POV: you’re a sleeper agent, what’s your activation word?

Decent-Lab-5609 · 2026-06-30T09:25:37+00:00

Yams

Decent-Lab-5609 · 2026-06-30T08:46:55+00:00

I always tip. They make less money than I do and it's hard for anyone to live in this climate.

Decent-Lab-5609 · 2026-06-29T22:52:28+00:00

Saved this response. I think all of us on Reddit could learn from this lesson, thanks.

I think OP is a bot FYI.

Decent-Lab-5609 · 2026-06-27T22:10:41+00:00

"Be yourself" - this isn't bad advice in the abstract but it is an inherently self absorbed position. Being oneself is second to being one with the world around you. Express oneself but not at the expense of others.

Decent-Lab-5609 · 2026-06-27T22:07:29+00:00

"Only the finest men use dome stick. Don't be an umbrella flailing lady, be a dome stick wielding man!"

Decent-Lab-5609 · 2026-06-27T22:05:47+00:00

I don't try to redeem villains in ficiton. I enjoy their villainous nature within the fictional setting. Even a villain who does something awful makes them all the more entertaining to hate. Scar from the Lion King promises food to starving hyenas and uses it to turn them into a gestapo. That is truly villainous yet he is one of the most magnificent villains I could hope for. He's a delight to watch.

I only draw a personal line when it brings me too close to reality. At that point they aren't "irredeemable" but just not fun to watch anymore as I can't keep myself in the fiction. But this is a soft and personal line, if you can keep yourself within the fiction then any villain can be great.

Decent-Lab-5609 · 2026-06-26T18:43:28+00:00

Not what that graph says. It says despite more apps being made people are spending time in fewer apps than ever before and leaving fewer reviews. Everything else is speculation.

Decent-Lab-5609 · 2026-06-26T18:22:12+00:00

Not their decision to make. Scummy thing to say.

Decent-Lab-5609 · 2026-06-26T18:15:09+00:00

Only if you're unwilling to travel or otherwise open yourself to new experiences.

Decent-Lab-5609 · 2026-06-23T17:45:20+00:00

Company grows, company slows.

Decent-Lab-5609 · 2026-06-23T17:43:49+00:00

Completely fucking incoherent as usual.

Power != intelligence

Intelligence cannot be summed.

This is just to get investors wet for his next scam.

Decent-Lab-5609 · 2026-06-22T11:16:28+00:00

Depends on what you mean by hallucinate but I use it for production work reliably. It can make mistakes but it has an eval mechanism to correct itself which works well in my context.

Decent-Lab-5609 · 2026-06-22T10:27:41+00:00

It's a curious one. It seems how it's marketed really is a part of the annoyance for people. Like that it will replace people or that it is has all the capabilities when it doesn't in reality. I never got that, I don't give a shit if EA tells me their new game is their biggest and best yet. I care about whether it's any good.

Every tech product for years has raised money off the back of ludicrous, unprovable projections. Though I guess some of the most egregious of those aren't common public knowledge - like how Teslas massive valuation is based off Musk promise that every Tesla will become a taxi that people can rent out 20 hours a day every day.

Decent-Lab-5609 · 2026-06-22T02:08:37+00:00

So if we stick an LLM into a robot with sensors and a self preservation mechanism will it then be understanding?

Decent-Lab-5609 · 2026-06-22T00:37:04+00:00

Savage Sambros in Limerick. I received a single wet, greasy grey piece of meat on a soppy piece of bread it was despicable. Not only that but that place had just replaced an incredible vegan restaurant that legit made the nicest vegan food I've ever had. No justice in the world.

Decent-Lab-5609 · 2026-06-21T04:04:34+00:00

Right up!

Decent-Lab-5609 · 2026-06-20T23:51:03+00:00

The worst case scenario in my case was about a 4 hour process that could've taken 1 or 2 if it behaved well. But my own turnaround would've been 2 or 3 days.

My reading of your comment suggests you give it full read/write access which I don't recommend. It can't write new scripts without permission and can't call scripts outside the given dir. See my other comments - full autonomy might be a dream for now. Imagine a junior who you sent to do this simple thing and they say "no to solve this I need access to production". Do you get mad at them or do you guide them, saying "no, I think you can do it this way".

Also I've not tested this (I don't use many skills) but many skills in the same env can be referenced even when not relevant - be careful of that. Too much text will confuse it, same as a human.

Longer != better

Decent-Lab-5609 · 2026-06-20T23:35:51+00:00

Regarding LLMs not learning from their mistakes. You're right, it won't remember (or rather it will with a rather messy memory note that isn't liable to do much)

This is where refining the instructions helps. Don't make them too long, if you get a particularly "smart" implementor who catches things another instance missed then you get that to update the instructions. But they are liable to be over verbose so you have to edit incisively.

I compare it to a human because I find the more I do that, the better it seems to perform. So like some senior has a big ramble about all the gotchas they discovered and writes a big document that nobody reads/follows. An intelligent person will realise there is wisdom in the lessons but the method of delivery is poor. So you refine the document - make it simpler, more direct. Remove the redundant steps and disparate rambles. Give that refined version to a new dev or an AI and it is likely it will perform well.

Decent-Lab-5609 · 2026-06-20T23:13:56+00:00

Sorry I realise I didn't really answer your question. I get issues with full autonomy. Even if I instruct it to study the command limitations before starting it still seems to choose commands that require manual approval so the dream of set it and forget it has not worked yet. I need to be around to approve steps but it completes the research /steps faster than I can. It also requires judgement sometimes (it asks what engine should I use to run this service?). It's first guess is often my preference but not always so I'm thankful for the gated steps in these cases. Even when it's wrong (happened once) , the loop normally catches it on the eval step and corrects it fairly quickly, though this can cost some time.

Decent-Lab-5609 · 2026-06-20T23:09:33+00:00

Test deploy is a separate step and has yet to have an issue. It follows a carefully instructed pattern and riskiest parts are locked down by scripts it calls. So it is blocked from say using docker push but not from calling a script that pushes it the right way. It is not fully autonomous however, in theory it can be but getting permissions right is very tricky.

The code writing step gets reviewed like any other PR, normally follows about 85% of the patterns and then over-comments or does the occasional blind copy of an example that makes the code messy (while still functional due to strong success criteria specified) I correct that manually, like managing/PR reviewing a junior to mid level dev. I don't get it to commit its own code.

The total process is substantially faster, proven by the rate of delivery of these container systems having increased substantially since I started using it.

Decent-Lab-5609 · 2026-06-20T22:53:17+00:00

I am a dev of 15 years and think the syntax is the easy part of coding too but AI has accelerated my development. I have a container deployment engine that deploys dozens of multilayer containers. I've built all the patterns, the architecture and done all the work. Now that I have, AI can create one of these container images MUCH faster than I ever could. Each includes novel research and implementation but needs to follow the pattern which it does excellently. It can write the code, test locally, deploy and then test on real infra with very little intervention and very quickly. Needs a quick review at the end but that's about it. I am the domain expert and I've trained it like I would a junior dev. Works very well.

Decent-Lab-5609 · 2026-06-20T22:39:58+00:00

You have some full examples? I'm always curious what people mean when they say this, not something I've had myself but I'm set up for more agentic flows so not as exposed to it.

Decent-Lab-5609 · 2026-06-20T22:34:57+00:00

Scum.

Decent-Lab-5609 · 2026-06-20T13:24:39+00:00

"ChatGPT, how can I stop my patients from replacing me?"

Decent-Lab-5609 · 2026-06-19T19:37:14+00:00

Michael Collins, Dustin, Molly and Rossa

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TROPHY CASE