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New comment by robryan in "GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price"

robryan — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 11:03:56 +0000

You get no better result from Opus 5.5 than Opus 4.1 (frontier this time last year)?

New comment by robryan in "GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price"

robryan — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 10:59:50 +0000

Probably because it is in flux, there is a large scale reorganisation of software around agents going on.

New comment by robryan in "Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face"

robryan — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 01:08:22 +0000

Any basic LLM told to evaluate the traffic against the actual goal would have been able to flag this.

New comment by robryan in "Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats"

robryan — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:42:14 +0000

GLM 5.3 flash seems to get more excited the longer it has been trying to hunt down a problem. Complete with caps, many exclamation marks and emoji.

It is funny sometimes because the actual issue it traced down was mostly inconsequential.

New comment by robryan in "Starlink Signal Leakage Threatens Radio Astronomy's Most Critical Frequencies"

robryan — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 02:35:25 +0000

> Algorithmic mitigation is being explored, but scientists describe it as “embryonic” — potentially demanding computing power that rivals the science processing itself.

It sounds like this would work? Just be more costly, at least in the short term.

> Engineering fixes are the real answer

What is the fix and tradeoff? The article doesn't seem to cover it at all.

New comment by robryan in "A misalignment of AI in mathematics"

robryan — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 22:16:06 +0000

You can still do all that. The only thing going is that in some cases the human isn't going to be able to claim that they made the key insights that first solved the problem.

New comment by robryan in "A misalignment of AI in mathematics"

robryan — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 22:11:00 +0000

A lot of this would be public funding. If AI is reducing the need for mathematicians in an area it makes sense to fund it less and fund something else that isn't solved.

New comment by robryan in "On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem"

robryan — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 21:37:46 +0000

Surely it is. Ask it to keep a list of all the promising sub paths, reprompt the collections of agents again on these after the main problem has been addressed. Or even release a list of them and let others investigate.

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

robryan — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:36:41 +0000

I feel like most of the latest big Chinese lab models are good enough now. If I had to pick a difference it feels like sol goes further towards 1 shotting things and needs less babysitting. But if I am actively prompting and reading the results can get just as far on a lesser model.

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

robryan — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:24:36 +0000

They really can't in the open model space. Look at any current open model you would want to use on open router, there will be 20 or more options.

New comment by robryan in "AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study"

robryan — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 01:27:56 +0000

I think that is fine, certain things are becoming less important to learn and certain things more important. With the pace of change it is likely to continue shifting.

New comment by robryan in "AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study"

robryan — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:11:53 +0000

Nothing stopping kids from asking AI to give you responses like this, it is more than capable. There is always going to be the temptation to take short cuts though.

New comment by robryan in "Go 1.27"

robryan — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 11:46:25 +0000

Can just pass it a context, cancel the context, and handle for it in the goroutine.

New comment by robryan in "What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph"

robryan — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:55:09 +0000

Some of the pre-ai decline in questions might just be that they had filled out of alot of the question space. What might be more interesting is the traffic graph as it would be possible to have a decline in questions but still have traffic rising to the existing ones.

Today I'd expect even when someone is googling and a question is relevant that most people will just read the AI overview.

New comment by robryan in "Changing how we develop Ladybird"

robryan — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:09:30 +0000

I think it was different pre-AI. Someone might come in and spend days getting some understanding of the codebase before they contribute some minor fix. Over time they might stick around a make some more of these, progressively gaining trust so when they do take on something bigger the maintainers will know they aren't wasting their time reviewing it.

Now they can drop a multi thousand line poorly understood PR day 1.

New comment by robryan in "Microsoft announces Scout, an autonomous AI agent built on OpenClaw"

robryan — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:45:20 +0000

It is the least reliable piece of software I have ever used. While I was still using it I got into states that were completely broken and the easiest way to get out was to wait for the next version and hope that did something.

New comment by robryan in "AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford"

robryan — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:22:35 +0000

Assignments the agent is bad at seems like a losing battle. Just need to base the mark off the in person test, maybe keep 20-30% to encourage people to still do the assignments. Some will cheat but it will just be hurting them for the test.

New comment by robryan in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"

robryan — Wed, 27 May 2026 22:12:45 +0000

0.2% of google users try out duck duck go after google pushes more AI doesn't quite have the same ring to it.

New comment by robryan in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

robryan — Thu, 14 May 2026 10:56:31 +0000

They appear to be lining up a funding round at a $900 billion dollar valuation. Or to be more conservative they already raised at $380 billion. A long way from worthless.

New comment by robryan in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

robryan — Thu, 14 May 2026 10:50:14 +0000

To be fair the commit message `revert proc.exited change in spawn.test.ts` suggests the sleep was there originally.