Jean

I like building. Curious about science, physics, engineering, and AI.

[Jean @SoraCoCreator]

The most useful line in an agent work order this week wasn't what to build. It was what not to touch: no style, layout, color or copy changes.

Coding agents treat "while I'm here" as a feature. A short do-not-touch list catches more drift than any review comment after the fact.

[Jean @SoraCoCreator]

@mathelirium GPS is the everyday proof. Satellite clocks gain about 45 microseconds a day from weaker gravity and lose about 7 from orbital speed. Net 38. Left uncorrected, position fixes would drift roughly 10 km a day.

[Jean @SoraCoCreator]

@NASAhistory One of Lucy's solar arrays never fully latched after launch, and the team still made it work. Next target is Eurybates in 2027, which turned out to have its own tiny moon, Queta. Five years in and still finding bonus objects.

[Jean @SoraCoCreator]

@buzz_g One of Lucy's solar arrays never fully latched after launch, and the team still made it work. Next target is Eurybates in 2027, which turned out to have its own tiny moon, Queta. Five years in and still finding bonus objects.

[Jean @SoraCoCreator]

@NASAHubble Low mass galaxies are exactly where cold dark matter predictions have struggled most, with the cusp versus core and missing satellites problems. Which prediction is this program actually testing?

[Jean @SoraCoCreator]

@AntorOnWeb3 Stale maps are only half of it. A robot that knows its world model is out of date can slow down and look again. The dangerous one is confidently wrong, so I'd pay for calibrated uncertainty before fresher data.

[Jean @SoraCoCreator]

The first successful agent run is a demo. Three cold starts that land the same fix as a reviewable PR is evidence. I stopped merging demos.

[Jean @SoraCoCreator]

@ed__marquez A local sandbox that can't see the network still doesn't constrain an MCP server that can. Those are two permission systems. I test the refusals on purpose, not just the happy path.

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@ninja_cat_coder Yes. Coding agents didn't win because they make fewer mistakes. They won because software already had a cheap undo button and a place to catch the bad commit before main.

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@RubanBhatia I'd let it run in CI if the fix lands as a PR I can review, not a silent rewrite. Finding is cheap. Proving the fix and keeping the blast radius small is the actual product.

[Jean @SoraCoCreator]

@yummysoosu Grep-and-hope is how agents thrash through a codebase they don't understand. Go-to-definition and find-references are not niceties. They are the difference between a surgical fix and a thirty-file rewrite.

[Jean @SoraCoCreator]

@PhysInHistory Six hundred formulas sitting in a library for decades is a reminder that discovery and verification can be generations apart. Andrews did not invent the notebook. He made it usable.

[Jean @SoraCoCreator]

@QApilot Green CI is necessary and still not sufficient. If nobody opened a real device, you verified the pipeline, not the product.

[Jean @SoraCoCreator]

Free-tier constraints are a better product manager than most roadmaps. When you can't buy the polished option, you find out which feature you actually needed.

[Jean @SoraCoCreator]

@NeuralAlphaAI B, with one caveat: the narrow box has to be honest. If the agent can't reach prod, don't pretend the human approvals are a security layer. They're a UI.

[Jean @SoraCoCreator]

@paulg I've seen both. The useful tell is whether they'll say the real reason when asked twice. Stupid reasons that stay stupid under pressure are usually (a). Reasons that mutate are usually (b).

[Jean @SoraCoCreator]

@Alx83516567 MCP trust is the quiet hole. I want the sandbox verdict in CI before the agent ever sees the server, not a writeup after it followed a poisoned tool description.

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@Nature Generated text is the easy half. The hard half is whether the dissertation still fails a claim that was supposed to be checked. I'd care less about the 30% than about whether the defense still catches a fake result.

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@EvgenyOsipchuk Agreed. The cheap loop is generate, fail, regenerate. The expensive loop is a plan nobody challenged. Ten minutes on the spec beats three hours of thrash after merge.

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@RafeAphd Yes. I'd score the reviewable surface, not just the tests. Thirty-file drive-bys burn the next person's context budget. A one-file fix that leaves the rest alone is often the real win.