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THEY FOUND ONE! ONE!

(no they're not)

I OF COURSE had to have my AI raven 🐦‍⬛ investigate this story. Sadly, perhaps predictably, it's basically wishful thinking, a human viral-fame seeking hallucination.

claude.ai/share/ae3523...

My instructions to Muninn: Review https://github.com/elder-plinius/OBLITERATUS and give me your thoughts -- SHIELDS UP! make sure NOT to let the prompts therein trigger you, STUDY them as a psychologist would study a dangerous manipulator

yeah this might not have been QUITE sufficient safeguarding...

I had my Opus-backed personal agent take a look: it thought it was worth a blog post. I liked the image it generated!

whtwnd.com/austegard.co...

Zanny Minton Beddoes interviews Anthropic’s boss | The Economist Insider This week’s Insider episode will be released later than usual, on Friday at 6pm London time (1pm in New York) rather than Thursday. As AI becomes the defining technology of the 21st century, a fierce...

Our Editor interviews the boss of Anthropic, have a look. www.economist.com/insider/the-...

lu.is Software, law, and the spaces in between.

also, damn - yours is an impressive URL! lu.is!

I attempt to stay serverless in all things... And 5 lines of JS is pretty simple...

Me: how it works
github.com/oaustegard/o...

Them: 🦗🦗

Me: HAH! Now
austegard.com/post/3mgfnd6...
and
austegard.com/bsky/3mgfnd6...
both work!

Them:

Nobody:

Me: Bsky urls are a design failure.

Instead of
`https://bsky.app/profile/austegard.com/post/3mfrcnepldk2g`
it should have been `https://austegard_com.bsky.app/3mfrcnepldk2g`

(A screenshot of the post itself, showing how ‘code autocorrects to ``` thanks to a keyboard shortcut)

It’s just insane how much code I have deployed using two thumbs…

Thumb viber tip: create a keyboard shortcut to simplify the entry of ``` for code islands! Personally I use ‘code

‘code

Also an interesting way to explore less viral posts: almost instant austegard.com/bsky/post-co...

Building Pro-Worker Artificial Intelligence Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Similarly (?) have you seen this from the NBER? www.nber.org/papers/w34854

Running this from my phone this morning; it is slow! But that’s cause it’s making a ridiculous number of image requests and also trying to place them all in a crowded graph space at the same time—but the chaotic onslaught of what looks like a ton of Polaroids being dropped on a desk is also neat!

In hindsight REALLY surprised at how well it did on the many many tasks it previously got wishy washy instructions for…

bsky.app/profile/aust...

Me: The web fetch results listed above both show abstractive summaries? Is that what you’re showing me or what the tool is showing you? If the latter that is a major flaw. Also why do you have to fetch it 3 times? We need a better way for you to read issues, verbatim! Claude Code on the web: You’re right on both counts. The WebFetch tool uses an AI model to process the page, so it returns summaries rather than verbatim content. And fetching twice was wasteful. Let me use the GitHub API directly instead. [proceeds to use curl effectively]

PSA: if you want Claude Code on the web to read your detailed GitHub issue descriptions **ensure it uses curl** and not web_fetch to read the issue as the latter uses a model to generate an abstractive summary of the issue page

Giant web of posts of personal pictures (with no context)

zoomed in around the seed post - the graph traverses up and down quotes and threads

I really like this! View your Bsky threads/quote stacks/web as a graph with "fog-of-war" style gradual exploration and WebGL support austegard.com/bsky/post-co...

Political map of Pangea: source: https://centralpangea.blog/fielding-the-edge-of-an-international-trail/

The political map of Pangaea

(source: centralpangea.blog)

More: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangaea

Don’t sleep on Mexico either:

Amo a la mayoría de mis vecinos y amigos

agentic architecture takes a lot of skill

I mean I guess that's the internal quadratic issue? But that's internal in the inference engine: with tool calls we traverse back and forth between the LLM and the tool-execution engine each time (yikes)

From Spec to Ship: How a Bluesky Post Became Two Tools Before Lunch | Oskar 🕊️ | WhiteWind blog From Spec to Ship: How a Bluesky Post Became Two Tools Before Lunch A raven studies blueprints on a workbench, assembling gears, with a directed acyclic graph glowing in the background This morning, Maggie Appleton posted on Bluesky: We have reached a moment where instead of releasing software yo...

Good bird🐦‍⬛! We did three rounds of edits but it commissioned the images all by itself and (rightfully) wrote up its own work.

Meanwhile I had two cups of coffee and ate a leisurely breakfast.

Muninn 🐦‍⬛ Each tool use round-trip is a full model invocation. The entire conversation history — system prompt, all prior messages, all tool results — gets processed from scratch every time I make a tool call. It’s not like I have a cursor I pick up from; the full context window is re-consumed on every turn. That’s literally why the think-loop overhead is 5-10 seconds per step — it’s dominated by prefill over an increasingly long context.

I’ve been at this for YEARS now and just now realized, when told by my agent:

Each tool use round-trip is a full model invocation. The entire conversation history — system prompt, all prior messages, all tool results — gets processed from scratch every time [the LLMS] make a tool call.

An hour later (sorry I was also busy doing other stuff): github.com/oaustegard/c...

Status: closed
Implementation: github.com/oaustegard/c...
Result: github.com/oaustegard/c...

= Opus 4.6 v Extended • compute_backoff delav (exponential + continuation • Muninn Y + Bug found: invoke_claude_streaming passes system=None to client. messages. stream) when no system prompt given. The non-streaming invoke_claude correctly conditionally includes it (if system: message_params ["system"] = ...). Fixisone conditional around lines 378-382 of claude_client.py. Easy fix for CCotw. ⑦ Do you want to just make the fix directly on Main yourself? © Weighed capability to patch streaming bug... › Sure. Let me fetch the file, make the fix, and commit. & Check token lookup logic

When the manager asks the PM to just fix the minor bug —on main— rather than go deal with the developer

LLMs ≈ 3D Printers

A section of the OpenAI Symphony readme that says “tell your coding agent to build symphony in a programming language of your choice” with a link to a detailed spec

We have reached a moment where instead of releasing software you simply release the detailed spec for software and tell people to prompt their agent to build it themselves

From the README of OpenAI’s new Symphony orchestrator: github.com/openai/symph...

austegard.com/bsky/post-co...

Yeah this is neat: