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Rudybega··on Sharing AI progress in mathematics
I mean, even if you buy the idea that all LLMs are really doing under the hood is insanely good interpolation, the results produced by that interpolation are still novel and still get incorporated into the knowledge corpus of the next training run. I guess the implicit question there becomes whether that expansion allows the knowledge corpus to continuously grow or whether it eventually settles into a steady state.
Rudybega··on Subquadratic 3SUM and Subcubic APSP
It's more that it demonstrates that it's possible at all. We now know that the floor isn't an exponent of 2, which makes pursuing further improvements way more valuable.
Rudybega··on Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code
This is only true if they can't saturate token production with a model that does less superfluous things. Given that they can (they're hilariously compute strained), having a model that solves tasks more quickly adds way more perceived value to users.
Rudybega··on Codex Micro
This feels like a missed opportunity for an OpenAI Nintendo Power Glove collab. Smh.
Rudybega··on I think I have LLM burnout
This seems hilariously, extremely revisionist.

Hell, the Opus 4.5 moment was only last November, and that was when agentic coding and most coding CLI tools became truly first class options. That's a wild paradigm shift. Hell, GPT-5 wasn't even out (that's August of last year). Most people were using 4o. Their current offerings are wildly better for coding than 4o was.

Rudybega··on U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6
That's precisely what's going to happen.
Rudybega··on Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities
I mean, it makes a lot of sense if the current administration operates in bad faith. I'll leave discerning that to you.
Rudybega··on U.S. science is in chaos
There's a huge exclusion.

The 2026 Foreign Earned Income Exclusion (FEIE) allows qualifying U.S. expats to exclude up to $132,900 of foreign-earned income from their U.S. federal income taxes. Married couples can exclude up to $265,800 if both spouses work abroad and each meets the eligibility requirements.

Rudybega··on Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable
I mean, if you take HN commenters to have the thoughtfulness and foresight of children, then the word kind of works.
Rudybega··on Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos
I mean, if we're assuming they're just willing to lie and violate their own TOS then how could you ever be comfortable with them regardless of this 30 day period (or really any online service)? This seems like a bit of a silly take.
Rudybega··on Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates
That's the nature of abstraction. Everything you create on a computer is built on a towering stack of black boxes.
Rudybega··on Pentagon formally labels Anthropic supply-chain risk
Anthropic and the military had a contract. The military wanted to change the terms of that contract. Anthropic said no, which is their clearly defined contractual right. They got labeled a supply chain risk. How is this anything other than a shakedown? Does contract law mean anything to this administration?
Rudybega··on I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk
You don't actually believe in the core tenets of the USA if you think that the government should have or should exercise unchecked, abusive power.
Rudybega··on I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk
Then the government should end their contract with Anthropic. The terms of the contract were clear.

Designating them a supply chain risk is unprecedented authoritarian strong-arming.

Rudybega··on The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)
Well yeah, they're running a small, outdated, older model. That's not really the point. This approach can be used for better, larger, newer models.
Rudybega··on Gemini 3.1 Pro
If only there were some way to test it, like swapping the two nouns in the sentence. Alas.
Rudybega··on Beginning fully autonomous operations with the 6th-generation Waymo driver
If a passenger says to you, "go around this car by using that private driveway", are they driving the car?
Rudybega··on Beginning fully autonomous operations with the 6th-generation Waymo driver
There aren't remote "drivers" in the Philippines, that's not how Fleet Response works. You can see how it works here if you're curious: https://waymo.com/blog/2024/05/fleet-response but the TLDR is that they give the Waymo driver options in confusing situations (things like, you can go use this driveway on the side to pass this blocked traffic).
Rudybega··on GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks
MMLU performance caps out around 90% because there are tons of errors in the actual test set. There's a pretty solid post on it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/163x2wc/philip_...

As far as I can tell for AIME, pretty much every frontier model gets 100% https://llm-stats.com/benchmarks/aime-2025

Rudybega··on Waymo exec reveals company uses remote workers in the Philippines
I mean, Waymo gives a lot of examples of the situations, in their blog post about Fleet Response where they detail this, released May 21, 2024. They're very explicit that the Waymo Driver autonomous system is in control the entire time.

This isn't something new.

https://waymo.com/blog/2024/05/fleet-response

Rudybega··on We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler
TinyCC can't compile a modern linux kernel. It doesn't support a ton of the extensions they use. That Rust compiler similarly can't do it.
Rudybega··on We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler
There are two compilers that can handle the Linux kernel. GCC and LLVM. Both are written in C, not Rust. It's "in distribution" only if you really stretch the meaning of the term. A generic C compiler isn't going to be anywhere near the level of rigour of this one.
Rudybega··on GPT-5.3-Codex
I think they immediately corrected their median timelines for takeoff to 2028 upon releasing the article (I believe there was a math mistake or something initially), so all those dates can probably be bumped back a few months. Regardless, the trend seems fairly on track.
Rudybega··on GPT-5.3-Codex
The denial of this overall trend on here and in other internet spaces is starting to really bother me. People need to have sober conversations about the speed of this increase and what kind of effects it's going to have on the world.
Rudybega··on We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler
Direct transpilation would create a ton of unsafe code (this repo doesn't have any) and fixing that would require a lot of manual fixes from the model. Even that would be a massive achievement, but it's not how this was created.
Rudybega··on Claude Opus 4.6
You're comparing two different benchmarks. Pro vs Verified.
Rudybega··on We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler
It wrote the compiler in Rust. As far as I know, there aren't any Rust based C compilers with the same capabilities. If you can find one that can compile the Linux kernel or get 99% on the GCC torture test suite, I would be quite surprised. I couldn't in a search.

Maybe read the article before being so dismissive.

Rudybega··on The Codex App
Yeah, I'm having the same issue. Disappointing limitations.
Rudybega··on Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica
That's probably more a function of more people being in the road than people not understanding what object they're about to hit.
Rudybega··on Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica
"Oh that obstructing object doesn't look like a child? Gun it, YOLO." Lmao.

I suspect the cars are trying to avoid running into anything, as that's generally considered bad.

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