David "Zan" McNaught

building an AI brain for orgs. founder of lovingly handcoded pre-AI. 日本語OK

[David "Zan" McNaught @amazanriver]

@deepfates “Edward Teller observed ‘von Neumann would carry on a conversation with my 3-year-old son, and the two of them would talk as equals, and I sometimes wondered if he used the same principle when he talked to the rest of us.’”
I’m sure the LLMs will get there eventually

[David "Zan" McNaught @amazanriver]

@deepfates i'd like to ask: what is LLM ecology/naturalism? is it studying LLMs' emergent properties as if they are organisms?

[David "Zan" McNaught @amazanriver]

also, don't let an agent review its own work on an image; make it use a subagent. the agents are terrible at checking their own image manipulation.

[David "Zan" McNaught @amazanriver]

fyi: you can work on images larger than chatgpt web's image model limit (~2000px longest side) without resorting to the API by sneaking the images into zip files. no actual compression necessary.

[David "Zan" McNaught @amazanriver]

did you know? a device using a USB port can be plugged into a different USB port. thank you opus 5 high.
the system instructions must specify the user has the IQ of a slime mold

[David "Zan" McNaught @amazanriver]

@konrad_gnat I thought they were killing it, wow

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@AlexanderTw33ts Can’t wait to get renting

[David "Zan" McNaught @amazanriver]

@rawandferal @DanielleFong It’s so impersonal now, had a Monero miner show up in a disused server through CVE-2025-55182 a while ago and the attackers didn’t even bother to extricate any files. Kind of rude really.

[David "Zan" McNaught @amazanriver]

@disconcision Say more?

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From an actual exchange I just had with Opus 5

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(sorry for the clickbait, it's a known err with older versions of Codex: https://t.co/YsbWL1QGVp, saw it during GBrain setup)

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Apple going gloves off

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#NewProfilePic

[David "Zan" McNaught @amazanriver]

Some onboarding material on Decentralized Identity (DID) we use internally...
Best article intro to DID I know of: https://t.co/TFxUE5Q3Pj
Best video intro to DID I know of: https://t.co/koCN6fFYRU
Best demo of DID I know of: https://t.co/aVoTPR7kty