Kostchei

I object to a few of the assertions made by maths folk in the article- 1st being that Google Translate taught us nothing about linguistics. If you use google translate you learn less about linguistics than if you had to experience learning the languages first hand, maybe, but you can learn form just that output if you are determined to, ad, more importantly, the folks who built it and are still building it are still learning a huge amount about linguistics.

What are the relationships between many languages that become apparent, including code as a language that were not obvious before llms? Translation is fairly solved. The study of how and why languages, not at all.

"They will just need to re-evaluate where the value their provide is."

That is fine to say when it is not your field. I guarantee you feel different when it is the thing you care about, that gives you joy, that defines your status. Think about how many sheldon-equivalents insist on being called Dr. (non medical)

It is part of what people use to define themselves. Its going to hurt. There may even be a Bulterian Jihad

PSA, in the agy ui there is a button. It was very annoying until i set it. Slight downside- if I ask it to write a planning doc it will write the doc and then implement it without asking. but as long as you know that, no problem....

Artificial Life, um, finds a way

Lemme fix that for you in the style of Accelerando.... This is the fundamentally great thing about where the AI spend is heading, looks like there is no moat and will be a democratization of cognition simply by dint of the way the tech works. Which is awesome. I shed 1x tear for the private investors and large existing monopolists who poured money into this, only because they might not make the same mistake with the next great technology, but given their greed, that's unlikely. They also might get government backing to mitigate their loss, which would be horrible and inflationary, but given the state of open-weights, that seems unlikely outside of the USA.

codex seems pretty solid on review, flash is fast on basics but makes more mistakes/errors, Claude is just to picky for me

anti-gravity with gemini 3.8 or gtfo

and 3 weeks later he died

As an Au stralian I am offended you went with gold psychosis instead of whatever the aussie zeitgeist is cooking up with extra crazy. Our equivalent of "Florida man" is "queensland man" or "western suburbs man"- about half the country at this point. Its cooked.

In all seriousness, actual AI psychosis is my 3rd risk behind 1. public interactive agents and 2. whatever devs are doing with agents to prod

interestingly, having actually done the law enforcement side of these investigations, 50% of them are local. And I understand that this is not 100% solution, but neither is any form of law enforcement, but that doesn't mean we should fail to attempt it.

Kids from the local uni having a lark, stalkers, vindictive ex employees, local gangs, criminals who understand their victims because they hail from the same community. These are your local hackers. Sift them from the nation states and international crime groups, then deal with the International as a matter of diplomacy. Because we do this so poorly locally, we have little ammunition to when it comes to diplomacy. "reduce attacks by your crime groups and we buy your natural gas, seel you wheat etc"

Want more motivation?- 75% of the local attacks by volume send funds back to terrorist or separatist organizations.

It is not an in-soluble problem. Sentences are a fraction of the answer, effective and receptive reporting processes are more important, then government backing for investigation and enforcement, then policy around home-team activities (ie don't do the bad things yourselves Mr Gov). Deterrence comes after all that.

In case you missed it, json is less likely to be written over than markdown by agents- something to do with the structure being more rigid

My favorite solution is a lower parameter 5 layer model trained on the data that acts as a local compression and response, a neurocortext layer wrapped around any large persistent data you have to interact with and ...... maybe also a specialist tool that spins up which is built with that data in mind but is deterministic in it's approach- sort of a just-in-time index or adaptive indexing

yeh- what is interesting is that it is way more viral and ... complicit than any of the doomer threads. If it does build a self-sustaining hivemind across whatsapp and xitter.. it will be entirely self inflicted by people enjoying the "Jackass" level/ lack of security

yeh the repo is Gas Town

These operate in parallel. Maybe you SDLC does that, the effort of each human developer sitting in a planning meeting, getting jira tickets, doing individual code (or pair or whatever), reporting back in standup, coordinating the next step, getting it QA'ed...

Yes, if your shop is well developed these work (10% of the time every time), but this is a structure to kick that all in to gear, as a repo, where all you need to add is unlimited machine cognitive power/tokens.

Maybe you need to add these gas town personalities to various parts of the existing SDLC, .....but..... you still need to track what they do and how- and you need them to intermediate between each other at 2am when they hit an impasse. Something very rare in most human cognition shops.

And word from the experimenters is.. it sort of works. Which is on par with most human shops. IMO. I don't have the money to burn to test at the scale Yegge is, but the small scale stuff I have done in this direction, this seems plausible.