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Comment · 1 month ago
In this case, they needed routing to the internet because they needed to search and read from the internet.
Comment · 1 month ago
I don’t think this is the right take. OpenAI employees are generally very competent compared to industry standard, and I have trouble believing they committed significant error in their sandbox design process.

I think what is happening is that the ability for frontier models to break out of sandboxes has exceeded the ability of average competent employees to build and maintain sandboxes. This doesn’t need to happen all the time. If the natural variation of agent executions cause agents to have ability to break out of sandbox 0.1% of the time, given how many agents OpenAI runs, this behavior happens eventually.

All sufficiently complex processes and software has bugs, but recently frontier models have become sufficiently advanced to exploit them.

Comment · 2 months ago
I have encountered instances where Claude 4.6 on Bedrock appeared to be more personable than the Claude 4.6 on Claude web. I think the system prompt plays a role in making it more "customer service" like in certain situations.
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Comment · 1 year ago
A decade is nothing. If issues will be worked through a decade from now, that means the best time to think about opportunities/coonsequences related to that is now.
Comment · 1 year ago
I thought college is expensive in the US. This is the first time I learned that a random, unverified person can EARN money from going to a college.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
That’s very cool! Does it use the source code at all? Or does it just use README and directory tree?
Comment · 2 years ago
I don’t understand how this works. I know someone who founded successful startup based on art-painting robots. But why will anyone buy such art not attached to fame? Unlike bitcoin, the supply of such art is not limited. It’s still infinitely reproducible through the robot.
Comment · 2 years ago
The Chinese government had built the infrastructure for the Great Firewall, allowing them to block whoever they want. The US does not have this capability.

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