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Re:F-Zero X on Nintendo 3DS on Monday October 26, 2026 @08:34AM (#50242584)
Multi player would be so dope, have multiple 3DS and friends willing to play
Re:We should be more ambitious with the software we build on Sunday October 25, 2026 @04:22AM (#50229390)
This is really what people conflagrate so often with these tasks, it is basically making the model do recall what could also be a "ant_ag_ds_90917_rwpy9_final" git clone
Re:We should be more ambitious with the software we build on Sunday October 25, 2026 @04:19AM (#50229379)
Would love to see the author actually go deeper into details: what did they eval with models implementing zstd?

Many such cases are benign in the sense they in practice are simply the model basically "git clone"-ing the code they need to complete the implementation.

The amount of recall and synthetic data slop makes it imho very hard to actually get the models to really do something more novel (where they fall apart more often)

Re:Demographic "Doomsday" Misses the Mark on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @09:44AM (#50166345)
yup. going by sustainability, we already have too many ppl on this planet. everything else is just "who pays my pension".
There has never been a better time to pretend you understand anything aided by LLMs deluding yourself into being an expert, yeah, that's how the video should be named :/

I can't help but feel how this is all industry-planted, and I wouldn't argue its too far fetched.

I'm agreeing still, imho it's important to let people know they're consuming slop (even if you "commissioned" or "reviewed" it)
Re:Grieving the Loss of Details on Saturday October 10, 2026 @03:33PM (#50036341)
Indulge in the larping and you can laugh about yourself, its not that bad honestly. Breadth in topics helps to recognize patterns/common ideas, it is ok to let go.
Re:Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B on Saturday October 10, 2026 @08:05AM (#50032076)
Always has been indeed. Marketing is the closest thing to a real superpower if done right, no matter how successful your product in practice is, or if it even does anything at all (see any and all youtube sponsorships kind of...)
Re:Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B on Saturday October 10, 2026 @08:03AM (#50032061)
This makes no sense, unless they are going to crack something, like the actual atrocious accuracy of around 70%.

It's always been the last 30% where it just fails.

Guess it is 870M to 0

Re:What ArtCraft's Vibe-Coded Apps Say About Adobe on Saturday October 10, 2026 @04:24AM (#50030855)
Its never been easier to overstate your endeavors than with vibe coding.

I mean, claude already does it for you, constantly even

Re:Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @07:11AM (#49976816)
Literally left when deno 2.9 is at its best place it has ever been.

Now just deno install everything and even desktop works amazingly well.

Re:macOS 27 is so buggy on Thursday October 01, 2026 @02:52PM (#49925589)
I observe this too. New platforms, like VR, had to replace a lot of the stack, and therefore new chances.

Hard though from the idea initially too.

The main stack is reasonably web, as broad as that is

yeah your reply, nobody can predict the future.

Enough stuff can happen, software use itself might change, and that could really cause anything. "What will we do with all the gpus" might become a question if for a magnitude of tech and reasons leaked-opus-9 runs on a macbook m6 or 7

Re:I Could've Accessed 17T Microsoft Records on Thursday October 01, 2026 @06:21AM (#49919903)
Any APT group would have spent enormous time on securing this treasure trove, and moved to extortion.

Corporations, like Microsoft, offering 5 grand to that in comparison seems just lackluster.

Relationship and whatnot, pay that teenager 100k is what I'd say, really.

Offering him a job, that would be cool too.

In any case, I'm hoping stuff like this really remains a "once in a lifetime" opportunity for pen-testers and whatnot.

Having the planet hacked twice a day makes for a stressful future for everyone.

Re:Dots: Always-on agents on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @04:45AM (#49906129)
anyone who seriously attempted vibing an entire app something knows that after the oneshots it's always death by a thousand prompts:

Tweaking everything, because any agent/model can only "interpolate" so much "resolution and detail" out of your written prompt.

This isn't really a problem, this is the nature of work, and hence I feel this product only accomplishes two things:

1. users spending more on inference

2. creating busywork with less direction than other surfaces such as a IDE, which is hard to review and will often lack meaning.

Re:Prompting Claude Opus 5.5 on Monday September 28, 2026 @07:31AM (#49876430)
While it's a common tactic, and I'd vouch for it if you don't really know what you want to code in fact, but if you know what you want to get out of it, I haven't found anything I'd need opus 5.5 for instead of deepseek-flash (flash v4.1 hosted via platform.deepseek.com)
Re:VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025) on Thursday September 24, 2026 @10:07AM (#49830839)
I did build "RAT"-like (Remote Administration Tool) infra with automated http api generation for various tasks, my coworkers and I enjoyed using it.

But even when starting that, I was aware such patterns and remote access, yeah, this just has C&C botnet capabilities too.

It's not that deep, but there certainly is overlap with malware-esque patterns.

Re:The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence on Monday September 14, 2026 @03:41AM (#49693279)
Realistically, the entire chain proposed by your safebots - I like the idea - but I cannot see viable ways to get it actually deployed in a useful manner.

Especially with the hardware stuff, this is plainly put unachievable by many IT departments.

