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New comment by drawnwren in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

drawnwren — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:38:03 +0000

This is the rub, Bob would not be promoted if he consistently provided unreliable LLM output. In order to get promoted, Bob needs to learn the skills that get reliable output out of an LLM. These may not be the same skills that Alice learns, but if the argument is that Schwartz's LLM output is valuable -- why are we to assume Bob's path isn't towards Schwartz?

New comment by drawnwren in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

drawnwren — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 03:07:37 +0000

As much as this is a damning quote, it is perhaps also damning that any time someone wants to smear zuck they have to reach 20 years into the past.

New comment by drawnwren in "The whole thing was a scam"

drawnwren — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 21:14:00 +0000

No he has clearly said there are differences. He has said that the points around what it may be used for are the same. HOWEVER, he has also stated that the definitions and enforcement are left to US law in the OAI contract. These were left to Anthropic in theirs.

New comment by drawnwren in "The whole thing was a scam"

drawnwren — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 05:45:56 +0000

OAI and USG have publicly stated deal is materially different. On what basis does anyone think the deal is the same?

New comment by drawnwren in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

drawnwren — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 04:08:45 +0000

One positive thing I will say about this administration is that they have really drawn into focus the difference between de jure and de facto law.

My hope is that this gets us some real concern for things that have been defended with de facto arguments (i.e. privacy) going forward.

edit: Anthropic argues that your Crayola analogy is fundamentally incorrect.

> Legally, a supply chain risk designation under 10 USC 3252 can only extend to the use of Claude as part of Department of War contracts—it cannot affect how contractors use Claude to serve other customers.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-comments-secretary-...

New comment by drawnwren in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

drawnwren — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 04:06:16 +0000

Isn't the point that they aren't entering into a contract with them, they are just ensuring that none of their still trusted suppliers repackage Anthropic without their knowledge?

New comment by drawnwren in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

drawnwren — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 01:44:11 +0000

I'm in a weird spot where I do agree with your assessment of the core claim. But putting that aside, in the world where the DoW's claim _is_ correct -- I think you don't have any choice other than to designate them a supply chain risk.

Disregarding who is right or wrong for a moment, if the DoW are right (which I'm not personally inclined to believe, but we're ignoring that for the moment) -- how else can they avoid secondhand Claude poisoning?

Supposing they really want to use their software for things disallowed by Claude's (now or future) ToS, it seems like designating it a supply chain risk is the only way they can ensure that their contractors don't include Claude (either indirectly as a wrapper or tertially through use of generated code etc)

New comment by drawnwren in "Vim 9.2"

drawnwren — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 19:07:44 +0000

Avante.nvim is quite active

New comment by drawnwren in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

drawnwren — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 06:40:09 +0000

I suffer from chronic migraine and had begun to think my typing failures were early signs of severe cognitive decline…

New comment by drawnwren in "The Codex app illustrates the shift left of IDEs and coding GUIs"

drawnwren — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 01:52:16 +0000

It's also important to remember that vibe coders throw away the natural language spec each time they close the context window.

Vibe coding is closer to compiling your code, throwing the source away and asking a friend to give you source that is pretty close to the one you wrote.

New comment by drawnwren in "I miss thinking hard"

drawnwren — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 05:57:45 +0000

"Before you read this post, ask yourself a question: When was the last time you truly thought hard? ... a) All the time. b) Never. c) Somewhere in between."

What?

New comment by drawnwren in "Amazon cuts 16k jobs"

drawnwren — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 06:27:25 +0000

But it’s priced at a growth rate less than Walmart’s. That’s hardly an extreme growth outlier.

New comment by drawnwren in "Amazon cuts 16k jobs"

drawnwren — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 02:31:39 +0000

when you consider AMZN's p/e ratio is under 35 and WMT is closer to 45, what makes you think this?

New comment by drawnwren in "ChatGPT Health is a marketplace, guess who is the product?"

drawnwren — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 00:27:32 +0000

It doesn't though. As an aside, I have been using a competitor to chatgpt health (nori) for a while now, and I have been getting an extreme amount of targeted ads about HRV and other metrics that the app consumes. I have been collecting health metrics through wearables for years, so there has been no change in my own search patterns or beliefs about my health. I just thought ai + health data was cool.

New comment by drawnwren in "Toro: Deploy Applications as Unikernels"

drawnwren — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 23:13:34 +0000

Reproducible can have a lot of meanings. Nix guarantees that your build environment + commands are the same. It still uses all the usual build tools and it would be trivial to create a non-reproducible binary (--impure).

New comment by drawnwren in "Toro: Deploy Applications as Unikernels"

drawnwren — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 20:57:04 +0000

Nix is where we're going. Maybe not with the configuration language that annoys python devs, but declarative reproducible system closures are a joy to work with at scale.

New comment by drawnwren in "US destroying its reputation as a scientific leader – European science diplomat"

drawnwren — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:50:38 +0000

If you don't think a foreign diplomat's comments about a counterparty nation are potentially biased, we don't have enough common ground to warrant further discussion.

New comment by drawnwren in "US destroying its reputation as a scientific leader – European science diplomat"

drawnwren — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:45:03 +0000

"says chief EU research diplomat" -- leaving off half the sentence sure does change the quote.

New comment by drawnwren in "Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed"

drawnwren — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 18:51:26 +0000

OAI also got talent mined. Their top intellectual leaders left after fight with sama, then Meta took a bunch of their mid-senior talent, and Google had the opposite. They brought Noam and Sergey back.

New comment by drawnwren in "GPT Image 1.5"

drawnwren — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 20:43:34 +0000

counterpoint: we should make energy abundant enough that it really doesn't matter if sama wants to generate gpt-shirt ads or not.

we have the capability, we just stopped making power more abundant.