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Yes the latest models are pretty good at orchestration, if you instead open 9 chats and let them loose on your code base on different tasks without telling them about eachother you get a mess. If you tell one agent to spawn subagents as needed to do the implementation you get much better results.
These are not run of the mill results from AI, those are surely being posted to arxiv constantly by normal researchers without any fanfare.
These are really big results from AI, if a human had come up with them we would also be making a really big deal out of them too (maybe not as big of a deal, part of the excitement is that this was from AI and more results of this magnitude may soon follow).
1TB still smells like a bug
Hmmm but in the case of math, while some of it is "just puzzles" there often turns out to be practical applications, even if they are not obvious at first. Number theory was considered the epitome of pure math with no practical applications for centuries, now our modern society is built on it (public key crypto).
I think you've just lowered the risk of a bad hire for the company, which might allow them to "take a chance" on candidates they might otherwise pass on.
I've only been playing with it recently ... I have mine scraping for SF city meetings that I can attend and public comment to advocate for more housing etc (
https://github.com/sgillen/sf-civic-digest).
It also have mine automatically grabs a spot at my gym when spots are released because I always forget.
I'm just playing with it, it's been fun! It's all on a VM in the cloud and I assume it could get pwned at any time but the blast radius would be small.
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sgillen on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @02:11PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://github.com/sgillen/sf-civic-digest
I was frustrated not knowing where decisions that affect me were being made, or how my city government actually works. Why has 400 Divisadero been an abandoned car wash for years? Who decides what art to put in Golden Gate Park? I didn't know, but I wanted to, and I wanted to move the needle on issues I care about. I wanted to show up and advocate for more housing.So to help with that I built...
I use it all the time now, switching between claude code, codex, and cursor. I prefer CC and codex for now but everyone is copying everyone else's homework.
I do a lot of green field research adjacent work, or work directly with messy code from our researchers. It's been excellent at building small tools from scratch, and for essentially brute forcing undocumented code. I can give it a prompt like "Here is this code we got from research, the docs are 3 months out of date and don't work, keep trying things until you manage to get $THING running".
Even for more production and engineering related tasks I'm finding it speeds up velocity. But my engineering is still closer to greenfield than a lot of people here.
I do however feel less connected to the code, even when reviewing thoroughly, I feel like I internalize things at a high level, rather than knowing every implementation detail off the dome.
The other downside is I get bigger and more frequent code review requests from colleagues. No on is just handing me straight up slop (yet...)
To be fair to the agent...
I think there is some behind the scenes prompting from claude code (or open code, whichever is being used here) for plan vs build mode, you can even see the agent reference that in its thought trace. Basically I think the system is saying "if in plan mode, continue planning and asking questions, when in build mode, start implementing the plan" and it looks to me(?) like the user switched from plan to build mode and then sent "no".
From our perspective it's very funny, from the agents perspective maybe it's confusing. To me this seems more like a harness problem than a model problem.
I think there is some behind the scenes prompting from claude code for plan vs build mode, you can even see the agent reference that in it's thought trace. Basically I think the system is saying "if in plan mode, continue planning and asking questions, when in build mode, start implementing the plan" and it looks to me(?) like the user switched from plan to build mode and then sent "no".
From our perspective it's very funny, from the agents perspective maybe very confusing.
In my experience a lot of tech companies, at least in the Bay Area, have all copied this system.
Not sure if I agree with the christian references being incidental ... the first book is literally a retelling of the The Canterbury Tales, all the characters are on a pilgrimage. there are a bunch of religious groups with at least one being central to the story, there are cross shaped parasites that grant eternal life.
I still think you can enjoy it without caring much about religion.
This is very interesting because I see a lot of AI detractors point to the original study as proof that AI is overhyped and nothing to worry about. In this new study the findings are essentially reversed (20% slowdown to 20% speedup).
The study was designed to have devs who are comfortable with AI perform 50% of tasks with AI and 50% without. So the problem is the population of "Developers who use AI regularly but are willing to do tasks without AI" is shrinking.
>> Are they worried that by splitting devs into groups of AI experience they might be measuring some confounder that causes people to choose AI / not AI in their careers?
The developer sample size was small (16 people in the original study) and the task sample size is larger (~250 tasks). I think the worry is variance in developer productivity would totally wash out any signal.
I think a lot of people assume they will become highly paid Agent orchestrators or some such. I don't think anyone really knows where things are heading.
In addition to what the other responses said:
1. Share a cohesive and inspiring vision for the project.
2. Understand your skills, strengths/weaknesses etc and try to give you work that challenges you / help you grow / are interesting.
I think these are rare and can be hard to do (I'm now trying to do it myself!), but when it happens it's very motivating.
Who is buying the old cards? They can't be used for gaming, if there was money to be made I think they would be doing it.
You are correct, NTP prefers to jump first (if needed) and then slew afterwards (which is exactly what we want!), although it can jump again if the offset is too large.
In our case the jumps where because we also have PTP disciplining the same system clock, when you have both PTP and NTP fighting over the same clock, you will see jumping with the default settings.
For us it was easier to just do a one time NTP sync at the beginning/boot, and then sync the robots local network with only PTP afterwards.
MIPI CSI, with USB cameras I usually am getting jitter in the millisecond range.
We don't use NTP, but for robotics, stereo camera synchronization we often want the two frames to be within ~10us of eachother. For sensor fusion we then also need a lidar on PTP time to be translated to the same clock domain as cameras, for which we also need <~10us.
We actually disable NTP entirely (run it once per day or at boot) to avoid clocks jumping while recording data.
Late to the party here, but you should definitely be using pytorch 25.09 (or whatever is latest when you go to check) rather than 24.10. That's a year old pytorch on new hardware, I suspect a lot of these bugs have been fixed.
It has a unified memory architecture, so the 128G is shared directly between CPU and GPU. Though it's slower than dGPU VRAM.
There are two tests and by default it ranks by the score in the "offline test"
Also interesting in the example shared that 03 thought for 5 seconds for the female case and 46 seconds for the male case. Wish we had access to the chain of thought.
Robotics is sorely lacking front end devs and UI/UX guys. Most companies won’t hire any until they are already pretty established, but they might hire some. You can check out companies like foxglove who make GUI tools that robotics companies then pay to use.
I still think there is value in chats and retaining context. But there is also value in starting clean when necessary. Giving users control and teaching people how to use it is the way IMO.
Compressing existing models is exactly what we are talking about here.
Videos like these are so often sped up or Teleop, I don't think it's really a jab at anyone specifically, just making it clear this video is showing an Autonomous agent without any speedup.