Pasi Kovanen

Engineer.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

It’s upsetting to watch so many people be led to believe a software feature created from human exhaust is an alien intelligence.

It’s a psyop. LLMs are a clever way to compress and search large databases with patterns. They have now inhaled effectively all of human knowledge. From this point, there will be spikes of improvement in narrow areas, but the big models are already collapsing from inhaling their own exhaust.

The core technology is at least 40 years old. Neural networks are nothing new. We’re just attaching obscene amounts of computing and data to them.

The physical nature of an LLM is literally just a database of tokens (word parts) and weights (relationships) that can be queried. It is not magic. It can be made deterministic by setting the entropy aka temperature to zero. It is a clever way to store an immense amount of data and retrieve it through token predicting.

“Agents” are just LLMs being queried in a loop. They take exponentially more energy and suffer the same problems as chatbots—hallucinations and sycophancy—but exponentially more complicated to solve.

In reality, it’s all a category error. It’s a mirage created by the desire of a small group of elites to build a technological and financial moat around themselves. “AGI” is the McGuffin, the plot device, to serve as the messiah that will deliver people from the toils of everyday life.

The broligarchs are trying to sell us our own replacements. According to them, we won’t have to drive, or work, or think anymore. The robots and AI will all do it for us.

It’s the oldest con there is: magic beans.

Your chatbot is not your Jesus or your girlfriend. Your Claude instance is not intelligent. It’s a search engine for human knowledge stolen from the internet and the destruction of physical books.

So please understand. You are witnessing the biggest financial bubble in all of human history based on deceptive marketing, astroturfing, and cult dynamics. You are not witnessing the birth of a new intelligence. Unfortunately, that’s a battle we’re losing.

[Klaas @forgebitz]

software engineering in 2026:

- your package manager is compromised
- your cloud provider blocks your account
- github itself is hacked

software is solved

[Alexander Leishman 🇺🇸 @Leishman]

hilarious phishing email I just got. 10/10 execution

[Pasi Kovanen @pasikovanen]

@vontuchman @PasiHavia Ei manteleita suolavedellä kastella. Kyllähän Kaliforniassa on kiistelty paljon mantelien vedenkulutuksesta.

[𒐪 @SHL0MS]

i just generated an image in the style of a Monet painting using AI

please describe, in as much detail as possible, what makes this inferior to a real Monet painting

[Pasi Kovanen @pasikovanen]

@villepeltola Hieno kokoelma, jostain syystä tosin C64 GEOS puuttuu. https://t.co/YONDJt9fYZ

[Void Space @navalarchitect3]

Onko joku kuullut suklaakauppiaiden nyt nostavansa suklaalevyt takaisin alkuperäiseen 200g painoon (+25%) ja hinta puoleen koska kaakaon hinta on romahtanut 75%?

[OsakeKeisari @OsakeKeisari]

Kauppalehden ennuste vuoden 2026 kovimmaksi nousijaksi on Faron.

Tilanne tässä vaiheessa: Faron on Helsingin pörssin eniten laskenut osake. Vuoden alusta -74%.

[Pasi Kovanen @pasikovanen]

@OsakeKeisari Inderes suorittaa.

[Pasi Kovanen @pasikovanen]

@ElSonico @vontuchman Puhun vain nykyisistä kielimalleista. Mielestäni algoritmi kuvaa niitä hyvin. Sopivilla parametreilla ne muuttuvat deterministisiksi.

[Pasi Kovanen @pasikovanen]

@AlanneKari @vontuchman Agentit osaavat suorittaa tehtäviä. Kuten esimerkiksi muokata koodia tai käyttää ohjelmia. Kielimalli niissäkin taustalla.

[Pasi Kovanen @pasikovanen]

@ElSonico @vontuchman En sanonut etteikö kone voisi toimia samoin kuin ihmisen aivot mutta nykyiset kielimallit toimivat hyvin eri tavalla. Yhtään vähättelemättä niiden kyvykkyyttä.

[Pasi Kovanen @pasikovanen]

@lehtonen74 @hissipoika Seuraakohan näitä enää kukaan?

[Pasi Kovanen @pasikovanen]

@terotolonen Totta, nolo moka! Tsekkasin kyllä tämän mutta liian huolimattomasti... https://t.co/98R4DXVr2K

[Pasi Kovanen @pasikovanen]

Mikä on eniten väärinkirjoitettu suomen kielinen sana? Oma veikkaukseni: aggregaatti.

[Jeff Dean @JeffDean]

Today, we’re continuing to push the boundaries of AI with our release of Gemini 3.1 Pro.

This updated model scores 77.1% on ARC-AGI-2, more than double the reasoning performance of its predecessor, Gemini 3 Pro.

Check out the visible improvement in this side-by-side comparison, showing Gemini 3.1 Pro’s crisp animation built with pure code.

Read more about today’s 3.1 Pro update: https://t.co/vABdcMSE3f

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

NEWS: Tesla has released new FSD (Supervised) safety data.

Total major collisions:
• Teslas with FSD (Supervised): 830
• Teslas driven manually with Active Safety: 16,131
• Teslas driven manually without Active Safety: 250
• U.S. average: 4,989,713

Miles per major collision:
• Teslas with FSD (Supervised): 5,300,676
• Teslas driven manually with Active Safety: 2,175,763
• Teslas driven manually without Active Safety: 855,132
• U.S. average: 660,164

Total miles logged:
• Teslas with FSD (Supervised): 4,399,561,339
• Teslas driven manually with Active Safety: 35,097,234,145
• Teslas driven manually without Active Safety: 213,783,029
• U.S. drivers overall: 3,294,031,000,000

Tesla vehicles with FSD (Supervised) engaged experience fewer collisions than those driven without it on.

This is North America data across all road classes (highway and non-highway). The latest 12 months of collision rate metrics is used.

[Pasi Kovanen @pasikovanen]

@Matias_Haavisto @vontuchman @villepeltola Luulidin että kuka tahansa, jos AI tekee parempia diagnooseja. https://t.co/fdnXvr8o8Z

[Tom's Hardware @tomshardware]

In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud — 'The mud should sound perfectly awful, but it doesn't,' notes the experiment creator https://t.co/KdAlZ9tK4d