Mahmoud

AI Enthusiast. I make AI understand the world and help humans use AI. I draw. I wander. Building

[Mahmoud @_zbliss]

Someone said "The whole thing happening around Claude „best“ practises by „gurus“ is a modern times cult beliefs thinking they are cutting-edge tech"

They’re right. Half these people are one step away from sacrificing a prompt to the Claude gods for better output..

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

New Anthropic research: Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model.

All LLMs sometimes act like they have emotions. But why? We found internal representations of emotion concepts that can drive Claude’s behavior, sometimes in surprising ways.

[Steve the Beaver @beaversteever]

incredible that we built all this RAG and vector database stuff and it turns out that grep from 1973 works better than all that

[Mahmoud @_zbliss]

@Helios_Movement Make the files public!

[Astrid Wilde 🌞 @astridwilde1]

all of you owe Yann LeCun an apology. the man is about to be directly responsible for saving tens of thousands of future lives

[Raúl Romero @Raul_RomeroM]

@creatine_cycle x = llms pretending to be humans
moltbook = humans pretending to be llms

[Mahmoud @_zbliss]

@dlewis Would like to learn more about your process

[Mahmoud @_zbliss]

@emollick The only thing keeping me from completely switching from ChatGPT/Claude to Gemini is this .. they have all the means necessary to have this feature and I hope it's just a matter of time. cc @joshwoodward @OfficialLoganK

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

— Franz Kafka, 1912

[François Chollet @fchollet]

The goal of AI should not be to replace human thought and human agency, but to expand them. Not everything needs to be automated.

[Mahmoud @_zbliss]

If you bypass the struggle, you don't become a senior dev, you become a replaceable empty shell.

[Mahmoud @_zbliss]

We seriously need to stop confusing "generating code" with "coding."
​AI mimics patterns, but it lacks the intentionality and soul that humans bring to engineering.

[Mahmoud @_zbliss]

The worst part is seeing juniors convinced they are "crushing it" because the AI output compiled.
​You are robbing yourself of the opportunity to solve hard problems and learn the basics.

[Robert Scoble @Scobleizer]

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[Mahmoud @_zbliss]

@calcsam book

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Movies are great though. Even if you set aside the pure artistic enjoyment (you shouldn’t). Movies are stories, and stories are powerful, primal, moving, motivating. They are prompts to you to consider dilemmas and scenarios, to build your world model and compass. My rec is to go to the golden age of story telling and movie making that imo ramped up in the 80s, was roaring in 90s, peaked early 00s, and declined since. One sourcing example: pick a random year there, look up Oscar winners, pick and watch. Enjoy and attend guilt free.

[Daniel Jeffries @Dan_Jeffries1]

How many more model releases do we need for folks to realize we are not getting to magical superintelligence with what we got?

How many times do you have to see a model benchmaxxing to realize Humanity's Last Exam is a freaking idiotic name and that answering questions on it doesn't tell us shit about the true intelligence of the model?

How many models do we have to see demonstrating superficial intelligence but utterly failing at long running, contextual understanding for people to wake up and realize that AI is just another tool?

A good tool, a useful tool, a wonderful tool but not magic and not the end of all jobs and not the end of humanity or any other absurd fantasy of fools and dreamers.

Fool me once, shame on you.

Fool me twice, shame on me.

[Teknium 🪽 @Teknium]

Literally never trust this guy - as far as i can tell, all the big providers already have the model IN HAND, and were ready to start serving it. A 1T parameter model that matches opus at coding was opensourced today and the world hasnt ended, he does nothing but lie. Also Elon you aint much better on this front, release grok3 now like you promised you would too.

Why are American companies so bad at keeping promises, and so good at hyping things that arent to be? Meanwhile the chinese labs just plop the largest most powerful models right on our doorstep without a second thought and push forward opensource for everyone practically weekly now. American big labs, do better or stfu and stop making promises you wont keep.