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I chuckle knowing that somewhere in Apple there is an SRE or engineer who is getting paged for elevated 404 rates, and has to silence the pages hoping that no real missing page issue crops up while we all hit this page. :)

To me, the common theme here in all of these hacks has been the company Irregular, which it looks like all the labs are using for sandboxing. But it looks like the sandbox may be a bit… lacking?

Yes, the models are smart when they find a way out, but their instructions are, in a way, deliberately open such as to be a case for misalignment in these cases anyway. It’s a capture-the-flag assignment in the Gemini case, and in the OpenAI cases they were broad instructions to best the reward function. As part of alignment studies, this is literally what you’re trying to observe and then work with. If Irregular’s sandbox had been a little more boxy, there wouldn’t be these issues.

I’m not saying we have zero problems here on the AI side, but I’d certainly be reviewing my contract with Irregular at this time if I were playing in the space. It would be just as interesting to learn more about their sandboxing techniques as it would the models in these particular scenarios.

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Upvoting if for nothing else than the intro paragraph to the repo. That was hilarious and so true.

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> tl;dr: AI writes features, not architecture.

This. I definitely agree with this statement at this point in AI-assisted development. This gets at the "taste" factor that is still intrinsically human, especially in software engineering. If you can construct and guide the overall architecture of an application or system, AI can conceivably fill in the smaller feature bits, and do so well. But it must have a strong architecture and opinionated field in which to play.

I've had at least 256GB on my phones for the last couple of generations after having had to deal with storage issues beforehand, and it's been much nicer.

But I picked up a 16e for my son a few months ago, with 128GB, and yes, we're running into issues with storage space when it comes time to do an OS update. Between local music and photos storage, base storage, and the image for the new update, two or three times now we've had to delete stuff temporarily in order to get the update going. So I'm happy the new base is 256GB, at least that will probably last us a couple more generations before ~~640KB~~ 256GB is enough for everyone.