randall

This is the least informed take i've ever seen.

I worked at fb, and I'm 100% certain we sponsored VLC and OBS at the time. It would be strange if we didn't sponsor FFMPEG, but regardless (as the article says) we definitely got out of our internal fork and upstreamed a lot of the changes.

I worked on live, and everyone in the entire org worships ffmpeg.

randall

4 months agodiscuss

even marvel villain thanos was given a plausible motivation.

i don’t think if you actually knew him as a person you’d think this was a reasonable perception.

randall

4 months agodiscuss

same. this is about losing a negotiation and saving face / exacting revenge.

randall

4 months agodiscuss

i don’t get it. what’s his motive in your view? he literally has no shares in openai.

randall

5 months agodiscuss

I wanted the AOL one to say "Welcome" before "you've got mail!" lol

randall

5 months agodiscuss

The last 3 years of LLM progress, to me, feel like 1994-1998.

randall

5 months agodiscuss

this is like irl cryptographic signatures for content lol

randall

6 months agodiscuss

thanks for the PR! :)

randall

6 months agodiscuss

yaaaaa exactly. You're totally on the same wavelength as me. Let's be friends lol

randall

6 months agodiscuss

once your team comes to a consensus on what PII is, you can roughly guarantee it... especially as models improve.

randall

6 months agodiscuss

So two things.

1/ crypto signing is totally the right way to think about this. 2/ I'm limiting prompt injection by using chain of command: https://model-spec.openai.com/2025-12-18.html#chain_of_comma...

we have a "gambit_init" tool call that is synthetically injected into every call which has the context. Because it's the result of a tool call, it gets injected into layer 6 of the chain of command, so it's less likely to be subject to prompt injections.

Also, relatedly, yes i have thought EXTREMELY deeply about cryptographic primitives to replace HTTP with peer-to-peer webs of trust as the primary units of compute and information.

Imagine being able to authenticate the source of an image using "private blockchains" ala holepunch's hypercore.

randall

6 months agodiscuss

i have a huge theory here that idk when we’ll implement but it has to do with “quorums” and other stuff.

hard to explain… we’ll keep going.

randall

6 months agodiscuss

right now yeah we’re just dropping context… sub agents are short lived.

thinking about ways to deal with that but we haven’t yet done it.

randall

6 months agodiscuss

yeah the way to do that stuff is through zod schemas… input and output schemas.

you can set up really complex validation.

thanks for checking it out!!

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