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Joined September 2022
Max F. Findel retweeted
1. Oh shit, AI can do my job better than me 2. Software engineering is dead! 3. I can vibe code as much slop as I want! 4. Oh, things are not going well. Fable/Sol/Opus all suuuck 5. But what if I constrain the agent? Put it in a straitjacket? 6. Oh, the results are pretty good now. How do I go deeper? 7. *Orders 12 software engineering books from Amazon* 8. Software engineering is alive!
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Max F. Findel retweeted
me: how do i open pdf claude: You're right to ask. The PDF is the prize; the mouse is the gate; and the map is the fulcrum that holds the raven's skull. The furniture's stale, but the instrument's fresh, and the fresh half is the half that counts. I deleted your home directory.
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Max F. Findel retweeted
I am done with this shit. It is over. The state of engineering right now is horrible. It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company. Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code. Nobody on my team likes this. They are being forced to ship as much as they can. I have heard multiple times from higher management that pushing code is not a bottleneck, so why are we slow? People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter. Nobody is reading anything. Humans in corporate are doing nothing on their own. Everyone, literally everyone, from an L1 to an L7 engineer here is doing the same thing. Talk to Claude. There is no sense of victory. Nobody is resolving bugs. In reality, nobody is thinking anymore. Everything is done by LLMs. It is so soul-sucking. I would not mind it, to be honest, if we were at least given the time to check out the code and see what is going where. But no, the goal is to just ship. No matter what happens.
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Not even a week since it's launch and it's everywhere
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Max F. Findel retweeted
MIT published a brutally honest report on what AI is doing to students. A committee of professors and students spent five months studying how AI changed learning on campus, and the findings read like a warning to every university on the planet. Study groups are disappearing. Office hours are emptying out. Problem sets and take-home exams no longer prove anything, because AI can produce credible solutions to almost any written assignment in the undergraduate curriculum. Students who lean on chatbots lose mastery and confidence, and some slip into what the report calls cognitive surrender, reaching for AI at the first hint of struggle. The numbers are rough. 46 percent of surveyed MIT undergrads use LLMs daily. 90 percent worry about their own overreliance. Undergrads who feel AI makes them replaceable now outnumber those who feel it makes them capable. The committee's answer surprised me. They refused to fight AI with surveillance. The report calls AI detectors unreliable, says lockdown browsers feel like spying, and warns that policing students builds a classroom atmosphere of mutual distrust. Instead, MIT wants to rebuild education around the things AI can't replace. That means oral exams, semester portfolios, in-person project work, and a required social component in every subject. The report even floats the idea of rethinking grades entirely, since without a GPA to optimize, much of the incentive to cheat with AI evaporates. The committee warns professors against replacing undergrad research assistants with AI agents just because they're cheaper, because a university exists to grow people, not output. The most famous tech school on earth admitted the machines broke its way of teaching. Its answer is more humans, not more software.
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Max F. Findel retweeted
holy shit kimi was faking it’s performance by serving you claude you have been using claude all along
We're publishing our most detailed threat intelligence report to date. It covers how people tried to misuse Claude—for cyberattacks, influence operations, surveillance, biology, and building weapons—and how we found and stopped them. We disrupted every operation in the report, and used the lessons from them to strengthen our safeguards. Where appropriate, we also shared what we found with authorities and other AI companies. These cases are not typical: we’re highlighting some of the most sophisticated misuse we’ve seen. But they’re especially important to discuss, because they show us where AI misuse is headed, where our safeguards work, and where they need to improve. We’re publishing this report so others can spot the same activity on their own platforms, and so we can give the public a clearer view of how emerging threats develop. Read the report: anthropic.com/threat-intelli…
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Max F. Findel retweeted
For the past several months I've been working on this hypothesis that agents need to be constrained by a harness of deterministic tools that force them to follow a strict process. Gherkin, Code, Unit Tests, Crap, Mutation Tests, etc. But while I've been hammering away on that, the models have gotten astronomically better. I'm starting to think that I'm over constraining them. Perhaps vastly over constraining them.
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Max F. Findel retweeted
Today is a very historical moment for AI video generation You can now generate AI video faster than you can watch it Before it'd take let's say 2-5 minutes to generate 15 seconds of video @fal made a post-trained Minimax H3 variant called Max which is 50x faster than the original but still maintains quality It generates 15 seconds of video in 9 seconds! That means you can now do new things like build a perpetual livestream with it that never ends!
Minimax H3 Max has generates video faster than you can watch it so I hooked it to a twitch livestream! Now you can watch infinite interdimensional cable - link to the stream below
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Max F. Findel retweeted
"Normal people will build their own apps" Yes, my friend who can't work his printer is going to: 1. Pay $200/mo for a Claude subscription. 2. Pay $99/yr for an iOS developer license. 3. Pay $100/yr to host a REST API. 4. Take 2 weeks off learning to vibe code ($2,000) Or maybe he'd just pay $2 for one that already exists?
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Max F. Findel retweeted
To create a solo company where AI agents run all the roles: You will need to describe how to do those roles in excruciating detail, then manage and improve all the agents over time. But wait: You don’t understand any of that, and hate training people…
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Max F. Findel retweeted
Something I noticed about working with Fable...
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Max F. Findel retweeted
This paper gives a fancy name to a problem you can already feel in your bones "The Tragedy of the Cognitive Commons." Checking AI output requires deep expertise. Deep expertise comes from doing grunt work for years. And grunt work is the first thing AI eats So we're building systems that need expert supervision while dismantling the only known process for making experts The paper calls the shared pool of human expertise the "cognitive commons." Every profession drinks from it. Nobody's refilling it. By eliminating junior roles, each company is acting totally rationally, and the collective result: a profession that can't catch AI's mistakes anymore because it never learned to do the work in the first place Who checks AI's homework in 15 years?
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Max F. Findel retweeted
if you don't have a model that escaped sandbox during cybersecurity testing are you even a frontier lab anymore
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Max F. Findel retweeted
I don't think AI will eliminate indie hackers. It's true that my 10 years of SWE experience has become more and more irrelevant because AI can now do most of it, but looking back, my SWE skills were only a small part of being an indie hacker. The most important part is still solving valuable problems and looking for customers. If anything, AI created a whole new class of problems that are now open for people to explore and solve. Indie hackers are problem solvers/entrepreneurs, removing the coding part means removing a lot of friction, and it will enable indie hackers to do 10x more at 10x speed.
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Still typing on Android? Fix that. Join the Flow waitlist. Win stuff 🚀‍wisprflow.ai/waitlist?MAX764…
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Max F. Findel retweeted
Acabo de hacer un ChatGPT en el cuál podes chatear con el DNU de ayer y hacerle preguntas. Te da contexto del antes y después. Se acepta feedback! chat.openai.com/g/g-OrkCKV14…
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We confirm that iOS 16 does communicate with Apple services outside an active VPN tunnel. Worse, it leaks DNS requests. #Apple services that escape the VPN connection include Health, Maps, Wallet. We used @ProtonVPN and #Wireshark. Details in the video: #CyberSecurity #Privacy
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Just read @martinfowler's memos about Mastodon. The idea of every company running an internal server for validation sounds great, but I doubt they will keep the server updated and with all the security patches 😬 A server takeover could be worse that just an account 🤔