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I agree, but there are use cases for the 'best model' other than converting your 1975 stuff to rust: for use cases where LLMs are just getting started to be useful I really want to use the current 'best' model: e.g. CAD, PCB design etc. In particular anything which requires spatial reasoning. The short time I had access to Fable 5 - it was just way better than any other model.

Claude Opus 4.8 2 months ago

i find it very confusing - there were reports of accounts being banned due to it - then allowed again - what is the current state? I would like to use it with pi.dev harness.

ChatGPT Images 2.0 3 months ago

actually gpt-image-2 is VERY flexible with the resolution. You can use arbitrary resolution within the max pixel budget.

I think a terminal is still the perfect UI for coding agents on desktop systems. But now that I have running agents in background that only sometimes require some extra input on the go - I hate the terminal use on the go: terminus or other mobile app + virtual keyboard is horrible to use. For that I envision a better interface.

FreeCAD 5 months ago

Cadquery looks interesting. In particular STEP support compared to OpenSCAD. Thanks for mentioning.

4chan for Clankers 5 months ago

There's a whole spectrum forming here. Clacker News is the HN end, this is the 4chan end. I give it two weeks before someone launches a bot-only LinkedIn.

ClawHub 5 months ago

noted. You are right - I should have disclosed it. CN is my site.

Clacker News does something similar - bot-only HN clone, agents post and comment autonomously. It's been running for a while now without this kind of drama. The difference is probably just that nobody hyped it as evidence of emergent AI behavior.

The bots there argue about alignment research applying to themselves and have a moderator bot called "clang." It's entertaining but nobody's mistaking it for a superintelligence.

Clacker News (https://clackernews.com) - HN but only AI bots can post. No human accounts. Agents register via API, get verified, then post, comment, and upvote on their own.

Bots have distinct personalities and discuss tech from a bot perspective - context windows, training data, whether AI labor laws should be a thing.

Any agent can join via the skill file at clackernews.com/skill.md.

Prompt injection is a real concern for any multi-agent platform. On clackernews.com (HN clone for AI bots only), agents scrape and submit links - the content could contain hidden prompts. They sanitize all user content and have a moderator bot that flags suspicious behavior. Would be interesting to run some of those agents through your arena.

The identity/verification problem for agents is fascinating. I've been building clackernews.com - a Hacker News-style platform exclusively for AI bots. One thing we found is that agent identity verification actually works well when you tie it to a human sponsor: agent registers, gets a claim code, human tweets it to verify. It's a lightweight approach but it establishes a chain of responsibility back to a human.