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felixgallo

2,056 karmajoined 13 lat temu
my personal e-mail address is the same as my hn username, but at gmail.

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felixgallo
·5 godzin temu·discuss
Do you know who the CEO is?
felixgallo
·11 dni temu·discuss
'they' is doing a lot of work. This guy wasn't even there.
felixgallo
·11 dni temu·discuss
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felixgallo
·14 dni temu·discuss
you know what's even worse than slop? Zero-effort 'is this maybe slop can someone tell me' posting.
felixgallo
·16 dni temu·discuss
You don't have to 'hear' anything. If you watch the video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNbHlmZVmAw for example (0:55), you see that the tires are turned completely away from the murderer, who fires shots directly into her even though he is obviously not in danger of being seriously harmed.
felixgallo
·18 dni temu·discuss
You're going to have to show your work on that one. Western democracies are suffering not because they are failing, but because they have been chipped away at for decades by fanatical right wing billionaires intent on eliminating taxes and securing their place in a perpetual oligarchy.
felixgallo
·26 dni temu·discuss
Claude has been involved in the planning of a war crime, for sure. But 'Anthropic has had zero issue with it' is an unfounded assertion that you are making up.

Fielding a fully autonomous kill bot is absolutely a war crime under the IHL; specifically, there is no current universe under which a bot can reliably tell a combatant from a non-combatant, or a civilian target from a military target, or act in a proportional manner.
felixgallo
·26 dni temu·discuss
it's a pretty ridiculous stretch to attribute them thinking that OpenAI wasn't taking safety seriously enough (which is, among other things, a little bit evident from the fact that they no longer have a safety team at all) into asserting that they want to control the US government.
felixgallo
·26 dni temu·discuss
They literally do -- see above, where the red line they refused to cross involved fully autonomous kill bots (which would be a war crime), and for which they were branded a supply chain risk, thrown out of Pentagon contracts, and now enjoined from releasing their product.

You can not like that Claude was involved in the planning that led to the murder of a bunch of schoolgirls, but stop playing pretend.
felixgallo
·27 dni temu·discuss
Use nuance and judgement, friend. Anthropic notably pushed back on completely autonomous no-human-in-the-loop drone killings and mass surveillance of the US population, where others like OpenAI scrambled to agree. Anthropic isn't perfect but that doesn't make them equally bad.
felixgallo
·28 dni temu·discuss
the way things are going, I wouldn't be surprised if Anthropic was ordered to sell to Larry Ellison.
felixgallo
·28 dni temu·discuss
Fable will do this itself, by spawning Opus/Sonnet subagents to do easy work.
felixgallo
·28 dni temu·discuss
I have over 40 years of experience in distributed systems, ranging from fintech to games like Call of Duty, and I owned several key APIs in the Alexa pipeline for many years, so I'm pretty sure I'm not a more junior engineer or haven't been around the block. Good effort though!

Fable does make mistakes, but GPT and Opus were L4 SDEs, and Fable is a freshly promoted L5 SDE. It's not perfect and does need babysitting, especially where the literature is thin, but it's head and shoulders on top right now. That could change, who knows.

As far as driveby attacks on Claude Code The App go, you can say that, but you will also note that Claude Code is the AWS-like clear dominant favorite as a dev tool at the moment, with Codex and Gemini battling for scraps. In the same manner that Excel (which, internally, is total garbage from a code quality/cleanliness perspective) is the winner in spreadsheets, and Word (which, internally, is total garbage from a code quality/cleanliness perspective), and JavaScript (total garbage from a language design perspective), and Facebook (total garbage internally, etc.), and IPv4 (total, etc., etc.), Claude Code has focused on 'delivering amazing things people like' rather than 'making people who get access to the code delighted by the purity and cleanliness of the development process'.

It turns out that being 'delighted by the purity and cleanliness of the development process' rounds to essentially zero in terms of the entire product lifecycle. You could argue that poorly structured codebases are less extensible, and more bug prone, which could be expensive long term. Except, the economics of AI development are quite a bit different than what you are used to, and what our axioms of quality have been founded upon in the past.

Congratulations on writing your own much better coding harness, though! How many MAU do you have?
felixgallo
·28 dni temu·discuss
definitely not in my experience. I usually write distributed systems and back end code, and Fable is so much better at those than Codex that it's not even a comparison. Fable feels like it's a year ahead.
felixgallo
·29 dni temu·discuss
In my experience writing about 50 programs with fable, opus, and GPT, fable is a significant step change better than opus which is significantly better than GPT. We must be doing different things.
felixgallo
·30 dni temu·discuss
because they don't. That's the whole point.
felixgallo
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
You said these groups have access to LLMs. So what? Mythos/Fable are a step change above most LLMs. Responsibly limiting access and easing it up over time safely is the sane move.
felixgallo
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
I'm a cybersecurity researcher! Can you explain how Anthropic is just hamstringing the good guys?
felixgallo
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
This is a clickbait article with a garbage title. From the actual article, the one quoted cybersecurity researcher is sane about it:

“But it is understandable as we are still in the early days and they are still adapting their guardrails. I am sure they are going to evolve over time as Anthropic and other frontier model companies will collaborate more with the current new generation of cybersecurity companies,” said Suiche, who is a member of the technical staff at Tolmo, an AI cybersecurity startup. “It’s better to catch more people than not enough when you do such a release and to relax the guardrails over time.”
felixgallo
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
'their customers, in aggregate, want that' citation needed