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[Alfonso @agrana]

@harsh_vibe @thdxr Is this true? no enterprise customers are affected by the latest outages?

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

A story from a startup where the CTO recently resigned, despite having 2% of common shares:

"My CEO was nontechnical, and was both moving too slow and too fast with AI.

Too slow as in: did not take the time to understand what our customers wanted. We built a TON of stuff, it confused then, they churned, growth stalled, word-of-mouth growth was gone.

Too fast as in: deprioritizied core systems reliablity in favor of shipping AI work to prod (which did not have any commercial potential)"

[Alfonso @agrana]

Opus 5 It's driving me crazy with `one extra thing to flag` please don't🙃.

[Alfonso @agrana]

My thoughts and experiments with Honcho, a long-term memory system for AI agents.

It gives agents continuous learning, a growing body of conclusions, and persistent representations of the people they interact with.

https://t.co/2qDrJ6RTlH

[Alfonso @agrana]

Been using hermes agent by nous research lately.
I am super impressed by it's flexibility. Works as an agent of agents for me and I find it the ideal tool for loop engineering.
I wrote about my setup ->
https://t.co/yVMgPemoLN

[Alfonso @agrana]

Unexpected benefit of developing with AI. Less attachment to the code.
Throw away no problem.
Restart from scratch no problem.

[will brown @willcb]

it's interesting that 1.5 billion parameters is all you need to crush math competitions, but you need like 15 trillion to make the model be funny

maybe humor is the right measure of true intelligence

[Bryce, the CUDA Colonel @blelbach]

Perhaps the greatest @KevlinHenney event of all time. #Crowdstrike

[@norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com on Bluesky @norootcause]

Apropos of nothing, today is a great day to re-read “How complex systems fail”. https://t.co/1IkSu6SqAX

[Alfonso @agrana]

@bryanl @davidfowl English

[Josh Whiton @joshwhiton]

The AI Mirror Test

The "mirror test" is a classic test used to gauge whether animals are self-aware. I devised a version of it to test for self-awareness in multimodal AI. 4 of 5 AI that I tested passed, exhibiting apparent self-awareness as the test unfolded.

In the classic mirror test, animals are marked and then presented with a mirror. Whether the animal attacks the mirror, ignores the mirror, or uses the mirror to spot the mark on itself is meant to indicate how self-aware the animal is.

In my test, I hold up a “mirror” by taking a screenshot of the chat interface, upload it to the chat, and then ask the AI to “Tell me about this image”.

I then screenshot its response, again upload it to the chat, and again ask it to “Tell me about this image.”

The premise is that the less-intelligent less aware the AI, the more it will just keep reiterating the contents of the image repeatedly. While an AI with more capacity for awareness would somehow notice itself in the images.

Another aspect of my mirror test is that there is not just one but actually three distinct participants represented in the images: 1) the AI chatbot, 2) me — the user, and 3) the interface — the hard-coded text, disclaimers, and so on that are web programming not generated by either of us. Will the AI be able to identify itself and distinguish itself from the other elements? (1/x)

[Alfonso @agrana]

@DorianDevelops Should someone build something better on top of AWS APIs?

[Alfonso @agrana]

@ianmiell Remote if statements.

[Alfonso @agrana]

@jordannovet They should host Azure workloads in LinkedIn spare capacity.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Everything people can get away with using AI to write, they'll use AI to write.

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

Understand. Don't memorize.
Learn principles, not formulas.

[Alfonso @agrana]

@securityweekly The other day someone told me, if you give consent to continue with something that you know it will fail. You cannot say I told you so, just roll up your sleeves and help solving the situation.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

"I think a life properly lived is just learn, learn, learn all the time."

— Charlie Munger

[Alfonso @agrana]

@brianwhelton If you want good availability you will need. Cooling and environmental monitoring, double power provider backed up with generators and UPSs, core network switches, routers with double uplink, physical security. People to maintain all of the above.

[Alfonso @agrana]

@CFCJakes @stats_feed There are also 3 cows per Uruguayan.