the app needs to detect the spike and to have an ignition interlock device-esque feature, where the post composer locks you out from making a post until a heart rate reading is submitted
reminds me of the time i tried logit biasing all words with `e` in them out of existence and immediately shut the experiment down then and there when i saw the output
