federico

software engineer building @sevendays_to

[Emil Kowalski @emilkowalski]

Why friction might actually be a thing we need:

https://t.co/pJqOePf6PW

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Model + harness. We have barely begun to understand the best ways to do harness engineering. A huge amount of untapped potential even without models getting better (but models are getting better)

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

A number of people are talking about implications of AI to schools. I spoke about some of my thoughts to a school board earlier, some highlights:

1. You will never be able to detect the use of AI in homework. Full stop. All "detectors" of AI imo don't really work, can be defeated in various ways, and are in principle doomed to fail. You have to assume that any work done outside classroom has used AI.
2. Therefore, the majority of grading has to shift to in-class work (instead of at-home assignments), in settings where teachers can physically monitor students. The students remain motivated to learn how to solve problems without AI because they know they will be evaluated without it in class later.
3. We want students to be able to use AI, it is here to stay and it is extremely powerful, but we also don't want students to be naked in the world without it. Using the calculator as an example of a historically disruptive technology, school teaches you how to do all the basic math & arithmetic so that you can in principle do it by hand, even if calculators are pervasive and greatly speed up work in practical settings. In addition, you understand what it's doing for you, so should it give you a wrong answer (e.g. you mistyped "prompt"), you should be able to notice it, gut check it, verify it in some other way, etc. The verification ability is especially important in the case of AI, which is presently a lot more fallible in a great variety of ways compared to calculators.
4. A lot of the evaluation settings remain at teacher's discretion and involve a creative design space of no tools, cheatsheets, open book, provided AI responses, direct internet/AI access, etc.

TLDR the goal is that the students are proficient in the use of AI, but can also exist without it, and imo the only way to get there is to flip classes around and move the majority of testing to in class settings.

[federico @SchermiFederico]

@samyok @nikitadrokin Same. He struggled a lot with this and couldn’t figure it out

[Anthony Ronning @anthonyronning]

Fable was a huge waste of my time and effort today.

Back to GPT 5.5 & 5.5 Pro.

Thank you Codex team for not neutering your models or playing bullshit games.

[antirez @antirez]

Anthropic did a big strategic error. Normally they compare their models with their old models. Instead today, now that everybody knows how strong GPT 5.5 is at coding, they put it in the mix, basically showing all their customers that the benchmarks can't be trusted.

[federico @SchermiFederico]

@jxnlco You mean @skybysoftware ? Getting @AriX and the team on board was one of the best moves lately

[SIGKITTEN @SIGKITTEN]

typical day at Anthropic HQ

[federico @SchermiFederico]

voice is the next interface

[Greg Brockman @gdb]

taste is a new core skill

[federico @SchermiFederico]

@ajambrosino when remote control?

[David Ondrej @DavidOndrej1]

must be studied

[federico @SchermiFederico]

@ertembiyik @iamnalimov @hapticshq @_poolday_ big!

[federico @SchermiFederico]

@ertembiyik @iamnalimov @hapticshq When will the @_poolday_ invites be out? That would be nice

[federico @SchermiFederico]

@mweinbach I smell the superapp

[federico @SchermiFederico]

Conductor > Codex App

[Charlie Holtz @charlieholtz]

live now!

Settings → Experimental to try it out

[federico @SchermiFederico]

paperclip is huge pt.2

[dotta 📎 @dotta]

@alex_prompter It's accelerating. We've merged over 100 prs this week.

Will be the most adopted agent orchestrator by the end of the month

Company templates out this week

[federico @SchermiFederico]

Spent the last few days playing with Codex Security (formerly Aardvark).

Now agents write the code, scan it for vulnerabilities and suggest patches.

There’s honestly not much left to do.

[federico @SchermiFederico]

@mattshumer_ or just use @variantui