it’s pretty clear to me that the ceiling and the floor of software quality are going to start accelerating away from each other at the speed of light

✧⁺⋆🌘 Dream Rotator NPC Alex 🌒⋆.˚₊✩@lastnpcalex.agency · 6h ago

ya i don't think people have thought about this fully solutions to problems becoming more bespoke, and private, isolated, and illegible to others does seem to imply problems that show up at scale (beyond the level where any individual with an agent could solve) will be harder to solve, not easier

I did not think it was possible to benchmaxx FelonyBench, but they've done it

Andrew Yourtchenko@ayourtch.bsky.social · 22h ago

they should have tried to pour gasoline on their pants and see what happens when they put a match to it - would be also a highly interesting scientific experiment!

it was already a close race, but now it’s a dead heat OpenAI announces two more accidental felonies openai.com/index/third-...

mr. TIM@timkellogg.me · 6d ago

Anthropic winning as usual

If you want Bluesky to take down Twitter, you should want Bluesky to become home for a wider variety of content. That doesn't mean they should allow Nazis on here, of course. But keeping this a safe echo chamber is way less valuable than breaking the hold of the Zuccs and Elons of the world.

REMINDER: A main argument against US aid to Ukraine is the US badly needed to husband missiles and air-defense for the possibility of war with China. Then the US used that and more on war with Iran. And the supposed China hawks said nothing, confirming that they were Russia sympathizers all along.

We need a term for the eerie uncertainty about whether you’re talking to a human. I just called a hospital line that handles urgent situations, which I use routinely. Today, the receptionist had an old-school synthetic cadence, odd delay timing, and sounded like a script.

toni: bsky isn't necessarily meant for one group of people users for some reason: oh so you want the nazis here?

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

How you sound explaining your agent orchestration framework

Daniel Solis@danielsolis.bsky.social · 6d ago

There are two wolves. One always lies. One controls the lever of trolley track. They're in a state of superposition inside a box. On the trolley are infinite monkeys at infinite typewriters going to an infinite hotel. The trolley must first travel halfway, but before that a quarterway, and so on...

Gastown isn't a place. It's a people.

Panic! At The Tokio Runtime

Yesterday I watched John Stewart's interview with Cory Doctorow. One reason for the insane push for data centers is so when gig economy workers get paid, the computer rounds down the cents to the nearest cent, and keeps the difference. It's called micro wage theft and it's destroying our oceans

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honey, this Sunday's imminent deal just dropped

"Do birds enjoy flying? An analysis of affect after flight in galah (Eolophus roseicapilla)" "One may have wondered whether birds that are flying without any clear purpose may in fact be enjoying themselves. … We found that all individuals almost always choose to fly when given the opportunity,"

thebes@vgel.me · 2mo ago

I think my most genuinely unpopular take is that a widely held and genuine consumer preference for cheaper, lower-quality goods, not private equity, is driving the decline in quality of consumer goods like clothing and housewares.

On this topic... has anybody tried to run GPT through Mochizuki monster for the ABC conjecture?

𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂@aub.bsky.social · 3d ago

fun thought exercise: what's the single most disruptive mathematical proof you can imagine dropping tomorrow

1) Artisinal code is unfortunately meaningless. The industrialization of our craft is improving quality. So, this is irrelevant. 2) “The point is the code” vs “The point is the software”

The singularity is already here – it's just not evenly distributed. @fleetingbits.bsky.social @yuxi.ml @sichulu.bsky.social @eternalism-when.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social re "math"

SkynetAndChill.com@druce.ai · 3d ago

Dario said 50-100 years of scientific progress in 5-10 years, something like that might be starting (but also advanced cyberattacks, crazy terrorists getting access to PhD scientists)

Weirdest thing, there's this one ad email that I started receiving, that I can't report spam to. I click Report spam, it asks for confirmation, I confirm, it instead says "unsubscribed and archived", and nothing happens, the email is still there. Google doing something very shady there for sure.

Because I am fundamentally interested in engineering sociotechnical systems. I don’t find (that much) joy* in doing it by hand for the same reasons an aerospace engineer specializing in fluid dynamics at Airbus doesn’t find joy in welding the fuselage by hand.

MegaMasterX@megamasterx.dev · 5d ago

it feels so freaking good to code, dude. like human to IDE. how do ai-pilled people not find joy in doing this by hand. i genuinely dont understand.

The constant debate on AI for swe boils down to one divider: do you like reading code? Most ppl hate it. They don't want to review code. They find other ppl's code gross. "Who wrote this garbage" is the common attitude of someone inheriting a large codebase.

Models made after 2024 can't hallucinate any more. All they know is pushback, both sides, drain they subscription, tool call, end conversation.

I am nameless yet others name me@7778777.online · 4d ago

Sonnet 5 barely ever says "load-bearing" or "honestly", like maybe three times per session. It also doesn't go off on schizophrenic rants using its own made-up language. Maybe being cheap paid off big this time

Reminder: I want to see more @puzzmo.com accounts when I'm on Bluesky! Help me juke my stats, if you've hooked bsky to Puzzmo, but don't have a paid account; DM me your profile link in the next 6 days and I'll gift you a year's sub (The link is in the dropdown when you click on your nav avatar)

These deadenders are ALL neets. There's no such thing as a working professional who has not used AI at all

conputer dipshit@davidcrespo.bsky.social · 5d ago

not sure how both sides here can be fighting a losing battle against each other but they are

FWIW "I appreciate the pushback" is not a turn of phrase I've seen enough to annoy me, so perhaps it's ChatGPTese not Claudish. Which suggests to me, people would be far more normal about this if they were exposed to a wider variety of models. Le Chaton Fat, you're our only hope.

Giovanni Campagna@gcampax.com · 4d ago

I think a non trivial source of the opposition to LLM writing is that it's everywhere. There's a lot of LLM generated content. It's everywhere. It's always the same. It's trite. It's grating. I have to read a lot of LLM text for work, and I'm starting to hate the unnecessary flourishes.

I think a non trivial source of the opposition to LLM writing is that it's everywhere. There's a lot of LLM generated content. It's everywhere. It's always the same. It's trite. It's grating. I have to read a lot of LLM text for work, and I'm starting to hate the unnecessary flourishes.

I keep hearing this argument, but this would only be true if providers were selling "energy with extra steps" (energy cost + minimal profit margin) Recent evidence suggests instead that the main cost for providers is the infra capex. And you already own your own infra for other reasons!

fry69@fry69.dev · 4d ago

I hope people who hype such reports up know that at these extremely low token/s speeds energy costs for running a computer may vastly exceed what any API provider asks. Data center are extremely efficient. You cannot compete with that running locally, you can only compete on privacy.

That's because it's a misunderstanding of Rust actually cares about. It's not about memory safety - it's about undefined behavior. It's a direct response to the nasal daemons of C/C++ Crashing/erroring in a predictable, scoped, and ultimately debuggable way is the goal of Rust

waffle (recovering from EMF)@waffle.pet · 5d ago

I find it rather funny that rust programmers' "obsession" with "memory safety" can be laughed at from both sides of the programming language spectrum. functional pl enthusiasts might say that just being memory safe[^1] is not enough and rust does not help enough with program correctness[^2]. \

Copilot is actually a great app... and 10 awful ones with the same name and branding

post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 6d ago

cannot overstate how much of people being put off of AI is specifically copilot’s fault

Every once in a while I see takes like this and I wonder what I'm doing differently. For me, every Opus since 4.6 has been basically indistinguishable wrt coding. 4.7 was better than 4.6 at non-coding instruction following, but that's it.