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Comment · 3 months ago
So, I have done a bit of research on this with the writeup+skills+scripts on my personal git: https://github.com/NickalasLight/codex-reasoning-bug-512-tok...

I think it is very interesting that: A. Removing the section in question seems to greatly fix performance on the benchmark candy question. B. Removing the section does not appear to change at all mean reasoning token use or the 512 reasoning token hit problem

Comment · 4 months ago
It truly is impressive to me how good Nvidia has gotten at understanding 'Bubblenomics'.

Why don't you buy my overpriced hardware, then let me use the overpriced hardware you just paid for in exchange for extremely overvalued shares that border on funny money, so I can then take the same overpriced hardware you just bought and sell it at an extremely overpriced rate to some inference provider.

When the inevitable happens I really do think it going to be pretty bad this time.

Comment · 4 months ago
Yeah, I tried using it before the 'safety' blocks got too much for me. Its pretty good as an 'orchestrator' calling subagents and being the PR reviewer/tast tracker. Seems really not that much better for coding though, yeah it is a bit better, but not worth it.

But when it did work it was making steady progress on a vague git issue backlog and actually following instructions to carefully break into atomic sub issues and carefully assign.

Comment · 4 months ago
OpenRouter would like a word. Also my in progress SaaS would like a word. Models are incredibly interchangable, just find best performance per cost and optimize harness and prompts, easy to have multiple configs for each model.
Comment · 4 months ago
Just wait patiently for the chinese labs to inevitably distill Fable without the 'policy layer/neurons' and offer it for pennies.

That one will be fun to see.

Comment · 4 months ago
Yeah, and I also don't buy the semi-conspiratorial beliefs of some of my friends who think there is super intelligence somewhere being built.

If fable is the best we got everybody still has some more time till the apocalypse I think.

Comment · 4 months ago
Yes, I distinctly remember the recent past when the roles were reversed, and Anthropic was the kind good hearted startup trying to compete with big evil OpenAI corporation.

Wonder how many times we get to see it flip back and forth before this bubble explodes.

Comment · 4 months ago
It is surprisingly half baked for something the company seems to be proudly charging my first born child and both of my kidneys for.

Especially considering its all for the privilege of getting half way through a standard dev task before it just bricks out of nowhere on the 'safety' guardrails because of a keyword that often appears to be created by the model itself?

I've been running Fable on a few different projects and just by itself on same codebase it'll brick, so looks like it can just straight up create its own demise.

I do not think any of us yet have to worry about being 'replaced with ai' if the 'premiere ai company' still can't put out their flagship product with minimal qa. This is embarassing.

And the short 7 day window for subscribers is just taking the piss. So happy I'm paying hundreds per month to be free qa for anthropic, god knows they need the help.

Comment · 4 months ago
This feels like an article written at least 2+ years ago when 'AI' was still a bit more 'mysterious'.

Mona barely thought about profit because you didn't update the many configurable levers to increase the code loops generation related to profit.

You can update the sys prompt, perform basic harness changes, such as sys prompt optimization, toolset optimization, tool description optimization, 'multi-agent' and 'composed-agent' flows, etc. etc. Get it to do whatever you want.

Its like if someone wrote an article about how their windows 95 pc they named paul didn't think about finances too much because they never installed quickbooks on it.

I'm not really sure who this article is meant to appeal to.

Comment · 4 months ago
Yeah, but that has literally been their business model from the start yes?

Even now, after all the development, if you can somehow get Claude Fable to run without bricking due to the safety 'features', whatever it imitates is still a poor replacement compared to the slew of available open source code repositories that it stole its training from.

Problem is humans are lazy and its really easy to just yell at a chatbot until you get some slop that mostly does it.

Comment · 4 months ago
Comment · 4 months ago
So I went ahead and quickly vibecoded a working harness with a barebones tool interface and some constraints on output (credit to noperator for the idea). github: https://github.com/NickalasLight/VibeHarness.git

Its meant for a Windows machine using ollama but I'm sure anyone who wants to mess with it can point claude code at it to convert it for your own operating system and requirements. After install you can ask it to do something with "vibe 'create me a poem about cheese in cheese.txt'" its workspace is by default the directory the cli was located in when you called it.

Comment · 3 years ago
I have seen this tweet so many times on my timeline, you made me laugh, thanks.
Comment · 3 years ago
Plus his claim that there are engineers with first hand experience also willing to testify to congress in a closed setting.

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