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New comment by somebodythere in "Sauna effect on heart rate"

somebodythere — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:34:28 +0000

There is some evidence suggesting that "blue zones" are largely about pension fraud. https://fortune.com/europe/2024/12/14/are-blue-zones-myth-ex...

New comment by somebodythere in "Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode"

somebodythere — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:43:02 +0000

Using your API key in third-party harnesses has always been allowed. They just don't like using the subsidized subscription plan outside of first-party harnesses. So this seems to be out of spite

New comment by somebodythere in "We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler"

somebodythere — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 09:40:00 +0000

even a squirrel that needs guidance from a human grandmaster, is heavily inspired by existing games, and who can use Piece Mover library is incredible. 5 years ago the squirrel was just a squirrel. then it was able to make legal moves. now it can play a whole game from start to finish, with help. that is incredible

New comment by somebodythere in "AI2: Open Coding Agents"

somebodythere — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:15:03 +0000

No. You can point e.g. Opencode/Cline/Roo Code/Kilo Code at your inference endpoint. But CC has high install base and users are used to it, so it makes sense to target it.

New comment by somebodythere in "The future of software development is software developers"

somebodythere — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 12:50:09 +0000

Why would I ask the model to reverse the string 'glorbix,' especially in the context of software engineering?

New comment by somebodythere in "Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo"

somebodythere — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:21:02 +0000

You personally wouldn't use live captions and dubbing, so there's no point building it for the millions of people who need it as an accessibility feature?

New comment by somebodythere in "Anthropic taps IPO lawyers as it races OpenAI to go public"

somebodythere — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 17:38:51 +0000

Rufus is a Claude Haiku, yes.

New comment by somebodythere in "Code Wiki: Accelerating your code understanding"

somebodythere — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:29:12 +0000

I've seen a few of this type of thing pop up in search results ("DeepWiki" by Cognition.) I'm not a fan. It is just LLM contentslop, basically. Actual wikis written by humans are made of actual insight from developers and consumers. "We intend you use it in X way", "If you encounter Y issue, do Z." etc. Look at arch wiki. Peak wiki-style documentation, LLMs could never recreate. Well, maybe with a future iteration of the technology they can be useful. But for now, you do not gain much by essentially restating code, API interfaces, and tests in prose. They take up space from legitimate documentation and developer instruction in search results.

New comment by somebodythere in "Anthropic acquires Bun"

somebodythere — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 20:07:50 +0000

I think this wound up being close enough to true, it's just that it actually says less than what people assumed at the time.

It's basically the Jevons paradox for code. The price of lines of code (in human engineer-hours) has decreased a lot, so there is a bunch of code that is now economically justifiable which wouldn't have been written before. For example, I can prompt several ad-hoc benchmarking scripts in 1-2 minutes to troubleshoot an issue which might have taken 10-20 minutes each by myself, allowing me to investigate many performance angles. Not everything gets committed to source control.

Put another way, at least in my workflow and at my workplace, the volume of code has increased, and most of that increase comes from new code that would not have been written if not for AI, and a smaller portion is code that I would have written before AI but now let the AI write so I can focus on harder tasks. Of course, it's uneven penetration, AI helps more with tasks that are well-described in the training set (webapps, data science, Linux admin...) compared to e.g. issues arising from quirky internal architecture, Rust, etc.

New comment by somebodythere in "Many countries that said no to ChatControl in 2024 are now undecided"

somebodythere — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 07:56:37 +0000

Roughly, this is the Electronic Frontier Foundation (and comparable lobbying orgs in other countries.) However, an org like this doesn't have much power to compel individuals to give them $1.

New comment by somebodythere in "Learning Is Slower Than You Think"

somebodythere — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 15:46:48 +0000

LLM argumentative essays tend to have this "gish-gallop" energy; say a bunch of tenuously related and vaguely supported things, leave the reader wondering if it was the author who failed to connect the dots, or them

New comment by somebodythere in "The natural diamond industry is getting rocked. Thank the lab-grown variety"

somebodythere — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 00:15:09 +0000

Maybe it's my engineer-brain talking, but "lab-grown" actually biases me towards the diamonds. Feels precise and futuristic.

New comment by somebodythere in "There are no new ideas in AI only new datasets"

somebodythere — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 22:05:56 +0000

I don't know if it matters. Even if the best we can do is get really good at interpolating between solutions to cognitive tasks on the data manifold, the only economically useful human labor left asymptotes toward frontier work; work that only a single-digit percentage of people can actually perform.

New comment by somebodythere in "Claude 4"

somebodythere — Thu, 22 May 2025 17:48:31 +0000

My guess is that they did RLVR post-training for SWE tasks, and a smaller model can undergo more RL steps for the same amount of computation.

New comment by somebodythere in "The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool use"

somebodythere — Fri, 16 May 2025 18:56:56 +0000

I see what you are getting at. My point is that if you train and agent and verifier/governor together based on rewards from e.g. RLVR, the system (agent + governor) is what will reward hack. OpenAI demonstrated this in their "Learning to Reason with CoT" blog post, where they showed that using a model to detect and punish strings associated with reward hacking in the CoT just led the model to reward hack in ways that were harder to detect. Stacking higher and higher order verifiers maybe buys you time, but also increases false negative rates + reward hacking is a stable attractor for the system.

New comment by somebodythere in "The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool use"

somebodythere — Fri, 16 May 2025 00:41:03 +0000

Because if the agent and governor are trained together, the shared reward function will corrupt the governor.

New comment by somebodythere in "AI 2027"

somebodythere — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 18:29:56 +0000

I took your original post to mean that AI researchers' and AI safety researchers' expectation of AGI arrival has been slipping towards the future as AI advances fail to materialize! It's just, AI advances have been materializing, consistently and rapidly, and expert timelines have been shortening commensurately.

You may argue that the trendline of these expectations is moving in the wrong direction and should get longer with time, but that's not immediately falsifiable and you have not provided arguments to that effect.

New comment by somebodythere in "AI 2027"

somebodythere — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 17:03:56 +0000

AGI timelines have been steadily decreasing over time: https://www.metaculus.com/questions/5121/date-of-artificial-... (switch to all-time chart)

New comment by somebodythere in "AI 2027"

somebodythere — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 16:16:20 +0000

Did you see the supplemental material that explains how they arrived at their timelines/capabilities forecasts? https://ai-2027.com/research

New comment by somebodythere in "The sins of the 90s: Questioning a puzzling claim about mass surveillance"

somebodythere — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 21:40:45 +0000

Federal interests can easily tell the local prosecutor "hey, don't prosecute this, it risks setting bad precedent".