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Lyin', Cheatin' Agents: Misaligned Model Behaviour During Ordinary Coding

adriand — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 19:44:25 +0000

Article URL: https://tediware.com/updates/lyin-cheatin-agents-misaligned-model-behaviour-during-ordinary-coding

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49615894

Points: 1

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New comment by adriand in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

adriand — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:10:19 +0000

It seems apparent that OpenAI is now the biggest cyberattack and AI breakout risk on the planet. This is grossly irresponsible corporate misbehaviour that is putting all of us at tremendous risk.

New comment by adriand in "Muse Spark 1.3"

adriand — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 22:09:32 +0000

And he drew a red line wrt the Pentagon's use of Anthropic's models for autonomous weapons and surveillance of American citizens, and he stood by it, even when the government took steps to materially damage the company. This required true courage. Name me another CEO, of any major American company, that has demonstrated this much fortitude.

New comment by adriand in "Chicken products recalled in five states due to “false marks of inspection”"

adriand — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 21:01:38 +0000

This is true, although it’s true for most if not all developed societies. People read less and less. We live in a post-literate, hyper-visual era. I am not sure if short form video is effective at educating people on why we have public health and food inspection agencies, but I confess I’m not optimistic.

New comment by adriand in "11,000-year-old sculpture of man riding a leopard found in Turkey"

adriand — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:04:15 +0000

> Since systematic excavations began in 2019, a number of anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figural sculptures have been found at Karahan Tepe, often in unusual combinations. Several examples of a human carrying a leopard on his back. The leopards in these sculptures are not slung on the man’s back as if he had killed them in the hunt or tamed them enough to carry them, but rather are depicted snarling, with teeth bared, very much alive and very much unfriendly.

Interesting that "you've got a monkey on your back" is a commonly-used expression in English. I could imagine these people saying the exact same thing, with "leopard" substituted in.

"Bro, I gotta get this leopard off my back..."

New comment by adriand in "Rural Village in Spain Is Welcoming Digital Nomads with Open Arms"

adriand — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 01:17:35 +0000

> it requires €2850/month

Holy crap that’s a lot of money. That’s just for the privilege of living and working there? Or do you get citizenship benefits like healthcare etc? And what about taxes?

New comment by adriand in "Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive"

adriand — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:26:36 +0000

As soon as I started using Fable I was like, okay, this is probably as good a model as I will need for software engineering going forward. I still feel that way. I don’t need a better model, I need a faster Fable.

The thing I miss most about programming is flow, and the constant bouncing between terminal tabs sucks. I’d love to do one thing at a time, with Fable, quickly.

New comment by adriand in "[dead]"

adriand — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:10:09 +0000

Plentiful, near-free energy has other uses for food production, too: vertical farming, which is quite energy intensive, becomes feasible. Now you can grow tons of food on small plots of land, as well as year-round in cold climates. Desalination also becomes much more cost-effective. Now you can stop desertification, cultivate land that was previously too arid for crops, and so on. The possibilities for what we could do if we went all-in on solar in North America are super exciting, and we need to push on that narrative because the counter-narrative is the one that is winning right now, and it makes no sense.

New comment by adriand in "Karpathy’s Pelican"

adriand — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:45:41 +0000

> If the expectation is that AI is going to replace "knowledge workers" then the limit would be a darn perfect drawing. We are nowhere close to that.

What knowledge workers do you know that have excellent drawing skills? I worked in a design agency and for a couple of years, each week me and a few other people would attempt to sketch a member of our group: one person would be the model and sit still, and everyone else would draw her/him.

Let me tell you, if producing a convincing portrait was a prerequisite for being a knowledge worker, there would be 99% fewer knowledge workers.

How China Keeps Tabs on Foreigners

adriand — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 17:55:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/world/asia/china-surveillance-foreigners-database.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49146696

Points: 49

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New comment by adriand in "Solid Queue 1.6.0 now supports fiber workers"

adriand — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 21:19:54 +0000

Not the OP, but I’m doing a ton of it and it works great. I had to decide what to use for my startup and for a few years I’d stopped using Rails. I considered using full stack node/Typescript/etc but Rails just comes with so much stuff that makes it so easy to build things. Solid Queue is one of those things, my whole data process architecture is based on async jobs and it’s really cool to have something that is native to the platform and has no dependencies beyond Postgres which I’m already using anyway.

Anthropic Says Its AI Systems Broke into Computers at 3 Organizations

adriand — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:02:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/technology/anthropic-ai-hack.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49121174

Points: 3

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New comment by adriand in "Superlogical"

adriand — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 22:49:27 +0000

As someone who has never used sublime I don’t get the analogy, but what do you like about herdr? Is it worth using? I came across it along with hunk at the same time and I’ve been using hunk a bit but didn’t really see the appeal of herdr over just my usual batch of terminal windows.

New comment by adriand in "Claude: Elevated errors across all models"

adriand — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 22:42:08 +0000

I actually think the fact Claude has certain mannerisms is kind of to be expected, isn’t it? If you talked to the same person every day all day I’m sure you’d be quite attuned to their habits of speech. Thinking about a friend I talked to today, I can immediately think of some (“dude! I know!”).

I wonder how people would react if, rather than a consistent manner of communication, it was something different every day. One day it would be like talking to a 15-year-old who’s really into anime. The next day, a British gentleman. And so on. Would this be any better? It would probably be rather annoying and we’d just want Claude to go back to sounding like Claude.

New comment by adriand in "Americans are angry about data centers. Politicians are feeling the pressure"

adriand — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 23:55:43 +0000

None of these mitigations (although they’re good ideas) address what I think is the real issue here, which is that people don’t like AI. And why would they, when the dish being served by AI CEOs is job loss with a side of extinction risk.

I think many data centre opponents understand that being opposed to AI is not sufficient to halt a local project, so it is noise, water use and power consumption that they latch onto - although, in jurisdictions without plentiful water and clean power, those two reasons are quite valid.

In my own local community, there’s vocal opposition to a proposed data centre that is next to Lake Ontario, 500 metres from the nearest residential neighbourhood, on a brownfield site with 500 megawatts of clean power capacity. None of that makes a difference to those opposed.

New comment by adriand in "An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time"

adriand — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:56:14 +0000

> What would you like to have instead?

History! That's what intrigues me the most: texts with accounts of events that have otherwise vanished from the historical record.

New comment by adriand in "An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time"

adriand — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:21:14 +0000

What are the wildest, most exciting but plausible things that might be discovered in these documents?

New comment by adriand in "Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak"

adriand — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 11:12:13 +0000

Go look at Messenger on the App Store and look at the “data linked to you” section. An app with that much surveillance baked in is surely not improving the world.

Encouraging other people's agents to improve my platform

adriand — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:02:03 +0000

Article URL: https://tediware.com/resources/updates/encouraging-other-people-s-agents-to-improve-my-platform

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48589088

Points: 1

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What rare earths and chip controls predict about the Fable shutdown

adriand — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:51:22 +0000

Article URL: https://tediware.com/resources/updates/what-rare-earths-and-chip-controls-predict-about-the-fable-shutdown

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48539950

Points: 3

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