prettyblocks

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by prettyblocks 8d ago
the worry is that this will be interpreted as tampering and cary consequences.
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by prettyblocks 9d ago
> when you can just start from zero, look at what's known to be happening right now, and draw a very straight line to catastrophe. The problem is that it's not a straight line at all. "We are failing at alignment" is
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by prettyblocks 9d ago
Do you assume that every post criticizing anything is part of a sockpuppet disinformation campaign as well?
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by prettyblocks 9d ago
I guess that's one way to guarantee development slows down to a crawl, but in no way would it increase trust.
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by prettyblocks 11d ago
It depends what you mean by meaningful, but yes, qwen3.8 27b is pretty mind blowing to me. It can easily solve portswigger labs for example at q4_k_m.
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by prettyblocks 13d ago
strange assertion as this has been an ongoing problem from day one.
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by prettyblocks 14d ago
Do you use a 3rd party provider or use deepseek directly?
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by prettyblocks 14d ago
As someone who gets a ton of these inbounds every day, I report every single one of them as spam.
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by prettyblocks 17d ago
I have a theory that when someone is ready to resign from a frontier lab they must get offered a substantial bonus to post the most unhinged doomer take they can think of.
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by prettyblocks 19d ago
I use skills to automate non-development workflows, like for malware analysis, etc.
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by prettyblocks 19d ago
I find them very useful.
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by prettyblocks 22d ago
Yet the products they release are purposely dumbed down in the name of alignment. I'm in the CVP and Fable downgrades most of my work to Opus, it's incredibly frustrating.
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by prettyblocks 25d ago
It's probably a good model for folks doing basic software stuff, or humanities related tasks, but I work in cybersecurity on the defense/detections side and I haven't been able to use it for anything even with being in the CV
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by prettyblocks 26d ago
I haven't been in about 10 years, but yes it's incredibly fun. What you see on social medial is not a representation of the majority of attendees, but it is expensive to attend, especially if you need to travel for it.
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by prettyblocks 27d ago
You hear that everyone? Just stop after $30 mil and you will be happier.
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by prettyblocks 27d ago
No opinion on the salary, but just because it's a once per year event doesn't mean the work isn't year round.
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by prettyblocks 1mo ago
How can this ever be enforced?
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by prettyblocks 1mo ago
My problem is how hot they run. I'm on an m4 pro. Do you have the same issue?
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by prettyblocks 1mo ago
I disagree. iPhones, EVs, and a lot of architecture is really slick looking.
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by prettyblocks 1mo ago
The frontier labs seem to be sandbagging the full capability of the models available in the name of "alignment", which is unfortunate.
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by prettyblocks 1mo ago
This works pretty well for these coding harnesses though (see Pi). I like the model where the harness ships with minimal tools and you can spin up plugins for extra functionality. You can usually have the model/harness you're usin
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by prettyblocks 2mo ago
In what dystopian black mirror alternate reality can anyone possibly perceive this as saving the profession of programming? It sounds like hell.
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by prettyblocks 2mo ago
Maybe it improved in the last year but it's substantially worse than before it became X. Back then the algorithm was tuned to align with the users interests and posts would get visibility based on engagement. Now it's still a cess
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by prettyblocks 2mo ago
I always thought that the frontier coding models were specifically trained to perform well in the harness from their providers. I imagine this will always be the case to some extent.
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by prettyblocks 2mo ago
I imagine most people that get into entrepreneurship do so precisely because they don't want to go work for someone else.
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by prettyblocks 2mo ago
The difference is that Anthropic engineers have infinite tokens to throw at these problems for free. The rest of us do not and that's where optimizations in how the coding harness is used likely helps the most.
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by prettyblocks 2mo ago
But many people are doing just that, automating workflows through prompt templates and skills.
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by prettyblocks 2mo ago
> I can’t help but wonder whether constant use of “agent” harnesses will lead to an atrophy of the software engineering (or really any field) muscles. It will, but I'm not sure the impact of this will be all too great. We suffer fro
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by prettyblocks 3mo ago
The default system prompt is so lean: https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/blob/main/packages/codi...
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by prettyblocks 3mo ago
Yes, if you're just going down a list of jira tickets and implementing product features, but for many folks it's also an art medium.

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