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Comment · 8 days ago
LLM reinforcement learning improves those tasks by having the agents "reason" until they hit a verifiable output state that passes a black or white test. So they learn language which is tuned to the task in a silo, never communicating with anyone or anything.

In contrast, most human communication and writing is intended for other humans, and we constantly hit failures here that we learn to iterate on and improve. Humans who do math do so with the constraints that their math needs to be reviewed by another human and in the context that all their writing needs to be understood by another human.

The process causes a warped and compressed version of language.

Comment · 9 days ago
Yes, but to be pedantic, no, this is a short term rise in CVEs.

This is a shift in the equilibrium of difficulty to find these exploits, but there are increased defensive tools and new awareness of these issues as important. There will be a large glut of AI detected bugs, there are decades of code surface to scan and clean up, so this will last a while.

Eventually net new software will end up being written in a more secure way, and important old software will be patched or replaced, or taken offline.

Comment · 11 days ago
qwen-3.8-flash-next is suprisingly good, I find it overthinks, but it's quite usable.
Comment · 11 days ago
In Vibe CLI app, when you load Mistral Large 4 it swaps out the cat in the header with a larger one

It's a nice little detail

Comment · 13 days ago
I updated my vibe config to point to Mistral 4 and it charges my subscription capacity, not my API allowance. So it is included in subscriptions, you just need to do a little bit of legwork.
Comment · 23 days ago
Comment · 27 days ago
The lawyers I’ve used have always asked and used encrypted email. I don’t know if that’s regional, but it was taken very seriously here.
Comment · 1 month ago
I’ve read this comment four times over and I have no idea what your point is.

Canada has a massive amount of untapped potential, and it’s time we tap it.

Comment · 1 month ago
How is the primary way of interacting with your computer being good a gimmick?

I try to use my partner’s windows laptop and it’s borderline unusable for me. She only almost uses it with a mouse plugged in. Meanwhile I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone plug in a mouse to a MacBook that wasn’t docked to a monitor and keyboard.

Comment · 1 month ago
Similar experience, the first thing it did for me was update production data models without a confirmation. It has always shown me the command is going to run and then I confirm.
Comment · 1 month ago
When most people have a bad experience at a restaurant they never go back, so the harm is hard to quantify until it stacks up.
Comment · 1 month ago
This was my thinking. It seemed easier to find the exact instructions for my dishwasher and most of the advice available was for newer models that had different control layouts.

Plus, the repair manual is full of flowcharts for diagnosing and resolving issues, which is very useful.

Comment · 1 month ago
So two regions declare they want to be closer and your reaction is “we should conquer a couple countries just to show them up”?

This is exactly the problem.

Comment · 1 month ago
What specifically do you mean “under the wings of the US?”

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