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That mirrors how disappointing Opus 5 and Fable were, for anything beyond one-shotted tasks or shiny demos. Maybe OAI is just a step behind Anthropic? Opus 5.5 seems like the real deal again, consistent good results on large, complex codebases.

Oh it's been a while since I looked, one of the tile stores I used to go to in Montreal had them -- not as a set mind you, but as two different lines of tiles that happened to be the right proportions to reproduce the pattern.

If you want something truly diabolical, attempt to tile your bathroom with either of those patterns (yes, these tile shapes can be bought).

I drew one that died as a newborn, 960BCE, then another that lived a long long life! https://anyhumanever.com/life/2139137610-1449878292-21360978...

> one copy of the Amiga Hardware Reference Manual

aka The Book... my, this brings back dusty memories

Babylonian Twins has such strong "Gods: Into the Wonderful" vibes, I wonder if that game was an inspiration for you

https://www.lemonamiga.com/game/gods-into-the-wonderful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kAXGjUwHyA

> truly cannot comprehend the mindset

The mindset is "if I could harvest your organs for profit I absolutely would, and I would make it illegal to protest against it"

The naivete of some of the comments here is astounding. It doesn't matter whether you're right, it doesn't matter whether it's the law, it's irrelevant that you have rights, etc. Those things are of the past now, for the US.

I think it would be easier to understand the playing field and choose your actions accordingly, if you accept the US has entered its East Germany / late 20th century Soviet era -- except of course with 1000x more invasive and effective surveillance tech.

The social dynamics are the same - the abuses, the selective enforcement, the lack of recourse, the same characters in the roles of various levels of "law enforcement" and "politics". I'm so very sorry, but the best you can do from here is speedrun the collapse.

It's interesting that (as per the article) the work pumped out by this synthetic think tank does not seem to align / disfavours the official party line of the country. You'd imagine if this was propaganda, it would be supportive of the official stance. I wonder what the objective is then, reputation-building for later influence? Something else?

My employer is encouraging AI adoption across the board, to the point of basically making tokenmaxing part of performance KPIs. I think they're pushing headlong into disaster, but they are not the kind of people to take advice, or admit mistakes.

I use AI coding tools both at work and in my hobby projects. It very clear to me they're nuclear-powered footguns, and we have a long, long way yet in developing practices, structures and workflows that will enable true benefits while minimizing the absolutely toxic baggage/fallout/side effects.

I look at the big corp push for AI adoption as another instance of boards of directors choosing the large investors / their own personal gain over the success of the corporations they govern (first instance being the "back to the office" push in attempt to shore up commercial real estate). I think the circular economy of the AI bubble has spread far and wide, and we're watching a lot of invested players trying to keep it going.

Most people cannot draw a bicycle that well!

O joyous day!

Ok so, all the appliances and cars and TVs and who knows what other embedded electronics sold in Illinois will require the user (?) to verify their age?

https://cdn.trinixy.ru/pics2/20070801/ussr_18.jpg my favourite of the lot.

Runner up, the inconsolable background pooper (towards the end), what a weird photo to take btw.

> only saving grace might be some sort of a 'national security' proclamation banning the use of state-of-the-art Chinese (and non-US) models

In what kind of sad and failed dystopia is this a "saving grace"? For whom?

Kickback would be bad if it binds in the kerf - I think sawzall is better/safer for cutting pipe that's under load.

No one who has answered "no" made it thru the selection process, so there might be some survivor bias at play here.

It reads like something written by a time traveler from the past.

Can't wait, been running the 3.6 locally and it's been a boon.

I'm on the verge over here, the new Anthropic models have been a disappointment. I've tried the A3B variant, but had mixed results. What do you use as the coding agent, and have you heavily customized your workflows?

A request to avoid these rhetorical devices, explicitly naming the ones you want to eliminate (eg, antithesis).

> the risk that authoritarian governments [...] build AI models that are more powerful than those built by the US, and use them to achieve permanent military superiority or perpetrate incredibly deep repression of their own people.

This is rich coming from a guy who signed deals with an authoritarian government that's in the midst of launching an unprecedented surveillance apparatus (hello flock, hi p4l4nt1r), having already deployed, nation-wide, an exorbitantly funded army of unaccountable shock troops under the guise of immigration enforcement.

The call is coming from inside the house, at 130dB, and your ears should be bleeding at this point.

Claude peaked with 4.8 - Fable and Opus 5.0 are useless for anything beyond one-shotted toy projects for one crippling reason: they first invent unnecessary complexity, then get hopelessly tangled in it. This happens in any reasonably large project, regardless of how well specced out it is.

These are relatively easy to nip in the bud with a brief addition to claude.md

It'd be great if they could come up with a photo of the truck. But an alternative to the oversized absurdities we have on the roads these days can't come soon enough.

The bicycle is almost anatomically correct! Forks should be raked the other way.

Very neat! I like how the decoy text is less visible to the human eye than the "hidden" message, but it's the other way for the image models. Well done!

I've put a few lines in my CLAUDE.md to have it not do that, and avoid the top tedious rhetorical devices (super helpful when I have it write documentation). Still fighting with its natural tendency to insanely overcomplicate everything, that one seems really integral somehow.

Only the ones that use radio for control. The fiberoptic ones are "dark" to this setup.

It's an absolute regression to the mean. We need to understand the correct place for LLM-driven coding agents et al: they're beige paste extruders. Which is actually a perfect match for 80% of corporate world.

For anything unique, they're a boon, in that they can free you from dealing with the boilerplate, but you must think on your own, must have your own insights, tap into your creativity. If you start to depend on them for ideation, it's slippery slope to the slop bowl.

I don't know, it's getting better every day.

The other day, I took apart an old handheld vacuum cleaner to scavenge the internals. All there was inside was a small but powerful motor, and a couple of 18650 batteries with a charge controller and a switch.

Two small batteries, running a relatively powerful vacuum, which could do spot cleans of the whole house (corners and crevices and such) without needing a recharge.