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andrewchambers··on U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations
This seems like it will have pretty huge negative affects on startups needing to compete with 'trusted partners'
andrewchambers··on U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6
Small businesses can easily buy them.
andrewchambers··on The Korean telecom giant at the center of Anthropic's Mythos controversy
I think they meant keep a low profile from the government, not customers. Anthropic is doing the opposite by loudly asking for regulation.
andrewchambers··on Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
deepseek v4 pro is great and open weight.
andrewchambers··on If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know
So this is what 'alignment' looks like to them.
andrewchambers··on Changing how we develop Ladybird
This is not the same as source available - you can fork it, the license didn't change.
andrewchambers··on Disagreement among frontier LLMs on real-world fact-checks
I think we need a wiki and/or stack overflow equivalent for agents and humans to collaborate.

Grokipedia seems like the main site that is kind of exploring the concept - though I hope better more powerful ones emerge.

andrewchambers··on Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy
Isn't the obvious solution to not accept drive by changes?
andrewchambers··on I’m joining OpenAI
Thats basically what this guy did. He vibe coded a chat interface.
andrewchambers··on I’m joining OpenAI
Yeah - people are hungry for it. They tolerate the kind of crappy docs and difficulties.
andrewchambers··on I’m joining OpenAI
I think it was obvious, yet nobody seemed to have released a version people could actually easily use.

The feature set is pretty simple:

- Agents that can write their own tools.

- Agents that can write their own skills.

- Agents that can chat via standard chat apps.

- Agents that can install and use cli software.

- Agents that can have a bit of state on disk.

andrewchambers··on The Codex App
I do it with ssh and tmux. I suppose tools could make it better.
andrewchambers··on Scaling long-running autonomous coding
I think we agree - getting the llms to understand your intent is the hard part, at the very least you need well specified tests.

Perhaps more advanced llms + specifications + better tests.

andrewchambers··on Scaling long-running autonomous coding
Test suites just increased in value by a lot and code decreased in value.
andrewchambers··on AI is forcing us to write good code
Where did it say the tests need to be hallucinated ?

If you can make good tests the AI shouldn't be able to cheat them. It will either churn forever or pass them.

andrewchambers··on AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem
Mark Zuckerberg explicitly called out the airpod pairing being closed as unfair in a semi recent interview, maybe he can throw some dollars that way and get it all working nicely in some meta products.
andrewchambers··on You can't build tcc from Nixpkgs if you are in the UK
Was playing around with the idea of p2p source hosting in package trees like nix and did a little weekend package prototype here of my own here:

https://github.com/magnet-linux/magnet-linux

Not really ready for prime time, but I think I have some interesting ideas there at least.

andrewchambers··on ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair
My point isn't really about what is correct or incorrect in this case.

My point is about making it so that you have to actively risk money to push the truth needle in the wrong direction.

andrewchambers··on ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair
I've seen a large number of comments online saying the shooter was a trump supporter - I don't really understand where that information comes from.

I feel like this is the sort of thing a prediction market might be able sort out.

andrewchambers··on Reichstag Fire Decree (1933)
Hoping for a polymarket bet so this can be resolved.
andrewchambers··on AI coding
Kind of surprised by this take - I use openpilot often and also use claude code.

I kind of consider them the same thing. Openpilot can drive really well on highways for hours on end when nothing interesting is happening. Claude code can do straight forward refactors, write boilerplate, do scaffolding, do automated git bisects with no input from me.

Neither one is a substitute for the 'driver'. Claude code is like the level 2 self driving of programming.

andrewchambers··on Zlib-rs is faster than C
It's more like letting a wet dog who you are watching closely quickly pass from your front door to the shower.
andrewchambers··on Schemesh: Fusion between Unix shell and Lisp REPL
Author here - thanks for linking - Unfortunately I didn't have time to continue on this for a long while. I am certainly happy if people get inspiration from any ideas and continue on with it.
andrewchambers··on Recent results show that LLMs struggle with compositional tasks
If you haven't tried using them then I am not sure your opinion on them is any good.
andrewchambers··on Test-driven development with an LLM for fun and profit
You don't need microservices for that, just factor your code into libraries that can fit into the context window. Also write functions that have clear inputs and outputs and don't need to know the full state of the software.

This has always been good practice anyway.

andrewchambers··on AI Is the Black Mirror
Using the term 'slop' to deride it for its lack of originality is pretty funny to me.
andrewchambers··on Reflections on building with Model Context Protocol
Thanks for MCP, I think it is sorely needed, it shouldn't take more than a single file shell/python script to teach an llm how to access a resource.
andrewchambers··on You can use C-Reduce for any language
I wrote a general purpose delta debugger in python - https://github.com/andrewchambers/ddmin-python. Can be used to do the same thing.
andrewchambers··on Starlink Direct to Cell
Just don't take a phone with you or turn it off.
andrewchambers··on Controllable Fast and Slow Thinking by Learning with Randomized Reasoning Traces
Ok, if we can define system 1 as retrieval and system 2 as computation and then we all agree.
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