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mgraczyk

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Me: https://mgraczyk.com

My github: https://github.com/mgraczyk

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mgraczyk··on GPT-6 Astra
this is needlessly pedantic

first, they are certainly not instructions so that is a much worse name

but more importantly, we use words in new contexts all the time. Do you object to calling the computer device "mouse" because it's not a mouse? how about "neural network"? "ignition" on an electric vehicle?

"cot" is no more misleading than thousands of words you use every day.

mgraczyk··on How AI text watermarking works
no, this is false. watermarking will not enforce anything like this
mgraczyk··on Does creatine make you smarter?
5g/day
mgraczyk··on Does creatine make you smarter?
I also started sleeping measurably better when I started taking creatine, but the broader evidence strongly suggests this was some kind of coincidence
mgraczyk··on Claude Code is steganographically marking requests
"got caught"

to clarify, this behavior was announced with the model release

mgraczyk··on Confidential submission of draft S-1 to the SEC
The numbers are public now, this is obviously false
mgraczyk··on Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute
For your math to make sense, Google would have to sell its stake this year

There may be more to it than buying compute but what you're saying does not make sense for Google. More likely Google wants a good relationship with SpaceX and possibly to buoy the stock, but it's a bad NPV trade

mgraczyk··on Claude Opus 4.8
dangerous thing to believe IMO The models will get better, you will notice, everyone will notice. They will get better at coding and everything else. You should plan around that.
mgraczyk··on Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS
CSS is badly designed and uses a confusing, separate DSL with arbitrary rules designed before the Internet was widely used, before web apps existed, before smartphones etc

It's trash and throwing it out is good. Not learning it is good. Tailwind is a solution to a real problem.

More importantly, AI is good at it already and it's unlikely humans will need to understand HTML/CSS at all within a year or two. There's no reason to spend time learning how the gears work, just put the cover back on

mgraczyk··on The sigmoids won't save you
Don't bet on the sigmoid flattening out any time soon. I don't know when it will flatten, but it definitely won't be within the next 2 years
mgraczyk··on Claude Opus 4.7 costs 20–30% more per session
This will probably happen but I wouldn't plan on it happening soon
mgraczyk··on Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent
What are you talking about, in what way is this supposed to be an argument about ads? It sounds like your dryer broke
mgraczyk··on Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent
It's not a good reason to be skeptical about cars as a technology (and by analogy brain computer interfaces)
mgraczyk··on Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent
I've never seen an ad delivered through any of these things. On smartphones I mean the phone/OS itself

It would be very easy to deliver ads via electricity. The utility could require you watch an ad before using more

mgraczyk··on Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent
I didn't list fridges because I've seen ads there, but these seem to have gone away in newer models (people don't like ads)
mgraczyk··on Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent
Except this hasn't happened with electricity, cars, washing machines, smartphones, smart watches, Bluetooth headphones, ...

Not all technology is bad

mgraczyk··on Delve removed from Y Combinator
I don't understand in what sense they faked the process. What I've heard described is substantially similar to other SOC2 processes I've seen

And yes SOC2 is fake. Have you ever heard of a startup failing to get soc2 or doing more than a few hours of work to get into compliance?

mgraczyk··on Delve removed from Y Combinator
What evidence did you collect that was not automated?
mgraczyk··on Delve removed from Y Combinator
I haven't seen that and all the reports I got were under nda
mgraczyk··on Delve removed from Y Combinator
Having gone through the SOC2 process multiple times and having worked with and read SOC2 reports from many public companies, it's difficult for me to understand the outrage.

The specific fraud allegations are bad (lying about US based auditors) but it's completely normal and common for soc2 reports to be templates with no company specific information. It would be unusual for reports to include anything about the specific information found during an observation window as some have suggested.

SOC2 is basically fake and it isn't possible in practice to fail to be compliant. You really can apply the same template to all companies and automate the audit process.

mgraczyk··on Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years
No the title is correct and you are misreading or didn't read. It was found with Claude code, that's the quote. This isn't a model eval, it's an Anthropic employee talking about Claude code. So comparing to other models isn't a thing to reasonably expect.
mgraczyk··on Brute-forcing my algorithmic ignorance
How many people have you interviewed and hired? I have interviewed around 400 and hired around 20, and I've seen data compiled on over 100,000 interviews. I have never worried about a false negative, except DEI stuff pre-2021

Maybe this is a Europe vs US thing?

mgraczyk··on Brute-forcing my algorithmic ignorance
> I am just not a fan of these types of interviews they tell absolutely nothing about the candidate.

Unfortunately this is wrong and I have seen tons of data at 5 companies showing this. These kinds of interviews really do correlate well with job performance

There is noise, but large companies in particular need a scalable process and this one works pretty well

Startups shouldn't do this though, but the reason is the opposite of what you're complaining about. It's too easy to accidentally waste your time on somebody who is good at leetcode

mgraczyk··on Brute-forcing my algorithmic ignorance
Still plenty of signal. You'd be surprised at how badly most people do at very simple questions.
mgraczyk··on We might all be AI engineers now
Sure let's do it. I am pretty confident mine will be more maintainable, because I am an extremely good software engineer, AI is a powerful tool, and I use AI very effectively

I would literally claim that with AI I can work faster and produce higher quality output than any other software engineer who is not using AI. Soon that will be true for all software engineers using AI.

mgraczyk··on We might all be AI engineers now
Somehow we went from writing software apps and reading API docs to research level astrophysics

Sure it's not there yet. Give it a few months

mgraczyk··on We might all be AI engineers now
How about we do the following.

I have not done win32 programming in 12 years. Maybe you've done it more recently. I'll use an LLM and you look up things manually. We can see, who can build a win32 admin UI that shows a realtime view of every open file by process with sorting, filtering and search on both the files and process/command names.

I estimate this will take me 5 minutes Would you like to race?

mgraczyk··on We might all be AI engineers now
Yes you have to be careful, but the LLM will read and process core and documentation literally millions of times faster than you, so it's worth it
mgraczyk··on We might all be AI engineers now
Because it will take you years to read all the information you can get funneled through an LLM in a day
mgraczyk··on Anthropic, please make a new Slack
I don't pay for slack any more, I just picked the price of their enterprise plan. Large users probably get big discounts but it doesn't matter, the cutoff where this makes sense financially is probably around 4000 employees even at $10/seat
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