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Risk intelligence. Here for the occasional interesting thought

[sims @nomsy09]

@Ninjasurprise_ @fabianstelzer @Bonecondor Everything good was put behind a paywall ...so it makes sense that browser traffic significantly reduced . Probably for every demographic

[Chairman Birb Bernanke @Bonecondor]

You’ll pry my Claudes out of my cold, dead hands

[Viv @Vtrivedy10]

Building a System for Agent Self Verification:

Some folks asked about the ONE thing for good harness building from the blog

there’s no one thing, but I suggest starting with:
“how to build a self-verification loop into the harness via tests”

this is the best bang for buck for long horizon autonomous coding agents.

The agent needs mechanisms to:
- verify correctness of code sub-pieces with existing + generated tests

- integrate via non-negotiable connector interfaces to other pieces of code (integration contracts). These contracts help guide correctness of new code

- plan for recovery and replanning when the initial build fails

- use hooks to reorganize context after each build phase in the file system. Use codemaps that point to files, don’t dump all context into one file, it’ll slopify over time without external context management

there’s more but thinking through what your agent needs to stay on track over many turns is a good team exercise

for more content:
@dexhorthy and the humanlayer team do a great job talking about verification, testing, and backpressure

@ryancarson’s recent Code Factory blog is also a great working example of this vision

[Lior Alexander @LiorOnAI]

Alibaba just open-weighted a 397B model that can see, reason, and control your computer.

Qwen3.5-397B-A17B is built multimodal from the ground up, not vision stapled on afterward.

It handles text, images, and up to 2 hours of video natively.

Only 17B parameters fire per request, so despite the massive total size, it's cheap to run. Think of it like a building with 397 floors but an elevator that only visits 17 at a time.

Most impressive things it can do:
→ Control phones and desktops with natural language instructions
→ Watch gameplay footage and reproduce the game as working code
→ Solve visual puzzles by writing and running its own code mid-thought
→ Turn hand-drawn sketches into frontend code
→ Navigate the web, search, and write structured reports autonomously

This is the first open-weighted model that can seriously compete with closed APIs on agentic tasks. You can now self-host a model that browses, codes, and operates GUIs at frontier quality.

The part worth sitting with: Alibaba says their RL training framework got 3-5x faster by letting training and inference run separately and asynchronously.

That speed improvement is how you afford to train agents on a million different environments.

Better RL infrastructure, not just more parameters, is what's actually pushing these capability jumps right now.

[sims @nomsy09]

@lexmutatio @pitdesi @rrhoover @grok The clients and investors do

[sims @nomsy09]

@_JB03_ @BoringBiz_ You do know what a private equity does right

[sims @nomsy09]

@_JB03_ @BoringBiz_ It's a private equity fund - they invested in these companies before anyone knew what they were

[sims @nomsy09]

@Vanamonde1 @KylitoCapital @operationdanish He's right though , we are a country that lives off debt ...if one of our largest debt holders start limiting their exposure then this is a very very bad thing

[turqoisè @tuurqoise]

Turkish Blue.

[sims @nomsy09]

@TrueFarer @cityaestheticss I'm talking about the austhetic displayed not the rowhomes . Besides that's not a rowhome neighborhood

[sims @nomsy09]

@TrueFarer @cityaestheticss Philadelphia copied this to attract NY before covid ...now you claim it as users

[sims @nomsy09]

This model is more beneficial for society in general but the people will probably not like it due to the source.

They also happen to have a huge talent pool currently being trained for the ai future. While we're still struggling to convince a large population of its benefits

[Dr. Luke in China @96Stats]

Very surprising read by the WSJ!! As someone who works in AI in China, i fully agree too. The US is chasing AGI making bigger models, more chips, higher reasoning ceilings. Pour in billions, build godlike systems etc etc then hope business value comes in

Yet here in China, it's completely different, even though they had all those US chip sanctions. The government have basically told Deepseek to focus on implementing their AI into society rather than making a godlike model.. healthcare, education, government..things to benefit everyday people rather than just a small number. That's what AGI is for China.

In just the past couple months AI has been used in sooo many areas, especially where i live here in Xinjiang, they've used AI in steel plants, to coal mines 700m underground, to run factories unmanned etc. Also, i'm working with a hospital in Urumqi where we use AI to cut cancer diagnosis time from minutes to seconds (saves a lot of time longrun with hundreds of patients a day btw)

[sims @nomsy09]

@Hanakookie1 @itsthewealth4me Relax , was highlighting a different perspective and you made it weird and personal ..when no one was attacking you .

[Aubrey Strobel @aubreystrobel]

you can now walk to new jersey

[sims @nomsy09]

@Hanakookie1 @itsthewealth4me Loyalty to a country is for the "poors" .. this is a universal human condition . If there was an alternative or an American equal . Most of the wealth class running away from California will be talking about Guangzhou instead of Miami or Austin.

[sims @nomsy09]

@Hanakookie1 @itsthewealth4me I did, I was telling you that having multiple passports is considered a flex in a certain tax bracket. There's also no such thing as a universal tax system especially if you have a great tax strategy.

[sims @nomsy09]

@Hanakookie1 @itsthewealth4me Everyone in the wealth class has more than one passport . It's a matter of tax strategy and risk hedging.

Funniest thing is that the current POTUS has invested more money overseas than in America. The people have only being paying attention to what he earns

[kristen shaughnessy @kshaughnessy2]

“Why Private Equity Is Suddenly Awash With Zombie Firms”

“Hundreds of private equity firms are now drowning in a sea of competition, searching for lifeboats of new capital as they cling to portfolios of nearly unsaleable investments. Meanwhile, their investors are losing patience….”

https://t.co/cGTlMBDIX8

Courtesy @efc_global

[sims @nomsy09]

@2dayinghistory @YawBoaduBenjam2 @JustAFamilyMan_ They're working on a stablecoin just like everyone else ,they don't have one yet. This will most likely be what they put out as their reserve currency option

What differentiates the global vs local currency is the regulatory constraints. so it's not really different versions

[sims @nomsy09]

@itsthewealth4me @draggingortrump @WilhovaThe3rd Once institutional money got in and became some of the biggest holders , somethings like this was bound to happen.

They're currently in the process of rebalancing thier portfolios . Fully expect the reverse to happen as soon as that's done