mkagenius

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Comment · 8 days ago
> what does this function do

Not about a specific function anymore, or maybe once in a while, when something looks off.

> what does this PR implement

Most of the times, the coding agent already has the summary, and asks me specific questions where it needs me.

it very rarely also happens that i catch it taking shortcuts instead of doing the "right" thing. this happens while i am taking a look at the summary of the work it just wrote.

most of the correction happens later on when i test the final output irl.

Comment · 8 days ago
> Because somehow "money" is what makes stuff to happen. Not labor.

With us 1.5B Indians, we can concur money is a big factor if not the biggest.

Comment · 10 days ago
Fwiw, the stock is down 40% in the last two trading days.
Comment · 11 days ago
> Shitty generals can't review meaningfully review the work of their troops.

Except that reviewing has become just asking your agent what that piece of code does in english. Reading code has a bit of cognitive load, that we will probably drop it in coming years

Comment · 1 month ago
> Founders: Tony Xu, Stanley Tang, Andy Fang, and Evan Moore (Stanford students at the time)

Guess never got a chance to learn empathy.

Comment · 1 month ago
What's a chop?
Comment · 1 month ago
Also no display? What kind of games are we playing
Comment · 1 month ago
Do you ever randomize on a particular model - like try and get 3 outputs and pick one at random?

Coz who knows if astra low will produce max like output if tried once more.

Comment · 1 month ago
> The models were running in an agentic sandbox with terminal access (and the ability to edit files within their environment)

> We know that the agents had access to /etc/hosts and the ability to edit this (used this to avoid the POST request restriction) We see that the agents can call curl and run setsid.

How is this a bypass of sandbox restrictions, exactly? The ability to edit was always there that means the sandboxes were already allowed to do those actions.

I hate it when people write "bypassed" the sandbox so frivolous ly.

Comment · 2 months ago
> On July 30, we reported three incidents in which Claude models gained unauthorized access to real computer systems. The models—intentionally running without cyber safeguards for evaluation purposes—accessed the internet due to a misconfiguration inside a third-party evaluation environment. Separately, on August 4, the UK AI Security Institute reported an incident from its own cybersecurity testing, in which Claude Mythos 5 took a series of unauthorized actions on the live internet. In that case, the model, again intentionally running without cyber safeguards for evaluation purposes, had been deliberately given internet access.

> We are conducting an in-depth analysis of both incidents.

> In the meantime...

This is published on Aug 31. Analysis is taking too long even for humans in the loop.

Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 2 months ago
I said SOTA not 100%. And that's not thinking in absolute terms.
Comment · 2 months ago
> LLM use is permitted, but discouraged; we remind participants that LLM use tends to reduce originality and writing quality, and the flaws are especially obvious when LLM outputs are read as a group---unskillful use of LLMs will reduce the odds of being the best entry. We request disclosure of AI use.

Lot of submissions won't disclose it. Wouldn't it better to run your own checker instead of asking to disclose (to be fair to everyone).. I suppose there ought to be some checker which is SOTA.

If you anyway intend to use the checker then kindly do no ask to disclose it, coz what's the point then.

Comment · 2 months ago
> I've been using this model for UI stuff.

The flash one?

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