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goldenarmon My last six months at Evernote

Google shutting down it's public cache made it even worse.

goldenarmon We must pace the frontier

"I believe that AI could [...] usher in a renaissance of democracy and freedom"

How exactly? So far AI has accelerated misinformation at scale and wealth concentration.

goldenarmon OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems

Between this and Huggingface, when will any victim sue OpenAI for this ?

goldenarmon Quoting Terence Tao: «incentives... of no longer sharing promising research»

Original Source : https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117237320796901560

goldenarmon Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]

I recommend Terrence Tao's commentary on such a proof : https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117219101339291693

Key quote : "Solving the problem by purely AI-powered methods [would be a] net negative for the progress of mathematics."

goldenarmon Finite time blowup for an averaged three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equation (2014)

Key quote : "Solving the problem by purely AI-powered methods [would be a] net negative for the progress of mathematics."

goldenarmon Finite time blowup for an averaged three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equation (2014)

@dang please can we add a [2014] to the title ?

goldenarmon The moral panic over data centres is foolish

Thank you, your comment was more informative than the economist article

goldenarmon The moral panic over data centres is foolish

The article dismisses everything without sourcing anything.

US electricity is 40% more expensive since 2022 https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU000072610

Some AI datacenters can indeed be heard a mile away https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/28/datacenters-...

Amazon's new Texas AI data center could become the biggest CO2 polluter in the US https://www.techradar.com/pro/amazons-new-texas-ai-data-cent...

goldenarmon The moral panic over data centres is foolish

https://archive.is/gPfih

goldenarmon Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

The only benchmark I don't want to be saturated : https://felonybench.com/

goldenarmon The Post-AI Internet Doesn't Look Great

I love Gemini but god their SEO is awful, it's very difficult to look for anything related to it. They should consider a new name

goldenarmon AI Agents and the Refactoring That Never Happens

Reminds me of the "entreprise grade fizzbuzz"

https://github.com/enterprisequalitycoding/fizzbuzzenterpris...

goldenarmon The Post-AI Internet Doesn't Look Great

You're describing the 2010s era of algorithmic social media, I think OP is referring to the earlier internet

goldenarmon Creepy Crawlies

Many are on old laptops, which suffer the same way

goldenarmon METR and Redwood Offer Holy %^ Postmortem of the HuggingFace Hack

Astra is >10TB and might struggle to self replicate, but the wicked-smart qwen3.8 27B is 20GB and could easily spread on botnets

goldenarmon The growing divide between AI hype and software engineering reality

I'm confused by the situation. I'm the last manual coder of my company, and am shipping projects faster than my colleagues who are spending fortunes in tokens.

I was intrigued by the hype and gave a chance this week to codex+sol 5.6 and cc+opus 5. They cheated, lied, disobeyed, and shipped subtle bugs so often, it wasted more time that if I did it myself.

Is half of the industry under AI psychosis right now ? Will models get better ?

goldenarmon Silicon Valley is in denial in face of widespread backlash

My relatives and friends are fed up with enshittification and hostile tech, some are about to stop using tech entirely.

Big tech is too short-termist to realize it, but we are about to destroy a lot of economical value if we destroy the internet and the trust behind it.

goldenarmon DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813

Geometric mean of all these benchmarks :

* GPT-5.6 Sol: 65.5

* Fable 5 (w/ fallback): 64.5

* Opus 5: 64.0

* DS-V4-Pro 0813: 62.5

* Kimi-K3: 62.3

* DS-V4-Flash 0731: 55.8

* GLM-5.2: 47.3

goldenarmon Claude Code is leaking real email address as a User-Agent string in curl command

I respect Anthropic for dogfooding and vibecoding their own products.

The unfortunate consequence is low quality engineering and a billion dollar product with 15k pending Github issues.

goldenarmon Microsoft raises Xbox prices by up to 43%

PS5 prices went up 35% in the past 2 years, and PC RAM went 5x. This is a global problem

goldenarmon How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)

They killed greader and RSS to push Google+, which was a brilliant decision.

goldenarmon 13 Models and 4 Agents on SWE Tasks: Go, Java, Python, Rust, TS

Why are models better than agents, isn't it supposed to be the opposite? I don't understand the difference and what you are measuring.

goldenarmon Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI

Turtles with law degrees don't exist, but LLMs that increase tech debt in code bases do. Maybe recent ones got better, and it's useful to quantify the progress being made.

goldenarmon Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI

It's not an invention it's a question. If the number is <20% that's great news for the Chrome team.

goldenarmon Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI

The single 13yo issue is anecdata.

They obviously have the full git blame statistics but chose not to include them in the blog post, which is a bit concerning.

goldenarmon Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI

Elephant in the room : how many of these bugs were written by LLMs in the first place ?

Because creating 100x more bugs and fixing 100x more isn't something to be proud of.

goldenarmon “We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”

I have information that Anthropic distilled the internet for Fable

goldenarmon Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber

LLM reception is truly extreme, even worse than AAA game releases.

Ever frontier lab lived it at least once : missing the frontier by a few months triggers extremly negative reactions, then you take back the lead for 2 weeks, and the hype cycle repeats.

goldenarmon The creepiest 'sales demo' of all time

They complied by building a blocking system, instead of just disabling cookies with a flag, which would have taken exactly the same effort.