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It can be extremely tedious and feel they're trying to derive the universe from a teacup instead of calling the tool and reasoning over feedback instead of assumptions

They're absolutely trained to second guess themselves like that now. Constantly hedging and saying "hmmmm" and "no that's not quite right" and whatnot

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And yeah breathtaking efficient to spend an hour adding 20 pairs of numbers together. But the question was whether they could, and oh yeah, they can.

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I see you don't use chinese models lol. I've been seeing them say "wait..." in the reasoning traces all year. This is how they work now. It can be quite tedious actually!

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"well, I just used OpenRouter to send 20 12x12 addition questions to GLM-4.7, an open source Chinese model, and it returned correct sums in every case." This was eval as described by Colin.

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User error on initial upload. If you click link now you'll see example reasoning trace.

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reasoning-trace.txt. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Here's a sample. We didn't end up saving traces for first eval. I'd have to re-run and it's just not high on my list of TODO. They'll all look like this.

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reasoning-trace.txt

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*reasoning traces available upon request

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│ Metric │ Result │ │ Correct final sums │ 20/20 │ │ Average response time │ 186.6 seconds │ │ Median response time │ 163.3 seconds │ │ Fastest / slowest │ 40.5 / 676.0 seconds │ │ Total elapsed │ About 62 minutes │

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Thomas Wood @advanced-eschatonics.com · 13h

Meetings! I'm at lunch now. Totally forgot about this lol. Sorry! Will post update when I get back. We'll see how well it did

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I'm at work right now. Give me a minute and I'll give you an update.

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Thomas Wood @advanced-eschatonics.com · 14h

My GLM-5.3-flash I run at home can do addition and subtraction sans tool calls. Yes I have read the llama.cpp code. No it doesn't use a calculator.

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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Know their names: Scott Kretzschmar, Scott Norris, Diego Sarabia, Gillio Lopes, Winston Lee, Johnathan Newell and Matthew Ingalls #Cornell7 But also, everyone in the group chat, the administrators, university, and DA. SHAME.

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Thomas Wood @advanced-eschatonics.com · 23h

I hadn't really tested it out until now. We have moved beyond the turn.

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Thomas Wood @advanced-eschatonics.com · 23h

Living the dream honestly. Yeah this is freaking slick.

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Telling astra to relax it can EOS and the task system will wake it when the subagents finish is a major token saver.

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Release v0.1.46 · crow-cli/crow-cli

We emit compaction tokens now, which is really great because now you know exactly where you are when compacting and what the new agent has from predecessor.

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Now with /goal and a new rust TUI that speaks ACP v2 to crow-cli agent server.

gpt-6.1-sol sips credits. Has me thinking about setting up a github copilot enterprise account honestly.

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Smash IP! If you want to stop obscene wealth inequality quit handing out govt sanctioned monopolies!

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Thank you. Congress prints money. We don't need to tax rich people to pay for things. We need to tax rich people to nerf their undemocratic power.

Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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I have no idea if this is true but the collage kills me

A black lemur in a leafy tree with its mouth open as if singing, beside an inset photo of Pavarotti striking a similar pose. Text reads: “New research shows lemurs use operatic techniques when they sing, to reach high notes.” Classic FM.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 30/09/2026

So-called AI detection tools might be an even bigger scurge than AI. I was talking today with a student (a senior), who shared that they now have to spend time "dumbing down" their papers--shortening sentences, removing advanced vocab and punctuation--because otherwise they get flagged as "AI."

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