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Re:AI agents aren't 'going rogue.' Frontier labs are skippin... by thatsabadlook on Thursday October 15, 2026 @06:58AM (#50101930)
If they make it sound surprising it makes llms look way more capable then they are. So $$$. Highly recommend people spend time with small local models just to see how absolutely unintelligent and deranged llms are and how the smoke and mirrors evolves as they scale up to things like anthropic or what have you.
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Re:AI agents aren't 'going rogue.' Frontier labs are skippin... by jacquesm on Thursday October 15, 2026 @08:10AM (#50102517)
There is a fair sized gap between the frontier models that you can buy access to, the ones you can run at home and whatever they've got running in house that they haven't released yet.

I am really happy with my local setup and I get a ton of mileage out of it but I'm not under the illusion that it is as good as what I could get by paying OpenAI or Anthropic. It lags the frontier by 6 to 9 months, but that's good enough for me and it makes sure that I don't had over any of my data to outsiders.

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Re:AI agents aren't 'going rogue.' Frontier labs are skippin... by thatsabadlook on Thursday October 15, 2026 @08:23AM (#50102630)
Did you read my post or are you just pumped to talk about local models?
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Re:AI agents aren't 'going rogue.' Frontier labs are skippin... by jacquesm on Thursday October 15, 2026 @08:28AM (#50102679)
It was you that brought up the local models. So yes, I did read your post.
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Re:AI agents aren't 'going rogue.' Frontier labs are skippin... by thatsabadlook on Thursday October 15, 2026 @08:31AM (#50102704)
The point of my comment was about how people should try really small models to see how bad they are to understand the technology better. Like 1 or 2b models.
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Re:AI agents aren't 'going rogue.' Frontier labs are skippin... by jacquesm on Thursday October 15, 2026 @08:44AM (#50102832)
1 or 2b models are toys.

Of course they are going to be harmless idiots. But there is a boundary where that is no longer the case and that boundary is well within what you can run locally.

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Re:AI agents aren't 'going rogue.' Frontier labs are skippin... by thatsabadlook on Thursday October 15, 2026 @01:07PM (#50106773)
Super aware of that. Reread the original post.
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