Andrew C. Oliver

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[Andrew C. Oliver @acoliver]

I asked @coderabbitai 's VP of AI, David Loker: "How to build an agent that actually works."

What he said is confirmed by research.

https://t.co/L4XZgiI6c8

[Lin Qiao @lqiao]

https://t.co/KlrnWFHMNn

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

@FukuyamaFrancis No, we don't.

That's like saying in 1920 "we need an international treaty to ban jet engines"

[dax @thdxr]

it's so crazy ai is bad at your job but good at everyone else's job

[Andrew C. Oliver @acoliver]

hey @thsottiaux are you eating SSDs?

[Andrew C. Oliver @acoliver]

Anyone who was using @geminicli should try https://t.co/pfNF1goPjI - It was a fork of gemini-cli that has gone much further. It supports the other two frontier providers and most open-weight providers as well as local models. It is more token efficient and resiliant as well.

[Jack Wotherspoon @JackWoth98]

Bit of a sad day for Gemini CLI users, maintainers, and the community.

Today, Gemini CLI will stop serving requests for Google AI Pro, Google AI Ultra, and free tier individual accounts.

Users of those tiers must migrate to Antigravity CLI.

Gemini CLI has a been a wild ride the past year for me personally. Thank you to everyone who tried it, contributed to it, advocated for it, truly💜

[Andrew C. Oliver @acoliver]

Is anyone tired of people misquoting @ylecun to "prove" LLMs are useless? (vs the more nuanced view he's espoused)

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

1. Je n'ai jamais dit que les LLMs étaient inutiles ou n'avaient pas de valeur commerciale.
2. Mais beaucoup de technologies sont utiles et à haute valeur sans être particulièrement "intelligentes"
3. Les LLMs sont essentiellement inutiles et sans grande valeur pour ce qui est du pilotage de processus industriels ou de compréhension de données continues, de haute dimension, et/ou bruitées.
4. Il y a énormément d'applications de haute valeur dans le pilotage de processus industriels ou de compréhension de données continues, de haute dimension, et/ou bruitées.
5. A long terme, l'intelligence, la compréhension du monde, et la capacité à planifier est ce qui compte vraiment.

[Andrew C. Oliver @acoliver]

Right now, we don't have Codex.

[Sami @iSamiXG]

yday i was wondering why we don’t have codex for x,y,z.

and then i was wondering why don’t we have a glorified codex for all knowledge work? i’m quite confident every subcategory of knowledge could be broken down into a skill.md file

[Andrew C. Oliver @acoliver]

would be good if either @AnthropicAI or @OpenAI figured out this infrastructure thing... Maybe they can ask @Alibaba_Qwen or @Kimi_Moonshot since Claude is usually overloaded or banned by the US government and GPT is 404 right now.

[tako @13Rosalg]

codex down

[Andrew C. Oliver @acoliver]

@thsottiaux Very upset by this. To make up for it once it is stable I'm going to need a quota reset.

[Andrew C. Oliver @acoliver]

Grok Heavy

[Andrew C. Oliver @acoliver]

@thsottiaux So with the fiasco of "soo unsafe" being believed, Anthropic has been resetting quotas multiple times per day, can you please catch up? There is a quota reset gap.

[Andrew C. Oliver @acoliver]

@thsottiaux So with the fiasco of "soo unsafe" being believed, Anthropic has been resetting quotas multiple times per day, can you please catch up? There is a quota reset gap.

[Andrew C. Oliver @acoliver]

Claude: please give me the worst take possible.

[Dan Woods @danveloper]

Tim Cook should be CEO of Anthropic. Change nothing — ship a new, better, faster Claude model every year. No drama. No surprises. Just relentless monoproduct execution focused on the brand.

[Andrew C. Oliver @acoliver]

Be careful about exaggerating in order to lobby for regulatory capture, you may just get it.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.

The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.

Access to all other Claude models is not affected.

We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.

Read our full statement: https://t.co/bwn0sximKZ

[Andrew C. Oliver @acoliver]

Nice! Fable does the same tasks opus does but at half the speed, double the cost, and twice the refusal rate! I think shareholder value is "safe."

[Andrew C. Oliver @acoliver]

@OpenAI trains GPT to have a writing style fit to enrage anyone who reads it...

[Andrew C. Oliver @acoliver]

@jxnlco Writing. Gpt-5x voice is not good. Don't get me wrong anything is better than 4o. However opus/claude will follow a style guide and stylistically much better.

[Andrew C. Oliver @acoliver]

Its also the octopus in Chinese room with a lot of vocabulary of self and metaphilosophy....it doesn't "know" what it is saying and has no memory aside from what you gave it.

[Grady Booch @Grady_Booch]

You and I have some common ground, Kevin: Claude is neither human nor conscious.

But as for Claude having a theory of self, I assert that is true if and only if one applies a particularly sparse meaning for self: Claude has no ability to understand; it possesses no agency, goals, or motivation; it has no sense as to the borders of its self.

Claude may have some degree of self-reflection in the sense that it can feed its dialog back to itself - sort of a simple Hofstadter strangle loop - but this also is more of a small ripple in the fabric if a true self.

In the end, I think the problem is that self is a suitcase word: it is full of historical and emotional baggage and thus is dangerous to apply all to this piece of software..

[Andrew C. Oliver @acoliver]

I never really doubted it. The SaaSkiller btw will be agentic services run as a SaaS without the data entry navigation bla.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Remember these predictions?

“Software engineering will be dead because of AI” —> we’re seeing more demand for sw engineering (good part thanks to AI)

“SaaS will be dead because of AI” —> SaaS businesses growing massively (in part thanks to AI)

Be careful what you believe

[Andrew C. Oliver @acoliver]

@RogerAlsing I meant to add "and moments where you're like thats profoundly dumb"

[Andrew C. Oliver @acoliver]

@RogerAlsing Same kinda thing. If their training set happened to be trained on your problem then genius. If not then dumbish. So moments where you're like "better than gpt or claude." Its no GLM but for its size and speed super impressive.