Astra is amazing.

My team supports 4x the infrastucture with 50% of the people with agents following human workflows.

They could literally clear all of the remaining Millennium problems and people would still be coping. This will happen.

Self reinforcement learning works, and it hasn't been about LLMs in a long time.

Hang on. Learn to hang drywall.

Cheers

The left puts forth candidates running on a "Execute all white people" stance and still can't figure out why 70% of the country matching that demographic votes against them.

Huh. I'm a *gasp* straight white male myself and I haven't heard anything like that coming from any Democratic candidates put forth. Asking someone to defend their actual stances is fair, but asking them to argue against the lies you bought into or just made up in your head is a bit much.

Speaking of not caring about law and order, how many times has Trump gone against the Constitution exactly? Maybe try taking an interest in reality sometime. Trying to solve problems in imaginary worlds tends to cause problems in the real one.

Odd though that Trump can do nothing but appeal to his fringe base (one that is actually, objectively fringe) and yet still get away with it. The real challenge is for the Democratic Party to convince people to take the same scrutinizing standards they use to judge them and apply it equally to the Republicans.

This. I've come to the conclusion that it is immoral to respect someone who argues in bad faith.

When was the last time fascism or racism was categorized as un-American? That's what I'd like to see.

The cope has been nauseating.

It works. Everyone onboard now?

Now it's about how it scales and how we optimize use and lower release cycle time.

Everyone agonizing over token costs doesn't understand the exponential cost decay.. and how are you going to compete with hyperscalers who have essentially unlimited, near-free tokens.

Buckle up.

OED says anticlockwise is used 0.09 times per million words. Counterclockwise is used 1 time per million words.

Yes, that will happen when most of the people in the world who speak English aren't actually English. Your single example of the researchers writing in UK English withstanding.

Any time I've read or heard the phrase spoken by Brits they prefer anticlockwise to counterclockwise. One example that quickly springs to mind is the British Global Cycling Network. I thought this was common knowledge.

And therein lies the problem. People who just want a simple, sane political system feel (correctly) that it's not something they should have to put in a lot of effort to get or maintain. But the horrifying extremists have all the energy in the world to get their nonsense through, and won't expend any energy at all to just step back a bit and consider that their policies might be hurting themselves as well.

But yes, at the bare minimum people should put in the effort to vote and not nope out after buying into the nonsense that politicians are all the same.

Spicy autocomplete indeed.

Chuckle.

AI is real. The implications of this are not priced in.

It's the difference between a communist state where the government is forcing their people to head in the correct direction on this and a democracy where the people are choosing the wrong one time and time again.

I'm all for democracy. That's why I'm hoping its citizens will improve enough for it to survive.

We have codex 5.4 performing all IC2-3 tasks now with a higher success rate.

Laughing is about to stop.

Have a plan.

Indeed. And yet Stephen Miller is still gonna have a tremendous fit. Probably more so.

OK. But I'm pretty sure that generation could have gone to the moon 11 years after without the spousal abuse as well.

I've used Sonnet 4.5 most days for almost everything recently. However, last week it got stuck on a problem. So I took a screenshot of the issue (was a math error that led to a visualization issue) and gave it to Opus 4.6 with 2 sentences of prompt. 28 minutes later O4.6 reasoned itself to the correct root cause and fix. Game changing moment for me. It figured out the issue from a screenshot. But i also gave O4.6 another problem and it chewed on it in circles for half an hour and hit me for 16x usage requests even though i only asked it one question. I put the same question back to S4.5 and it figured it out quickly.

Go read some history, you'll find these same articles.

I just completely automated most of our IC2 and IC3 network engineering processes with GPT agents.

Not redid; the AI executes the same workflows and tools better, cheaper, and faster. Compressing months of work to two weeks.

It's real.