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prodigycorp··on I said no and Apple said yes
There were issues of dust/crumbs getting between the physically moving parts. I don’t notice the difference anymore.
prodigycorp··on I said no and Apple said yes
Very interesting point, and substantiated by the fact that every windows laptop user I see in the wild carried a mouse around with them. They do not care about this issue much, clearly.
prodigycorp··on OpenAI is well positioned to fast-follow Jev
This article is extraordinarily hard to read. It’s tummelvisioned on OpenAI and things like tool calling which are only relevant to the extent that llms have been tuned to make relative choices, but this applies to all LLMs. Also, some really outdated references. LLM written, perhaps?

Also, moat discussion is the lowest form of discussion. I don’t care if jev has a moat. Did it get the interface right? What other past ideas have we overlooked that if given some love, could kick the door down like jev did?

Really silly stuff.. people wanting to talk about moats when there’s no castle. Moat talk merely projects the illusion of being engaged but, much more often than not, it’s hollow engagement.

prodigycorp··on OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005
Disagree. We are at the point where coming up with good evals for these models is extremely difficult. Solving unsolved math problems is a valid way of evaluating model progress and somewhat necessary to understand how far the current crop of models can go.
prodigycorp··on I said no and Apple said yes
I’m a Mac dude through and through but its shortcuts don’t hold a candle to windows alt shortcuts. In windows, alt shortcuts are progressively revealed to the user and the entire UI is operable without having to memorize a series of hand cramping shortcuts.
prodigycorp··on I said no and Apple said yes
One thing Windows did right is keyboard based navigation. Most of the general public does not know or appreciate how close to productivity nirvana the alt key brings you.
prodigycorp··on MiMo v2.6
From a pure training perspective, yeah they could try to align it with CCP values. But the promise of AI is that it'll unlock an explosion of growth and prosperity. What happens when the CCP no longer becomes seen as the the primary enabler of growth? What happens when people are exposed to greater levels of agency? CCP played with fire in the COVID lockdowns and almost got burnt.

Like Terry Tao recently said, there are nonlinear effects at play. Things are going to get chaotic and I do not have confidence (like the parent comment) of anyone "winning".

prodigycorp··on I said no and Apple said yes
We're 30+ years into trackpads on laptops and they're still terrible on Windows machines. Make it make sense.
prodigycorp··on Claude Status – Elevated errors for multiple models
Whoa, no kidding. Takes me back to the MHz wars we had at school and like you said, the card wars. Excellent perspective.
prodigycorp··on Elevated errors for multiple models – Resolved
Opus 5.5 and fable 5.2 will release tonight.

gpt-6-sol and Aeon (personal agent) on Thursday. Already preceded by a huge week with step, mimo, grok, and jev releases.

Relentless cycle.

prodigycorp··on Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August
They’ve been secret serving it. Try ask if they know who tibo the reset guy is. If they know the answer it’s the new version.
prodigycorp··on MiMo v2.6
The sole reason the Chinese cannot “win” is because ceding more power to agentic AI will eventually reduce the primacy of the CCP’s ideological control.

As these models get smarter they will no longer distribute it openly. Patel reporting this too.

There are real headwinds that I don’t think people have thought through.

prodigycorp··on Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August
New release of fable and opus 5.5 is pending and Anthropic is reallocating resources. Degradation always happens in transition, it sucks.

Opus 5.5 is being served under opus 5 right now.

prodigycorp··on Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5
I missed that. Typesafe, why is this hidden in your docs?!
prodigycorp··on Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5
I was enthusiastic about the release of jev much more than I was openclaw because new generative primitive are fun to play around with. But this may be the fastest I’ve ever gotten to being sick and tired of the discussion cycle around it.
prodigycorp··on Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5
Best just to use a skill.

Here is typesafe’s skills.md https://docs.typesafe.ai/agent-skill (which I don’t think is well written, but it’s a start).

Also read their docs, I think they’re interesting.

prodigycorp··on Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5
Yeah but they reserve the right to retain the data virtually indefinitely.

These aren’t acceptable terms on a personal or corporate level. I’ve seen some fools brag about proxying their life through jev. Messages, emails, LLM calls, files.

prodigycorp··on Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5
Man, I'm already burnt out on all this jev talk.

The one thing jev has going for it is a dedicated company focused entirely on making the product good and keeping it maintained. I haven't been willing to jump on board with all these jev-shaped projects because their releases feel driven mostly by opportunism. I'm fine waiting a bit for the opportunists to shake out so we can see who is genuinely committed to bringing something valuable to the open-weight community.

Jev is much better than the traditional ML crowd gives it credit for, but my enthusiasm hits a wall when it comes to their data policy. It is completely draconian. Whatever you feed into the system, they retain.

The jev team needs to release a ZDR product, or their platform is dead on arrival. An open, jev-shaped model will win out solely on that basis.

prodigycorp··on Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5
Then why doesn’t jev identify as Claude?
prodigycorp··on Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5
People seem to turn their brain off when it comes to this type of cargo culting. This doesn’t mean much. Qwen often identifies itself as Claude. Does that make it Claude?
prodigycorp··on Dropbox's Jan 1st 2027 terms of service
Issue is I accidentally used cmd+delete which deletes items immediately. And I’m so used to how Dropbox does it that it wasn’t my assumption.

Accidentally lost a bunch of data that way, figured I’d spread the word.

prodigycorp··on Can you tell which images are AI-generated?
Please give us a fraction or percent of how many we got correct.
prodigycorp··on Dropbox's Jan 1st 2027 terms of service
iCloud Drive does not allow you to recover files if you put them into the trash and empty it by accident. I learned this the hardest of ways.
prodigycorp··on I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago
I can't believe you say in another post that you have experience with bert and yet you don't understand the value of a generalist classifier.

Good models take time and effort. There wasn't a good option for satisficers until a few days ago.

prodigycorp··on I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago
Yeah, the reason why I am annoyed by it is because a person (who felt like a burner account of the laya creator) yesterday was haranguing me for saying that projects like this were vibe coded, posting the link to this project.

I evaluated this project yesterday and found its claims un-credible. It's literally nothing like jev. That's some context behind why, a day later, I find it annoying that this is somehow the top story on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49752902

prodigycorp··on I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago
Excuse me, but calibrating language models to accurately reflect probabilities did not start with you.
prodigycorp··on OpenJev
https://github.com/NandhaKishorM/laya/commits/main/
prodigycorp··on I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago
And how is laya previous art? The project was vibecoded and posted yesterday.

https://github.com/NandhaKishorM/laya/commits/main/

https://huggingface.co/convaiinnovations/laya/commits/main

prodigycorp··on I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago
It's an embarrassing showing for our community, seems like nobody has read anything. None of the claims of the blog post add up.
prodigycorp··on Replacing Pull Requests with Delta
Ah, yeah, I get this issue too but I've been so conditioned to close and reopen files that I've stopped thinking it was an issue. Appreciate the link.
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