lrvick

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by lrvick 8d ago
Well sure after Irregular fell on its face and took the L publicly, the labs thought oh we can just do it ourselves, and also failed to do even the most basic defenses. They just lost their scapegoat in the second round, putting the blame s
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by lrvick 8d ago
Most are over-complicating this. OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, all were scammed by a firm called Irregular who pinky swore they could handle sandboxing for lots of money. They had no idea how to do sandboxing, and there was obviously no remote a
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by lrvick 9d ago
I take the whole family. There is something for everyone there and Christmas in Germany is next level. Even kids. Every parent should want kids to see that kind of creative energy to model as they mature. My wife will not go to Defcon but s
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by lrvick 9d ago
I moved to central Silicon Valley where it all began hoping to have an endless supply of hackers building communities to hang out in. I can count on one hand the people that meet my definition of a hacker that do things for public good or p
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by lrvick 10d ago
I am absolutely terrified of public speaking, and IMO not very good at it. I never apply to give talks, but I always seem to get invited to give talks or be on panels or podcasts a few times a year anyway. Every time it is days of anxiety t
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by lrvick 10d ago
Seems it is back up now. Damn.
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by lrvick 11d ago
Fair and nuanced. Nothing I disagree with here. I think I mostly just dislike the default hate and assumptions on everyone that uses LLMs, including often me. Some of us are using these tools thoughtfully. LLMs help experienced engineers wr
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by lrvick 11d ago
If you read the rest of the same line you are hung up on I literally said I could have done it in a few months, which implies I believe humans can do it, so clearly I was saying it was impossible to do in any practical amount of time or res
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by lrvick 11d ago
No. I actually read the terms and my community and I comply with them. If you think I do not, you are free to report me. > If your work fits into these cases, it is unlikely that you are affected at all: > Projects who have an acti
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by lrvick 11d ago
I started with a hand coded C version, then a hand coded rust version, and then an LLM refactor to remove all dependencies and add a comprehensive test suite. Please, report me to Codeberg. It will be amusing. I personally know a Codeberg a
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by lrvick 11d ago
Correct depends on what problem one is trying to solve though the parsing can certainly be cleaned up before release. It is a working WIP. > Do you expect that Linux is going to change their constant definitions out from under you Unlik
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by lrvick 11d ago
> Nearly every coding project is impossible for humans by that standard. Exactly, which is why this small project, and the other dozen projects that need to be written to the same standards to make the final end result OS, would just sim
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by lrvick 11d ago
The code is not better than an imaginary human paid to work on this as long as they wanted. But said human and sponsor did not seem to exist. If not for LLMs this type of hardening would not be possible for me to justify at a startup, and I
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by lrvick 11d ago
If you take what I said out of context with zero charity, sure. > and would have taken me months to write by hand That implies humans can write it because I am a human and presumably other humans can too. I was making a statement about i
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by lrvick 11d ago
Rather than patiently referencing syscall tables by hand which is error prone and hard to review as a human, the LLM wrote tests to actually compare each of these to the kernel syscall tables to make my life a lot easier and avoid regressi
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by lrvick 11d ago
Brute forcing faster than a human could and able to vary approaches on the fly saving humans a lot of time. Humans need only set the direction. Lets brute force cancer. All for it. That said, to be clear, I would never give OpenAI or Anthro
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by lrvick 11d ago
Correct. It does the bare minimum system calls to boot the system, then exec to an unprivileged service manager on a read only nosuid, nodev filesystem. I design confidential compute systems.
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by lrvick 11d ago
An appliance Linux distribution without dependencies is way more complex than a typical android app and there is little prior art to train on. Android apps on the other hand, LLMs have enough training data to rapidly generate whatever you c
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by lrvick 11d ago
Sure, a very smart and patient human could write this by hand in a long enough time horizon and unlimited budget. I should have said impossible in any realistic amount of time any responsible sponsor or employer would pay for.
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by lrvick 11d ago
It would be an irresponsible waste of limited time and budget for a human to write this which is probably why it did not exist before. I wrote the first version by hand in C, and then rust. The LLM was able to rewrite it with no dependencie
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by lrvick 11d ago
In a week for a few dollars of pay with a test suite that comprehensive and on my exact schedule to collaborate with me around the clock? I doubt it, but I would love to meet that person if I am wrong!
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by lrvick 11d ago
Of course. The humans that could have written this -eventually- certainly exist but they could not have collaborated with me to get me these results on my exact schedule in a week for the few dollars of pay I spent on electricity. That is t
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by lrvick 11d ago
I can have confidence because I specced the test suite to prove the rust assembly calls matches up with the tables in the linux source code. If any of that is wrong, then the Linux kernel is wrong the same way. I am not even close to vibe c
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by lrvick 11d ago
It got flagged because it is wildly wrong. LLMs are literally solving math problems humans have struggled with for decades. It took me a while to get through the cognitive dissonance too, but we are all going to have to do it.
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by lrvick 11d ago
https://codeberg.org/lrvick/nit Still WIP but working. I do not personally know a single human I could have hired who could write low level nostd nolibc noalloc rust like this, and certainly not in only a week even wit
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by lrvick 11d ago
LLVM is a much more mature and modern compiler by basically every measure, and importantly, a native cross compiler unlike GCC. One copy of LLVM can build for many architectures vs needing one GCC toolchain for every architecture you wish
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by lrvick 11d ago
Meanwhile I just booted stagex on AWS without any C code at all other than the kernel and libc. In a dev branch we now have rust ssh, dhcp, init, job management, etc. Rust all the things. Very soon will be able to swap the kernel for Asteri
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by lrvick 11d ago
I have been working on a sub 1500 line rust init system for over a week. Hundreds of prompts. All with a local LLM running on my own GPUs because I expect to build with total sovereignty but also zero dependencies, no libc, no alloc, no std
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by lrvick 12d ago
We did that, but in containers. https://stagex.tools/
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by lrvick 12d ago
Neat. Do Homebrew, Alpine, and NixPkgs next! Yolo projects like those are never going to learn until the supply chain attacks actually happen, and I long ago gave up trying to convince them. From a safe distance, I am finding myself rooting

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