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pants2··on Claude Code regularly sends each background agent’s transcript to its model
Really? Because you'd think for profit they would want to minimize token burn and therefore get away with lower limits on their plans
pants2··on She Worried About Cutting Her Medication Dose. ChatGPT Told Her to Push On
Though notably she was using GPT-4o and not their health product, 4o being much more sycophantic and definitely their most controversial model.

ChatGPT Health just tells me to go to the hospital right away for any minor thing

pants2··on Image generation has come a long way since August 2022
No modern or over-time comparisons?

In some ways I prefer looking at these over the hyper-polished 2026 image generators tbh.

pants2··on GPT-6.1 Terra (Max) Scores 48 on Artificial Analysis
Sonnet scores 56 (higher than Astra and Fable) which is a little sus. LiveBench still has the closest benchmark rankings to my personal vibes, though they don't have Terra yet. https://livebench.ai/#/
pants2··on GPT-6.1 Terra
I don't know why this is so hard to understand.

It's like iPhone 17 being faster than iPhone 16 Pro. Because it's newer and benefits from advances in chip architecture, despite being a lower model tier. Sometimes different iPhone models are released at different times.

pants2··on New iPad mini
The Apple TV really threw me, $299 new but last gen started at $129
pants2··on What goes into making an animated film?
Neural Viz had really good consistency and really good scripts, also importantly knew to write the story around the limitations in what AI could do, including using non-human characters to avoid that uncanny valley that I immediately see in the Kono Express video. Truly a master at his craft, it's a shame he hung it up!
pants2··on Cerebras Deploys Trillion-Parameter AI Models
Isn't Cerebras serving Sol 6.1 Ultrafast?
pants2··on Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin
Trail of Bits is a well-known security research and audit firm
pants2··on The rise and fall of Jev hype
It's still a pretty new field but Jev handily beats Luna-decisions on the Artificial Analysis Decision Index on every metric (price, latency, and accuracy)
pants2··on Claude Duet
No, not as far as I can figure. Sure, Claude can access secrets with the CLI but it's not very granular usually it's just asking for access to all secrets
pants2··on Claude Duet
I have a custom wrapper for 1PW that lets an agent browse and request credentials, then I can provide it a lease to access those for a certain amount of time. Super nice and I hope they build that in to 1PW itself.
pants2··on Harness Engineering 101: The LLM is the brain, the harness is the body
I think it would be fair to say the harness is the Kitchen and the model is the Chef. The Chef is very capable but limited to the tools, appliances, and ingredients in the Kitchen. If you say "make me a cake" but there's no oven and no flour, you're not going to get a very good cake.
pants2··on Writing is no longer proof of work
Given the lack of repercussions for AI companies that have hacked various services, there will be an AI company that trains their medical agents on PHI hacked from Epic/Cerner and gets away with it.
pants2··on Investing in the public benefit
What's your source?

Sundar Pichai was given a $692M pay package this year (incentive-linked over three years)

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/07/google-just-gave-sundar-pi...

pants2··on Tesla Roadster
In theory it could be a car that avoids nearly every accident. Say you're at a red light behind a semi truck and an SUV is about to rear end you. The car could detect the impending crash and lift you up and away from danger.

A supercar that can't crash would be very popular among the ultra rich even at 5 mil a pop.

pants2··on /dev/null: social network for developers
Nobody's forcing you to use that website
pants2··on Krea 3 – An image model built for editing at scale
At least Krea doesn't have the GPT-image shimmer! All of the GPT-image images are immediately recognizable as AI.
pants2··on Ledger confirms hidden chip in crypto wallet amid $92M theft claims
MPC or multi-sig is a pretty good solution, you can require a 2/3 sign off from different custody solutions (ie. a hardware, desktop, and mobile wallet)
pants2··on The Gemini Agent
Good, just what people were asking for, yet another AI product from Google
pants2··on Vitalik Buterin backs crypto ‘bunker mode’ amid rapid AI math advances
Basically everything. DeFi wasn't even really a thing back then - Ethereum had zero TVL when the rollback happened. Smart contracts were a brand new concept. Competing SC chains like Solana weren't even in the idea stage yet. It also had only one client. Now there is $50B+ in TVL and nine clients and a rollback is just not going to happen.

It's ancient history. It's like still criticizing Apple for how they handled Copland OS.

pants2··on Vitalik Buterin backs crypto ‘bunker mode’ amid rapid AI math advances
What "consequences" are you referring to? Anything that has happened in the last 10 years?
pants2··on Vitalik Buterin backs crypto ‘bunker mode’ amid rapid AI math advances
That was over 10 years ago now, when the chain was less than a year old. Things have changed. Can we drop it already?
pants2··on Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?
Probably because Luna is faster, cheaper, and approximately as smart
pants2··on People are asking ChatGPT to help them decide how to vote in the midterms
While we can throw around hypotheticals and conspiracy theories about influencing AI results, we know for a fact that search engines and social media are heavily influenced, because there are giant industries around SEO and viral marketing -- plus the huge amount of ads and promoted content, which are literally paying to influence results.
pants2··on A Map of Every Lighthouse on the Planet
What would be the reason to buy it then? Just to tell your friends that you own a lighthouse?
pants2··on Show HN: Offrun – manage every coding agent from one workspace
Soon we're going to need a meta-orchestrator for all these agent orchestrators
pants2··on Don't be fooled–LLMs don't reason
In the early reasoning models the chain of thought would often drift off into other topics, almost like a daydreaming. This behavior is undesirable so that's been RL'd away, but I do think this is something we could evoke from models. It's just difficult to contend with from an eval perspective.
pants2··on OpenAI Scraps Release of New AI Model over Safety Concerns
I think to get such high scores on benchmarks models need to find very creative ways of solving a problem. Sometimes this does lead to weird behavior, e.g. "I saw that your account credentials were expired, so I found the database credentials in your TablePlus application data and pulled the JWT signing key to create a new one."

Like brother I could have just logged in for you??

pants2··on Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school
Chatbots in general can be quite opaque in how they operate, the biggest issue with agent products is communicating it's capabilities and limitations to users. If you have a bank app it's pretty clear whether or not it can send wire transfers, but a if that's a chatbot, users will have to think to ask it (and even then it could hallucinate)
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