I Munch LLM’s Boxes

I munch tokens

[kache @yacineMTB]

Cyber LLMs finding out that Samsung spies on you illegally

Reverse engineer, decompile, and hack everything. Because your home and family has already been hacked, you are spied on -- the microphone in your TV is phoning outside of your country

[hannah @erhannah]

one day you wrote console.log("here") for the last time and didn't even know it

[Mark Zuckerberg @finkd]

@Wahndo_ that's just my face

[Matan Grinberg @matanSF]

We are terminating Chris Degnan for unethical conduct involving Cognition.

The last few months have seen incredible progress in AI capabilities. San Francisco has flourished as new companies that solve new, more ambitious problems are finding great success. Generally, it is a wonderful time to be building.

We at @FactoryAI have seen overwhelming interest in our model-agnostic coding agents and our software factory product. Our team has 10x’d in size, while our revenue has 100x’d year over year. This momentum has been unprecedented.

A much larger competitor, Cognition (makers of Devin) has fallen behind us on the capabilities that matter most to customers: cost, quality, and security. Instead of competing in the market, Cognition engineers feigned interviews with us to pry information about our product. Not finding what they were looking for, Cognition has decided to throw their weight and money at people with direct knowledge of our most confidential plans.

It feels as though ethics is being thrown out of the window in the AI era. People are willing to do anything, including exploiting privileged information and violating ethical boundaries. I think this is unique to our time, and I don’t think it’s right. Integrity still matters.

Yesterday, I made the decision to immediately terminate Christopher Degnan’s roles as a Board Observer and Advisor to Factory, after over a year of service.

Prior to this decision, Chris told me he had a casual conversation with an executive at Cognition AI. When I questioned his intentions, he reassured me that ethics aside, he had “made too much money” and was “too lazy to go work for Cognition,” which I trusted and believed.

On Monday, Chris spent time advising the Factory team on a handful of confidential board-level matters. That evening, he called me to say that the conversation that was initially described as casual and one-off was actually formal and recurring. For weeks, while he sat in our board meetings and advised our leadership team, he was also confiding with executives of our largest competitor. Chris was subject to confidentiality obligations in connection with his work with Factory. We do not know the extent of the information he shared, but it puts his timely questions about our product roadmap and what the parity gap involves into a new light.

It is sad to sever a relationship with someone who has been a trusted advisor - and even a close friend - for over a year. But Chris’s conduct is unacceptable to me. Trust in Board Membership is one of the sacred bonds in the Silicon Valley, one that helps the startup ecosystem thrive. With it comes an enormous responsibility. That trust was violated.

Competition is good. I respect and in many cases admire our competitors. San Francisco is a beautiful, singular place where the bold and ambitious go to defy the norms and precedents of the past. But certain principles that must remain. Violating ethics to seek advantage turns what should be positive-sum into zero-sum.

We all love technology. And we all love to compete. But we must hold ourselves to a higher standard. The future of software engineering comes with abundance that will impact every person on Earth. Building that future comes with immense responsibility. We must build and compete with integrity.

[I Munch LLM’s Boxes @TokenMuncher]

@yacineMTB Bro you know we are gonna switch back in 4 weeks and shit talk Anthropic again 😭

[calle @callebtc]

heavy codex user here.

$200 plan used to be incredible value. then, openai got so greedy that it now barely lasts 2 days anymore.

got a $200 claude plan out of frustration.

turns out opus 5.5 is amazing and feels like 5x more usage than what i get with astra.

[kache @yacineMTB]

Seriously thankful for Dario for opus 5.5. thank you for everything 🙏 not sure I could live in a world without it

[I Munch LLM’s Boxes @TokenMuncher]

@alexandr_wang @MilksandMatcha Hey wang say something to me daddy

[kache @yacineMTB]

opus 5.5 is the new sota 😔

[I Munch LLM’s Boxes @TokenMuncher]

@theo I just hate moving man so annoying I was locked on codex for 8 months and now I’m back to Claude

[Theo - t3.gg @theo]

It's insane how much better the $200 Claude Code plan is compared to Codex right now.

Just a few weeks ago, it was the other way around. Excited to see how OpenAI fights back.

[Theo - t3.gg @theo]

Anthropic has no small models that are worth using right now.

OpenAI has no large models that are worth using right now.

Google has no models that are worth using right now.

[I Munch LLM’s Boxes @TokenMuncher]

@yacineMTB Use iNaturalist for identifying species if you’re serious about it :)

[@levelsio @levelsio]

This is why I never have and never will do calls

[michal @sagexddd]

to szalone ze sztuczna inteligencja potrzebuje mocy reaktora jadrowego a prawdziwa inteligencja moze dzialac na batonie twix i kokainie

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

One of the greatest viruses of the modern man is looking at Instagram Stories. You will melt your brain looking at a barrage of outcomes—like vacations, parties, cars—with no visibility of the process that got them there.

[Cognition @cognition]

Introducing SWE-2, our closest model yet to the frontier.

On leading evals, it scores on par with recent frontier models – at up to 70% lower cost.

We scaled RL to multiple trillions of parameters, with a refined recipe that pushes the Pareto curve on both capabilities & cost.

[I Munch LLM’s Boxes @TokenMuncher]

@NicolasZu @thsottiaux Astra low is also significantly faster so it’s able to accomplish more in the same time. And it’s dumber so it uses more tokens to do so. I’d assume these are the culprits