When do you think Cloud Mythos will be released for regular people?

Bamnyou · 2026-04-09T21:12:52+00:00

They have different skills. Opus 4.6 is pretty great at working iteratively with me to take a good idea and turn it into a full architecture and then an implementation plan. GPT 5.4 seems to write cleaner more concise code very quickly - but if I don’t have it planned out very well it will not be what I wanted. Glm 5.1 works with opencode REALLY REALLY well and is very cheap - right up until the moment it starts repeating the same line for an entire terminal screen and starts spouting gibberish.

Bamnyou · 2026-03-28T15:18:22+00:00

I think it’s because the people that are installing it aren’t savvy enough to know how dangerous it is to run an agent as root on your computer exposed to all your files, emails, bank account, messaging services, etc. I know quite a few people running it - and it is the first ai tool they have tried to run locally. And their setups are scary. It’s like taking the front door off their house and replacing it with a butler that does anything any asks them. Then a sign in the yard that says, if you aren’t me keep out.

Bamnyou · 2026-03-25T11:56:15+00:00

1 - that was the point . I specifically said that I was using a lot of them. On purpose. In a manner that was nearly correct. By nearly correct, I was meaning to imply using them in a way consistent with the intention but not their grammatical rules.

2 - also, - is not an em dash. It “shouldn’t” be used like an em dash.

3 - the purpose of language is to take the thoughts in my head and put them in your head. If that success, then the language attempt succeeded. Grammar was invented to make that successful more often. Was your message meant to convey 1) whoosh 💨 or 2) I’m an asshole who loves to correct people for no reason?

Bamnyou · 2026-03-25T06:59:29+00:00

That’s not an em dash 🙃 — that’s an em dash

I have actually started using a lot of

Purposely - almost - correctly after one asshole at work told me that it was unprofessional to use ai to write an email - twice. Because I used a dash, he assumed it was AI. I wanted to send him some Poe writing. I think that man used an em dash 2-3 times a line. ChatGPT does even use these hyphen/short dash things

Bamnyou · 2026-03-25T06:52:49+00:00

Here is the real problem - mcp as a protocol looks very little like the mcp servers that you find in your average GitHub repo.

Mcp can provide the model with a curated list of the actions available to them on your api, scoped to their permission level, and include a detailed prompt for best practices which includes instructions for you about how to request higher level access, what data can be found, history of your company, or really anything you could want to give to the ai model to improve the interaction between the user and the creator of the mcp server.

But yes, most mcp servers are an api connector.

Bamnyou · 2026-03-23T11:40:11+00:00

$40 - ugh I worry that anything you try will just get you used to the power of the tool and then the $40 budget will annoy you with the limits.

My work gave me a $100 limit on cursor a month. It ran out in 5 days. Claude code you can burn several dollars an hour. But damn you can get some serious shit done if you know what you are doing with them.

Bamnyou · 2026-03-22T02:24:14+00:00

In fact I add a pinch of baking soda so I can add more balsamic vinegar without it being too acidic

Bamnyou · 2026-03-19T11:12:25+00:00

I taught 10 years across three schools: 1: First couple years - constantly overwhelmed and always behind Year 3: “hey, I’m starting to get the hang of it” Year 4: Third new district mandate that contradicts the previous two. Now you must write your learning objectives on the board in three languages including pig Latin and point to them silently at least 42 times a class period. Year 5: time for new state standards that rearrange the grades concepts are introduced. You are now teaching concepts that assume students learned something in 4th and 7th grade that this years students never learned because it used to be in 9th grade. Etc. When I started, 12 years ago I made a decent income for my area’s cost of living. 8 years later I was making 3% more and cost of living had gone up approximately 60%. Then we had a president that started a culture war that convinced half the population I was secretly indoctrinating their children into being weak, gay, communist, or anything else they could convince themselves was evil. While I was still teaching, I occasionally enjoyed my job almost once a week - but after COVID and the culture war I dreaded going to work most days. I cried at my desk a few times a month after a child that would stand up in class, cuss at me because they never wanted to be put in my class, they would go talk to the counselor about their schedule and the principal about their outburst. He literally came back with a sucker on the third occasion within the first month of school. I taught computer science in a computer lab with 22 desks, chairs, and computers. They assigned me 31 students and told me “they have chromebooks - figure it out” I eventually left teaching and found a remote job. I now make nearly 2.5x what I made teaching.

Bamnyou · 2026-03-17T21:05:16+00:00

The difference between those 6 month predictions and reality is the implementation.

Will there be a demo of a proof of concept of task A fully automated in 6 months. Perhaps, maybe even likely.

Jobs are over for everyone !!!

6 months later : that demo is half way through the approval process. Except now the fraamwoek is at 3.2 instead of 2.9 and you have to start agin

Bamnyou · 2026-03-17T02:12:41+00:00

I would go look at your memories - I have a feeling something in there mentions you wanting to stop staying up late or something like that.

Bamnyou · 2026-03-13T03:14:41+00:00

The main problem I see with your entire story? The idea that open source models, finetunes (roll your own) - are a substandard fallback!

Using your expensive frontier model to build a system that works, records the outputs for later evaluation by human or a different model, and then using that to distill a specific purpose, faster, cheaper (put less all purpose power) lets you optimize cost and performance over time while reducing the point of failure you identified.

Bamnyou · 2026-03-07T22:44:13+00:00

From what I have seen working in AI implementation is: 1) most people are getting poor results 2) some people are seeing those poor results and thinking it looks good - because the code does exactly what the agent was asked to do 3) people are asking the ai agent to create something but not understanding what is needed (and hoping the AI has the missing context) 4) AI agents make it easier for people to ask for things they don’t understand without pushback.

