jameson

I find it odd that people put "decentralized" currency into a centralized wallet

Ethics is taught. Directly or indirectly (i.e. environmental/cultural). Also for some, a loss of an employment has significantly higher consequence than others.

If you take these into consideration then it makes sense why one would make such choice. Whether they are aware of building an evil device is irrelevant at this point -- they're making best choice for themselves and their family. Employers love employees who follows orders so they'll craft environment where only those kinds of employees would survive.

IMO this isn't really the problem between employers and employees. They are doing what the system incentivizes them. It's the regulator's role to govern to protect individuals.

The irony is U.S. allows lobbying and SuperPAC which essentially makes the system in favor of those with money.

competition. that's good for consumers.

though problem with proprietary LLMs it's difficult to know if the vendor's supposed "optimization" affects performance negatively because it's difficult to define an SLA

Also the speed

It could be the system prompt

Right. Also once it's installed , rules might change unnoticed. It's difficult to enforce long term and requires very high degree of trust.

I'm certain if I drew a cartoon and used the signature that looks just like a real cartoonists', I would get sued and liable for the damage.

The same should apply to LLM vendors.

It reminds me of the an Soviet officer who disobeyed early warning system's alert that US had launched four ICBMs and did not immediately relay the issue up to the chain of command.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alar...

Hrm. I can play it without logging in

I wonder how much this relates to existence of Super PACs and lobbying in US.

If campaign spending is strictly regulated, I imagine it would be difficult for such work.

Average person believe what they see and hear.

Each group is exposed to different media, thus the polarization.

Current administration knows this very well

I agree that it's misleading but harness is now an essential part of LLM's effectiveness. It's safe to assume that LLM-alone-AGI is not coming anytime soon, given most of the frontier LLM vendors are developing their own harness.

Also the training dataset is proprietary and they'll drive the LLM's behavior, so it make sense for the vendors to invest in the harness and bake in prompts that work best with their models.

It appears to be a pattern where I work "expert novice" eventually causes serious incident but is unable to root-cause on their own.

They've become a meat proxy[0] prompting LLM to root cause for them and the ability to fix is capped by LLMs ability, not the engineer's.

I've tried to convince management before this happened and yet here we are.

[0] https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-03/

The concerns are legitimate but the proposals are nothing more than a stopgap solution.

If US wants to maintain engineering superiority, we needs to invest in it -- education, research and infrastructure. Bring in top researchers across the globe and not make it harder.

China is building infrastructure for the future generations and investing in growth sectors while the US is cutting of university grants and spending billions on a war without clear path to resolution.

> During the questioning, agents repeatedly asked Tunick to unlock his phone and warned they would seize it if he refused. When he finally provided a passcode, the phone appeared to restart.

I'm confused to understand if Tunick did anything illegal here. If the authorities want the phone, they should have the warrant and seize it without Tunick's permission.

It appears authorities did not have the warrant which give Tunick all the right to do whatever he desires with his property.

What am I missing here?

> The EUIPO found that the word "open" would be understood by the relevant public as meaning freely accessible, while the combination with "AI" (artificial intelligence) would be interpreted as referring to products based on openly accessible artificial intelligence.

> for certain software and information technology goods and services, the term is purely descriptive and therefore lacks the distinctiveness required for trademark protection

edit: add the latter statement

It adds a TON of skills by default your project might not even need.

AI companies stole the internet.

They should collaborate and come up with ways to give back to society rather than competing and complaing.

Thieves can't complaint about what they stole.

> Opus 4.8 built in Claude Code; GLM-5.2 built in Pi over OpenRouter.

It would be more interesting and accurate to see the comparison on the same harness if the intent is to compare the frontier models.

Pi is relatively new and does not have many features built-in compared to Claude Code. It was chosen intentionally this way as Pi's goal is not to create a bloat builtin of tools most don't use but to allow the users to customize to fit their need -- similar to Neovim vs IDE.

The end-user "vibe coding" experience is *heavily* swayed by the harness because prompt effectively drives how a model outputs an answer.

I heavily using Deepseek V4 Pro for a personal project because I cannot afford Opus, and spent ~1B token last two weeks for just $40 which would've costed ~$1300 using Opus 4.8. Realistically Opus cost will be lower assuming more "intelligent" model would've produced less code with fewer conversation but I doubt it'll be cheaper than ~$500.

I'm curious to know how they can they offer at such a cheap price. Some say it's electricity surplus in China and/or government subsidy. It'll be a very interesting read if there's an extensive study on their economics.

   1.1B (cache reads) * $0.5 = ~576
   39M (ache miss) * $5 = ~199
   21M (output) * $25 = ~529
   Opus 4.8 = 1304

   1.1B (cache reads) * $0.003625 = ~4.17
   39M (ache miss) * $0.435 = ~17.3
   21M (output) * $0.87 = ~18.4
   Deepseek V4 Pro = ~40

I wonder which spectrum Steve Jobs would be on if he was still alive to this day.

I want to emphasize "unknowingly" part. Once data is uploaded to an entity, there's no guarantee they'll manage is properly.

User agreements change constantly, engineers make mistake, firms get liquidated and data might get sold, and most importantly, as a former employee of social media firms, what the firms say about the user privacy publicly is very different inside.

If Anthropic really found a model that's so powerful no one has, why don't they use it for themselves to create things no one can and accumulate unimaginable wealth?

Exactly.

The problem with photo since the birth of social media is that it's permanently stored in the internet, literally.

Photos used to be personal and (mostly) temporary. I may take a photo in public, develop, then share with the close ones and store in the photo book. Photo may be somehow passed onto others but likely thrown away eventually when I become less of importance to them, and it'll worn out.

With photos now uploaded to social media or the "cloud", they exist permanently as a means of backups, sold to 3rd party (knowingly or unknowingly) analyzed to "improve the experience of the platform".

Moved to Firefox. Thank you Firefox.

Mimo v2.5 Pro Ultraspeed w/ OpenCode

https://github.com/bamggm/micropython-wasm/commit/8b362fba1f...

Got curious and ran a similar prompt with DeepSeek v4 Pro w/ OpenCode

No idea what's going on here but agent tested a bunch of stuff. Then I asked to build a wheel so I can run the command you noted above and it appears to pass

For those who are curious...

https://github.com/bamggm/micropython-wasm/commit/5ddebae592...

I'm sure the supply will go up if extra $$$ is paid.

It's more alarming that US doesn't have enough skilled teachers in the nation that we have to hire from overseas.

Education is an investment to the future generation and must not be overlooked.

I wonder how they determine an applicant's ethnicity. Is it by the name?