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iterateoften··on Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model
Also the bureaucracy, employee rights, etc.

Incorporating and getting a functional business entity in Brazil is harder. In USA I literally do in 5min online including bank account. In Brazil they are taking out microscopes to verify your signature on the paperwork matches.

And in the USA if you have one bad employee, just fire them any time. In Brazil for better or for worse nowhere near as easy. Obviously better for employees but businesses don’t like it because you can get stuck with a employee dragging down everyone unless you pay them a years salary etc.

iterateoften··on Every Frame Perfect
Frame transitions in film do not in fact exist in reality. They are added in the editing room or through manipulation of the recording mechanism fyi.
iterateoften··on AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models
This narrative any criticism about Anthropic is emotional is such corporate cope that it boggles the mind to see people defend a trillion dollar corporation time and time again all while the same corporation actively makes things worse for the average person.

Cool. Everybody is doing it. Doesn’t make it right or make it good for the people. Everyone should complain and help others wake up that Anthropic isn’t the “good guys” like their narrative in Feb/march led so many to believe.

iterateoften··on LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do
Yeah, I always wonder if they do some type of obfuscation and transformation on the private data and find a way to backdoor the info without technically using it directly.
iterateoften··on Yon – a topos-oriented language with a content-addressed lattice heap
I noticed since 5.5 GPT has been adding "lattice" to a lot of things. Not sure if it is the new Gremlins.
iterateoften··on S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic
More like its a regulated space and it makes basic sense to have regulations
iterateoften··on Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang
“The model mimicked the output of the training data” is a less impressive press release.
iterateoften··on Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang
Same thing with extraterrestrials.

One side is confidently shouting maybe aliens exist and visited earth.

The other side calmly explains every example brought up about aliens visiting is easily explained by something more simple.

The “aliens are here” side then move the goal posts that just because this example and all previous examples were fake or miscategorized, aliens are still probably real and nobody can prove they havent visited earth.

iterateoften··on Mobile won the platform war on distribution, not capability
Aren’t all the reasons people use mobile because of its capabilities? Like the fact that it is in fact mobile?
iterateoften··on What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?
In my experience, investors push hard to go in office when fundraising
iterateoften··on Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup
How much dilution? Who’s getting the value?
iterateoften··on Sales and Dungeons: Thermal printer TTRPG utility
Just a question, but on these threads it’s nonstop talk about how dangerous the paper is like using it for one dnd game will give you cancer but we don’t blink twice at cashiers handling it 8hrs a day?
iterateoften··on BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork
Going from Bambu to a self printed 3d printer I don't even think counts as the same category of devices. Bambu is concentrated on making a plug and play device that just works.
iterateoften··on Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability
People love defending Anthropics shortcomings…

“Mythos isn’t supposed to be that good at security, because actually Anthropic was referring more about running llms than mythos specifically”

“The opus model is worse because they have no compute because they are training mythos. The degraded performance is justified!”

“All the bugs in Claude code is just because the models are so good they are just looping and are shipping fast”

Constantly see people crawl out of the woodwork to defend a trillion dollars company overhyping every press release it gives

iterateoften··on Appearing productive in the workplace
It’s easier to judge an objective output like number of words than subjective like quality.

Same as lines of code, etc.

iterateoften··on Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons
focus groups are like the sobriety tests on the side of the road. Its just performance and the conclusion was made before it even started.
iterateoften··on We're in 1905: Why Electricity (Not Dot-Com) Is the Right AI Analogy
People did and still do the same with electricity and magnets. Both incredibly useful despite it.
iterateoften··on Where the goblins came from
This is funny because it’s a silly topic, but I think it shows something extremely seriously wrong with llms.

The goblins stand out because it’s obvious. Think of all the other crazy biases latent in every interaction that we don’t notice because it’s not as obvious.

Absolutely terrifying that OpenAI is just tossing around that such subtle training biases were hard enough to contain it had to be added to system prompt.

iterateoften··on The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI can simulate but not instantiate consciousness
The next loop
iterateoften··on Show HN: Auto-Architecture: Karpathy's Loop, pointed at a CPU
Lol, I respect karpathy a lot, but this is such an obvious in your face idea that it is laughable to put someone’s name on it.

What’s next “karpathy investing” where ai in a loop builds a portfolio?

iterateoften··on Is my blue your blue?
Im left delighted to find out something new, but left wanting to know how to use it.

Like if im 75% on the green transition, how do i use this information.

iterateoften··on 4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor
Yeah seems like nonsense advise. Have a code word that was never recorded? I don’t see how that would tote y anything. Like the point of these systems is they can say stuff you never said convincingly
iterateoften··on Men Who Stare at Walls
Zen meditation for an hour staring at a wall is a marathon that at the end results in a semi-psychedelic state for me.

Exercising and sitting b meditating are two related but seriously different things. Which is why there are many other types of meditation to practice (walking, working, silent, etc) but zen mostly considers sitting and looking at a wall the OG

iterateoften··on Show HN: A free ESG stock screener that publishes its losses and methodology
Unless you know exactly why paper trading sims are so hard to backrest in practice, it’s silly to make arguments on why your paper trading sim works.

It’s insanely easy to make a trading algo profitable on historical data.

iterateoften··on Reverse-engineering infrared-based electronic shelf labels
You don’t need for every item. Just low frequency high profit goods
iterateoften··on Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)
It’s also that agents and ML reach local maximima unless external feedback is given. So your wiki will reach a state and get stuck there.
iterateoften··on GPT-5.5
Cultural influence is another benefit. China is securing its sphere of influence as well as keeping us ai in check.
iterateoften··on Show HN: SPICE simulation → oscilloscope → verification with Claude Code
Beware. I had Claude code with opus building boards and using spice simulations. It completely hallucinated the capabilities of the board and made some pretty crazy claims like I had just stumbled onto the secret hardware billion dollar project that every home needed.

None of the boards worked and I had to just do the project in codex. Opus seemed too busy congratulating itself to realize it produced gibberish.

iterateoften··on Codex for almost everything
No it’s because Anthropic can’t message anything to its customers without lying.
iterateoften··on Claude Opus 4.7
It’s the official communication that sucks. It’s one thing for the product to be a black box if you can trust the company. But time and time again Boris lies and gaslights about what’s broken, a bug or intentional.
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