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New comment by precision1k in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

precision1k — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:24:25 +0000

I've developed a habit of adding into my prompts "please keep your response concise and succinct" or "I'm trying to cram, please only provide the minimum level of technical detail necessary to understand this topic"

I find it helps immensely but it'd be nice if I didn't have to do that.

New comment by precision1k in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

precision1k — Thu, 21 May 2026 01:50:04 +0000

I see mixed emotions here. I understand both. On one hand it's exciting and fascinating. On the other it's concerning. One concern I haven't seen mentioned is the possibility that, as these models become larger and more powerful, their capability to solve frontier math problems will also grow. Does there become a point where humans are no longer the driver of innovation and research in this world, and instead are relegated to become stewards of the AI models whose purpose is to push the boundaries of mathematics, theoretical physics and other academic disciplines?

New comment by precision1k in "Post-mortem for last week's incident at Kagi"

precision1k — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 01:00:54 +0000

Reminds me of a time I was running a proof-of-concept for a new networking tool at a customer site, and about two minutes after we got it running their entire network went down. We were in a sandboxed area so there was no way our product could of caused a network wide outage, but in my head I'm thinking: "there's no way, right. . . .RIGHT?!?!".