Berk Gokden

Engineer - Tech Enthusiast - Programmer #bigdata #machinelearning #ai #appgrowth #spark #iot

[Berk Gokden @bgokden]

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#Cybersecurity #Privacy #ChromeExtension

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Hot damn, this is some massive drama… Factory AI board member Chris Degnan accused for secretly giving out confential business details to Cognition; terminated from Factory; 50 minutes later announces joining Cognition as CRO… WTH 🤯

https://t.co/fBbk3jQ2P4

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Heard a software engineer say: "my cofounder is Claude" about a project they built + shipped.

I am baffled by people humanizing AI, given it's just a tool. The same way my keyboard is not my cofounder (though I could not write @Pragmatic_Eng without it!) but a means to an end

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Scrum made sense at companies/teams that shipped a new version of their product every 2-3 months (or less frequent)

As soon as a team got to shipping daily or had CD: they only held teams back

Most startups + Big Tech moved on a decade+ ago, legacy companies remained only

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

When you look for ways to make agents be more efficient at building good, quality, useful software: you start to discover (or re-discover) software architecture and programming practices that are decades old

Shallow vs deep modules
Tracer bullets
The surgeon team

25+ year old books suddenly become very useful to work better with these AI coding agents

How ironic is this?

(This thought comes after we talked about just this with @mattpocockuk. It will be a podcast episode)

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Two things here:

1. Know that fake job interviews set up to have you install malware on your machine are becoming REALLY common. It's obscene.

IDK what the solution is: be viligant, and if absolutely necessary to run sg, use a clean VM, isolated from everything? Be paranoid

[Berk Gokden @bgokden]

@GergelyOrosz I had the same and canceled when I saw this message.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Food for thought that extremely experienced engineers with 30+ years under their belt who could easily retire are starting new companies to push the boundaries of AI

And know tech folks who have semi-retired getting back into the game

BUT also heard from a few (very few!) devs leaving the industry, in fear of what AI will do to it

[Fromthesky Research Labs @fromtheskylabs]

HypothesisForge: open-source, autonomous ML-research agents that hypothesize, run a real GPT-2 experiment, critique the stats, and write the report. Apache 2.0. Follow us for more.
https://t.co/svPYm2q3WB

[Burc Gokden @burcgokden]

Proud to share HypothesisForge, our new open-source autonomous ML-research agent crew from Fromthesky Research Labs. Check it out!

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Wild to see every VC funded and publicly traded tech company rebrand to being an AI company

Paging company —> the platform for AI-first operations

CDN —> AI Cloud

Helpdesk software —> AI-powered helpdesk platform

o11y —> AI-powered intelligent o11y

Everywhere…

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

If you have ever thought/argued about “productivity” but not read the book The Goal by by Eliyahu M. Goldratt: read it!

It’s about a factory where everyone is measurably 100% productive, headed to bankruptcy.

The factory is turned around by… not focusing on productivity!

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

This has been an open secret for at least 18-24 months. GH starts have been heavily purchased by many projects (not all!) that tried to show traction, and drum up VC investment.

Better VCs have had custom tools to rank organic vs paid GH stars 18 months back, easily...

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Founders + C-level folks who come from a software engineering background are all getting back to it.

Never seen eng leaders get hands-on with a previous technology at so many different places.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

This is either brilliant or scary:

Anthropic accidentally leaked the TS source code of Claude Code (which is closed source). Repos sharing the source are taken down with DMCA.

BUT this repo rewrote the code using Python, and so it violates no copyright & cannot be taken down!

[Fromthesky Research Labs @fromtheskylabs]

Preprint: https://t.co/zOoi4ZyYsA
GitHub: https://t.co/pRScmV8sgn
Weights: https://t.co/RZrMDs2Lto

#AIPhysics #StatisticalMechanics #LLMs #ComplexityScience #MachineLearning #SelfOrganizedCriticality #PLDRLLM

[Fromthesky Research Labs @fromtheskylabs]

- Predictive Precision: Reasoning capability can be derived from the model’s learned dynamics, providing a self-contained metric for comprehension.

It's time to treat LLMs as complex physical systems rather than just statistical parrots.

[Fromthesky Research Labs @fromtheskylabs]

The Paradigm Shift:
- Beyond Benchmarks: We move from "black-box" testing to internal state measurement.
- Self-Organized Criticality: We identify the specific physical phase where reasoning manifests.

[Fromthesky Research Labs @fromtheskylabs]

Our new research demonstrates that PLDR-LLMs exhibit Self-Organized Criticality (SOC). This isn't just a theoretical curiosity; it allows us to quantify reasoning with high precision by analyzing the metastable steady state of the model itself.

[Burc Gokden @burcgokden]

I am pleased to share this breakthrough achieved at @fromtheskylabs !

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

This is more common than you'd imagine at large layoffs. Happened eg at Uber's 20% layoffs in 2020 as well.

It is because layoffs are decided at Director-or-above levels, and quotas need to be hit. Directors (or above) don't have all context, and some key folks are let go. Oops!