The fact that models vastly outpaced their harness and permission systems - I wouldn't dare to doubt this fact.

Claude Code on auto is still rolling a dice with its sonnet classifier - whether that IaC action I told it and explicitly stated multiple times it is permitted and authorized to run - yet it always randomly allows or denies it.

Therefore this is totally still a unsolved, perhaps unsolvable problem.

Re:We Must Pace the Frontier on Saturday September 12, 2026 @05:36PM (#49677458)
Agreed; and it really is not that deep.

Realistically; anyone paying for llm access (anthropic, openai, gemini), is getting their access, and a service provided billed by tokens, subscription, whatever.

All the efficiency gains, which publications like deepseek v4.1 flash seriously frontload like it is their most important topic to have accomplished improvements on without diminishing performance too much - now this is a thing anthropic and anyone else also cares about, but for different reasons.

American "providers" with closed models are setting their token pricing somewhat arbitrarily, which is fine: it means more profit, and pretraining and RL experimentation is super important and expensive.

They (closed model providers) have very likely super optimized inference too, just like deepseek, but it's not at all something that any customer really has to care about - they just want the service to be as cheap and great as possible.

Re:GPT-6 Astra on Friday September 04, 2026 @03:33AM (#49561648)
anyone read footnote 7 for a bench, where it says something about musical quartet 2023?? idk man until I test it, I won't get excited.
Re:Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @04:30AM (#49533444)
everybody do be cooking with water. Chinese Labs provided pretty good, primarily cost-reducing techniques, like the sparse attention patterns recently. I'd bet OpenAI and Anthropic use their variants of those too, so they can get greater margin on their tokens - not something they'd really want to / need to self-report.
Re:Yadda 3.0.0: BDD in the Age of AI Agents on Saturday August 15, 2026 @11:58AM (#49311647)
Being hard here, though: Purely dismissing it as not being worth of my time due to the example alone.
Re:Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions on Saturday August 15, 2026 @06:03AM (#49309277)
thinking output would be a good start
Re:LLMs reward expertise on Monday August 03, 2026 @09:26PM (#49163396)
You got to know how to use the model+harness+prompt to achieve the results you want, but honestly for many projects and questions all the models already pump out their same best version of an answer.

Sometimes it is really akin to a git clone, although it was a LLM request.

This rewarding expertise is somewhat wishful thinking.

At the end of a day, it feels and is more like gambling, even with the recommended expertise and a good approach, don't delude yourself you're simply pulling the lever too, as any novice.

Re:Overtraining as the path to human-like AI on Saturday July 25, 2026 @05:57AM (#49046196)
? How could Grokking be made workable? Mechanistic Interpretability, like using SAEs (EleutherAI did), also methods Heretic employs to decensor, surely you can see some "modding" does indeed achieve things.

FYI, I prefer discussion over being mad

Re:I Regret Migrating to Codeberg on Saturday July 25, 2026 @02:53AM (#49045137)
It's way overblown...

The "anti LLM" or "no AI" clause is really more a "covering all ass" clause.

If you want to improve Forgejo and have that AI PR; you better clean it up of all traces - resulting in a PR that is likely neat and going to be merged.

I see no issue with that. It simply enforces a pace and process that is very befitting and in my opinion mandatory for such a central system they're maintaining.

Re:Overtraining as the path to human-like AI on Saturday July 18, 2026 @02:10PM (#48960589)
No.

1. "Grokking" was shown on 4-digit modular arithmetic with a 1-layer transformer; this article extrapolates it to AGI and a $10B training run with exactly zero intermediate evidence.

2. The "small dataset" is 25 trillion tokens - literally the size of current frontier training sets - but calling it small sounds revolutionary.

3. BabyLM has spent 4 years failing to produce grokking on constrained data; the paper gets a footnote saying "those models were too small," which is unfalsifiable until someone burns $10B.

4. Chain-of-thought is already empirically required for frontier performance - it's expensive, bizarre, and nobody predicted it - yet somehow we're supposed to bet the farm on a phenomenon that has never scaled past arithmetic. We need that data, even if it is just "Actually, ..."

5. If you want to chase "recurrent depth", loop transformers rumored in Mythos/Fable are at least grounded in actual engineering; grokking-at-scale is just vibes ai bro science.

More data is and will always be the answer. Why are all labs distilling from each other?

Re:Superpowers 6 on Friday July 03, 2026 @02:15AM (#48771473)
The screenshot of ol' claude closed code with that ascii table tells it all: Vapor AIware.

As if it really would work like that. The noise added by the verbosity alone is not taken care of enough, and this entire thing belongs on the great pile of ai vaporware.

Re:I ported Kubernetes to the browser on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @04:29AM (#48743791)
I agree. This isn't what people struggle with to be honest. With the limitations, right now it is sloppy unfortunately... Yet cool to release it nontheless.
Re:Claude Code Is Steganographically Marking Requests on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @03:53AM (#48743535)
This entire steganographically marking feature is prolly vibecoded like everything regarding claude code. They can try sure, but classic cat and mice game dictates: thankfully the chinese WILL keep distilling.

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