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New comment by causal in "Claude Fable 5"

causal — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:30:30 +0000

Sure but you can totally contrive scenarios to give the appearance of what you described without really doing anything notable.

What matters is scale. Did it deploy a novel zero-day exploit to overcome a problem? That's alarming. Did it kill a disruptive process? Pretty normal troubleshooting step.

New comment by causal in "Claude Fable 5"

causal — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:43:03 +0000

One thing I find kind of annoying is how Anthropic goes for these "vast and alien" names like Fable and Mythos, but then deliberately trains the model's personality to act like a cool high school teacher that feels totally familiar.

"It's too dangerous it's a Mythos!!" directly contradicts the "I'm the cool AI you can totally trust" vibe it is trained to project.

New comment by causal in "Claude Fable 5"

causal — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:40:09 +0000

This depicts a kind of "dark forest of AI agents resorting to kill or be killed" narrative but it sounds more to me like an agent just earnestly problem-solving why its processes are being killed without real awareness of what was going on. Hard to say without the full script.

This kind of storytelling annoys me. Give us more facts, less narrative drama.

New comment by causal in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

causal — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 16:15:36 +0000

Sure but finding their shortcomings and patching them with skills takes real trial and error. They are incapable of identifying their own shortcomings for you.

New comment by causal in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

causal — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 16:14:14 +0000

I can't even get Claude or GPT-5 to consistently produce good flows for common use cases, much less domain-specific shit. They have deep vocabulary though, which makes them sound better informed than they are.

They are very good at writing code and debugging visible errors- but that's like 50% the harness.

New comment by causal in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

causal — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 16:03:55 +0000

> to train in a role that’s insulated from AI

Would love to know more about that role

New comment by causal in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

causal — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 16:01:45 +0000

To me the greatest monument to Claude's poor software quality is Claude Code itself.

New comment by causal in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

causal — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:41:46 +0000

Yeah I have played with Suno a lot and I find that no matter how I change the genre, lyrics, etc. there's some underlying quality I can't quite name that my brain recognizes and quickly gets tired of. It's fun in a novelty sense, for now.

New comment by causal in "India's surprise baby bust"

causal — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 02:41:22 +0000

Complete opposite experience for me. I wish I'd had kids sooner- I was too influenced by popular negativity about kids: the expenses, the loss of freedom, etc.

Most of that is bullshit. Having kids has made literally every aspect of my life more fun.

New comment by causal in "The Quiet Numbers Station: Decoding Nineteen Years of GPS Cryptography"

causal — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:01:22 +0000

I don't think this qualifies as clickbait in the sense that the headline mismatches the contents. My experience with 404 Media is that they treat every article like they've just released the Pentagon Papers, so you just have to read with that in mind.

New comment by causal in "Open Code Review – An AI-powered code review CLI tool"

causal — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 02:02:59 +0000

I recently moved off Cursor's BugBot because it's no longer a flat $40, and I feel a little lost trying to find a viable alternative because there are so many and the pricing kind of sucks for all of them. Curious if anyone has a recommendation.

New comment by causal in "Open Code Review – An AI-powered code review CLI tool"

causal — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 02:02:00 +0000

Is it actually flat fee? I loved Cursor bugbot which was flat fee but they moved to per-run and that killed it for me, but a lot of others are doing the same.

New comment by causal in "AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study"

causal — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:41:10 +0000

Hidden gem of a comment, thanks for writing

New comment by causal in "AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study"

causal — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:32:27 +0000

Also worth remembering that LLMs have jagged intelligence. They are probably better software developers than anything. Is there a complement to Gell Mann Amnesia- where you assume it’s good at other jobs because it’s good at yours?

New comment by causal in "AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study"

causal — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:47:22 +0000

I wonder to what degree the AI was just better at communicating. My experience with attorneys is that they are often some of the worst writers.

New comment by causal in "AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study"

causal — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:46:12 +0000

As a software engineer I have some intuition for what the risks are of letting agents do some tasks vs others.

I don't have a similar intuition calibrated for what could go wrong when asking AI to draft a legal document. Some things seem harmless, i.e. drafting a will, but I don't really know- our legal system is notoriously rife with footguns.

New comment by causal in "Americans don't know how to fight AI so they're fighting data centers"

causal — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:09:40 +0000

It's also absurd how few jobs or income they provide to the community that is expected to host htem

New comment by causal in "Nvidia Cosmos 3"

causal — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:22:44 +0000

That just raises more questions. What kind "observation or action" image does input generate? What is an action output if it's not text?

New comment by causal in "A 10 year old Xeon is all you need"

causal — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:28:59 +0000

Yeah took way too long to find that result. Being able to run on slow RAM isn't surprising considering you can run a model off an SSD.

New comment by causal in "Nvidia Cosmos 3"

causal — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:20:16 +0000

I'm struggling to understand what this does.

> Generates future observations and action sequences.

Is that just a complicated way of saying video gen?