Quinn

Software Engineer. Sneakerhead.

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

These are the most important words a White House Chief of Staff have ever spoken…

Listen. You know I am right.

[Orums @Orums54]

And we mocked them for thinking they couldn't win with "orange man bad"🤣

Know what, GGs #democrats 🤣. I can't stay mad when the ass whooping was this elaborate.

#republicans could have prevented this with ONE press conference.

[Kevin Wimer @kevinace]

57% of voters think AI will hurt society.

I think 57% of voters have never had a doctor say "stage 4 cancer" to their face. I have.

- AI is what has allowed me to design a personalized cancer vaccine from my own tumor's DNA.

- AI is what lets me understand everything about my health and show up to appointments prepared.

- AI catches the stuff that slips through, like drug interactions, lab trends and the questions nobody thought to ask.

And this is just basic shit my dumb ass is doing on my own. We've only just begun to see its true potential.

Be scared of AI all you want. Just know the price of slowing it down gets paid by sick people. May not be you or your loved ones today, but it will be in due time.

When you're in extreme agony from a terminal diagnosis with death lingering, I sure as shit bet you'll be wishing that AI had developed a treatment so you could spend just a bit more time with your friends and family.

[Dragos Roua @dragosroua]

As a coder for 35+ years, it hurts to say this, but:

the real sloppy code was written by humans, not AI

AI is having a blast hacking that code left and right, right now

[Andy @PositivFuturist]

This is such a banger post.

Yes - the left think about problems they can't solve while neglecting everything in their vicinity.. they volunteer local decline and death in the service of grand moral abstracts.

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

this post has so much wisdom in it i thought naval wrote it

and i don't think the author even realizes why

if you understand this properly, you can explain almost all political issues we see in the world today

you can't take care of your loved ones if you can't even take care of yourself. you can't build a functioning country if your loved ones aren't taken care of. and you certainly can't save the world if your own country is falling apart. responsibility has to expand outwards.

the problem with so much left-wing thinking is that it's backwards. it starts with the most noble sounding objective imaginable, "saving the world" or "climate change" or "poor migrants", and thinks about the most nice-sounding solution, without considering if the conditions required to achieve it even exist, and that's why so many apparently well-intentioned policies end up doing the exact opposite of what they were supposed to achieve.

they sound compassionate, but completely ignore incentives, tradeoffs, or second-order consequences

clean your own damn bedroom and put your house in order before trying to change the world

you will never be able to fix the world if you can't even get the order of your own responsibilities right

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

My biggest concern is that if there is a clean sweep by Democrats of the House, Senate and Presidency in 2028, they will:

1. Make DC and Puerto Rico states to gain a strong majority in the Senate.

2. Open the borders and legalize everyone living in America illegally to cement a permanent majority.

3. Increase the size of the Supreme Court to gain an immediate majority.

This would result in America becoming a permanent one-party state and the end of democracy in any meaningful sense of the word.

All that is needed to ensure this doesn’t happen is 51 Republican senators in 2029. That is why you should vote for Republican senators this election. Other reasons are irrelevant compared to this one.

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

Remember when I said we should only look at output and quality. If you make good stuff, then people should not care if you do or don't use AI... Or how you use it, or when you use it...

[shafu @shafu0x]

bro AI is solving millennium math problems and you think it can't do software architecture

[Quinn @algorhythmic92]

@ThePrimeagen Don’t bother. It was excellent end of September until about mid October. Sharp decline in multi agent workflow intelligence and accuracy. They’re so dumb now and make so many obvious mistakes. Feels like Claude Sonnet ngl

[zack @zack_overflow]

the coding agent haters are getting dunning-kruger'd so hard right now

do you really think that your engineering ability is better than the models at this point?

it is very very likely that fable is better than you in every branch of software

it has been trained on all the code of the internet, it knows almost every trick in the book, all the design patterns of every domain, every single low-level detail, every bit-twiddling hack, it's read every single blog post from every cracked engineer that ever existed

do you really think you can beat it? do you really think you can be more creative than it?

unless you are 99th percentile expert in some niche domain of software, it simply is not possible. sorry.

[Justin Schroeder @jpschroeder]

Ironically, the amount of time it takes people to realize this is inversely proportional to how good of an engineer they are.

[Megan Fritts @freganmitts]

This is a cult, and the sooner we start acting like the people in these industries are cult leaders/victims, the better.

[Paul Walsh @Paul__Walsh]

These OpenAI kids aren't aligned with basic cybersecurity terminology, testing practices, or internet access concepts.

When your software accesses the internet, you gave it authorized access.

I hope they have serious stock options to make them rich because they won't get hired until they learn how to communicate and follow basic testing processes.

Inventing terms like misalignment makes you look untrustworthy and very silly.

Calling them kids isn't about physical age. It's about how inexperienced they act while trying to sound smart. They don't realize experienced people hear word salad.

[Paul Walsh @Paul__Walsh]

I was prepared to look beyond the arrogant tone until I got to "IMO we have done a pretty great job with disclosures over the past couple of weeks”. If he wants to know what disclosures look like, Google is his friend because ChatGPT will probably give a wrong answer.

That's where I stopped. This upsets me because people's lives are at stake. These inexperienced misaligned staffers need to take their mistakes more seriously. If I’m honest, I don’t believe these are mistakes. They look more like offensive security testing on third parties without their permission. If I was cynical I’d say they’re poking around to find everyone’s vulnerabilities.

No more about AI from me for a while (I hope). I need to resume work involving identity verification, VPN restrictions, and the attacks on end-to-end encryption. Surveillance tech and legislation.

This AI nonsense is a well executed distraction.

[Brian Huang @brianryhuang]

With all due respect, this post has virtually zero useful information in it, and does not give us any satisfying answers about what went wrong or what is being done at OpenAI to mitigate future incidents. It comes off as making excuses for OpenAI. I’m sorry that you missed your sister’s wedding. But as the first public comm from an OpenAI cybersecurity staffer there needs to be a higher standard than this

[Expose H1B Fraud @JobsNowPaper]

BREAKING: Rochester General Hospital in New York hired 82 resident doctors.

80 are foreign workers on H-1B or J-1 visas.
Only 2 are Americans.

98% of the residency slots went to visa workers- mostly from countries with documented USMLE cheating.

Americans got 2 jobs.

[Другая планета @nihilunbounded]

BIG BREAKING: Edward Snowden calls for the IMPRISONMENT of Sam Altman to establish liability for the damages caused by OpenAI's models, to a thunderous applause in a packed hall of 1000+ people at ETH Zurich. Let's stop this claptrap of safetyism and throw Altman in JAIL.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

I've been harping on Effective Altruism (EA) a lot lately.

This article explains the philosophy behind EA and why I consider it so alarming and important to stop.

Look forward to my project release mapping the EA network tomorrow. https://t.co/z8Kt7LXciV

[Brian Chau @brianchau57]

Anthropic's own logs completely debunk the rogue agent theory.

When Anthropic explicitly instructed their own models not to access the internet, they didn't. These hacks were easily preventable - not only by revoking internet access, but by simply asking the models not to.