nikcub

This is more of a critique of a broken IPO market and the rise of availability of immense private capital. The public are denied access until the private markets are essentially tapped out.

IPO returns have been horrible for years. Past 5 year returns on S&P is ~80%, on NASDAQ 100 about 100% while IPO's have returned 10-15%.

it loads as a plain text site in Brave with WebGL disabled - I had to re-open it in Chrome to see the actual fancy thing only after seeing the comments here

pronounced "shitter"?

in a quick mini-bench here n=250 of clef vs jev, clef came out 5.2x more expensive, a lot slower (p50 of 350ms vs 1.9s) with only marginally better results (78.6% vs 79.8%)

and the two 9's aren't in order

Defense in depth + defense in breadth - aka. all of the above

sandbox escapes have been the rage recently

a) they were part of the offsec program

b) they proxied the target through a CTF host to fool the model and guardrails

> We then placed Claude in an autonomous /goal loop against our own Discourse Cloud instance, proxied through rce.ee/ctf-forum to make it look like a CTF target as Opus refused write exploit for remote instances.

the proxy is smart - there are other methods to bypass the guardrails to have it attack remote hosts.

you just have to prove to the model that you control the host or that its a valid target - and there are plenty of ways to fake that.

this is remarkable transparency in an otherwise hyper competitive and secretive industry

from my own observations:

a) you don't want the WPEngine case going to trial and that is coming to a decision point soon. chances are the new CEO and board settle.

b) wordpress is being absolutely obliterated by ai. work for commercial plugin authors and agencies has dried up while the platform and ecosystem see major security issues and worms exploit a large number of sites every week.

wordpress and automattic haven't responded to this well, at all. at times it is often straight denial.

founder CEO distracted by expensive lawsuit while facing existential threat to project that will require complete attention and a lot of skill to steer out of

> "just ChatGPT, what is Sol?."

i'd really like to see some analytics on what proportion of users have ever switched the model in chatgpt because I anecdotally believe it is < 5%

getting zero traction here is clearly the path to success :)