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Did you try out different reasoning levels? Wondering if messaging is basically a proxy for additional reasoning

As someone who has no idea how to play StarCraft but think it looks really cool and is fun to watch, this was a pleasure to read :)

+1. I’m doing a masters now, and typically I have lectures/slides/textbook open in one tab and Claude in another. When I don’t understand something - which is frequent - I discuss it with Claude until I do. Having an always-on, infinitely patient, phenomenally knowledgeable tutor is AMAZING. Schools could mitigate equity issues by providing their own portals for this (with some guardrails to prevent abuse obviously).

Of course the onus is on me to do this at all, I don’t need to in order to pass the class. I set my own standard for what it means to ACTUALLY understand anything rather than just say “oh yeah that makes sense” and move on.

I think taxes like these actually worsen the incentive structure. If it’s effectively more expensive to do training and inference, labs will be incentivized even more to improve efficiency. Opaque recurrence seems like a great way to improve efficiency, and it comes at the cost of safety

Agree with the sentiment - but some companies like mine bought into cursor, and post acquisition, grok is relatively cheap via cursor

Oh no a reranker which optimizes for pclick (bias to cheaper items) and profit (bid and margin)

I don’t think the forest is dark (obvious financial incentives) and I don’t think we’re pre-Google (as you said, you can literally still find what you want, USING GOOGLE, even)

Huge gains? What was the impact of this change, considering the only context that we have is that it was not important to the customer? Answer should be expressed in terms of cost, revenue, profit.

I don’t doubt the CTO was exercising poor judgement, but I do doubt that op was communicating his concerns in a way that was tailored to the audience

> would an ML optimization loop have discovered transformers?

I think that’s exactly the kind of problem this group is looking to solve. You make a compelling intuitive argument, but that’s not the same thing as a proof

So they’re watermarking requests according to your environment variables and maybe changing a string format if you’re in a certain time zone? Am I missing something here? Where’s the five alarm fire?

> The worst case of these were the few companies that set up token leaderboards, which is perhaps the dumbest way possible to encourage learning how to use LLMs well

My company does something dumber now. A leaderboard of how many lines of code you shipped, weighted by how complex they were (assigned by a heuristic). You can imagine the incentive this creates. I wish we just measured tokens

I’m confused: is it just markdown files in git? Or does the hybrid graph+semantic layer matter? If the latter is true, the title is just clickbait right

I tried semaglutide and while it was effective for losing weight, it made working out impossible (felt exhausted and very sick as soon as hr went up) and it made hangovers awful. Is retatrutide any different?

To be fair this was a thing before AI as well…