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Re:Jev introduces a new shape of LLM on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @02:58AM (#49797587)
About jev being a black box and the potential for bias, I think it boils down to what questions you are asking the model.

Broad questions like Is this resume good / score this city will ofcourse be biased but I think jev encourages more granular focused questions like Score this candidates Python experience / Rate this city for its food which then allows you to introduce your own biases in which questions you ask and how you combine their answers.

In this way I think jev like models can be easier to reason about for critical decisions.

Re:So you want to use OpenRouter? on Friday September 11, 2026 @12:31PM (#49661171)
Their zdr is not a concrete promise though, there's no way to verify that the provider is not storing the logs
Re:Gemini 3.8 Flash on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @04:34PM (#49542119)
I was thinking the same, obvious suspicion is they benchmaxed it on older bench.
Re:Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @02:53PM (#49262837)
Because stronger models are harder to jailbreak from the paper it says haiku was easily fooled into giving us thinking contents
Won't surprise me if the llm just calls sleep after it's convinced it knows all
And does it actually use it
Re:Towards a Harness That Can Do Anything on Thursday July 16, 2026 @09:15PM (#48942323)
Is your plugin just skills or does it have custom agents?

My own experience is that Claude will use your skills but will ignore your agents or custom search tools.

Re:Rethinking search as code generation on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @03:14PM (#48374832)
Claude code already fans out and sandboxes context by calling sub agents so I'm not sure this approach brings much benefit there. A complex search strategy only makes sense if the search is slow and compute intensive.
Re:Rethinking search as code generation on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @03:08PM (#48374756)
Coding agents prefer to do iterative search, I have yet to see them create a complex search script. They try different search cmds in parallel, evaluate their results and then refine or dive deeper.

This approach usually works great but I can see many use cases where a smarter search strategy may make sense especially to optimize context.

By slowing down engineers with ai agents adding multiple code reviews on top. Also encouraging engineers to engage in manual testing themselves to better understand the product.
Re:An update on recent Claude Code quality reports on Thursday April 23, 2026 @02:16PM (#47879329)
Claude code is not infra, the model is the infra. They changed settings to make their models faster and probably cheaper to run too. Honestly with adaptive thinking it no longer matters what model it is if you can dynamically make it do less or more work.
Re:Parallel Agents in Zed on Thursday April 23, 2026 @08:48AM (#47875113)
Same here. Reviewing gets harder too and multi tasking kills any kind of productivity if you need to review the code then.

My approach these days is to do one change at a time, until I can fully merge it with confidence.

This is quite interesting, will try it. I kind of expect this to be done continuously as the code base changes.
This article doesn't mention the moat of data gathering, frontier AI labs have a huge advantage in curating proprietary datasets from actual usage of their platforms.

This in turn allows them to optimize their models for the long tail of tasks that open weight models can't compete with.

Another factor is that pure intelligence isn't enough, how the model communicates is a huge plus. An enterprise used to talking to Claude all day won't be easy to switch to another model

Re:How are people do AI evals these days? on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @03:54AM (#47332760)
Seems like you are testing llms genric abilities rather than your actual agent logic.

Llms are like vendor code you don't need to test them yourself people already created benchmarks for that.

Re:The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying on Thursday March 05, 2026 @10:41AM (#47262920)
If you buy real handcrafted scarves they are both thinner and warmer than anything factory made bcz of their choice of pashmina wool.
So the new implementation always operates at the line level, replacing one or more lines. That's not ideal for some refactorings like rename where search and replace is faster.

Edit

Checking ohmypi The model has access to str replace too so this is just a edit till

I bet writing the code directly could have been even faster, llms aren't magically fast
I wonder why we are even storing secrets in .env files in plain text
Re:AI is a business model stress test on Sunday January 11, 2026 @04:52AM (#46574102)
How? You don't know what the llm was trained on and don't know if it has any bias. Imo llms are a disaster for knowledge work because they act like a black box.
Stupid question but why not use a local sandbox for yolo mode instead of a remote machine.

Is there a similar service that runs locally?

Re:How to Code Claude Code in 200 Lines of Code on Thursday January 08, 2026 @06:20PM (#46547920)
Agreed it probably contributes to the model improving for all agents but crucially it is verifiably better against their own agent. So they get a good feedback loop to improve both
Re:How to Code Claude Code in 200 Lines of Code on Thursday January 08, 2026 @04:54PM (#46547031)
They nailed down the UX I would say and the models themselves are a lot better even outside of CC
Re:How to Code Claude Code in 200 Lines of Code on Thursday January 08, 2026 @04:52PM (#46547014)
Yeah that's one example, but I suspect they train the model on entire sequences of tool calls, so unless you prompt the model exactly as them you won't get the same results.

There's a reason they won the agent race, their models are trained to use their own tools.

Re:OpenAPI Isn't Enough on Thursday January 08, 2026 @04:40PM (#46546883)
Seems odd to not mention other semantic standards that standardize resource operations like pagination, sorting etc.

Jsonld, json:api

Re:How to Code Claude Code in 200 Lines of Code on Thursday January 08, 2026 @04:26PM (#46546714)
The most imp part is editing code, to do that reliably Claude models are trained on their own str replace tool schema I think. Models find it hard to modify existing code, they also can't just rewrite whole files bcz that's expensive and doesn't scale.
Re:How to Code Claude Code in 200 Lines of Code on Thursday January 08, 2026 @04:23PM (#46546686)
Can you elaborate on this?
Re:How to Code Claude Code in 200 Lines of Code on Thursday January 08, 2026 @04:18PM (#46546628)
I don't think so, model improvements far outweigh any harness or tooling.

Look at https://github.com/SWE-agent/mini-swe-agent for proof

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