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jayd16··on Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?
If the test fixture ends up in the context that will push it in a certain direction.

There's no concept of 'cheating' because it is without morality. It's a lawnmower rolling down a hill.

We back-justify what it "chose" or "decided" or "learned" because we're looking backwards from the end result we, the human evaluators, stopped on.

jayd16··on StarCraft returns in 2030 as an open-world shooter
Financially incorrect, it seems.
jayd16··on We must pace the frontier
Well actually the planet happened to have a vast reserve of petroleum they could use for fuel to escape the gravity well. That helped a lot.

But what's your point? "Anything is possible" or something like that?

jayd16··on We must pace the frontier
Billions of years of evolution hasn't hit on it. Seems pretty unlikely.
jayd16··on A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await
Async/await syntax doesn't guarantee what kind mechanism is servicing the async work. Consider a situation where you have limited threads (perhaps even only one servicing both sync and async calls).

Blocking that thread to wait for an async call would prevent the async call from completing and would be a deadlock.

As noted, you can run sync code from an async context. Even if you have a thread pool, blocking in sync has a chance to block and consume an async worker thread. That can also cause deadlocks.

They don't make it easy to wait synchronously because it's a bad idea. Making the syntax more amicable to blocking is a worse idea.

jayd16··on Will there be a 7G?
Something I've noticed is that a phone is actually usable at a stadium or concert when 3g or 4g felt essentially useless at that density.
jayd16··on Inverse Kinematics and Foot Locking
Auto tagging the foot contact points is kinda fun. I usually just see it hand marked in the source anim.
jayd16··on LRU is harder to beat than the KV-cache papers suggest
It makes them yes-men.
jayd16··on Nvidia is the central bank of AI
I kind of feel like this topples the house of cards a bit. What else is all the visual genAI tech for besides consumer entertainment?
jayd16··on Nvidia is the central bank of AI
It will be interesting times but I don't think anyone will enjoy a plateau because it's expensive. Even replacing existing hardware is expensive now. Hardly enjoyabe.
jayd16··on Show HN: Graphify C# – Compiler-accurate Find Usages for coding agents
JetBrains provides an MCP server such that agents can query the project index for things like find usages. What's different about this?
jayd16··on JEP 544: Ahead-of-Time Code Compilation
The .NET implementation also has a similar AOTCache with ReadyToRun. That's a public and old enough to have pros and cons shake out in the real world that would be worth talking about.

I'm not sure the pissing contest is really relevant, nor do I think Excelsior JET is all that common but if that is a similar system and you would like to talk about the real world impact please expand on it.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/read...

jayd16··on The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less collaborative
To be generous, it seems like the most natural way to phrase what happened. The non-developer punched in "should this be a database instead?" and it will say "You are right to question it! I was sloppy when .. blah blah blah blah blah"

I doubt the human went into a whole diatribe with the CLI about how the developer on the project with this many years was saying this or that but she wanted Claude to second guess them.

It's just saying "ah yeah, that went through without issue."

jayd16··on iPhone Duo
Do you understand why the iPad is used? This is both in one.
jayd16··on Rivian's gambit for full autonomy
They're talking about verification. Was there a collision or not compared to is this story good.
jayd16··on GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter
Probably just luck seeing at the wheel intersects the frame and the penguin's legs are caught in the chain.
jayd16··on .gitignore Everything by Default
The repo should define rules for the repo, no? You have to hope other contributors have a similar local gitignore?
jayd16··on Git Submodules as a Package Manager
It's the only way to do certain things but the devx is burdensome. It might be easy enough to do a thing but the major issue is that you have to constantly fight wonky behavior when working in a team.

If someone adds a new submodule, you need to know to pull it or at least init it. You need to know the code is in a submodule and treat it differently, complicating integration procedures.

It certainly does not behave the same in that you certainly can't ignore whether it exists once it's set up.

jayd16··on "Next-token predictor" is the wrong mental model for LLMs
It can be pretty helpful to think of human function in chemical terms. Its at least unhelpful to deny it.
jayd16··on “Next-token predictor” is the wrong mental model for LLMs
> _determining_ the next token based on a prediction

Also known as predicting.

jayd16··on Saab has unveiled its A3 collaborative combat aircraft concept
The trick is to destabilize their democracies first.
jayd16··on Saab has unveiled its A3 collaborative combat aircraft concept
So is the US not democratic enough, not rich enough or not free market enough?
jayd16··on Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio
For a company like Sony, you would say they failed to meet demand.

Under Apple's reality distortion you instead must say that they were surprised by the demand.

jayd16··on C++26: Standard Library Hardening Experiments
How do you handle I/O type exceptions with contracts?
jayd16··on Hollywood's Video Game Era Is Here. Will It Be Any Good?
Those are not "Hollywood movies" but Detective Pikachu might count.
jayd16··on Hollywood's Video Game Era Is Here. Will It Be Any Good?
> For every one good movie or show you get ten bad ones.

Executive: So what you're telling me is I only need to make 11 movies to per hit.

jayd16··on Humanity has the debate about AI consciousness backwards
Reminds me of the Rick and Morty pilot.

"They're just robots, Morty!"

*Blood splurt

"They're not robots, Rick!"

"I mean they're bureaucrats, Morty. I don't respect them."

jayd16··on Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded
Just get a laptop?
jayd16··on 'The Nerd Reich' tracks the 'unmasking of Silicon Valley's true politics'
Lip service is certainly there but it's not like we have unions or really anything that isn't just marketing.
jayd16··on Stop Making TUIs
Again, we have the technology but it's not how things are done, usually.

What do you run like that day to day?

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