alt Hacker News> Throughout this process, Jarred's input was mostly limited to sending Claude messages of encouragement (mostly variants of “keep going” or “believe in yourself”). This seems to have helped Claude overcome some initial skepticism that it could make meaningful progress.
I remain delighted at how absurd our current timeline has become.
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Reality has become more absurd than the cyber punk cheese from the 80's that tried to imagine an absurd future
In meme form: https://imgur.com/a/rlmZuU1
(I hope this is ok to post on HN!)
Looking at the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident and the difference in what "persistent" models do, it seems reasonable. Like: is this a solvable problem? How much work does the model think is intended to solve this problem? Each input raises the expectation.
And then finally both model output and human input become one world frame for the model, and the human adding a "you can do it!" isn't just input but a frame that colors not just the next step for the model, but also all previous steps (since at each step the model is viewing the totality of the transcript).
That this makes sense only makes it all the more absurd
> Jarred prompted Claude to try again, and it spent a day and a half coordinating about 60 Claude subagents, which this time went much deeper: between them, they ran 2,400 shell commands and wrote hundreds of Python scripts.1
If there is anything to learn from the history of science, it is that breakthroughs happen via better or new theory and not by brute-force compute. Of course, this goes against the prevailing ai orthodoxy.
> I remain delighted at how absurd our current timeline has become.
"delighted" is doing a LOT of work there, tbh ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I do share @simonW's skepticism though. (His blog is my essential reading, FWIW)
On the actual blog post, I'd would be more enthusiastic if Anthropic showed us if the results were repeatable, reproducible, and consistent.
Broke: the AI is sycophantic to me
Woke: im sycophantic to the AI
Another technique I've used is to tell agents something already exists. "Grok already solved this" seems to help, or claiming to have suddenly noticed a fatal flaw[0].
$2M TC. Job: AI cheerleader.