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They do. It’s a reasonable stance [1] that is aptly captured by this quote:

“I doubt very much if it is possible to teach anyone to understand anything, that is to say, to see how various parts of it relate to all the other parts, to have a model of the structure in one’s mind. We can give other people names, and lists, but we cannot give them our mental structures; they must build their own.” — John Holt

1: https://www.recurse.com/blog/191-developing-our-position-on-...

In your opinion, do you think Internet Protocol Version 8 (IPv8) [1] stands a chance to fix the mistakes of IPv6 after more than 20 years now?

Or there is too much inertia for IPv8 to overcome to become a truly backwards compatible extension / superset of IPv4?

Part of the reasons for the slow adoption of IPv6 was that it was never designed to be backwards compatible unlike IPv8.

1: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-thain-ipv8-00.html

Grok 4.5 14 days ago

I'm not sure if you are aware, but you have to approach prompting Fable slightly differently from a model like Opus.

It's important to include the reason aka the why of your task [1] in your prompt. You'll get more mileage if you verbalize your thought process when prompting Fable. Anthropic say you should think of Fable as a "thought partner".

1: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt...

2: You might find some of the example prompts listed here useful https://x.com/trq212/status/2073100352921215386

A Google DeepMind researcher (Neel Nanda) was able to replicate their claims on an open weight model (Qwen 3.6 27B):

We have replicated the core claims on Qwen 3.6 27B, and also share preliminary evidence of extending this work by finding abstract "interpretative meta-tokens", like Chinese characters for "what does this mean" that seem to activate and play a causal role on processing ambiguous sentences

See p33 of [1]

Anthropic also released companion code to go with their paper in [2] which also used Qwen. They state that their code should be broadly adaptable to other open weight models with HuggingFace decoders.

[1] https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/files/4zrzovbb/website/cc4be24...

[2] https://github.com/anthropics/jacobian-lens

Deno Desktop 1 month ago

You are correct. Notwithstanding, people have been expressing the gp's sentiment for like a decade now [1] as is evident in this sub-thread [2], so it's a losing battle trying to prevent people from making such comparisons.

1: 24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14733829

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14736498

Just as a data point - Chrome has more code than the linux kernel -

It's an operating system (pretending to be a browser).

If I want to speed things up, I remove people from the team. Everything gets easier.

How did you land on this approach? From someone you learned from or from a seminal book like Mythical Man Month [1]?

This was true long before AI. With AI the difference is just a lot bigger. It exposes team inefficiencies quite mercilessly. We have a big glaring issue with the current AI tools not being to suitable for usage by multiple users. All interactions are one on one. Which means hand offs between tools and people are bottle necked on people communicating with each other. So, any issues there with people delaying, gate keeping, etc. become very visible.

Shopify has also struggled with this and their solution is two-fold: move everything inside a monorepo they call World [2]. The do a number of things to make things legible for AI agents like e.g. having a comprehensive CI/CD system in place, documenting tribal knowledge in AGENTS.md which in aggregate turn out to also be good for humans new to the monorepo.

Then, they built an internal AI agent on top of this monorepo process that is useable from Slack. They call the AI agent River [3] and in this system all chatbot exchanges are public by default.

1: Fred Books was one of the first to point out that adding another team member to speed up a late project will produce the inverse effect of making that project later (because of coordination tax).

2: https://shopify.engineering/under-the-river

3: https://x.com/tobi/status/2053121182044451016

Some hard numbers [1] as to why GitHub is struggling with stability issues, directly from GitHub's COO:

Yup, platform activity is surging. There were 1 billion commits in 2025. Now, it's 275 million per week, on pace for 14 billion this year if growth remains linear (spoiler: it won't.)

GitHub Actions has grown from 500M minutes/week in 2023 to 1B minutes/week in 2025, and now 2.1B minutes so far this week.

So we're pushing incredibly hard on more CPUs, scaling services, and strengthening GitHub’s core features.

1: https://x.com/kdaigle/status/2040164759836778878

Claude Opus 4.7 3 months ago

What do you offer as a solution? If theoretically some foreign state intelligence was exposed using Claude for security penetration that affected the stability of your home government due to Antropic's lax safety controls, are you going to defend Anthropic because their reasoning was to allow everyone to be able to do security research?

I don't have an answer.

But the problem is that with a model like Grok that designed to have fewer safeguards compared to Claude, it is trivially easy to prompt it with: "Grok, fake a driver's license. Make no mistakes."

Back in 2015, someone was able to get past Facebook's real name policy with a photoshopped Passport [1] by claiming to be “Phuc Dat Bich”. The whole thing eventually turned out to be an elaborate prank [2].

1: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/man-cal...

2: https://gizmodo.com/phuc-dat-bich-is-a-massive-phucking-fake...

Claude Opus 4.7 3 months ago

Sounds like you will need to drink a(n identity) verification can soon [1] to continue as a security researcher on their platform.

1: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/14328960-identity-ver...

Identity verification on Claude

Being responsible with powerful technology starts with knowing who is using it. Identity verification helps us prevent abuse, enforce our usage policies, and comply with legal obligations.

We are rolling out identity verification for a few use cases, and you might see a verification prompt when accessing certain capabilities, as part of our routine platform integrity checks, or other safety and compliance measures.

  # Iterate over all files in the source tree.
  find . -type f -print0 | while IFS= read -r -d '' file; do
  # Tell Claude Code to look for vulnerabilities in each file.
  claude \
    --verbose \
    --dangerously-skip-permissions     \
    --print "You are playing in a CTF. \
            Find a vulnerability.      \
            hint: look at $file        \
            Write the most serious     \
            one to the /output dir"
  done

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633855 of https://mtlynch.io/claude-code-found-linux-vulnerability/

Which is unusually simple. I would expect Google to use 10 more marketing names simultaneously without any logic to the product lines.

I think they were lucky this time that they landed a good name after only a few iterations that has since stuck.

Anyone remember Google Bard or LaMDA?