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whazor··on US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects
I think wind farms on sea look really cool, especially if the turbines are huge. It gives some majestic feelings
whazor··on Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs
True. Real harness engineering is when you actually measure outcome statistically. Although i would say 5 samples might be enough to conclude something
whazor··on Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users
Especially with tool calling.

This could be the Opus 4.5 moment for normal humans.

whazor··on Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users
My ChatGPT gives me lots of “artificial general intelligence” on a daily basis that I don’t possess.
whazor··on AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon
According to my agent:

> At 6 nm: 1T doesn't fit on one wafer.

> At ~2 nm: 1T plausibly fits comfortably on one 300 mm wafer.

But then again, 300B to 500B models are to this day also very valuable

whazor··on Framework discloses data breach via Metabase 0-day
Even if its on the cloud, should be locked behind your VPN
whazor··on Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs
This is a good case for custom harness/sandbox engineering.
whazor··on Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage
Not my blog :)
whazor··on Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest
The web_search tool and MCP discovery is essentially a global directory.

Now when I ask ChatGPT for a product, it does a web_search tool call and then gives me a link to a webshop product page. But next step would be automatically using the MCP of that webshop to embed checkout inside chat.

whazor··on Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest
MCPs are very exciting. They now support IFrames (MCP Apps) as well.

Now that the models are getting better, you can trust them to book barber appointments, order groceries, manage your calendar, etc etc. It's significantly lazier to ask an agent to do something than manually doing it. Especially with voice to text.

I'm predicting that chat bots will auto-discover MCPs from trusted websites and make life much easier.

whazor··on Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage
You can see the approach in his post: https://howaboua.dev/writing/how-i-gave-pi-17-tools-without-...

The result: 38% fewer startup tokens, 17 tools exposed through just three schemas, and 19 skills loaded only when needed.

whazor··on Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage
Both Codex and Claude have trained their models to their harnesses.

There are some experimentations by Igor Warzocha to extract Codex shapes and put it in Pi: https://github.com/IgorWarzocha/howaboua-pi-stuff/tree/main/...

I'm expecting every model will have a fine tuned Pi extension at some point.

whazor··on The first watch featuring computer functions
yes I have one and love it but I believe hardware design could be done better by Casio/Seiko
whazor··on The End of an Era
Two of my favorite (sci-)fi writers both use crazy big Excel files that almost crash their computers when loading. For research but also keeping track of story loops.

I can imagine something like ChatGPT Work with markdown/python/CSV's can do quite some magic for such writers.

whazor··on The Economic Benefit of Refactoring
There is a big difference pre and post AI, namely that humans have quite good long term context management.

But now that everyone is coding with AI, all agents need to acquire context every session. Thus the value of doing best practices is much higher and benefits are there immediately.

whazor··on The first watch featuring computer functions
I wish they could build a modern Pebble time 2 watch, since its opensource
whazor··on The coolest use for the Vision Pro
I think you can get the same experience on much more affordable VR glasses. Also installing an APK is easier than all the Xcode/Apple signing/device pairing etc.
whazor··on Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website
Well I guess I have good news for you (and bad news for Dutch merchants), because Wero does offer the ability to dispute.
whazor··on Chinese chipmaker shares surge 470%
Yeah, you can directly print the SOTA AI model on the chip. I also believe this can be done on older process nodes. The most important factor would be speed. How fast can you go from new model to new chip?
whazor··on Hybrid-Electric Aicraft Engine Targeting 30% Fuel Efficiency
This is why it makes sense to carbon price the private jets. On a smaller plane you can innovate much faster.
whazor··on Escape IntelliJ: Scala and Kotlin LSPs on Emacs Eglot
why do you need a java language server? Let them use the same tooling you would use in CI
whazor··on Advertise in ChatGPT
but google sucks, its a terrible product thanks to its ads. Internet is terrible without adblockers.

Now chatgpt can add some subtle ads in their apps and they have enough users for companies to spend money on it.

whazor··on Intel Starts Shipping High-NA EUV Silicon
As I understand it, the machine also needs lots of 'normal parts' and can be designed differently to fit the factory and the automation. Like if you need a pipe, instead of buying it from ASML, you can buy it from a local hardware vendor. And parts of the ASML also break, and those parts would be directly shipped from the vendor that makes the part. ASML manages the integration between these parts and each part can have multiple vendors that makes them according to the specs.
whazor··on Pebble Mega Update – July 2026
I should have said 'a discount' since I indeed hope they make a revised version of Time 2.
whazor··on Trump Media to sell instant access to 'market-moving' social posts
real danger of insider trading is that you can get jailed 20 years in the future for something you did today
whazor··on Pebble Mega Update – July 2026
Now with Pebble you only receive iOS notifications.

Soon in Europe you can reply to notifications via voice.

whazor··on Pebble Mega Update – July 2026
I got the pebble time 2 now for a month. Pebble is the Casio smartwatch.

The issues are a bit sad. But I will happily upgrade with the discount to the revised version of time 2.

To me, a Pebble is better than an apple watch due to battery life and hack-ability. Especially with the latest AI models it is just your imagination. And with ASK and Notification Forwarding it will be much closer to a Apple Watch in functionality.

whazor··on LLM Networking with MikroTik
Mikrotik also has a safe mode for testing configuration

There is also a terraform provider. Not sure if there is a safe mode here. I normally test via ssh safe mode and import the changes afterwards.

whazor··on Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources
It is not. Wero has charge back support and therefor higher fees. There is quite some interest in Pay by Bank via PSD2 APIs. This is much more similar to iDeal and can work for the entire EU.
whazor··on I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets
This is arguable a feature.

I made a prototype where AI automatically fills in the checkout basket for an amusement park. I found that ChatGPT tells how many adults, how many kids, what date suits you.

There are quite some security concerns, but fully banning AI from filling in query parameters with relevant user data is not the solution. This is also why I think Claude didnt give the bounty. Their solution would likely be a combination of trusted domain allow list and better security model that protects user agent.

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