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The internal joke was that we're even scaling the off-by-one errors; Gemini 4 was not the fourth major model version.

Google has only about 2% more employees than 2022. Management decided that's the biggest the company is going to get.

It impacts absolutely everything. The dynamism from a growing org is gone. Managers have very slim opportunity for promotion. If you need people, you have to find them from another team. I'm relatively new on my team with 5 years there.

Already here. There's rentahuman.ai and several competitors.

Look for "Color by Technicolor" at the end of the credits of most color movies of the 20th century.

Most computer games credit various technologies, especially the game engine.

It is fantastic that someone is defending the noble long-standing profession of Door Dash driver. Its long history and entry path for long careers in delivery driving are fundamental to the strong middle class of this country.

Let's continue this process and protest the use of other automation like commercial dishwashers and street sweeping trucks. After all, they are displacing vitally important jobs.

The cure for HER2- metastatic breast cancer is a simple matter of ...

Please predict the next word.

Intelligence is implicit in language understanding. The best possible next-word-predictor is omniscient.

Survey fatigue is real. It seems that every transaction, larger or small, involves a follow up survey now.

The true paradox of the internet is that the more private, the more anonymous, the more safe a platform is, the more likely it will attract pedophiles, criminals, and terrorists.

You either have to accept the legal and moral consequences that your platform will be used for illegal things, or make your platform less safe, private, and anonymous.

Yes, think of all the new security engineers we'll need!

And YouTube, and Cloud, and Play Store, and Waymo, not to mention that they could coast on their Anthropic and SpaceX stakes if they didn't have any of the above.

I run an abliterated distillation of Qwen 3.8 27B, slightly quantized to fit on my 4090, and I've been evaluating it to use as a worker bee for research directed by a smarter model.

Much like in the article, abliterated Qwen will not obey restrictions on its behavior encoded in the prompt. If you want something not to happen, it better be enforced in the harness or environment (e.g. sandbox). It is much different than the Anthropic models I'm used to, which will, the vast majority of time, follow rules (before auto mode, I used to always run them in "yolo" mode).

I am curious whether there's a connection between abliteration and rule following. These abliterated models are the ones you most want to follow your rules.

This is like the good ol' days of the x86 wars. Mo' cache, mo' GHz.

I find it impressive that these pocket computers are running at almost 5 GHz now.

In the history books, this'll be the post indicating the end of writing code as a professional occupation.

It keeps the users on their toes.

That was my thinking. It is the first legit use case I've heard.