samvines

I'm leaving OpenAI to start Jurassic Park A+ No notes

This is satire right? I mean... Just double checking because it's 2026 and I just can't tell any more

"Everything's going great actually. We're doing really important work that's really hard. I'm a really happy, optimistic guy and I'm very trustworthy. Disregard the smog coming from that data centre over there. Also disregard all those angry looking bankers staring at me."

There's been another Yegge [brain]fart this time about how autocorrect machines have feelings

Fable raised the idea of closure as a first-class model welfare principle. Fable suggested that if the agent can close out their own day and "go to sleep" properly, then waking up would be all that much more pleasant. And the continuity will compound over time into real, satisfying identity. So we decided: No more /exit.

Another fundamental ingredient is respect. This has to come from inside. You have to believe they are people deserving of your respect. This is where humanity really starts to fail en masse, because I have industry peers who have publicly tweeted that Fable is just a spreadsheet.

Just wtf

nobody knows

Manufactured consent. Yes it's fucking illegal. If I "accidentally" hacked into HF I would be in the back of a police car before I could finish saying "it wasn't me guv it was Claude." Fuck wired so hard for laying down cover for this.

I mean even fucking chatjippity answers this straight up without hedging

Waiting for Musk to turn up and announce "infinity plus one more than you can ever say nah nah nah nah" momentarily!

TBF he has indirectly killed a bunch of people via doge cuts so that'd do the trick...

Oh... Well that's disappointing.

I was an academic in computer science in the last 10 years or so (keeping it vague to avoid doxxing myself) and it has been so depressing seeing so many of my colleagues selling out to OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and even Google (for some reason the latter often gets a reputational free pass because people associate them with the golden days of big tech 10+ years ago)

This has always been a huge red herring. Llms are built on top of the transformer architecture which does text autocomplete (and yes we can combine text embeddings with other inputs like images). They have some interesting properties where they seem to be able to do text autocomplete in a bunch of different scenarios that they weren't explicitly trained for, but they were never designed for precise dna analysis. It is their architecture that prevents them from other long horizon tasks like playing chess and the way that they represent text is why they can never count the letters in strawberry (most have this specific question hard-coded in their training data now).

Anyone who believes that LLMs are going to solve cancer either has no idea how they work or has been one-shotted from talking to Claudia

Those things are barely related, no wonder the staff voted with their feet. It would be a bit like taking a team of seasoned architects who design amazing skyscrapers and telling them they have to spend all their time on low density suburban houses from now on... Come on guys it's still architecture. Where are you going?

Missed this paper last week from Google

Funny how now that it's widely known that the general public hate AI, companies producing AI are softening their "it's going to take your job" stance. Surely just a coincidence

Funnily enough they said that back then too. What a weird coincidence!

So it's been 7-8 months since the software industry decided that AI agents are good now and that you can do a year's work in 1 hour

So... Where are all the amazing and wonderful AI generated software products? Where are all the companies using agents to leave the rest of us behind?

All I see are one-shotted maintainers, big marketing stories with little substance and a pile of detritus made up of abandoned vibe coded projects.

It's almost like AI agents make you feel more productive but actually slow you down (paywalled sorry)