I know it’s become pretty cliche and cringey to talk about at this point but if you’re under like 25 I cannot stress enough how one time Obama wore a tan suit and people spent a week arguing over whether or not it was demeaning to the Oval Office and they were serious about it.
Welp, that happened faster than I predicted. Thought it would be end of 2027, then early 2027, but agentic traffic growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time in the Internet's history. https://t.co/2zX5bHdhsa
At MS Build so much was said about agent security - sandboxing solutions abound: the new MXC, Nvidia's OpenShell
the showcase demo was OpenClaw prevented from deleting your desktop files. But that's barely even a problem - it was never hard to run OpenClaw on a dedicated VM
the bigger problem is that agents need real credentialed access to be useful... but that's exquisitely dangerous
what works (at least for us) is a firewall that holds the credentials the agent never sees, parses every request at the wire, and applies highly configurable rules to block bad actions
new grads often ask me what they should be doing so they don't fall behind in the ai space. there's a lot, but its honestly super manageable. become intimate with model internals. proof based linear algebra. non-convex optimization. this is stuff you could've done in undergrad. it definitely takes some time and work, but its doable. have taste, have opinions. train a small model, then train a big one. vLLM internals, tensor parallelism. hand roll kernels. cluster orchestration. do you have opinions on synthetic data? why don't you? SFT, PPO, you should know this. learn Triton. everyone is reproducing papers now so you need to be doing more. do you know the semi supply chain? where are the bottlenecks? hardware, man, hardware. your little gpu rig erector set in your basement isnt gonna cut it. build a cluster, a big one. pretrain a 800B model. now postrain it. serve it to millions of people. you should be able to beat deepseek on some benchmarks now. its a lot to take in but it all snowballs. this what job security looks like from now on. do you want to work in tech or not
What if we just go back to you pretend to pay me, I pretend to work, I pretend to buy stuff, you pretend to make stuff, you pretend to govern, we pretend to follow your rules, we pretend to go to church, and you pretend you have access to god? Wasn’t that working ok for pretty much everybody?
Reducing someone's identity to one or two traits is obviously dumb, extracting politics from said stupid act is monstrously idiotic which is why anyone engaging sounds like they are babbling.
If you try to enforce social rules based on anything but character and actions that illuminate said character you get a fuckton of LARPing to fit in. Japan has a ton of social rules and a bunch of suicide as a quick example.
Things BLACK AMERICANS in the ATLANTA AREA enjoy:
- POKE BOWLS WITH RAW SALMON
- HAVING THEIR 4 YEAR OLD LEARN MANDARIN
- ALO YOGA
- DRINKING MATCHA
- INVESTING INTO ROTH IRAs
- SATURDAY AFTERNOON FISHING
-DRIVING TOYOTA TACOMAS