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by firasd 2mo ago
I'm saying AI researchers have a bias towards thinking what needs to happen is prompt -> [crunching tokens] -> response rather than prompt -> [orchestrates 5 tools] -> response In other words 'just add a calculator too
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by firasd 2mo ago
If you just talk to it over API (no web search) the Gemini models are extremely resistant to thinking the user may be living in a universe outside their training data. Try to discuss any news etc and they assume it’s fake or fiction
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by firasd 2mo ago
Who knew the real revenue unlock wouldn’t be based on how much paranoid red-teaming the model underwent to resist users jailbreaking its ‘alignment’, and instead more on whether the model is post-trained to use ‘sed’ and ‘git’? Poor Gemini
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by firasd 2mo ago
I wonder if part of it was the bias of how the chat apps work with the streaming maybe they use SSE But I wouldn't discount how uphill it was to probably even argue for something like MCP cause the labs still very scientist-driven and
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by firasd 2mo ago
The amusing thing here though is that if we do high frequency container usage like you’re suggesting eventually we’re gonna reimplement MCP right. Cause then it’s like npx thiscommand —help (aka MCP tools/list) and then OAuth and all t
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by firasd 2mo ago
Right we can quibble about the wire protocol but the point remains that the arbitrary REPL becomes suboptimal as a solution when there’s not a deterministic endpoint. So ‘scripting’ is not really what we are looking for; we just want the fi
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by firasd 2mo ago
I guess if the agent is strongly trained to reach for the container then maybe But let’s take my MCP clock for example if you ask ChatGPT what’s the time in Tokyo it’s not even gonna think of booting up the code interpreter. It’s gonna just
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by firasd 2mo ago
Hmm yeah but I think at some point ad-hoc code becomes a signal that something is wrong. eg. If your LLM is continuously writing python to join customers to orders at some point that's a signal that customers_aggregate('topspender
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by firasd 2mo ago
I think stateless-type MCP was already possible, eg my MCP Clock [ https://github.com/firasd/mcpclock ]: > curl -s -X POST "https://mcpclock.firasd.workers.dev/mcp" -H "Content-Type:
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by firasd 2mo ago
I think there is an argument to be made for how this benefits projects too, like if you want distribution then be as unencumbered as possible. I've been making a couple little utils like a Clock for AI with an open public endpoint [ ht
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by firasd 2mo ago
Are LLMs even covered by ‘computational theory of mind’? Cause if I say “I like to bake” the LLM is only able to recognize and respond to that sentence due to the neural network making emergent connections between the tokens in the words—ve
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by firasd 2mo ago
Doesn’t the concept of a subconscious, or inner voice, invalidate any tight analogies to Turing Machines? What logical process is putting the Fur Elise into my head (earworms etc) I think this article is right that definitions really matter
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by firasd 2mo ago
Yes exactly. It's almost like there's this expectation that if the LLM GPU-Maxxes enough it can do anything but like... why. There's no reason to wade through a million HTML tags if you can slice out the exact div you want to
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by firasd 2mo ago
Yeah as far as what I'm talking about bash CLI vs MCP doesn't matter (there could be a file_sample MCP tool)---I'm saying that by default Windows, Linux etc don't have this venetianblinds affordance of seeing equally spa
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by firasd 2mo ago
I feel like these abstractions like "CI might not work well in the era of agentic tooling" are fine for thought-leadership posts but there's so much hands-on work to be done. The last word on AI computer use shouldn't be
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by firasd 2mo ago
I think the real issue is that the 'hobbyist web' is dead because there is no distribution Let's say you want to post about 'best way to clean your car windshield'. Why would you post it on a blog when nobody will r
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by firasd 2mo ago
There is a weird duality when analyzing this... On the one hand, I think factory assembly lines are just a high bar to clear as as metaphor for internal processes. Almost no business actually runs a super organized backend workflow; there i
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by firasd 2mo ago
I don't know if Camus and/or people who're very familiar with his essay would approve but maybe the Pixar movie Soul (2020) has something similar to what he was gesturing at. The protagonist finally gets a big break as a perf
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by firasd 2mo ago
The 'personality' of the model matters a lot even for stuff like Code Gen. If you're building something with Fable and then get routed to Opus cause the router decided your task is not 'demanding enough' it's l
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by firasd 2mo ago
When Martin Shkreli first burst onto the scene it reminded me of the trial a bit. Like I really believe a lot of the negative polarization he received was due to his smirk rather than due to his drug pricing per se
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by firasd 2mo ago
His Sisyphus essay is famous for its closing line but I find it interesting how for several pages it closes with a thump, thump, thump and metaphor fusion (the essay is ending, the rock is rolling, the gods are watching, the choice is being
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by firasd 2mo ago
Yes! I'm working on an MCP server called Liveclip (not released yet) and we just store embeddings as text in SQLite.. it works over ~40MB of text, 1450 SCOTUS opinions start=$(date +%s); curl -s -X POST " https://[urlred
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by firasd 2mo ago
Honestly a lot of human reasoning is probabilistic and associative too. There’s no axiomatically provable link between the story of No Country for Old Men and the poem the title comes from. Cormack McCarthy just made that association in his
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by firasd 2mo ago
I think a lot of this is essentially governed by ‘who’s asking’. If you post a Seinfeld episode transcript somewhere, it’s copyrighted, but it’s unlikely anyone will care. If you post an Aerosmith song mp3, you’re attracting a DMCA notice l
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by firasd 2mo ago
An irony to this is that the front-ends generated by older models are gonna end up looking distinctive. If you rock a Claude Sonnet 3.7 (or was it Sonnet 4) mid-2025 purple gradient background forever you've set yourself well apart
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by firasd 2mo ago
Maybe I missed something but I'm not clear what they're referring to as spam. I guess the fact that the agent emailed all users with discounts and dropped the price a few times? I don't think that's usually what people c
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by firasd 2mo ago
Honestly this is quite impressive. The agent was given 24 hours to promote an app, thwarted at many turns (eg Reddit, Facebook blocking website interaction), and still managed to reach out to both the payments system people and a message bo
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by firasd 2mo ago
This is one of the things OpenAI has been focused on for an year or so that led to the doomed autoswitcher in ChatGPT .com (switching models based on estimated task complexity) that was quickly reverted Whereas Google with Gemini 3.x, Anthr
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by firasd 2mo ago
Interesting that you said the word ‘using’. Why is that? If an agent could refactor excellently without a human who is the user
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by firasd 2mo ago
I think this is one of those things where a human in the loop is indispensable An agentic refactoring pass does make sense cause one LLM reviewing work can spot things the ‘generator’ LLM missed while focused on the initial task output But

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