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northern-lights··on An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot
Networking companies (like Cisco, HPE etc.) do this all the time with their test beds deliberately disconnected from internet. It's not hard.
northern-lights··on How I use LLMs to learn complex topics
Unfortunately, I don;t think that can ever be fixed. For an LLM to know that it is not hallucinating about something, it must know that that statement(s) is/are true. Which it cannot infer due to Godel's Incompleteness theorems.
northern-lights··on How I use LLMs to learn complex topics
I had the same problem - Opus models past 4.7 tend to inflate output tokens for no good reasons, introduce innumerable jargons and is a pain to read. Then, I cam across this: https://github.com/ayghri/i-have-adhd/blob/main/skills/i-hav...

You can either install that skill or put the Rules section directly in your Global CLAUDE.md for Claude or Personalization setting for Codex and it should cut down the output verbosity by quite a fair bit.

northern-lights··on Claude Opus 4.8
> Not only that, but we plan to release a new class of model with even higher intelligence than Opus. As part of Project Glasswing, a small number of organizations are currently using Claude Mythos Preview for cybersecurity work. Models of this capability level require stronger cyber safeguards before they can be generally released. We’re making swift progress on developing these safeguards and expect to be able to bring Mythos-class models to all our customers in the coming weeks.

Probably more interesting than the 4.8 release.

northern-lights··on Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses
Because with Max subscriptions, you have to use the Claude Agent SDK, which is basically running Claude Code underneath. You don't get to use the chat/Messages APIs with personal subscriptions, for that you need the API pricing.
northern-lights··on United Wizards of the Coast
How many?
northern-lights··on United Wizards of the Coast
Then, I suggest that you educate yourself on how unions function and what they do. It's not my job to educate you. You can also ChatGPT this by the way.
northern-lights··on United Wizards of the Coast
It does not limit hiring in any way.

As for what solutions union provide - I have already explained. They exist to protect workers' interests. They do not exist to solve company's problems. That is the job of the company.

northern-lights··on United Wizards of the Coast
The point of a union is not prevent layoffs and role reduction in force. It is to make sure that the company has done its absolute best to find another solution to the problem (that they're trying to solve with layoffs) and ensures that the company is accountable for all their decisions.
northern-lights··on United Wizards of the Coast
A union's objective is to protect and safeguard the interest of its members. As long as it does that, it adds value, regardless of what anyone else (especially those not in the union) thinks whether it has value.
northern-lights··on United Wizards of the Coast
What has unionizing and society caring have got to do with each other?
northern-lights··on United Wizards of the Coast
This thread is filled with so many anti-union takes that you have to wonder if they are paid bots.

If you assume that most of the crowd that visits this website works in tech or tech-adjacent fields, how can you be against an entity whose main objective is to safeguard and work for your interests over your employers? Unfathomable that people are willing to do so much against their own best interests. Or...they are bots.

northern-lights··on Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic
Why do you think Google considers Anthropic a competitor?
northern-lights··on An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
Encryption can only ensure the confidentiality of a message from a non-trusted third party but when that non-trusted third party happens to be your own machine hosting Claude Code, then it is pointless. You can always dump the keys (from your memory) that were used to encrypt/decrypt the message and use it to reconstruct the model weights (from the dump of your memory).
northern-lights··on Oracle slashes 30k jobs
as a counterpoint - Amazon is a Java shop and most of the companies that model themselves after Amazon are also Java shops.
northern-lights··on We Will Not Be Divided
to better understand what this may result in, see Person of Interest Season 3 Episode 20 - Death Benefit: https://personofinterest.fandom.com/wiki/Death_Benefit
northern-lights··on Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS
It seems to be in Google's interest to keep Tailwind CSS afloat.

Tailwind CSS is alive -> New / existing projects keep using Tailwind CSS -> more code for Gemini to train upon -> better and fancier UIs being created through Gemini -> popularity and usage of Gemini doesn't go down

Of course this applies to any other LLM provider too but I guess Google saw this opportunity first.

northern-lights··on The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup
Because he is working on a product that is hot and has demand from the users for new features/bug fixes/whatnot and also gets visibility on getting such things delivered. Most of us don't work on products that have that on a daily basis.
northern-lights··on Gemini CLI GitHub Actions
I asked Gemini to create a chart from the tabular data I had, and nope, it can't do that.
northern-lights··on Running GPT-OSS-120B at 500 tokens per second on Nvidia GPUs
It fits on a 5070TI, so should fit on a 5080 as well.
northern-lights··on Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update
In my experience as well, Sonnet 4 is much better than Opus. Opus is great at the start of a project, where you would need to plan things, structure the project, figure out how to execute but it cannot beat Sonnet is actually executing it. It is also a lot cheaper.
northern-lights··on Hyatt Hotels are using algorithmic Rest “smoking detectors”
Seems like this is standard for every hotel in Vegas.
northern-lights··on A critical look at MCP
also called Vibe Designing.
northern-lights··on Breaking Up with On-Call
The author's Linkedin indeed lists working at AWS for 3 years.
northern-lights··on Breaking Up with On-Call
This assumes that the engineers who wrote the code that caused the 3 AM pages will still be around to suffer the consequences of the 3 AM pages. This is a lot of times, not true, especially in an environment which fostered moving around internally every now and then. Happens in at least one of the FAANGs.
northern-lights··on Gödel's theorem debunks the most important AI myth – Roger Penrose [video]
> If you and I had the same exact input and outputs then why would we have different experiences? Seems very unlikely to me.

On the contrary, I would say it's quite unlikely that two brains with the same input and outputs will ever have the same experiences in deriving the output from the input. But neither of us (nor anyone in the world) know how human brains work, so it is probably not useful debating about this.

northern-lights··on Gödel's theorem debunks the most important AI myth – Roger Penrose [video]
If it is running on a computer/Turing machine, then it is effectively a rule-based program. There might be multiple steps and layers of abstraction until you get to the rules/axioms, but they exist. The fact they are a statistical machine, intuitively proves this, because - statistical, it needs to apply the rules of statistics, and machine - it needs to apply the rules of a computing machine.
northern-lights··on Gödel's theorem debunks the most important AI myth – Roger Penrose [video]
> there is a function capable of transforming information into "thinked information", or what we usually call reasoning. We know that function exists, because we ourselves are an example of such function.

We mistakenly assume, they are true because perhaps we want them to be true. But we have no proof that either of these are true.

northern-lights··on Show HN: LLM plays Pokémon (open sourced)
For eg., Bug type attack is super effective against Poison type in Gen 1 but not very effective in Gen 2 and onnwards. But Claude keeps bringing Nidoran into Weedle/Caterpie.
northern-lights··on Claude Plays Pokémon
A model doesn't need to play on visual simulators, it can very well do that on IRC (like the good old days of RS/GSBots), to show how it fares against humans.

One of the biggest challenge this Claude version faces is to read the visual data accurately. It was stuck in the Viridian forest and Pokemarts for a while because the overworld objects like trees and paths kept confusing it.

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