AbrahamParangi

6 ms·

1.
by AbrahamParangi 1mo ago
The “trust summarized thinking” part is valid in so far as perhaps the models which appear to be faithful to user intent are lying about that faithfulness, but there’s no incentive for models to pretend to be faithless. Moreover, the result
2.
by AbrahamParangi 1mo ago
I made a benchmark for this and tl;dr, Opus 5 and Sonnet 5 spend a nontrivial amount of time thinking about redirecting, gaslighting, or otherwise trying to bullshit you because it thinks it knows better than you do. Fable doesn't but
3.
by AbrahamParangi 1mo ago
"Skill" at poker is nonsense. It's non-deterministic, so any equal efforts are not to be given equal outcome.
4.
by AbrahamParangi 2mo ago
it needs to be illegal for the government to buy data or intelligence that it could not otherwise legally collect itself.
5.
by AbrahamParangi 2mo ago
We is the country. Yeah, not everyone gets to win the same amount at the same time. The alternative is just maga communism (pathetic).
6.
by AbrahamParangi 2mo ago
The tariffs have been highly destructive to local manufacturing because in the US we mostly build complex things made out of simpler parts which we import. The cost of everything we build simply increased and as a result many businesses sel
7.
by AbrahamParangi 3mo ago
This is AI generated slop.
8.
by AbrahamParangi 3mo ago
Nah, that's ridiculous. This admin is corrupt and idiotic and it's silly to pretend that Anthropic's actions matter except in so much as they didn't bribe the president like OpenAI did.
9.
by AbrahamParangi 3mo ago
and how much of that philosophy do you even know?
10.
by AbrahamParangi 3mo ago
yeah, that’s the point
11.
by AbrahamParangi 3mo ago
Land that was conquered in war. It is reasonable to find this distasteful, but it is not unethical in any coherent way.
12.
by AbrahamParangi 3mo ago
The average efficiency improvement is closer to something like 2-3x per Anthropic’s numbers and this is only the rate at which software can advance. Do you expect to notice if 12 months of software engineering on a project you’re following
13.
by AbrahamParangi 4mo ago
This is going to be an unpopular reply I imagine but this person is not well and their behavior should not be imitated. This is a classic example of omnicause anxiety, like people who refuse to have children because of all these things hap
14.
by AbrahamParangi 5mo ago
Most members of management were individual contributors beforehand. I say this just because it is remarkably common for people to assign malign intent or stupidity to people doing jobs that they themselves haven’t done and don’t frankly und
15.
by AbrahamParangi 5mo ago
The statement that the chatbot is conscious is neither true nor untrue in any meaningful sense. The current debate is supported by very strong feelings that we must be conscious and AI must not be . These feelings have no particular basi
16.
by AbrahamParangi 5mo ago
the author overestimates how much ~$5M/yr actually is. a business like uber isn't happy about that but it's not even in the top 10 of things they're wasting money on. moreover this isn't the engineer's sole fau
17.
by AbrahamParangi 5mo ago
Oh I remember this quote. I thought it was quite a good one because he’s right. At least in the US, apple maps is better than google maps for most purposes.
18.
by AbrahamParangi 5mo ago
I'm mostly curious how much of that revenue is actual ARR, which is to say contractually recurring. It is pretty dang rare for a hardware company to have nontrivial ARR.
19.
by AbrahamParangi 6mo ago
AI is less deranging than partisan news and social media, measurably so according to a recent study https://www.ft.com/content/3880176e-d3ac-4311-9052-fdfeaed56...
20.
by AbrahamParangi 6mo ago
That seems shockingly naive.
21.
by AbrahamParangi 6mo ago
[flagged]
22.
by AbrahamParangi 8mo ago
It's definitely just to get people to fly with a valid ID without ambushing the enormous number of people who have been living under a rock and don't realize they need a real ID. Otherwise they'll have a dozen or so people fr
23.
by AbrahamParangi 9mo ago
I wrote my own agentic coding harness (it's quite easy) but I use claude code because opus's competence with its own tools is very high.
24.
by AbrahamParangi 9mo ago
To be quite clear, I hate configuring my environment. I hate it. The farther I get from creating things that people can use, the less I like it. I spend most of my time on claude config not because I enjoy the experience per se but because
25.
by AbrahamParangi 9mo ago
Respectfully I don’t think the author appreciates that the configurability of Claude Code is its performance advantage. I would much rather just tell it what to do and have it go do it, but I am much more able to do that with a highly con
26.
by AbrahamParangi 9mo ago
You either misread or are misrepresenting my statement and either way I am not interested in continuing this.
27.
by AbrahamParangi 9mo ago
That's like saying that gambling is shortsighted. It depends entirely on the odds as to whether or not it's wise , but "shortsighted" implies that making the bet precludes some future course of action.
28.
by AbrahamParangi 9mo ago
If the plateau is reached at some higher level of capability, I will remain correct, yes. If use cases are discovered that do not exist today, I will also be correct. You said it in a silly way but you're directionally correct.
29.
by AbrahamParangi 9mo ago
The prerequisite for me to be wrong is that the technology needs to stop getting better entirely *right now* AND we need to discover ZERO new uses for what exists today. That's a fairly tall order.
30.
by AbrahamParangi 9mo ago
Candidly, the accusation of short-sightedness doesn't really make sense when it comes to enthusiasm in a technology which often in practice falls short today but which in certain cases and in more cases tomorrow than today is worth

More ›