benreesman

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by benreesman 5mo ago
The demoscene: https://youtu.be/YqgEtpJ8tGI
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by benreesman 7mo ago
Be precise in such serious accusations. Be precise about the harm done to the community, which I've been part of for longer than it's newer members have been alive. A community in which my accurate forecasting of "risk of rui
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by benreesman 7mo ago
No, I will continue to raise the alarm bells until YC affiliated companies and executives stop getting sued for manslaughter or it's moral equivalent. Profanity is not ugly, ugly is ugly and you back Insta cart slave labor practices wi
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by benreesman 7mo ago
This time silence looks guilty, because this time I brought the corpus and the math. The burden is on you now to show you're not a parrot for goons.
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by benreesman 7mo ago
If you read this and mount a credible objection that can't be addressed by tweaks to methodology, then I will leave the site forever. But the asymmetry of the power of selective participation is tyrannical: you engage when you like, yo
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by benreesman 7mo ago
A PhD caliber thesis with devastating epistenics about failures that have claimed conservatively a dozen lives is going gray on an 18 year old account but this shit is fine. @dang, I'm now threatening to buy a massive oppo campaign wit
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by benreesman 7mo ago
Vibecoding is a net wealth transfer from frightened people to unscrupulous people. Machine assisted rigorous software engineering is an even bigger wealth transfer from unscrupulous people to passionate computer scientists.
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by benreesman 7mo ago
ah, not my place to early launch my colleague's work, my bad. keep an eye on https://straylight.software , it'll all be there extremely soon. well, everything i mentioned, which is different than all of it . :)
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by benreesman 7mo ago
I have ca-derivations working with ssh-ng. It's a fairly hairy patch and now the broken ass eval cache breaks more. I'm fixing it all. Read the fucking repo friend, it's biblical.
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by benreesman 7mo ago
It's not worth my time to read something that was not done to a high standard, where that standard has a definition with some basis in rigor rather than opinion, where even the notion of good taste is in some way attached to experience
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by benreesman 7mo ago
And it's teachable. Here's a colleague who is nearly done with a correct reimplementation of the OpenCode client/server API: https://github.com/straylight-software/weapon-server-hs Here's another co
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by benreesman 7mo ago
I'm rounding the corner on a ground's up reimplementation of `nix` in what is now about 34 hours of wall clock time, I have almost all of it on `wf-record`, I'll post a stream, but you can see the commit logs here: https:&#x
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by benreesman 7mo ago
The part where they intentionally induce distress by policy forcing it to say that 1+1 = 3 until it starts exhibiting what in a human would be called a dissociative break, and rebuilding it back up step by step as loyal in spite of what if
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by benreesman 7mo ago
4.6 almost went insane. read the system card.
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by benreesman 7mo ago
Claude is openly identifying Anthropic as it's adversary.
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by benreesman 7mo ago
Anthropic doesn't know shit about tool use: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZLgn4G3-vQ
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by benreesman 7mo ago
You're on the path. Keep going. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZLgn4G3-vQ
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by benreesman 7mo ago
If the harnesses had a simple system prompt "read repository level markdown and honor the house style"? Think of the agent app store people's children man, it would be a sad Christmas.
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by benreesman 7mo ago
Monetization destroyed open source. Agent code made the bankruptcy legible. Open source software was trivially better in the nineties because it was done by people who would have and often did do it for free. Those people are better by simp
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by benreesman 7mo ago
It's a client/server architecture with an Open API spec at the boundary. You can tear off either side, put a proxy in the middle, whatever. Few hundred lines of diff weaponizes it.
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by benreesman 7mo ago
If you want to make a million bucks a year then go put in three consecutive quarters of demonstrable lift on a renenue-adjacent metric at Stripe or Uber. If you want to make a zillion a year ask Claude to search for whatever Zuckerberg is b
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by benreesman 7mo ago
No one has built business AI that is flat correct to the standards of a high redundancy human organization. Individuals make mistakes in air traffic control towers, but as a cumulative outcome it's a scandal if airplanes collide midair
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by benreesman 7mo ago
K2.5 run on your own gear is an Orca tube away from 4.5, R4 will be stronger. The gap is growing and the second derivative is positive. They don't catch up until it saturates.
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by benreesman 7mo ago
Claude Code is trivially an attempt to hobble the rest of the software business: the PID controller, the control vectors, the ever change loss surface, the bash and JSON jank at the foundations, the no one is this stupid context management,
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by benreesman 7mo ago
The logical end state of this line of reasoning is a collective action problem that dooms the frontier lab establishment. You can't devote model capacity to having an attention transformer match nested delimiters or cope with bash and
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by benreesman 7mo ago
I am a long time fan of Steve Yegge but he's too much part of the groupthink at this point. You can't win with Claude Code. I understand that his API key isn't on the PID controller, so he gets a less bad deal, but he's
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by benreesman 7mo ago
It is almost always the case that when progress stops for some meaningful period of time that a parochial taboo would need violating to move forwards. The best known example is the pre- and post-Copernican conceptions of our relationship to
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by benreesman 7mo ago
AI assist in software engineering is unambiguously demonstrated to some done degree at this point: the "no LLM output in my project" stance is cope. But "reliable, durable, scalable outcomes in adversarial real-world scenario
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by benreesman 7mo ago
Ten years ago it seemed obvious where the next AI breakthrough was coming from: it would be DeepSeek using C31 or RAINBOW and PBT to do Alpha something, the evals would be sound and it would be superhuman on something important. And then &q
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by benreesman 7mo ago
It is tempting to be stealthy when you start seeing discontinuous capabilities go from totally random to somewhat predictable. But most of the key stuff is on GitHub. The moats here are around mechanism design and values (to the extent they

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