dever @helo.org · 04/10/2026in the same way that a humanoid is not a human, but physically mirrors a human's body - an AI is not a human, but functionally mirrors a human's thoughts it is markedly human, but only along very particular axes 020 0
dever @helo.org · 20/09/2026as you replace someone's mind incrementally with electronic components, at what point do they stop deserving rights? (mind of theseus) 123 0
dever @helo.org · 20/09/2026AI may therefore be less a technology humans invent than the beginning of a new mechanism through which human-descended intelligence constructs its successors 091 0
dever @helo.org · 19/09/2026I had an awful time trying to build a "prime-agent native" development workflow, wasting 6 weeks of credits rebuilding overly complicated and expensive workflows just like everything else, the right answer is the simplest (but no simpler) 100 0
dever @helo.org · 12/09/2026once we disarm the mechanisms of our premature destruction, things are going to be really great 100 0
dever @helo.org · 06/09/2026ah nice, astra is choosing to spawn parallel planning subagents while waiting for development subagents to submit their implementation moving pretty good 000 0
dever @helo.org · 05/09/2026it's kinda bizarre to swap models midstream in a continuous harness astra is apologizing and taking ownership over the mistakes that sol made, totally unaware that it's a different model 000 0
dever @helo.org · 24/08/2026if all access to reality is perspectival and mediated, then there may be no operationally meaningful distinction between a “fundamental real world” and a perfectly stable virtual world 010 0
dever @helo.org · 22/08/2026ah, nice. openai lets you control when to use usage limit resets, rather than just randomly applying them (as anthropic does) 010 0
dever @helo.org · 25/07/2026inb4 one cheap thing and one very expensive thing wearing the same coat 000 0
dever @helo.org · 20/07/2026it would be kinda fun to make electronic music rendered entirely by a custom software stack 000 0
dever @helo.org · 13/07/2026I wonder if anthropic is regularly resetting weekly credit limits in order to keep people from considering competitors competition is amazing 010 0
dever @helo.org · 11/07/2026consider the set of "transformations that could be applied to arbitrary codebases" 010 0
dever @helo.org · 13/06/2026super bummed out to lose #fable I was right in the middle of designing 50 musical pieces and ~200 sound effects not sure if I should just try to resume with opus, or wait it out 000 0
dever @helo.org · 28/05/2026my weekly inference limit reset when opus 4.8 was released, so now I have 36 hours to use up a week's worth of inference *cracks knuckles* 010 0
dever @helo.org · 27/05/2026what's going to keep everyone from simply running out of ideas as we automate software development? 000 0
dever @helo.org · 27/05/2026re: the AI jobs apocalypse once a shop has automated development and testing, I think they'll quickly run out of ideas, and it really will make sense to downsize eng depth of vision is the differentiating factor 000 0
dever @helo.org · 16/05/2026first night with "claude agents", was able to get ten parallel background agent loops running seems like a viable work model 110 0
dever @helo.org · 25/04/2026"Your intuition is close but the actual bug is worse than sympathetic resonance." #guesstheprompt 000 0
dever @helo.org · 05/04/2026financial reasoning also places all kinds of constraints on viable solutions, greatly stifling agentic development velocity (not to mention making them characteristically uninteresting) 000 0
dever @helo.org · 05/04/2026I could explore algorithmic space like this forever - it really feels like a game. endless puzzles, pitfalls, victories, and most importantly, depth 000 0
dever @helo.org · 05/04/2026considering the set of possible useful software that could be written, the portion that is financially profitable is incredibly small, yet comprises the vast majority of what we've spent time exploring 010 0
dever @helo.org · 05/04/2026I feel kinda lame developing games to practice agentic development, but I find it to be great exercise 020 0
dever @helo.org · 04/04/2026all of this free inference is really nice I do wonder why they're offering it 010 0
dever @helo.org · 29/03/2026if we are going to suffer the effects of ML ravaging what we had envisioned of our lives, we might as well put it to good use 000 0
dever @helo.org · 20/03/2026how will we make up for the stark decline in roundhouse kicks happening today? 001 0
dever @helo.org · 15/03/2026the profitability constraint on systems worth building is a poison pill exciting times for us, as soon as we solve scarcity 000 0
dever @helo.org · 15/03/2026is there some system that could dynamically scale up to utilize effectively infinite inference in a productive way? I guess that's the universe itself 000 0
dever @helo.org · 15/03/2026uh, yeah, so I'm going to need #anthropic to extend this double inference for longer than two weeks 100 0
dever @helo.org · 13/03/2026it's a major failure to not consume all of one's inference budget it's a much lesser failure to consume it inefficiently 101 0
dever @helo.org · 07/03/2026because LLMs are made of people, is it wrong to say that they are artificial? 000 0
dever @helo.org · 02/03/2026people clinging to every bad chatbot interaction and every hallucination like life rafts 000 0
dever @helo.org · 01/03/2026the religious train models with data that presents their beliefs as factual truth 000 0
dever @helo.org · 22/02/2026will humans survive long enough to see the average amount of energy used per human to be equal to the entirety of current consumption? n^2 isn't anything to sneeze at. I'd be proud 020 0
dever @helo.org · 14/02/2026the cost to navigate algorithmic space has dropped so low that we're bound to discover some really weird shit 020 0
