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stbenjamon Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?

These guys are on twitter angry about the rate limit decrease and allegedly cancelled all their OpenAI accounts. Wonder how they'll maintain this.

I am quite convinced that the whole nerfing phenomenon is 90% AI psychosis. I have the word muted on X.

stbenjamon Amazon blocks Meta’s new Muse AI agent from shopping on amazon.com

Oh wow those fees are predatory

stbenjamon Amazon blocks Meta’s new Muse AI agent from shopping on amazon.com

It is a money grab from Amazon I'm sure. They want to make a deal with meta to get paid for access. Maybe also worried about liability I imagine on accidental unauthorized purchases?

stbenjamon UTF-8000: Unlimited UTF-8

> No special cases introduced. All properties preserved.

I don’t actually know if this is LLM-generated, but phrasing like this is weirdly triggering to me now

stbenjamon Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md

Everyone sharing the 513 ways you can already do this is entirely missing the point. Standards matter and there's very few things in the AI world everyone agrees on and this is one of them. .agents/skills is another and anthropic is still holding out there.

stbenjamon Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously

The example of the plant watering business is the hellscape future where humans have to deal with agents bugging them to sell them their services constantly. We're already seeing the first hints of this with iLands.

And the "hiring technicians" thing... great, humans on call for robots isn't the future I want.

stbenjamon Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher

https://github.com/stbenjam/skills/tree/main/plugins/hype

I have a plug-in to do this. I don't know if it's effective but Claude said it was genuinely helpful (obviously would say that about anything)

stbenjamon C*: Unifying Programming and Verification in C

By that logic, I think I'll create a new language called Pascal, or maybe Ada...

stbenjamon OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally

The risk here is wildly overstated, prompt injection risk is becoming vanishingly small with the latest frontier models.

I would not run an OpenClaw with full access to my bitwarden, but it certainly has some logins available to it, and can make purchases with link-cli which has human-in-the-loop.

stbenjamon I spent $266 and four AI models to own my tablet. GLM-5.3 finished it in a day

Ah sorry, for OpenAI it does seem automatic with ID verification. Anthropic's seems more picky.

stbenjamon I spent $266 and four AI models to own my tablet. GLM-5.3 finished it in a day

Apply, not sign up. It is not automatic and most will be refused.

stbenjamon Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale

$80 sounds extremely low for what you're describing - are you on API token plans?

I have had some $3,000 token days - even without Fable. I don't see how this is sustainable.

My personal 20x plans get so much usage for so cheap. The consumer subsidies are crazy, but alas I can't use them for work.

stbenjamon Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage

Pi is ok, but I dislike needing plugins to do anything useful. Subagents, MCP, /goal ... none of these things should be plugins.

stbenjamon Patreon laying off 20% of staff

My comment about legal reasons was legal reasons surrounding employee law suits from being laid off. At will employment in most US states allow you to state no reason, that's safer than offering any reason at all. A specific reason for a layoff can be litigated.

stbenjamon Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench

> I hope the big labs will start using this benchmark in their RL pipelines.

Labs do not train on benchmark data (allegedly). They can train on similar problems, but benchmarks have specific strings in them that labs are supposed to be aggressive in filtering out of their training corpora.

stbenjamon Patreon laying off 20% of staff

I assume it is legal reasons.

stbenjamon TFTP Honey Pot Results

I know tftp is still in wide use, I wonder if there's things out there looking for stuff that's less common like NNTP, finger servers, etc

stbenjamon How to read more books

Oh I didn't hear about this. That sucks. The stock firmware is terrible. CrossPoint makes it usable.

stbenjamon How to read more books

I adore my XTEink 4 with the crosspoint firmware. Best small form factor ereader

stbenjamon Grok 4.5

Elon's rhetoric doesn't really match the model's behavior. It is willing to criticize Elon and argues against many of the insane right way points he tries to make.

stbenjamon Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected

The gulf is bridgeable. The problem is that a lot of people are building agents without strong enough judgment layers around them. Work that can be verified with reasonable accuracy are the sweet spot right now.

stbenjamon HPV vaccine cuts risk of dying from cervical cancer before 30

No need to be defensive. If you ask an epidemiologist, they would almost certainly agree that it is essentially a marker of sexual activity at this point. It is transmissible even with condoms, it has many strains, it is widely prevalent, and the WHO states that basically everyone is sexual active will get one strain. Guardrail prevents against 9 - the ones we were able to create vaccines for and we know have negative effects.

There's also not really great tests for it, so you do not know if you have it or not.

stbenjamon We all depend on open source. We will defend it together

I guess you'd rather downvote than answer the question.

stbenjamon GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks

Chinese models are almost certainly cheating on benchmarks, I would bet if you saw the training data that the benchmark canaries are in there.

GLM may be a good model in general but it s benchmaxxed and definitely not as good as Opus 4.8.

stbenjamon We all depend on open source. We will defend it together

You realize that the companies listed employ many of the core open source maintainers for large projects? It is project-specific, but 80% of Linux kernel development is from paid corporate employees. Similar for kubernetes. All the load bearing infrastructure is already handled by these companies... literally no one else is going to have the resources or experience to redirect large efforts on securing F/OSS.

What would you propose otherwise?

stbenjamon HPV vaccine cuts risk of dying from cervical cancer before 30

For some reason not really talked about in mainstream medicine for straight men. It makes no sense. Very safe vaccine and you're eligible into your 40's to get it. Everyone sexually active probably has some strains but not all.

stbenjamon Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore

I hear a lot of complaints about bun but nothing concrete about what broke in the migration.

You are also assuming one prompt, and then arguing against your assumptions with zero evidence. It is lazy arm chair criticism.

stbenjamon Hide Secrets from AI Agents and NPM install using Airgap

How can an agent use these tokens then? If it sources the file can't it just read the env?

It also sounds like it is missing the important step of keeping the LLM credentials from the agents themselves. For example my GCP creds have access to far more than Vertex. This is solved by OneCLI and OpenShell via MITM proxies which seems more elegant to me. The tools live in containers and can't see anything but can use everything.

It also allows finer grained access controls, rating limiting, and there's talk of scanning for destructive actions.

stbenjamon Zero-Touch OAuth for MCP

There's a new standard in progress for skills over MCP

https://modelcontextprotocol.io/community/working-groups/ski...

stbenjamon Making espresso with ultrasound

I like my Nespresso thank you very much.