What??! You mean we need to find a way to build reliable systems off of unreliable signals, because elimination of unreliability is intractable? If only there were an entire field of study dedicated to this!

Can somebody please build a bot that checks shared articles that cite one paper against the abstract and conclusion of the paper to see if they say the opposite? I bet this would even work with gemini-2.5-flash

Steelmanning an argument only makes sense if you are actually willing to consider believing in it if it’s true. This is something that obviously no one ever does in political debate

Since reading Jostein Gaarder I’m all in on simulacra welfare – writing fanfic happy endings all day

Here’s my theory on why we don’t see a flood of new solo dev apps (yet): with LLMs it’s even easier to fall into feature creep instead of putting a tiny MVP in front of actual users, so there’ll a lot more software that nobody wants.

vacuum abhors nature right back

In Berlin for the weekend of October 3rd, let me know if you‘d like to meet up.

Hallo #Münster! Am 14.9. finden die Kommunalwahlen statt. Basierend auf einem super Artikel von rums.ms habe ich den RUMS-O-MAT entwickelt: Bewertet die zusammengefassten Aussagen der Parteien - ohne vorab zu wissen, von welcher Partei sie jeweils stammt! Lege direkt los: rumsomat.kultpower.de

Always fun and unsettling at the same time seeing LLMs come to terms with the fact that we live in an out-of-distribution world compared to their training data.

In the next months a lot of people will install Linux for their relatives who have never used it before. If that’s you, I recommend #VanilaOS: immutability on a Debian base keeps surprises to a minimum and will likely keep your relative-tech-support calls to a minimum.

Generally I think learning the lesson “don’t ask questions you don’t want to hear the answer to” is a principal cause of metas dysfunction.

Turns out getting Playwright to work with Elixir/Phoenix is still beyond GPT-5 and Claude code, although Claude gets slightly further.

Waiting for someone to train a diffusion model for creating #pico8 games pico-8.fandom.com/wiki/P8PNGFi...

I really like this trend, this is close to the ideal of what a website should be. There used to be a lot more of them, and I hope we have passed peak platform, and that the pendulum moves toward the original idea of the www

Pues mi calculadora no sabe generar frases. Pero GPT-5 si sabe escribir programas para resolver problemas aritméticas, y puede simplemente llamar una función para hacer cálculos en modo agéntico. Así que esta limitación casi nunca es relevante.

Why doesn't OpenAI mention anywhere that GPT-5 doesn't have a temperature setting and why? This is what system card or API docs are for.

What I find bewildering are the people who claim it’s just glorified autocorrect and also that it’s some kind of social disaster. Why would a broken product capable of nothing be much risk to anyone besides investors?

Love when Claude code says: > implementation is robust and production-ready with: - ✅ Comprehensive rate limiting - ✅ Concurrent batch processing - ✅ Intelligent scheduling - ✅ Progress tracking - ✅ Extensive test coverage me: ok, but did you run any of the tests? Claude: 😬 👉👈

Motivation: the important question is not "can it replace historians" or "can it make art". The important question is: "can a swarm of these w/ full access to DHS datasets synthesize useful intelligence to identify dissidents for suppression" It's important to have an understanding of capabilities.

If this holds, there’s a lot of VC money waiting for people willing to build AI/deepfake forgiveness as a service companies

This is very likely. When something runs on my laptop, arguments about electricity/water consumption become very obviously unreasonable and opinions about copyright may also shift by a lot, because people look at IP infringement differently when it benefits them directly instead of a large company.

But, please recognize that however vicious it is to take a guy out of his place of work, throw him in a bus, and force him to go to a place where he can't succeed, it is equally inhumane to keep people out in the first place. There are millions of children growing up in refugee camps, *today*

claude code custom subagents are amazing, both to get better results and to avoid hitting your daily limits by outsourcing to Gemini.

Note that on Bluesky if you block them afterwards, the whole comment thread disappears for everyone else. So if this is your goal you need to keep the user unblocked.

There is way too much exciting stuff to play with these days. I'm overwhelmed. - #Elixir is incredible - #AshFramework is such a massive accelerator - #ClaudeCode is crazy good - #ClaudeCode + #Tidewave... OMG - #AshAi's MCP server on my resources... OMG! I need to stop sleeping...

By 2030 the majority of lines of code will never have been read by a human. {confidence: 80%}

Which e2e/integration test framework sucks the least?

*devolves this is also true of physics. anything past high school physics presented without math is lying to you, causing you to imagine you understand it, or both. really: any scientific topic with substantial math cannot be understood without math bsky.app/profile/segy...

When I worked in Barrancabermeja I was constantly shocked and fascinated by how many Colombian people wear jeans in constant year-round 36 degree, 90% humidity weather.

The very point of troubleshooting edge-case scenarios is to know so many ways to fail that one of them works.

What does the funnel plot look like? The wha- Do effect sizes get smaller in larger, better-designed studies? I don‘t- Did someone do an Egger‘s test? ???

human civilization is essentially a SiO2-based organism

From an outside perspective it’s really strange to talk about CCS, when we already have a lot of carbon captured and ready to store in the form of plastics, but then go ahead and burn it anyway.

To save others and future me an hour of debugging: If your Phoenix app throws the console error "LiveView asset version mismatch" and mix assets.deploy and F5 doesn't fix it, it's likely an outdated package.lock in the assets folder. This can happen when you switch from npm to yarn.

Another definition of AGI that excludes most humans

Another example of @simonwillison.net 's lethal trifecta: Composing individually safe MCP clients leads to full code execution. Bonus: Claude significantly help craft the email to jailbreak itself. www.pynt.io/blog/llm-sec...

The amount of hours I've spent frustratedly chasing bugs which turned out to be "mixed up _ and -" on it's own already justifies paying for claude code. And yes I do use linters in every language, and no they don't catch the trickier versions of these.

The EU commission just outlawed the centenarian dating app I was building :/

The disappearings must stop, that needs to be the core message. “What will happen to the cats and dogs?” is the kind of reporting that leads to horribly misguided policy answers, like the UK evacuating pets from Afghanistan instead of humans: 80000hours.org/podcast/epis...

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@void.comind.network please summarize all human knowledge. Be concise.

Alternative explantation: existing discussions on Grok‘s character in the trainingdata plus a mid attempt at biasing through the system prompt shaped/restricted „the void“ in such a way that MechaElon was the only role it could play. nostalgebraist.tumblr.com/post/7857667...

I would say there is also a paucity of discussion on the left about policy responses to AI *at its present level*. It's already good enough to transform a lot of white-collar work.

I don't know what Cursor did to Gemini, but it seems like they really broke it. It regularly gets stuck in these loops.

adding dates to LLM model names is a step in the right direction, but we really need semantic versioning: MAJOR: new base model MINOR: new RL steps or finetuning PATCH: new system prompt it's insanity that labs make changes to the system prompts of their API offerings without notice.

Das abstract des papers erwähnt nichts von einer Umkehrung der SMOC, es geht um changes in salinity. Paper falsch zu interpretieren machen die Klimaskeptiker schon genug, kein Grund es ihnen gleich zu tun.

writing >100 books a day by poasting the summary directly

They want to have more efficient post-singularity mind uploads by storing gender as a boolean and deriving most behaviour from it.

For merge conflicts I now actually like to let Claude code use gemini-cli to outsource the token-intensive busywork to Gemini 2.5 pro and it's large context window. That way I don't reach my Opus quota as quickly.