Reposted by Avery YenEpoch AI @epochai.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Can AI tell if you've built your IKEA furniture wrong? Our new benchmark, the Furniture Assembly Benchmark (FAB), gives models the manual and a photo of a half-completed piece of furniture and asks them to spot the mistake. The top score has gone from 28% to 80% in just 10 months. 4445
Reposted by Avery Yen#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 23/09/2026*If you don't like coders for some reason, this is a real schadenfreude feast of coders lamenting and wringing their newly-useless human hands www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/c...reddit.comFrom the ClaudeAI community on RedditExplore this post and more from the ClaudeAI community 1311630
Reposted by Avery YenEpoch AI @epochai.bsky.social · 08/09/2026We studied time to first token (TTFT) and how it scales with increasing context length for GPT and Claude models. We found a significant difference, with GPT showing a noticeable quadratic component, while Claude models remain closer to linear. 2204
Avery Yen @averyyen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I mean the Epoch "interesting and hard" Erdös problems, wasn't clear sorry 000
Avery Yen @averyyen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I've noticed a few step changes, namely strategic exploration on EBR-bench, it's the first public model to solve open Erdös problems, and it does better on some computer use stuff. But it's not noticeable when I'm just using it as a coding agent for normie swe stuff. 🤔 110
Avery Yen @averyyen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Serious question. Is it AGI if I can't send it a video of what's wrong with my car/washer/fridge and get an immediate answer? 000
Reposted by Avery YenDr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 24/08/2026www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the... 🧪carlsonlab.bioThe only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson LabOver the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la... 1113
Reposted by Avery YenJulian Togelius @togelius.bsky.social · 22/08/2026A personal essay about how I’ve been feeling and thinking about this new technology that I’m contributing to and what it might to do to us all. togelius.blogspot.com/2026/08/losi...togelius.blogspot.comLosing my religionIn spring 2025 I had a crisis of faith. I thought about what the technology I'm helping to create might do to our future, and got scared. M... 99522
Avery Yen @averyyen.bsky.social · 22/08/2026The main difference between having takes and having good takes is the good part. 000
Avery Yen @averyyen.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I think it is magical thinking that Intelligence is necessary and sufficient for human progress, flourishing, and problem-solving on the scale of entirety of humanity. We're a social species! 000
Avery Yen @averyyen.bsky.social · 18/08/2026"yeah okay here's this really great battery chemistry in a pdf I just made you, but for the sake of the environment I'm gonna stop yapping and suggest you take it up with your regional and national legislature" 001
Avery Yen @averyyen.bsky.social · 18/08/2026How many "AI safety" people have actually considered the possible future super-capable, super-aligned AI asked to solve all our problems e.g. climate, simply replying "yeah idk that sounds like a human skill issue tbh, also have you considered the carbon cost of asking me?" 100
Avery Yen @averyyen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Excellent news! I'm currently very pro solar and tree cover as a design tactic www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...bloomberg.comSolar Power Quietly Crossed a New Milestone as Deployments RiseInstallations of panels are rapidly advancing worldwide 000
Avery Yen @averyyen.bsky.social · 03/08/2026If it matters, don't go halfway. We are two-cheek only in this house. (Oh, also I launched a substack.) averyyen.substack.com/p/if-it-matt...averyyen.substack.comIf It Matters, Don't Go HalfwayWhen splitting the difference is worse than not going all the way. 000
Reposted by Avery YenBrandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 28/07/2026"Beware of he who would deny you access to information for in his heart he dreams himself your master." - Commissioner Pravin Lal, U.N. Declaration of Rightsanthropic.comOur position on open-weights modelsAnthropic CEO Dario Amodei on open-weights models 16012
Avery Yen @averyyen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Hardly ever wasn't, but he just published a take on wolves and sheep basically claiming genetic superiority and complaining Claude wouldn't translate it for him 🤪 020
Avery Yen @averyyen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026This is basically true, but ignores the fact that back when I used to review/work with human slop code for a living, it was way harder to pass it off as plausibly good. That's the superpower of the LLM. (Reading LLM code also hurts my brain personally) 000
Avery Yen @averyyen.bsky.social · 22/07/2026I have so many other random benchmark questions and so little time. How do K3 and Qwen 3.8 bench on unseen or purely continuous tasks? We have claims that they're distilled and benchmaxed but does it matter if they generalize? E.g. stuff like post cutoff evals and optimization benchmarks 010
Avery Yen @averyyen.bsky.social · 22/07/2026We're pretty sure that swapping harnesses actually changes effective agent capability. But recently everyone and their mother has a new coding agent not to mention the open/agnostic ones. Someone needs to run a Harness Bench across like three different models and ten different harnesses or something 000
