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by simonw 1mo ago
My eye glazed over a bit during the opening paragraphs, but once you get to the meat of the article about how OpenAI's own researchers are using their tools it gets a lot more interesting. I noted that they use the acronym RSI (for Rec
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by simonw 1mo ago
Which part of "let's compare advanced AI systems being then sketch out a child-like drawing of a pelican riding a bicycle and then argue over whether or not they should be wearing a hat" isn't funny to you?
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by simonw 1mo ago
> Please read past the LLM-ness of any given post. I just can't. LLM assisted posts are often so long , and the hints are usually obvious right at the start. They're so unpleasant to read. "It's not X, it's Y&qu
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by simonw 1mo ago
This article is a direct rebuttal of that idea.
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by simonw 1mo ago
I remain worried about prompt injection style attacks against self-driving cars. Imagine if someone finds a weird image pattern that gets misinterpreted as instructions and hangs that off a bridge over a freeway.
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by simonw 1mo ago
> What if the result of the port causes everyone involved in the original to give up? What if this capability causes people to harm themselves because they now have no economic value? Yeah, this is one of the harms of Ai That I don'
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by simonw 1mo ago
And just in case we are talking about different things here... https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/criticis... presents two different definitions (among several) of "criticism": "the
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by simonw 1mo ago
You mean this one? https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/15/porting-justhtml/ I think that's a good illustration of my critical stance. It ends with several open questions: Even if this is legal, is it
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by simonw 1mo ago
If your definition of "critical" is "this stuff is all bullshit and doesn't work" then no. If you're looking for coverage that talks about what doesn't work as well as things that do then I've been pe
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by simonw 1mo ago
Uncritically?
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by simonw 1mo ago
I've been pretty consistent about my disinterest in AGI: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... "You have a very strong track record of speaking out of both sides of your mouth
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by simonw 1mo ago
Anthropic are uncomfortably interested in "model welfare" in my opinion - it's a regular feature of their system cards. Here's the Fable 5.1 PDF: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/0339e6a7c5c7b87f5c07798616dc
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by simonw 1mo ago
I like playing with the Gemini music generation feature, and often when I ask it for the lyrics of the song it just wrote it tells me that lyrics are copyrighted and I should look them up on the web instead!
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by simonw 1mo ago
I really wish Anthropic would publish those tool descriptions. I learned a ton of useful things about ChatGPT Work by having it dump out its tool descriptions the other day: https://codex-tool-reference.simonw.chatgpt.site/
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by simonw 1mo ago
Do you want AGI? I don't. I want the tools we've got now, but progressively more effective and more useful.
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by simonw 1mo ago
My favorite thing about this project is the automatic changelog I now get for all Claude.ai system prompt changes: https://github.com/simonw/claude-system-prompts/blob/main/CH... The summaries are genera
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by simonw 1mo ago
"if anything Claude was introducing me to new artists and new music"
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by simonw 1mo ago
I don't know and I'm really Interested in the answer. I heard a rumor that Luna is a slightly different architecture from Sol and Terra, which makes me wonder if Luna and Astra might be more related to each other than to Sol and T
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by simonw 1mo ago
Most images of bicycles on the web are arranged that way because the drivetrain is always on the right of the bicycle and you want that displayed prominently.
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by simonw 1mo ago
Here's 'Generate an SVG of a ring-tailed lemur riding an electric scooter' at reasoning level max: https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer?url=ht... Quote from the thinking trace: > I’m think
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by simonw 1mo ago
Both Anthropic and OpenAI have consumer facing products that depend on their ability to run code in a container without falling victim to container escapes - Claude and ChatGPT both use containers as part of regular chats.
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by simonw 1mo ago
I had the prices wrong on Sol and Terra as well - they've all had price drops: https://openai.com/index/advancing-the-price-performance-fro... Sol discount is until November 21, 2026 according to https:/&#x2
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by simonw 1mo ago
Yes! Good catch, thanks - I'll fix that.
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by simonw 1mo ago
I really like the pseudo code example on this post - one of the clearest simplified explanations I've seen of how inference and training work.
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by simonw 1mo ago
For the moment the best place to see them all is to browse the tag on my blog - 140 posts now! https://simonwillison.net/tags/pelican-riding-a-bicycle/ I'm running out of excuses not to build a proper compari
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by simonw 1mo ago
I posted this in the other Astra thread but it's just fallen off the homepage, so... Pelicans from Astra, plus 5.6 Sol, Terra, Luna for comparison: https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/gpt-6-and-5.6-p.
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by simonw 1mo ago
Especially interesting that once Astra gets to high, xhigh, max it uses the same aesthetic.
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by simonw 1mo ago
I finally got access. Here are the pelicans! https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer?url=ht... The "max" one at the bottom took 4 minutes 2 seconds and cost 63.206 cents. For comparison, here those n
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by simonw 1mo ago
> AT&T turned to artificial intelligence models from Anthropic and OpenAI in recent years to help with customer service, call transcription and coding. [...] > By May, open models accounted for 20 percent of AT&T’s A.I. use. T
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by simonw 1mo ago
Yeah that's how I understand this too. The proxy lets any IP through and then filters based on the Host header. It's difficult for a proxy to filter on DNS because you may have hundreds of hosts on a single IP, plus IPs can change

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