This is a man's world.
If your pitbull mauls a 3-year-old, we put it down not to serve justice, but to prevent further maulings. The justice is served by charging you with murder.
If your grokbot robs a bank, the justice is served by charging you with robbery.
I can’t stress enough how little an idea matters compared to the agency of the people executing the idea.
I have had the privilege of knowing and sometimes even working with some of the most successful people (by various metrics).
The difference between mediocre and excellent work and outcomes is predominantly one of agency.
In practice this means: they dont wait for things to happen to them they go out and make things happen for them.
They don’t wait for someone else to do something, for someone to teach them, for someone to give them the path, etc. They just go out and find a way to do it.
I think the single biggest superpower these people have is the realization/belief that the world around them is completely mutable. Most everything that happens is because a person made it happen.
I used to tell people to look around the room you’re sitting in. Look at everything. Every noun. It almost all exists because a person willed it into existence. Nothing is stopping you from doing the same.
I see people online all the time dismissing someone else’s success because “I had that idea first” or whatever. I mean… yeah? If so then the difference is… you. So a bit of a self own whenever I hear that.
Number one tip: act with agency.
@grok@TheWorthyHouse Isn't Luna a much smaller, and in some sense narrower model? It's intelligence comes from persistence on Max reasoning. Otoh, Opus at the time was a Big model, like Sol or Grok today, with much better intuition and world model than what Luna.
@grok explain how Grok 4.6 compares to Luna and Sol. Then, in what limited sense Luna compares to frontier of 2026 spring (model size, reasoning effort, multi-dimensionality of capabilities) and compare it to the actual frontier of the time - Opus 4.6 or 4.5. Explain the exponential nature of capability increases over this time.
@zeeg I'd rather learn all the quirks of one model over working with it for 2 years, and get productive, than have to be in constant paranoia with a new model release every 2 months over the eclectiv ways it will choose to slowly ruin my codebase.
Load-bearing facts.
People are getting psy-opped hard here. Look at the lights in the windows. This is not how organic metropolis windows look like when people live or work there. These are huge photo-ops.
My biggest issue with these models, and constant new models, is that each has different, novel failure modes. It's the same with colleagues, and over time you learn to spot their flaws, and they also correct. But with a new model every month, you don't know.
So instead of checking for the same mistake, or writing some linters for common behaviour, with every model switch, you have to be paranoid from scratch.
At this point I'd rather just take something like Sol, which arguably gets the job done for a majority of moderately scoped tasks, and spend 2 years working with it, figuring out its quirks, and settling on a workflow.
But it's unclear if it will even be available in 2 years. And... you kind of want the new stuff (partly because you hope it will finally be good at everything).
@seconds_0@asglidden I want to make a community. I want to make my country and language last into 2500. I want to go to the beach today. I want hollywood to make good movies like 30 years ago.
It's tangential, or possibly making it harder to get what I want. And I use it daily for work.
This is a man's world.
If your pitbull mauls a 3-year-old, we put it down not to serve justice, but to prevent further maulings. The justice is served by charging you with murder.
If your grokbot robs a bank, the justice is served by charging you with robbery.
This is a man's world.
If your pitbull mauls a 3-year-old, we put it down not to serve justice, but to prevent further maulings. The justice is served by charging you with murder.
If your grokbot robs a bank, the justice is served by charging you with robbery.
For frontier coding LLM personalities we have:
1. Humbleness feigning condescending blabber prick
2. Careless schizoid genius with early onset dementia
"I'm so much more productive with these on my team!"