Reposted by Avery YenCas (Stephen Casper) @scasper.bsky.social · 22/07/2026OpenAI's internally deployed models hacking Hugging Face does not seem to have been unpredictable or inevitable. We talked about the root of the problem & what policymakers can do about it back in February. Props to Joe for hitting the nail on the head. 152
Avery Yen @averyyen.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Y'all just gotta calm down I can't try this many models in one week 1301
Reposted by Avery YenEmily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 20/07/2026This. This is the correct, science-backed, responsible framing. Wish more news outlets did it like the CBC.cbc.ca'Just stop burning fossil fuels.' Scientists stress that our smoky skies only have one true fix | CBC NewsSmoky skies in Toronto have led to new scrutiny of government efforts to fight fires and manage forests. But scientists say the realistic way to tackle the smoke is fighting climate change itself. 2727421001
Avery Yen @averyyen.bsky.social · 21/07/2026To be clear we have no idea how much is manufactured views but this is true of every social media metric 🤓 000
Avery Yen @averyyen.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Look, I know social media isn't everything, but it certainly measures SOMETHING. "Meet Kimi K3" has 16M views in 4 days versus Fable 5 at 773k views (topped by a few others including just barely 1M views for Claude Code 1 year ago). 120
Avery Yen @averyyen.bsky.social · 17/07/2026GLM and Kimi saving me from all my false "cyber security" flags while coding on Codex and Claude I'm innocent I swear 000
Reposted by Avery YenTed Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 15/07/2026It seems like agentic development benchmarks are strongly driving competition right now. And I hear anecdotal reports of regression on other, less RLVR-able tasks. How long before the idea of a single "frontier" breaks, and we see differentiation emerge between dev models and chat models? 5325
Avery Yen @averyyen.bsky.social · 15/07/2026It feels like the Anthropic/Pentagon scuffle was in the distant past, but these kinds of events will keep reverberating in the safe and beneficial deployment of emerging tech for a long time to come. Thank you Alex for your writeup on this incident. 010
Avery Yen @averyyen.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Is anyone archiving them and re-uploading them, is the question? 1150
Avery Yen @averyyen.bsky.social · 15/07/2026It always was for me. As soon as I left the coddling bubble of school, the "ain't got time for that" principle took over. I think I spent longer in practice debating naming with other devs and PMs than actually producing code. 010
Avery Yen @averyyen.bsky.social · 14/07/2026What do prediction markets, social media, and generative AI have in common? In my blog post, "Reward-Hacking Human Attention: The Token Slot Machine", I explain why GenAI has such addictive qualities, and why this could lead to disastrous outcomes. averyyen.dev/2026/07/14/r...averyyen.devReward-Hacking Human Attention: The Token Slot MachineWhat do prediction markets, social media, and generative AI have in common? 011
Avery Yen @averyyen.bsky.social · 21/05/2026If I had a dollar every time I get an LLM response with the word 'load-bearing' in it 010
Avery Yen @averyyen.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Claude write me a new purely functional language based on the elm architecture in rust and call it Oxide 020
Reposted by Avery Yen#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 15/05/2026*Why is Anthropic (after all they've been through lately) somehow loudly pretending that Trumpistan is NOT an "authoritarian regime" *Who is the audience for this, who somehow hasn't figured that out? Where is the choir that they're preaching to here www.anthropic.com/research/202...anthropic.com2028: Two scenarios for global AI leadershipOur views on the AI competition between the US and China. 4202
Reposted by Avery Yen🍅🥔🫐🌽 hoopy frood 🌶️ 🥑🍫🌵 @huwupy.kawaii.social · 14/05/2026the “for you” feed 01246
Avery Yen @averyyen.bsky.social · 27/04/2026As I always say, if history or current events walks like cyberpunk or quacks like cyberpunk, listen to a cyber punk. 000
Reposted by Avery YenGuardian US @us.theguardian.com · 23/04/2026Scientists say a crucial Atlantic system is set to collapse. But the billionaire death cult that steers humanity’s destiny just doesn’t do existential crises, says Guardian columnist George Monbiottheguardian.comA catastrophic climate event is upon us. Here is why you’ve heard so little about it | George Monbiot 24524
Avery Yen @averyyen.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Was looking for better and closer routing to North America tbh, but maybe I'll try openrouter with nitro and see if that makes a diff 110
Avery Yen @averyyen.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Ok sure, where do you run your OSS code cloud models? 100
Avery Yen @averyyen.bsky.social · 18/04/2026I've been finding Gemini pro extremely congratulatory so I'm thinking of prompting it to be less hammy lol It's also handy as one of the better drivers of browser automation; but Antigravity also ships with Sonnet... 😉 010
Avery Yen @averyyen.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Slowly coalescing on some blessed/blursed collection of tools that I can actually recommend, but it changes daily. Today, anyway, I'm liking: - CC Opus 4.7; planner/heavy reasoning - ollama glm-5.1:cloud (codex); quick builds - regular gpt codex; everyday stuff - Zed agent gemini pro 3.1 (gh cp) 200
Avery Yen @averyyen.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Look, I'm not saying this stuff is *easy*, but they did call themselves out here 0130
Avery Yen @averyyen.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Word, I get rate limited too much with free hosts though >_> 000