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New comment by felixgallo in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

felixgallo — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 20:22:07 +0000

They literally do -- see above, where the red line they refused to cross involved fully autonomous kill bots (which would be a war crime), and for which they were branded a supply chain risk, thrown out of Pentagon contracts, and now enjoined from releasing their product.

You can not like that Claude was involved in the planning that led to the murder of a bunch of schoolgirls, but stop playing pretend.

New comment by felixgallo in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

felixgallo — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:23:56 +0000

Use nuance and judgement, friend. Anthropic notably pushed back on completely autonomous no-human-in-the-loop drone killings and mass surveillance of the US population, where others like OpenAI scrambled to agree. Anthropic isn't perfect but that doesn't make them equally bad.

New comment by felixgallo in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

felixgallo — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 11:59:53 +0000

the way things are going, I wouldn't be surprised if Anthropic was ordered to sell to Larry Ellison.

New comment by felixgallo in "/architect: Reduce Fable tokens by 80%, Fable orchestrates/reviews, Codex builds"

felixgallo — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:24:43 +0000

Fable will do this itself, by spawning Opus/Sonnet subagents to do easy work.

New comment by felixgallo in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

felixgallo — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:59:24 +0000

I have over 40 years of experience in distributed systems, ranging from fintech to games like Call of Duty, and I owned several key APIs in the Alexa pipeline for many years, so I'm pretty sure I'm not a more junior engineer or haven't been around the block. Good effort though!

Fable does make mistakes, but GPT and Opus were L4 SDEs, and Fable is a freshly promoted L5 SDE. It's not perfect and does need babysitting, especially where the literature is thin, but it's head and shoulders on top right now. That could change, who knows.

As far as driveby attacks on Claude Code The App go, you can say that, but you will also note that Claude Code is the AWS-like clear dominant favorite as a dev tool at the moment, with Codex and Gemini battling for scraps. In the same manner that Excel (which, internally, is total garbage from a code quality/cleanliness perspective) is the winner in spreadsheets, and Word (which, internally, is total garbage from a code quality/cleanliness perspective), and JavaScript (total garbage from a language design perspective), and Facebook (total garbage internally, etc.), and IPv4 (total, etc., etc.), Claude Code has focused on 'delivering amazing things people like' rather than 'making people who get access to the code delighted by the purity and cleanliness of the development process'.

It turns out that being 'delighted by the purity and cleanliness of the development process' rounds to essentially zero in terms of the entire product lifecycle. You could argue that poorly structured codebases are less extensible, and more bug prone, which could be expensive long term. Except, the economics of AI development are quite a bit different than what you are used to, and what our axioms of quality have been founded upon in the past.

Congratulations on writing your own much better coding harness, though! How many MAU do you have?

New comment by felixgallo in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

felixgallo — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:42:55 +0000

definitely not in my experience. I usually write distributed systems and back end code, and Fable is so much better at those than Codex that it's not even a comparison. Fable feels like it's a year ahead.

New comment by felixgallo in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

felixgallo — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:27:01 +0000

In my experience writing about 50 programs with fable, opus, and GPT, fable is a significant step change better than opus which is significantly better than GPT. We must be doing different things.

New comment by felixgallo in "Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable"

felixgallo — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:30:03 +0000

because they don't. That's the whole point.

New comment by felixgallo in "Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable"

felixgallo — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:28:26 +0000

You said these groups have access to LLMs. So what? Mythos/Fable are a step change above most LLMs. Responsibly limiting access and easing it up over time safely is the sane move.

New comment by felixgallo in "Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable"

felixgallo — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:18:54 +0000

I'm a cybersecurity researcher! Can you explain how Anthropic is just hamstringing the good guys?

New comment by felixgallo in "Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable"

felixgallo — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:49:25 +0000

This is a clickbait article with a garbage title. From the actual article, the one quoted cybersecurity researcher is sane about it:

“But it is understandable as we are still in the early days and they are still adapting their guardrails. I am sure they are going to evolve over time as Anthropic and other frontier model companies will collaborate more with the current new generation of cybersecurity companies,” said Suiche, who is a member of the technical staff at Tolmo, an AI cybersecurity startup. “It’s better to catch more people than not enough when you do such a release and to relax the guardrails over time.”

New comment by felixgallo in "SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P"

felixgallo — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:33:02 +0000

'their customers, in aggregate, want that' citation needed

New comment by felixgallo in "Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language"

felixgallo — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:12:13 +0000

what do you mean by 'security related concerns'?

New comment by felixgallo in "Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC"

felixgallo — Sun, 31 May 2026 20:34:10 +0000

all unreliable tools are attackers. Even if you're using well-aligned LLMs like Opus, you should assume that any input you give it -- including all dependencies from npm, etc. -- are at risk of compromise, which could result in attempted exfiltration of data or system takeover. You can be absolutely sure that there are thousands of well-motivated hacker groups, both national and private, looking for ways in.

New comment by felixgallo in "Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC"

felixgallo — Sun, 31 May 2026 19:55:28 +0000

You should not be using docker with LLMs. You should be using VMs, which have a much, much smaller attack surface than Docker, and significantly more reasonable defaults.

New comment by felixgallo in "Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup"

felixgallo — Sat, 30 May 2026 20:32:37 +0000

So you managed to find a single anecdotal blog post, and you're deriving that to mean that Anthropic's models are 'more misaligned in practice'?

'“My vibes don’t match a lot of the traditional A.I.-safety stuff,” Altman said. He insisted that he continued to prioritize these matters, but when pressed for specifics he was vague: “We still will run safety projects, or at least safety-adjacent projects.” When we asked to interview researchers at the company who were working on existential safety—the kinds of issues that could mean, as Altman once put it, “lights-out for all of us”—an OpenAI representative seemed confused. “What do you mean by ‘existential safety’?” he replied. “That’s not, like, a thing.”'

https://archive.is/20260522190314/https://www.newyorker.com/...

New comment by felixgallo in "Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup"

felixgallo — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:43:24 +0000

Sam Altman is so cartoonishly, over-the-top sociopathically shady that he makes JD Vance look like Benjamin Franklin. I mean, honestly, tricking third world people into retinal scans in order to get a scam crypto coin? Anyone using OpenAI for anything at this point should pause and examine their ethical compass.

New comment by felixgallo in "Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'"

felixgallo — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:15:23 +0000

well that's the problem, right? There is no justification for a trillion dollar Elon Musk valuation. And he and his investors know this. That's why they're trying to change the rules to dump the stock while it's irrational on every investor in the world. If they really believed in the value of the company, would they be bribing people to scam the index funds?

New comment by felixgallo in "Project Glasswing: An Initial Update"

felixgallo — Fri, 22 May 2026 23:04:22 +0000

I worry that cybersecurity as target is all fine and good, but it’s looking for your keys under the streetlight. We are all familiar with computers. The problem is likely to be humans, especially in automated programmatic manipulation. The risk is that the next level of AI is going to make Fox News and other mass manipulation efforts look like kindergarten.

New comment by felixgallo in "I’ve joined Anthropic"

felixgallo — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:48:12 +0000

Out here in the actual demonstrated world, OpenAI has been leaking quality people like a sieve, has not yet demonstrated anything remotely similar to 'taste', and is led by a sociopath (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-altman-may...), so I think you can rest easy.