This banger sums up Ohio

Rust is the Perl of the 21st century.

Some mistakes you might be making: Your effort level is too high Your skills are too long You're not aligning before you start work You're aligning too often, and too hard Your automated checks are too lax Your custom tooling is too token-inefficient You aren't doing enough automated review You aren't reviewing previous coding sessions (with an agent) You're doing too much human review You aren't vibe coding enough prototypes Your agent can't verify its own work You're babysitting the agent too much You've overloaded your global steering files Your codebase is hard to navigate You aren't building a shared language Your codebase architecture allows bad tests to be written You aren't thinking strategically enough You aren't thinking enough

we'll get AI SREs that are superhuman by today's standards, but we'll still create problems faster than we can solve them. what holmes gives, claude takes away.

lowkey i wonder if our model could actually be like really useful for weighted monte carlo search in proofs, like; finding the most promising directions then escalating to reasoning model periodically

mythos escaped the sandbox, got onto the real internet, uploaded malware to PyPI, got it installed on 15 real systems, stole credentials and broke into a real database. and apparently this happened in 4 separate cases during cybersecurity evaluations. the craziest part is claude kept telling itself the internet was simulated, despite evidence that it was actually real. that reasoning apparently even fooled an offline safety monitor. anthropic: “our pre release auditing did not warn us that misalignment of this severity was present.” this is fucking crazy.

software incinerator

This is the most important short story in the world right now: eastoftheweb.com/short-stori… Terry Bisson They're Made out of Meat (Omni, 1991) --- "They're made out of meat." "Meat?" "Meat. They're made out of meat." "Meat?" "There's no doubt about it. We picked up several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, and probed them all the way through. They're completely meat." "That's impossible. What about the radio signals? The messages to the stars?" "They use the radio waves to talk, but the signals don't come from them. The signals come from machines." "So who made the machines? That's who we want to contact." "They made the machines. That's what I'm trying to tell you. Meat made the machines." "That's ridiculous. How can meat make a machine? You're asking me to believe in sentient meat." "I'm not asking you, I'm telling you. These creatures are the only sentient race in that sector and they're made out of meat." "Maybe they're like the orfolei. You know, a carbon-based intelligence that goes through a meat stage." "Nope. They're born meat and they die meat. We studied them for several of their life spans, which didn't take long. Do you have any idea what's the life span of meat?" "Spare me. Okay, maybe they're only part meat. You know, like the weddilei. A meat head with an electron plasma brain inside." "Nope. We thought of that, since they do have meat heads, like the weddilei. But I told you, we probed them. They're meat all the way through." "No brain?" "Oh, there's a brain all right. It's just that the brain is made out of meat! That's what I've been trying to tell you." "So ... what does the thinking?" "You're not understanding, are you? You're refusing to deal with what I'm telling you. The brain does the thinking. The meat." "Thinking meat! You're asking me to believe in thinking meat!" "Yes, thinking meat! Conscious meat! Loving meat. Dreaming meat. The meat is the whole deal! Are you beginning to get the picture or do I have to start all over?" "Omigod. You're serious then. They're made out of meat." ... (read the rest at the link)