Leynos

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I use Python at work and am interested in retro tech.

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Comment · 10 hours ago
Ask the model to declare its assumed axioms. Agree that those can be trusted for the time being. Things like the behaviour of third party libraries. Ensure that your review agent enforces this.
Comment · 3 days ago
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/article/2026/09/26/openai-s...

The users in this case had given permission for their data to be used for training (or at least hadn't opted out). They had not, of course, given permission for their data to be shared publicly or with a third party in this way. Consequently, OpenAI categorized this as a breach (i.e., something they did not intend to do), and sought to rectify the situation.

Comment · 4 days ago
That's what discovery is for.
Comment · 4 days ago
Did you opt out of data retention?
Comment · 4 days ago
"AI skills" are the same skills we always needed:

- Learning in a self-directed way that aligns with the needs of your role and where it is going

- Clear communication, the ability to edit and know how to say what is important

- Forming and testing hypotheses

- Evaluating and testing tools and work product, and being able to recognize and rectify deviations

- Delegating, setting constraints, rubrics and escalation criteria

- Having a clear definition of done and being able to stick with it

- Understanding business domains and modelling them usefully

- Collaborating with others, communicating your needs and capabilities clearly, eliciting the needs and capabilities of others, synthesizing conflicting needs and aligning compounding capabilities

The adoption of genAI and agentic tooling really just serves to make all of these more important.

Comment · 4 days ago
They're talking nonsense. Any actual research lab would have zero data retention enforced.

OpenAI and Anthropic wouldn't be able to get enterprise contracts without it.

Sure, the AI vendors could be lying, but I think it unlikely given the harm it would do to them to violate an enterprise contract in this way.

Comment · 6 days ago
The Bridge trilogy was the Gibson I grew up with. The Sprawl books felt almost like archaeology. Blue Ant was where he really hit his stride for me.
Comment · 6 days ago
Because it is not a prng. If you want a prng, don't use the thing that is not a prng (or at the very least, ask that thing to use one)
Comment · 11 days ago
Nice. I missed that. This is good news.
Comment · 11 days ago
So that's three now. This, tsgo-rs, and `bun check`
Comment · 14 days ago
4.1 Flash on medium is a solid builder agent
Comment · 17 days ago
It isn't just restricted to the exploits it is programmed with (and without human intervention to load additional exploits).

Of course, it remains to be seen what several thousand 27B models running at sub 1 tps speed can achieve. (The IoT device mechanism proposed by Anthropic).

I suspect a more likely path is compromise of the billing and provisioning systems of fly-by-night neoclouds.

Comment · 17 days ago
When I was learning to drive, I was taught to stay within the speed limit.
Comment · 17 days ago
Slack is also allowance in budgets (time, finance, materials) to allow for unplanned pressures, demands or constraints.

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