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I hear “ask GPT”/“ask Claude” much more often these days.

Wow. The changes are one thing, but this is terrible terrible communication.

Tibo and other big OAI social media accounts have built a real cult of personality over the last few months and it seems to be getting to their heads. Comrade minister of propaganda announcing that rations will be cut is not a good look. There is still time to save face here, apologize, and just tell the truth plainly (we are capacity constrained and have to make compromises). Preferably before he goes from serious eceleb to corporate lolcow.

> Predicting sales conversion probability from conversations

That's not just bad marketing, it's an example of anti-marketing.

Sales conversion? That makes me think of an old car's salesman trying to scam me into buying something I don't want. I positively don't want to read this paper based on the title.

Oh wow, they are really beautiful. I can tell they are perfect killing machines behind the cuteness.

No fine imposed on the Trump Administration corporation (doing business as the federal government of the US of A)? Does the current legal system allow Anthropic to sue for loss of revenue, reputational damage, etc.?

Heh love the optimistic outlook, I'll keep that in mind!

I presume they are sitting on a lot of usage data and will be able to roll out efficient auto-routing based on it. There is a huge demand for this as most users are overwhelmed by provider options and just want to route to the best/cheapest model based on the task.

> The older I get the more I realize ambition and "being ambitious" is a completely misplaced way to orient your life.

The older you get, the closer you get to being a corpse. That's not something to be proud of :)

I don't necessarily disagree with the rest of your comment in spirit, but you are conflating "ambition" with "seeking validation from others". The most passionate and driven people I know are intrinsically motivated and have ideals that go beyond social validation.

The modern (mostly western?) obsession with "parenting" as a job/hobby is truly despicable. Probably as despicable as the standard education factory farming most of these parents are subjecting their children to. It is a miracle that despite all this parenting and education, some children manage to grow into fully formed individuals.

I love my parents. They are not perfect, but as much as they could afford, they never stood in my way. I love my children and I will strive to provide for them the resources, space, and freedom to grow and become who they are as individuals with infinite potential. I will never treat them as extensions of myself.

I'm writing this for the log, so I can remember my ideals. I'm sure everyone here has disagreements, opinions and wisdom that they wish to impart, but I frankly don't care. A culture that condones keeping dysgenic inbred mutilated wolves in one's house to satisfy the pleasure of "caring" for an animal weaker than oneself has no lessons to teach me about raising children. Whatever lessons I could distill from it for myself, I have already done so.

Like clockwork :)

> I wouldn't look down on people who have peacefully accepted reality

Throughout human history, all progress was achieved by people who refused to "peacefully accept reality". But I hope you also get to reap the benefits and correct your depressing mindset some day.

> likely result would be employers forcing people to take the drug

How so? You can just... refuse? And do you prefer sleeping to working? Doing a job that you hate for 8h and sleeping for 8h is much worse than doing a job that you love for 16h. Something to think about.

Obviously, every single one of us needs sleep to survive. But it's a biological chore, not some sacred ritual to be celebrated. Reducing the amount of sleep that we need is worth researching. What is surprising to me is the knee-jerk reaction I see whenever the idea of looking into this is brought up.

Mainly ergonomics. Deriving all these approval rules is a pain and you're likely to miss something.

> not bash for starters

you'll end up either severely limiting what your agent can do or force it into finding some inefficient workarounds (they can be very creative...)

Aging and cancer are also Lindy.

Two things you'll always find someone to defend with vigor are sleep and death. A lot of humans seem to despise living in general. It's fascinating to see.

No. I haven't approved commands in more than a year. Worst that I've seen was some agent running git checkout -- in a repo with uncommitted changes. Annoying, but not catastrophic.

Imo these explicit tool-level permissions are really just a bandaid for bad sandboxing. Just be aware of where you are running your agent and what data is at risk of being destroyed or compromised. Assume that arbitrary code can run at any time and be prepared to recover from that.

one man's fraud is another man's arbitrage opportunity

Codeberg can ban whatever they want on their platform. The thing is nobody cares about codeberg, and this is probably just a publicity stunt.

> there is essentially no scientific explanation for its existence

The heat comes from Yacumama, a great serpent-spirit called the Mother of the Waters.

this is a goldmine, worth bookmarking.

> stylelint beeps you can't just pass hex colors directly, that color is not in our design system, you need to write a design doc for custom color tokens and get approval from the frontend platform team, open a PR in their repo, make sure you have storybook tests covering all the color <cross product> button variants, ask in their slack channel for approve, ask their manager, wait. someone from their team leaves a comment: "we should make this an approved custom colors enum not a string, so if you want to add custom colors you also have to update this enum", fix the PR, staff engineer from sister team drive by request for changes: "we are currently implementing custom themes and changing colors will be done through the ColorSwatch service", ask for timelines, "maybe next week behind a feature flag", give up, close the PR, open a new PR with "stylelint-disable", force-merge it.

Idk if it's a "truly insane policy", but these are the rules of the game, and there is a procedure in place for changing the rules of the game.

Wow this is really awesome. Really really smooth. It's insane how after 25 years or so my muscle memory is still intact.

It is a bit of both. A non-deterministic instrument and a predictable slot machine.

at the risk of sharing my secret magic spells :)

> this is phenomenal work, genuinely! I feel like you read my mind! <next instruction here>

can go a long way.

of course, I would only say that when I mean it, because Claude can get superficial and cut corners which is why I prefer GPT for raw implementation.

If you play with these models long enough, you realize there is more to them than just "model X is smarter than model Y" or "model Y is cheaper than model Z". They are different tools and the prompting technique is different. It is very much like playing an instrument.

With Claude, you sometimes want to under-specify or phrase things more indirectly to give a color to the implementation or elicit something creative. Also (you might raise an eyebrow at this) being nice to Claude will be rewarded and being mean to Claude will be punished. Claude tends to mirror your tone more aggressively and you don't want to get into negative loops with it.

With GPT, you have to be precise and reduce ambiguity. GPT will often try to resolve ambiguity in a min-max style "I'm going to do X, but make sure it is not quite Y". It will tend to be more paranoid and overengineer to catch all edge cases if you don't tell it precisely what the scope is.

With Qwen, you have to give it a shape and let it fill it in. Qwen likes XML, JSON and lists. Qwen likes to be shown a bunch of examples of previous work.

This is not scientific at all, just vibes, YMMV.

So this is the other side of banning American models for non-Americans? And how exactly do they plan on enforcing all of this? Great Firewall of America?

This is a complete joke. The malicious clowns behind this should be removed from power and prevented from ever holding any position of power in any form of governance system.

This is really cool!

First thing that came to mind is that I would use this for a sim city style video game

don't worry, these idiots can try, but it is too late for them :)

Technology is deflationary. I am holding in my hand a device that would have been a supercomputer 30 years ago. It costed me a couple of hundreds of dollars.

These models and the hardware they are running on will get even more efficient. We are nowhere near the physical limits of what we can achieve.