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From one piece The real AI risk is inside the labs 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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a single company should not be able to evaluate independently whether a model is safe enough. We need a joint AI safety organization that includes experts from all over the world and is recognized by the governments where frontier AI companies exist.
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The real risk is leaks, not releases, and leaks happen inside frontier companies.
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the first serious AI incident is very likely to happen *inside* the walls of frontier AI labs, while testing a new model, or while the AI lab employees, or the few externals who have access, do something wrong compared to the expected power of the model.
25 July
From one piece Being Linux Torvalds 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Writing an operating system kernel is within reach of many programmers who put in the effort, not just a rare few.Their words
Writing a kernel is not something within everybody's reach, but it is something that many can complete, if they put enough effort into it.
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Automatic programming, instead, in the hands of people that are expert technicians, or expert programmers, expert designers, expert software architects, is to assume the role of Linus, with the agents and the LLMs assuming the role of the different maintainers of the different subsystems.
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Vibe coding misunderstands what automatic programming is and will become for most people.Their words
Vibe coding is a wrong idea of what automatic programming is, and of what automatic programming will be for the majority of people.
22 July
From one piece Not just development, distribution of software may change as well 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Documentation should be written for AI coding agents to understand and modify software, not only for humans.Their words
Also, it means that the documentation itself should not be just good for humans, but also for coding agents to understand how to change the system.
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Because of this change, the idea of just having a stable branch with everything polished, and an unstable branch where everything is a work in progress, may no longer be the right way to do things.
13 July
From one piece Control the ideas, not the code 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Large language models are better at producing locally optimal code than at generating big architectural ideas.Their words
LLMs are very good at writing locally optimal code, and are worse (but improving) with big ideas.
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Many programmers now have less impact than they could because they spend their time reading and reviewing code.Their words
I believe many programmers at this point have less impact they could have because they look at the code.
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Once you control the ideas behind a piece of software, reviewing the code itself becomes largely unnecessary.Their words
if you control the ideas of your software, looking at the code itself is suboptimal and often pointless.
7 June
From one piece A new era for software testing 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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LLM-driven automatic QA can raise software release quality and offset quality lost to faster AI-generated code.Their words
I have the feeling that the introduction of automatic QA may raise the bar of quality for new releases of software, and maybe partially compensate for the lower quality of the code produced at high speed with the use of automatic programming.
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Covering every line of code in tests does not guarantee covering every possible program state.Their words
It is a known fact that covering all the lines of the code does not mean covering all the possible states.
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AI-generated code does not reach the structural quality of the best hand-written software.Their words
In my experience the output does not reach the structural quality and economy of complexity of the best hand-written software.
25 May
From one piece Distributing LLM inference in DwarfStar 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Open-weight AI models are currently in a golden age, plentiful and often very powerful.Their words
Open weights models are now in a golden age, we have plenty and many are very powerful.
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NVIDIA hardware is unlikely to become cheaper, keeping local AI data centers out of reach for small companies.Their words
There is almost zero hope that NVIDIA setups will get less expensive, and even a small company can't afford to easily purchase and handle a small data center for local inference.
19 May
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Specifying an edit by line number alone is fragile because a model can misremember what that line contains.Their words
This means, basically, that just using line numbers is very fragile: to say, change line 22 with new="foobar" is not good.
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From one piece A few words on DS4 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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it was really appreciated :) AI is too critical to be just a provided service.
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The space will be occupied, in my vision, by the best current open weights model that is *practically fast* on a high end Mac or "GPU in a box" gear (like the DGX Spark and other similar setups).
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It is clear that there was a need for single-model integration focused local AI experience
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