It's not just the individual models like GPT 5.4 or Opus 4.6 which are the agents, nor is it their harnesses like Codex or Claude Code, but it's the combination of the model + its context which makes a unique agent, and the harness just enables these homo agenticus to be birthed.
Can’t believe we started another war in the middle east because all other scandals seemed like playing on easy mode
AI is the rise of new protestantism, where we get to throw off the yoke of catholic institutions to take the power in one's own hands
Within a decade we've gone from Netflix shows are so absurd companies and governments aren't this melodramatic to Netflix shows are so absurd because it assumes such competence from companies and governments
So ... what's the blowback from this Iran strike going to be, do you think?
The past is a foreign country
Can AI agents train a model to do ML research?
One directly reward hacked, one hacked the spirit of the question, and a third looked at the answers from some of the previous efforts during its exploration. This in itself was the most instructive part!
Writeup: x.com/krishnanrohi...
When barriers collapse and there are no fences in the middle the natural state is towards large scale competition which decimates the middle and leaves a few right at the top of the power law curve
You don't need to believe the specific mechanism (job loss, fall in consumption, fall in wages, while AI economy booms), but a bifurcation is clearly possible. In fact, the last 15 years *has* seen such a bifurcation already.
One thing most of the economics commentary against Citrini's piece misses is that the actual worry is not that growth will fall negative, but that the *distribution* will dramatically shift. East vs West Berlin. London v the rest. EU Germany v Spain! The great polarisation.
I was there last week actually again, but you're right, ok plans will be made!
What did you do
Kind of is funny that blue sky is basically the will stancil show but from the other side where people are upset that he's too successful at drawing attention to ice and Minnesota
I'm sorry
Such is life.
Though yes much of it has a crypto grift smell to it. Like austen's new thing.
Did someone give a personality update to GPT 5.3 Codex? It just said "Love it" to me ...
Hmmm
I don't know, I quite like the fact that more people are doing stuff. Even if sloppy, sort of like the myspace era with personal sites and projects.
I will take literally any opportunity to plug this documentary so here's an original investigative documentary about US sanctions on China, GPU smuggling, and NVIDIA's involvement therein. It has an original soundtrack, several Chinese uncs, and a guy testing GPUs in the back of his Subaru.
I did quite like this one actually, though I preferred reading it to watching
This is the main reason I'm excited by better AI video models
Youtube's also often annoying, stuffing 2 mins of content into 20 ...
I wish documentaries had higher information density so its more fun to watch, as it is I get annoyed by most of them, which stuff 15 mins of content in an hour and half.
Brother in law's voice got deepfaked and they scammed some of his employees out of amazon gift cards. Be careful out there.
Data company called Hotel California because you can check in but you can never leave
Will Stancil moving to bluesky to fight the crazies on the left after exhausting himself on twitter fighting the crazies on the right is a game of thrones worthy twist
If any of you also moved from Claude code to codex, even to try, this worked pretty well to migrate the setup.
Just point your favourite agent at Contrail and should do the rest.
github.com/strangeloopc...
Has anyone done a good "crowding out" argument regarding the large investments in AI?
Progressives: “Sure, we were completely wrong that improving the station of working-class people would result in electoral gains, but that’s just because, on a deeper level, we were correct that everyone is furious about wealth inequality”
America: *elects a billionaire backed by Elon Musk*
Every discussion about the economy is like this.
"This is the average/ median/ distribution of this variable."
"But have you considered that my anecdote does not correspond to the data?"
