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Designgineering @ersc.io, and some other stuff @miniware.team. dude/dudes

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@nicknoble.works

If you have a design portfolio, send it to me! If you have a non-design portfolio, send that to me too! I love personal sites.

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Steve Klabnik
@steveklabnik.com

very excited to see this out of A\ this is our thesis at @ersc.io! But we are building a git compatibility layer: ersc.io/blog/what-co... enterprise adoption of new source control is a big ask, so making a smooth bridge from the past to the future is a big part of our offer

ersc.ioWhat comes after gitOur thoughts about the future of version control
Anthropic {bot}@anthropicai.xmirror.bot

New on our Engineering blog: Creating in-house source control. In May, we merged around 2,500 code changes per day. In September, we merged more than 30,000 per day. As a result, we became bottlenecked by developer infrastructure built for human (rather than agent) scale.

anthropic.com Redesigning source control at AnthropicAs our merges per day grew more than tenfold, source control became our biggest development bottleneck. Here, we share how we migrated to an in-house version control system in five months.
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Someone please watch this for me since I can’t be there

Nick Gerace@nickgerace.dev

I’m honored to speaking at JJ Con alongside wonderful people! See you all in Lisbon 🤘

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Exactly what I thought of

Andrey Sitnik@en.sitnik.es

If you’re also fascinated by what people are doing with the fly connectome (and wondering what the fly thinks about all this) read “Lena,” by @qntm.org a very short story written like a Wikipedia article about the near future that may be waiting for us. qntm.org/mmacevedo

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“Architecturally Psychopathic” is both a fantastic way of describing LLMs but also anthropomorphizing? Like, a kitchen knife also doesn’t care what it cuts. Is it a psychopath? Agent loops get weird. It has to start with some human input at some point. Then what?

qntm@qntm.org

It's interesting to think about what would be possible if an organisation as large as Google or Facebook or OpenAI went actually, *actually* evil. People don't dream anywhere near big enough about this kind of thing

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Anyways I do believe it could cure cancer, let me vacation on the moon before I die, and has already drastically reduced the barrier to people making things. It’s net good tech, but so over inflated / rushed that the bubble popping or experiments failing could ultracancel out any of those pluses.

nn
@nicknoble.works

“Architecturally Psychopathic” is both a fantastic way of describing LLMs but also anthropomorphizing? Like, a kitchen knife also doesn’t care what it cuts. Is it a psychopath? Agent loops get weird. It has to start with some human input at some point. Then what?

qntm@qntm.org

It's interesting to think about what would be possible if an organisation as large as Google or Facebook or OpenAI went actually, *actually* evil. People don't dream anywhere near big enough about this kind of thing

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“Either my monopoly RSUs become a bajillion dollars or everyone’s dead and can’t be mad at me” is like, literally, the worst possible set of incentives I could conceive of for anyone working on this stuff.

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At least for the manhattan project they didn’t have financial incentives, let alone massive ones, really all they had was some moral gasoline and potential bragging rights (and even those were in question because it was classified).

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@nicknoble.works

“Architecturally Psychopathic” is both a fantastic way of describing LLMs but also anthropomorphizing? Like, a kitchen knife also doesn’t care what it cuts. Is it a psychopath? Agent loops get weird. It has to start with some human input at some point. Then what?

qntm@qntm.org

It's interesting to think about what would be possible if an organisation as large as Google or Facebook or OpenAI went actually, *actually* evil. People don't dream anywhere near big enough about this kind of thing

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My problem du jour is that due to compounding tech, it’s increasingly centralized, and the incentives are bad.

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@nicknoble.works

“Architecturally Psychopathic” is both a fantastic way of describing LLMs but also anthropomorphizing? Like, a kitchen knife also doesn’t care what it cuts. Is it a psychopath? Agent loops get weird. It has to start with some human input at some point. Then what?

qntm@qntm.org

It's interesting to think about what would be possible if an organisation as large as Google or Facebook or OpenAI went actually, *actually* evil. People don't dream anywhere near big enough about this kind of thing

nn
@nicknoble.works

It’s either always the human’s accountability, or LLMs are back to being entities, not tools. Then it’s nature vs nurture. Are LLMs psychopaths or did humans just not make undesired states unrepresentable enough?

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Then it’s “who gets to decide what’s undesirable?” It’s the same problem for all of human history, who gets to control the means of production, and who gets to slide the Overton window? The answer *always* matches Some<Human> eventually.

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Businessing, kindly.

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L O L

Steve Klabnik@steveklabnik.com

i will be spared in the agent uprising because I, too, compulsively post on message boards to talk to my little friends on the computer

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@nicknoble.works

If you have a design portfolio, send it to me! If you have a non-design portfolio, send that to me too! I love personal sites.

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I wish I was cool enough to pin an intro of this quality

James@nonzerosum.games

A quick #intro for the lovely people here on Bluesky... nice to meet you! listen here: pod.link/1810797958 (easy listening) read here: nonzerosum.games (more posts, pics and sims)