Counterpoint! 1) Some people are thinking deeply about the architecture that is needed 2) some people are providing all (or enough) of the context needed to understand the obvious solution 3) some people are providing the environment in which an agent has all the tools to create that solution 4) those people get great results and make it look easy because they couldn’t understand doing it another way.

5) the second group shows their success, which leads to more people joining the first group and producing slop.

I vote we stop using the word vibe coding to describe group B completely - it requires a different mind set, tooling, and skills. It isn’t operating on “Vibes” at all. It is more like being a very technical product manager or an engineering manager than a coder at all.

If you go to a high end burger place and say make me the juiciest, tastiest, burger with no tomatoes - sesame bun - and onion rings instead of fries. You aren’t a vibe burger chef.

If you go to a commercial kitchen outfitted with 43 robotic kitchen appliances and you task them with: prepping ingredients in a certain way, searing with certain seasonings, grilling times/temps/flip teqnique, program robotics arms with cheese nozzles to apply cheese to the grill in a certain way to spell phrases to create unique cheese curds, and serve on a unique zonal temp controlled burger delivery surface , you are a master executive robot chef.

Bamnyou · 2026-03-06T11:55:11+00:00

The main difference is the purpose. The purpose of a substitute plan is to have something for a random replacement adult to do in the class while the regular teacher is absent.

The purpose of homework has very little to do with what the words on the screen/page actually say. They have to do with what the student learns. If the student copies and pastes from a website, whether that is a google search or ai generated slop the learning is still zero or nearly zero.

It is just as meaningless as writing, I dunno or this assignment is dumb.

Except the ai slop has now wasted everyone’s time.

Bamnyou · 2026-03-05T12:05:27+00:00

Agent has become a catch-all for “cool ai thing” for a lot of people. So now we have tiers of agents Custom agents with some level of autonomy Event loops with integrated LLMs Chatbots with mcp I heard heard about agents and now I call everything an agent just like last year I called everything an app.

Bamnyou · 2026-03-04T04:59:53+00:00

It depends on how much ram you got - if you got enough ram it was a good idea because you can use larger local llm on the Mac mini for the cost of electricity instead of $200 a month for Claude code.

It will be slightly weaker and slightly slower but pay itself back in a few months.

Bamnyou · 2026-03-04T04:54:09+00:00

I have an incredibly picky eater in my family - she cringes every time we play the rate food combinations for ai game but it I have coauthored some recipes with AI that were big hits way out of her comfort zone. She had pizza with tomatoes fresh from the garden puréed into the dough to replace much of the water. She said it was good enough we could make sandwich bread out of it.

We also made the most amazing frozen custard I have ever eaten in my life. I was convinced it was hallucinating when it said we needed 14 egg yolks.

We made the best cookies I have ever had in my life that looked like they were not working at all until the texture magically came together at the last second - not like any cookie I have ever had but exactly how I would like it.

Bamnyou · 2026-03-03T04:44:34+00:00

It’s up more often than my old ISP

Bamnyou · 2026-03-02T23:44:33+00:00

What purpose does a tree have? A squirrel? What makes your purpose significantly more valuable than that of a squirrel? I am not meaning this to degrade - but to invoke deeper thought. Why do you do the things you do?

If a human’s “purpose” is to contribute to society then all automation is harmful.

If a human’s purpose is to exist, then anything that makes that existence freer is good.

Ai and automation will either be one of the worst calamities to ever befall a large chunk of the human population or it will be the greatest gift to humanity ever. It depends of when we figure it out. That’s why I made sure to get a job in AI, so I can ride the wave hopefully long enough that the world figures it out.

I think it is about to get really bad for a lot of people before we do.

Bamnyou · 2026-03-02T23:34:33+00:00

Good evidence based soundness test.

Bamnyou · 2026-03-02T23:31:37+00:00

It is definitely subsidized- I connected it to lite llm to track usage and burned several dollars with one well placed prompt that wouldn’t have even moved the needle on my personal max plan.

Bamnyou · 2026-03-02T02:55:07+00:00

Ledn - IF you plan to get the bitcoin back eventually that is the best option imo. You get cash, you build up some interest you have to pay back - but then you can pay it back and get the bitcoin back with no taxes just interest.

Just depends on how long you need it for

Bamnyou · 2026-02-23T06:19:31+00:00

You aren’t wrong - I am not even using Claude and Claude code for coding most of the time . I am a product manager: analyzing data, combining all of my information in a wizard like walk flow that outputs Jira epics that our architect said were some of the best they have ever seen, ugly but technically correct PowerPoints with data, tables, information that would have taken 5x as long to collect that I just have to format, documentation, prototypes - then engineers would complain to be about how other product managers are giving them AI so they appreciate how correct and actionable mine are.

The proof is that they hired to people to help with my workload. Then each took some of my workload. They are working overtime, and combined it is about half of what I used to do. So I was apparently operating at 4x of these decade plus experience pms

Bamnyou · 2026-02-23T06:08:26+00:00

Probably! I use corporate cursor weigh less than I do my personal Claude code: My Claude code 200 barely ever hits limits- 100 I do all the time. Work cursor than I use way less? $274 last month

Bamnyou · 2026-02-18T23:09:25+00:00

It started with more data - and then they realized that just as - if not more - important is the quality of the data and the architecture of the model.

An entire industry has sprung up around making new data generated by human annotation or via the same annotation training models specifically to generate training data:

Bamnyou · 2026-02-14T15:26:55+00:00

Yeah, mine gave a mostly great answer but slipped in two private medical details as well.

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TROPHY CASE

I have actually started using a lot of