lwansbrough

Was looking at OpenRouter, I guess it’s wrong.

Significant jump in pricing. V4 Flash was $0.16/M out, 4.1 is $1.20/M.

Probably has something to do with the Alignment Lead at Anthropic agreeing with him, saying there’s a >10% chance that AI kills humanity in the next decade.

It would be nice if one of these models would produce a novel theory or advance the field in a positive direction.

Most (all?) of the big discoveries have been counterexamples, which is just sort of a systematic tearing down human ingenuity. I know that counterexamples are an important part of progress and discovery, but it just feels bad to me.

But I'm not a mathematician, maybe I'm totally misreading the vibe.

Same story in San Francisco of course, and the rest of the US pretty much aside from a few cities in recent years.

To me AGI has always meant sentience. And only since we’ve discovered that you can have something that is intelligent without it being apparently sentient that we’ve changed the definition to being, I suppose, more exactly aligned with the namesake.

A real AGI, like the ones from science fiction, would make Astra look like a child’s toy. And I guess more concretely I would expect it to inhibit the following properties: one shot learning - fully (and always) online, perfectly efficient (through self improvement), no context limitations ie. persistently thinking, not just awaiting input.

So for me, no, not AGI yet. But still very intelligent and capable (and perhaps it’s safer this way?)

On the contrary, I think the novelty of AI blowing our minds with each release has worn off a bit. These are some impressive improvements in science benchmarks. But we're sort of used to seeing impressive improvements now.

That doesn't make them less impressive, it just means people are shifting their focus more towards their own day to day experience with these things because we're relying on them so much now.

Like when the novelty of the automobile wore off, I'm sure people were starting to say "it's a bumpy ride though, isn't it?"

It's probably a good representative sample. So I do believe that roughly 50% of the US population supports or would vote for Trump.

"Patriotic" and it's the renaming of a place with historic meaning and cultural significance to the region on both sides of the border. It's vandalism. Like when ISIS went around destroying historic sites.

Does every Trump supporter have to be just woefully ignorant about every single topic?

While they show Lake Ontario (Lake America) in the rest of the world, I would like to suggest that they apply a more patronizing treatment to the alias:

Lake Ontario ("Lake America")

The quotes add a certain.. je ne sais quoi.

I think overall it's not Google's job to decide the names of things. Half of America voted for the circus, enjoy!

If you use Gemini after reading Claude's simlish, it will feel very refreshing.

I feel like Opus 5 is going to need a postmortem once they figure out what makes it so obnoxious. It's clearly something like an artifact of getting the model to reach deeper for tokens, possibly because it has some positive impact on coding and/or tool calling. But man is it bad for general communication, like borderline unusable.

I suspect if you showed one human a million photos of a bike they might get it right.

Perhaps this isn’t a new observation but the problem with LLMs is very clear with these. It’s a nice microcosm. The LLM will draw a fish companion (unprompted!) with a nice gradient but won’t get the pelican’s feet right.

It’s obviously a problem of fundamental understanding and demonstrates that reasoning is more “directionless rigour”.

Access to your computer

It shouldn’t be, and certainly doesn’t have to be. Logically it should be cheaper to live in an apartment than an entire house - obviously.

Suburbs are subsidized by economic centres. And the state of affairs in North America - Vancouver included - is we’re not building housing to match demand. That’s true purely in terms of individual units but it’s also true for types of units. Like apartments that aren’t luxury units, but that can fit a family. They don’t build those anymore because city council makes it completely unprofitable for developers.

If you think that apartment living is inherently more expensive I’m sorry to tell you that you have it completely backwards.

For OpenAI, research is marketing. I’m sure they’ve got plenty of budget for that.

This is satire right?

Why stop there though? My harness writes WAT directly and compiles with wasmtime.

It’s very fast and very difficult to read.

In theory. But in practice, in my experience, sub-agents increase cost.

Sub-agent tasks often have overlapping context after the point of dispatch. Example: you tell agent 1 to explore folder A and agent 2 to explore folder B, if they have the same structure a single agent might be able to discover what it's looking for faster in serial mode vs. parallel. And if not faster, likely with fewer tokens.

And as the orchestrator context grows, it also loses out on capturing the nuance from some of the sub-agent context. In theory they pass some of that back, but realistically things get missed, and you can't apply learnings to parallel runs like you can in series.

The latest frontier models are very good at taking the knowledge they've acquired during a session and applying it forward. Sub-agents make more sense in cases where the agent is dumb to begin with and can't make use of the context it learns from serial execution.

This is how I started web dev 20 years ago :) Building a Windows XP “clone” portal for my PSP.

Going to call it user error if you find Opus 4.5 better than 5, sorry.

[loads up most intelligent AI ever created]

“Rabbit sex, how?”

Thanks, I'll give that a try.

Plugged 3.5 Flash Lite into an existing agent harness that was previously using 3.1 Flash Lite and this shit just does not work. It's not following instructions and is not producing the correct tool calls.

Can anyone explain how you “win” the market of super intelligence? Particularly with open weights models now rivaling the frontier, it seems like a race to the bottom even if the prices don’t yet reflect that.

This is like, a post-hoc rationalization.

Most jobs, not all, can take place inside a city. If you build your cities densely, people can live and work within the city and have all their needs met without the need for a car (see: the great cities of the world)

If you design economic hubs properly, businesses can be located within reach of homes without the need for cars.

If you instead prioritize the need for, I don’t know, a monoculture lawn and separation from lower class people, then you’re choosing to build suburbs. Once a city has built enough suburbs, businesses become out of reach without the use of a car.

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From the pre-slop era: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKT-sKtR970

Didn't they also just post about how SWEBench is broken?