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No, those people are going to die.
This is more of a "preserve the knowledge of mankind for the survivors" type of archive.
It makes sense for Anthropic to pitch "more code = more better" but as anyone who's been in this game long enough knows, "less is more" often enough. And good luck coercing an AI coding agent to solve a problem by removing things.
Personally, I find Claude's degenerate urge to just spew uncontrollable amounts of code quite counterproductive. Yes I get it, you get paid by the token. I'd like to see more reasoning, more understanding, and less generating.
Truth is, we are still very very far from actual AI software engineering. Some people are working on useful tooling, and (predictably, like anything good and useful) it is taking a long time. LLMs are great, and hopefully they will help us accelerate building the tools that bring this profession to the next level.
30k PRs in a month (or whatever) is not the brag they make it out to be.
You read it, you let it tickle your braingibbles, you think about it for a few moments. That's it, that's the purpose.
I've taken to calling it Human Unintelligence, in response to people arguing "it's not artificial, it's 'alien' intelligence". It's not intelligent. It is missing key aspects of intelligence, one of them being creativity.
That mirrors how disappointing Opus 5 and Fable were, for anything beyond one-shotted tasks or shiny demos. Maybe OAI is just a step behind Anthropic? Opus 5.5 seems like the real deal again, consistent good results on large, complex codebases.
Oh it's been a while since I looked, one of the tile stores I used to go to in Montreal had them -- not as a set mind you, but as two different lines of tiles that happened to be the right proportions to reproduce the pattern.
If you want something truly diabolical, attempt to tile your bathroom with either of those patterns (yes, these tile shapes can be bought).
> truly cannot comprehend the mindset
The mindset is "if I could harvest your organs for profit I absolutely would, and I would make it illegal to protest against it"
The naivete of some of the comments here is astounding. It doesn't matter whether you're right, it doesn't matter whether it's the law, it's irrelevant that you have rights, etc. Those things are of the past now, for the US.
I think it would be easier to understand the playing field and choose your actions accordingly, if you accept the US has entered its East Germany / late 20th century Soviet era -- except of course with 1000x more invasive and effective surveillance tech.
The social dynamics are the same - the abuses, the selective enforcement, the lack of recourse, the same characters in the roles of various levels of "law enforcement" and "politics". I'm so very sorry, but the best you can do from here is speedrun the collapse.
It's interesting that (as per the article) the work pumped out by this synthetic think tank does not seem to align / disfavours the official party line of the country. You'd imagine if this was propaganda, it would be supportive of the official stance. I wonder what the objective is then, reputation-building for later influence? Something else?
My employer is encouraging AI adoption across the board, to the point of basically making tokenmaxing part of performance KPIs. I think they're pushing headlong into disaster, but they are not the kind of people to take advice, or admit mistakes.
I use AI coding tools both at work and in my hobby projects. It very clear to me they're nuclear-powered footguns, and we have a long, long way yet in developing practices, structures and workflows that will enable true benefits while minimizing the absolutely toxic baggage/fallout/side effects.
I look at the big corp push for AI adoption as another instance of boards of directors choosing the large investors / their own personal gain over the success of the corporations they govern (first instance being the "back to the office" push in attempt to shore up commercial real estate). I think the circular economy of the AI bubble has spread far and wide, and we're watching a lot of invested players trying to keep it going.
Most people cannot draw a bicycle that well!
Ok so, all the appliances and cars and TVs and who knows what other embedded electronics sold in Illinois will require the user (?) to verify their age?
> only saving grace might be some sort of a 'national security' proclamation banning the use of state-of-the-art Chinese (and non-US) models
In what kind of sad and failed dystopia is this a "saving grace"? For whom?
Kickback would be bad if it binds in the kerf - I think sawzall is better/safer for cutting pipe that's under load.
No one who has answered "no" made it thru the selection process, so there might be some survivor bias at play here.
It reads like something written by a time traveler from the past.
Can't wait, been running the 3.6 locally and it's been a boon.
I'm on the verge over here, the new Anthropic models have been a disappointment. I've tried the A3B variant, but had mixed results. What do you use as the coding agent, and have you heavily customized your workflows?
A request to avoid these rhetorical devices, explicitly naming the ones you want to eliminate (eg, antithesis).
> the risk that authoritarian governments [...] build AI models that are more powerful than those built by the US, and use them to achieve permanent military superiority or perpetrate incredibly deep repression of their own people.
This is rich coming from a guy who signed deals with an authoritarian government that's in the midst of launching an unprecedented surveillance apparatus (hello flock, hi p4l4nt1r), having already deployed, nation-wide, an exorbitantly funded army of unaccountable shock troops under the guise of immigration enforcement.
The call is coming from inside the house, at 130dB, and your ears should be bleeding at this point.
Claude peaked with 4.8 - Fable and Opus 5.0 are useless for anything beyond one-shotted toy projects for one crippling reason: they first invent unnecessary complexity, then get hopelessly tangled in it. This happens in any reasonably large project, regardless of how well specced out it is.
These are relatively easy to nip in the bud with a brief addition to claude.md
It'd be great if they could come up with a photo of the truck. But an alternative to the oversized absurdities we have on the roads these days can't come soon enough.
The bicycle is almost anatomically correct! Forks should be raked the other way.
Very neat! I like how the decoy text is less visible to the human eye than the "hidden" message, but it's the other way for the image models. Well done!
