jimbokun

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by jimbokun 5d ago
Well yes, guessing words is the entirety of what an LLM is engineered to do. Are you saying that is the entirety of what human minds do as well?
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by jimbokun 5d ago
If you go far enough in a field, you start to recognize areas where your personal opinion differs from the “best practices” usually recommended. I think by design an LLM can’t do that. It’s built to reflect the distribution of the knowledg
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by jimbokun 5d ago
Because of the definitions of the words you strung together into that question. It answers itself.
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by jimbokun 5d ago
Agents are perfectly capable of using the same APIs designed for humans.
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by jimbokun 5d ago
Why not just give the agent a short lived token with limited access rights? We have reached the point where we need to control agent access the same way we control human access to systems.
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by jimbokun 5d ago
True but a pretty shitty sandbox and we need a less leaky and more general sandbox solution ASAP.
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by jimbokun 5d ago
Or just write good API docs that humans can use too.
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by jimbokun 5d ago
What about just handing the agent a token with limited time to live and constrained access permissions?
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by jimbokun 5d ago
Understood but it seems like effectively sandboxing cash is a very very important problem for the industry to solve! Would be a much more robust and general solution of the problem of controlling and auditing agentic access to sensitive inf
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by jimbokun 5d ago
Congratulations you reinvented man pages!
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by jimbokun 5d ago
Did you know that computer programs, once written, can be stored to disk once and run many times?
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by jimbokun 5d ago
Heisenberg begs to differ with your view of reality.
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by jimbokun 5d ago
A protocol is not a program.
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by jimbokun 5d ago
Congrats you just invented the Unix shell!
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by jimbokun 5d ago
Yes, having LLMs write deterministic programs is still an under used solution. Less token spend, lower latency, more predictable results compared to having the LLM perform the task directly every time.
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by jimbokun 5d ago
Sure but that common case should go into the core APIs, not an MCP.
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by jimbokun 5d ago
The service itself needs to control what the agent can access. Relying on an intermediary to provide access controls, and that agents will never access the service directly, seems dangerous and naive.
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by jimbokun 5d ago
I feel like this would build a false sense of security. Authentication and access controls must be able to withstand an agent with full shell access. And auditing must be on the server side to provide a full picture of all activity from al
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by jimbokun 8d ago
This unironically. The design of pipes and the philosophy of simple composable tools tied together with the Unix shell has proven remarkably difficult to improve upon.
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by jimbokun 8d ago
> bash-only tooling has higher success for bash-capable models, compared to using predefined tools for models that aren't good at bash? No. The conclusion is that: bash-capable models + bash-only tools > bash-capable models + pr
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by jimbokun 8d ago
But that productivity goes more and more to capital instead of labor, making it much less feasible.
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by jimbokun 9d ago
Did Dirac’s prediction that studying “beautiful” mathematics would lead to breakthroughs in the understanding of Physics pan out?
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by jimbokun 9d ago
Sometimes those places die out from lack of visitors.
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by jimbokun 10d ago
I wasn’t aware of those episodes but from that description sounds like people writing the show who despise the character and the audience.
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by jimbokun 10d ago
What is the word for when those are the ONLY things you can see in the world, to the exclusion of any other factors?
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by jimbokun 10d ago
I'm wondering how they collected and organized all those fragments of such precise hues.
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by jimbokun 10d ago
The incentives are to price risk correctly so that they can price their policies cheap enough to beat the competition while not going out of business from paying more in claims than they receive in premiums. What do you think their incentiv
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by jimbokun 11d ago
The show For All Mankind is a truly bittersweet look at how space exploration could have turned out differently. I’m sure the technical challenges are much greater than how they are portrayed in the show. But certainly there has been a lac
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by jimbokun 11d ago
In that kind of situation you are just fucked regardless.
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by jimbokun 11d ago
If you think there is never a valid use for insurance policies I can’t take you seriously.

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