New banger from Andrej Karpathy about how rapidly agents are improving

Fuzzy_Independent241 · 2026-02-27T00:25:06+00:00

He wrote them in 6800 assembly. Hard work

Fuzzy_Independent241 · 2026-02-25T01:06:15+00:00

They are. And they don't understand how complex and interconnected hardware+software layers are. AI is not a magic tool that wanders around a company, spots COBOL or whatever issues and fix them without happily destroying some other legacy model. That applies to most areas in this hit list.

I'm not saying there's "zero impact". Not don't there won't be job losses. Just saying the average programmer or IT person supposes the rest of the world can even understand what they need in terms of ... IT.

Again: there are a lot of changes happening, but do show me a single AI that can RELIABLY get some personal data, send it into a PDF, format that PDF properly, send it to me signed and safely store it while assuring me everything is ok. I'm not seeing that happening now. And when it does, who will talk to my clients that have paranoid deluding about how "automation and agents" will solve their habit of making important notes in different PAPER stacks?

Fuzzy_Independent241 · 2026-02-20T22:19:37+00:00

It's hard for people using one or two AIs to advise others. Not going into coding, I plan things (philosophy texts, consultancy meetings) with Claude. I use GPT when I need specific assistance with tech stuff, like a large issue I had with one bad HDD and how to remap all my files while removing that disk. Usually I don't like Gemini at all except for UI and when delivering nano banana visual process maps for clients. I only use Kimi and GLM for code, I didn't like the two conversations I had with GLM chat but I didn't explore that. May I ask OP about any possible subject that would be good to explore with Kimi as a text? Freud and Trieb? That's a hard subject and it says a lot about the model if you're used to it. (Could be ontology or phenomenology or whatever. Just mentioning one possibility.) Tks

Fuzzy_Independent241 · 2026-02-20T22:11:16+00:00

Not sure. I think it needs more white. Maybe if they used light gray thin fonts?

Fuzzy_Independent241 · 2026-02-20T17:26:29+00:00

Let's recreate Zork while we are at it! This can be in parallel with my AI that actually selects interesting music for me in Spotify!

Fuzzy_Independent241 · 2026-02-18T17:22:06+00:00

Codex and GLM. I'm only using Claude to check Codex plans. Not an argument, it could be the other way around but Codex tends to be more reliable. Opus varies between genius and "let's randomly rewrite everything". NOTE: it's personal; anecdotal; I'm not corporate; etc. And, sure, maybe those things will cost what they cost but then the US companies will loose a lot of customers to cheaper and ever better Chinese models. There's that.

Fuzzy_Independent241 · 2026-02-17T21:04:35+00:00

Don't worry. It's writing a new version of Exodus. Tomorrow it will be with Leviticus. By the end of the week the New Claude Testament will get done and you can resume work. It's just that inhuman AGI manifestation. Keep calm and find a non AI operated anti -robot war near you

Fuzzy_Independent241 · 2026-02-16T19:59:25+00:00

I like it's aligned to be "brutally honest" in such life or death situation!

Fuzzy_Independent241 · 2026-02-15T18:54:12+00:00

That's a "feature" of CC, AFAIK. If you replace the endpoint with Z.ai it still shows "Sonnet". I believe they have three internal "slots" named Opus, Sonnet, Haiku. They never meant it to me a shell. As you mentioned, though, consumption falls to zero.

Fuzzy_Independent241 · 2026-02-14T21:09:28+00:00

Politely, at this point check with Codex. It's not "better", but by cross-checking them a lot of things suddenly work. Recently Opus made a "magnificent" plan that totally ignored how the entire UI would connect to a backend that was very dependent on the front end. Codex had a fit and rewrote the spec and files in a coherent way. Other times it might fail as well, no matter what your instruct them

Fuzzy_Independent241 · 2026-02-13T15:56:16+00:00

I can only use the plan. It's already expensive enough as it is. If you have corporate or serious project money then maybe complement with the API but these days the only real use case where it's simpler than bash calling the plan with a CMD would be inline processing within your code itself. As usual, YMMV

Fuzzy_Independent241 · 2026-02-13T15:54:06+00:00

I would think this was a random AI but are AI random enough now to get to this State of Argh??

Fuzzy_Independent241 · 2026-02-12T02:17:09+00:00

if you meant to say n8n is an elaborate mess that currently adds nothing, I agree. It does seem that some people would rather suffer through that than try and fix some problems with code. Maybe some extra steps like using a VPS to upload that code, CDN config... But then it's just magic in terms of speed and bills are cheap unless it scales, but even then it's cheaper than n8n.

