Alex Haefner

working on something new

[Alex Haefner @alexhaefner]

By posting on X you’re helping launch rockets to mars and building out AI. Don’t let anyone ever tell you otherwise

[Alex Haefner @alexhaefner]

@Scott_Wiener Hopefully you’re referring to MPU misleading their readers.

Liberty, CPUC, and the folks trying to bloc new transmission need to figure out their development plans or find a compromise with NV energy because this was agreed to a long time ago and the NIMBYism has stopped it

[Alex Haefner @alexhaefner]

@bgurley Audits are extremely repetitive and lots of ops. Why wouldn’t you assume a startup comes into this space? AI to collect all the data, interview users, get everything into the right form then a human to review and sign off. pass on a portion of the improved margin as savings

[Alex Haefner @alexhaefner]

X seems to be serving ads in your feed without attribution. It’s extreme enshittificafion. Here’s an example of an ad served to me on X for someone I don’t follow in the “following” tab with no marked ad tag anywhere

[Alex Haefner @alexhaefner]

Anyone else notice X is putting ads in your following feed without any clear notification / moniker?

Not people you’re following, no “Ad” pill on them, just for things people / companies are promoting, not clearly called out as ads. This has been banned by the FTC, why now?

[Alex Haefner @alexhaefner]

“People” and “friends” were just agents with computers the whole time

[clem 🤗 @ClementDelangue]

"But here is what we found when we tested: We took the specific vulnerabilities Anthropic showcases in their announcement, isolated the relevant code, and ran them through small, cheap, open-weights models. Those models recovered much of the same analysis. Eight out of eight models detected Mythos's flagship FreeBSD exploit, including one with only 3.6 billion active parameters costing $0.11 per million tokens. A 5.1B-active open model recovered the core chain of the 27-year-old OpenBSD bug." https://t.co/yBTiiMq1Xy

[Alex Haefner @alexhaefner]

Ai agent coding is gambling for software engineers. Submit a prompt -> wait -> reward or lose.

Explains some of the burn out effects and submitting prompts at 2am

[Alex Haefner @alexhaefner]

@ParthaSundaram I offered ChatGPT I’d pay for the best plan if it could pick the best deal for me on some replacement appliances. It didn’t take the bait (clear objective) and sent me a list of bullet points with emojis and no obvious answer to the core question asked.

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@TahoeWeather Do you have a sense of how other years that broke below the 10%ile looked? Curious how it compares to other p(< 0.1) low water years

[Alex Haefner @alexhaefner]

Wednesday night entertainment watching my coding agent try to find a bug and run dozens of commands and after each one the thinking agent starts with “WAIT” or “THAT’S IT!” Or “FOUND THE ROOT CAUSE” then proceeds to go down a rabbit hole and fuck it all up

[Alex Haefner @alexhaefner]

California has too many problems. Don’t come here

[Alex Haefner @alexhaefner]

They renamed bing search to copilot search - it has no identifiable ai and doesn’t even include something basic like an ai generated summary

[Alex Haefner @alexhaefner]

Apple is the sleeper on AI. M5 lays the groundwork for big local models.

1-2 years time they’ll add it to the monthly iCloud subscription for more power in the cloud. And every new device they sell will be capable of AI on device and access to all your personal info

[Alex Haefner @alexhaefner]

@jtaby I’m not sure it always understands when a bug is due to a logic issue or the test being incorrect. Do you have a way to account for that?

[Alex Haefner @alexhaefner]

@nbaschez People learn via interaction+repetition. A model can hit 100M+ interactions/min. Remember when Microsoft added a chat bot to Twitter in the 2010s and it quickly became a full on Nazi? Continual learning has to be bound by more than in->out, grounded in “truth” is hard

[Alex Haefner @alexhaefner]

If AI is going to take software jobs I can’t help but feel like it’s just 🖕 me off right now

[Alex Haefner @alexhaefner]

It was on the order of a 10k line, highly technical change. I’m on the hunt for a new AI coding IDE. Any suggestions?

[Alex Haefner @alexhaefner]

Ai coding is cool but when @cursor_ai has a bug in the multi-agent flow and an agent deletes thousands of lines of diff you worked on for 2 days right before you commit it that’s a real time sink right there

[Alex Haefner @alexhaefner]

Not even in vscode not on the file system any more. Completely gone