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Really sharp perspective. Agentic engineering is software engineering with inertia. We're growing stuff now, not knitting it link by link.

thank you, I'll put this PR checklist in my claude.md

For concurrency reasons Pijul is an excellent git replacement for agents in my experience.

Which is why articles like this are obnoxious

Those quadratic forms loop in some nice structure for modeling all kinds of geometric problems with high level control that's hard to articulate so concisely otherwise. Conformal geometric algebra is awesome to work with, have you tried it?

But mostly the broad strokes points about the community are exactly the kind of hostility that makes geometric algebra communities so refreshing for curious young people. Geometric algebra is a welcoming pedagogy and community as much as it is a mathematical framework. If only mathematics as a whole was more welcoming.

I started out on with shaky linear algebra despite years of undergraduate education, but plenty of curiosity and intuition. The geometric algebra community schooled me and me prepared me for all kinds of "real math".

Yes the attitude that geometric algebra is the best language for everything is misguided and welcomes a lot of confusion, but most serious geometric algebra people I've met don't actually think that or say that. They're just off doing cool stuff.

I absolutely agree. You might be interested in Paulo Freire who wrote a whole book on something like what you're arguing, "the pedagogy of the oppressed".

That said, the crimes of "the cabal of wealth" are still on those responsible.

I've always considered it to be some marriage of convenience moreso than some kind of formal thing. And at any rate arguing over whether there's an explicit cabal or not very badly misses the point.

You're getting hung up on the idea of a "cabal" being some kind of formal thing that has explicit membership rules. But what we're talking about is simply the collusion of hyper-wealthy people in their various schemes. That's the cabal.

How do we know gpt 5.5 is a bigger model

I've heard good things about pi. The reliance on npm freaks me out though, so I've been avoiding it, but may need to just give in.

What's more dangerous, a version that's capable of actually fixing bugs well because it can identify the bugs or a version that creates more bugs because it's "not dangerously powerful" and instead just obliterates the code.

My experience is that it's not the models themselves that are limiting right now, it's the clunky alternative harnesses with weird missing features making for bad ergonomics around stuff like queue management, interruption, subagents, goals, etc.

Confidential inference gets us closer (via Nvidia's TEE architecture)

I'm unsettled that we're all just glossing over how utterly racist this demand was to its core.

This is the same administration that's in the middle of trying ramp up revocation of natural citizenship, that's kidnapping huge numbers of melanated families in a viscerally cruel way, that's set on repealing birthright citizenship, that wants to use proof of citizenship as a voting suppression tactic all while making it more and more dangerous to register that proof in the first place. They want to throw AI safety into the same cursed pot of bullshit?

Props to Anthropic for refusing. OpenAI already has the mechanism in place since years ago. Let's see if they comply.

It's wild to me how we can have a whole conversation about this and just completely sidestep how incredibly racist this directive is, just how much it ties into the Trump administration's ongoing campaign of kidnapping melanated people. This is the same administration that denied one of the top FIFA refs a visa because they're Somali asking an AI company to gatekeep access to their on citizenship at a time when they're in the middle of attempting to challenge birthright citizenship and ramping up attempts to revoke naturalized citizenship to an unprecedented rate. Here they are attempting to throw "AI safety policy" into the same cursed pot and we're just head in the sand about that part

Yes, it's actually a consolidation of weakness

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They must not have used Fable 5 to vibecode that part of Claude Desktop, VMs are strictly forbidden high stakes cybersecurity work.

My system instructions tell claude not to automatically add attribution and fable ignored this. so I emphasized it again and fable decided that this was a forbidden cybersecurity topic.

Synthetic training data has been the name of the game since years ago.

The safety filter is awful on this one.

Maybe the algorithm has some kind of "momentum" to it, taking into consideration the velocity of upvotes.

Good point. I just can't imagine the urgency and pressure I'd feel.

Maybe he got notified from the mythos team of a bunch of vulnerabilities and then followed up using claude. Doesn't seem that unlikely.

What would you do if suddenly there were a dozen exploitable CVEs in your highly used open source project staring you down? Maybe you'd use the tool that found them to patch them as quickly as possible.

Go look for yourself, quite a few mention CVEs.

Their loss

They have not

Reckless Ben has an amazing scientology series, worth watching

Try qwen 3.6 models with hermes and see for yourself. 27b is excellent and 35b is very good for basic agentic tasks.

4.7 broke my trust