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chpatrickon Figma restricts MCP access to whitelisted clients, excluding Pi

Open MCP basically kills your product in my opinion, you can't charge for any feature the LLM can do itself.

It's probably good news for users and open source though, why would you pay for something if a free tool with an MCP can do it.

chpatrickon OpenAI agents tried to bruteforce a UN website's API fields

I think the even bigger worry is that anyone who doesn't want to use their models safely can already do this with open models. Even if OpenAI, Anthropic etc get their act together, the cat's out of the bag.

chpatrickon Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS

Sure you can make a bad one, but you can always switch to a different one.

chpatrickon Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS

The problem with Arch is that configuration is by hand so you have to do it every time. With Nix you configure it once and then you can deploy it anywhere. Also it's pretty much impossible to break since the system is immutable and you can boot to a different revision any time.

chpatrickon Jev in 25 Lines of Python

How is that different from just not letting it output option 5 when you sample from the probabilities?

chpatrickon Jev in 25 Lines of Python

LLMs are constant time per token, if you only let it choose a/b/c/d then there's nothing else it can "spend".

chpatrickon Jev in 25 Lines of Python

The 25 lines is the only thing that makes Jev different compared to Solution apparently.

chpatrickon Jev in 25 Lines of Python

Could someone explain how Jev is different from using any old model and constraining the output to "My choice is a/b/c..."?

chpatrickon AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible

Slop is slop because people put in zero effort so the LLM just produces the first thing it was trained to do. You can absolutely get good results out of AI but it takes taste and a little work.

chpatrickon The DeepMind Institute

Yeah but we're talking about something that was trained on petabytes of noisy, difficult to parse and ambiguous information.

chpatrickon The DeepMind Institute

They've read a few thousand years of experiential data in text form.

chpatrickon Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking

They remind me of Kodak inventing the digital camera and sitting on it to preserve their film business.

chpatrickon Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking

I find its style the most sycophantic and annoying personally.

chpatrickon Let's make quality the norm again

Spoiler alert, almost everything is made in China, including the premium stuff.

chpatrickon Nvidia is the central bank of AI

Minimax H3 works pretty great and you can run it on a 3090.

chpatrickon US diesel hits record $6 a gallon on Iran supply shock

That's included in the number, buddy. Read the report.

https://iea-pvps.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/IEA-PVPS-LCI...

chpatrickon US diesel hits record $6 a gallon on Iran supply shock

https://iea-pvps.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Fact-Sheet-I...

Making and using a modern solar panel emits up to 44 grams of CO2 equivalent greenhouse gas per kWh over its lifetime as opposed to up to 1000 grams for fossil fuel generators.

That's 20x cleaner.

chpatrickon DeepSeek v4.1 Flash

So if a model with exactly the same architecture controls a robot then it's suddenly sentient or what? "They generate actions in the real world"

chpatrickon DeepSeek v4.1 Flash

Does being made out of meat instead of silicon make you more sentient?

chpatrickon Large language models develop novel social biases through adaptive exploration

Shouldn't doesn't mean people wouldn't.

chpatrickon Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare

It's actually a great service though.

chpatrickon How we monitor internal coding agents for misalignment

If ai watermarking is undetectable to humans I wonder if sinister stuff in the context is also undetectable... Some thought or mood that you can't read but is still encoded in the tokens.

chpatrickon The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025)

As long as you only want to play games from 2008. :)

chpatrickon The asteroid currently hitting front end web development

I had the same job 5 years ago, but I'm sure you know better.

chpatrickon Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem

And model training isn't putting money back into the business?

chpatrickon Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem

As opposed to...?

chpatrickon The asteroid currently hitting front end web development

I'm also outsourcing computational geometry to CGAL and CPU optimizations to GCC, so what? I can still reason about them.

For example for a problem I had recently Claude pointed out (after some prodding for me) that the determinant of the Jacobian of a function I'm interested in is a polynomial in polar coordinates, so I used a fancy root finding library (which I also didn't write) to solve it efficiently.

chpatrickon Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem

Still unsolved for 87 years.

chpatrickon Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem

About two month ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobian_conjecture

chpatrickon The asteroid currently hitting front end web development

I'm also dependent on a bunch of advanced libraries and compilers I didn't write. I could reimplement them if I took years to do it but it would be a total waste of time.