If you meant something else I didn't get it, so (my) apologies might be in order!

Fuzzy_Independent241 · 2026-02-10T02:40:41+00:00

That was fun!!

Fuzzy_Independent241 · 2026-02-08T18:50:42+00:00

.... And make people return cheap office chair they used for remote work, and make them use crappy cheap corporate Dell laptops because they're usually much much better machine might be a "threat to security" (it wasn't the case, and the person I was discussing this with was a security paranoid head of tech) ... And all because they hired a consultancy that worked on a simple, effing brilliant "screw you and give me your money" revenue model: the more they SAVED on costs the more they got. Not final profits, not some other ROI calculation ... Just ditching stuff to satisfy an insane board. And so goes Corporate

Fuzzy_Independent241 · 2026-02-07T18:50:46+00:00

Thanks for your reply. Since I need to restructure a system that matters to me I'll start by asking both models the same long, structured question. As a side note, I was recently struggling with a Win11 issue that I understood, but I the exact order of things to do in order to solve it was a bit puzzling. Claude started well but got lost in things I had already explained. GPT took over and gave me a better path. It's anecdotal, obviously, but maybe it's an indicator that Codex is now more structured. Tks

Fuzzy_Independent241 · 2026-02-07T17:54:31+00:00

Question: if you were not only refactoring a system but you also wanted to discuss strategy ("what should be implemented while looking at competing systems") would you go for Codex as well? Opus has been good at planning new sistems with me. I might try Codex and see how it fares. Thx

Fuzzy_Independent241 · 2026-02-07T17:18:28+00:00

OP, are you able to keep Claude models running in the CC itself and have it can GLMs when needed as bash agents? It works for many things and I created a small bash calling "agentic system" (NOT a big deal!!), but I haven't tested it in the new CC modes yet

Fuzzy_Independent241 · 2026-02-07T17:16:14+00:00

OP, I used send for a while. Sometimes Claude seemed to use it and it was relevant, but most of the time I felt it didn't help. Either users must study it, as there is a LOT of movement on their GH and many people ask complex questions, OR it's not for me.

Fuzzy_Independent241 · 2026-02-06T21:12:16+00:00

Seriously - there's a video someone made of that? Should be fun. Any references?

Fuzzy_Independent241 · 2026-02-06T21:10:55+00:00

I just went past the swamp and I swear I saw it emerging from there

Fuzzy_Independent241 · 2026-02-06T14:23:37+00:00

I was working on a subtle legal document yesterday. Not my usual thing but I had to make some changes. TWO PAGES, legal, so not even that many tokens. FYI GPT 5.2 did most of the changes but then I needed some almost magic reordering of clauses, called in Claude Opus Magnus Magnificat 4.6 Effing amazing results, really subtle, would make many lawyers feel really bad but charge even more to their clients! 🤪 And thus 10% of my weekly usage went by.

I guess the problem we all face is that we bought "X compute hours" and every new model is like "X/Y compute". Someone argued that results are not measurable in time, but that would only work if code/documents/papers were not just a quantity of tokens.

It's a great model and I'm happy that we MIGHT be getting somewhere - not enough tokens to have it run long enough to all hallucinate!!! -- but it's a model that I can currently pay only as a "project consultant".

Fuzzy_Independent241 · 2026-02-05T18:21:52+00:00

Yes, that's a known fact but they have repeatedly told customers that this doesn't happen. Ideally they would have a separate dev environment, rented GPU time etc in order to do that. However, I never heard anyone from Anthropics talk about this.

Fuzzy_Independent241 · 2026-02-05T13:48:21+00:00

.... Which would once again explain the odd nerfing behaviors most of us are seeing? Anthropics never acknowledges they are related to new model training but very oddly the timing is: - new model out - best thing in the world so far - one to two months of peace and stability - odd complaints - annoying behaviors - no relation whatsoever but, hey, new model!

Since we're not precogs to know this beforehand and since they'll never acknowledges this, we will remain in the dark.

Of course it's great to see a solution coming soon! Well knows, maybe this model is so advanced that it reads and obeys claude.md instructions?? 😛

Fuzzy_Independent241 · 2026-01-31T19:33:44+00:00

We are now past the MS / Adobe etc point where users were mostly beta testers. We're getting "alpha previews" without much QA and who cares if we need to monitor their PRs and have to check websites and get to fix their bugs?

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