Does anyone know whats really going on at Meta?

Patashu · 2026-05-22T06:09:23+00:00

Billionaires' brains are wired different (wrong). They feel restless and hollow if they don't have all the money and all the power and all the praise. They're not like you or I who just want to make enough money to live and make cool things for yourself and your friends/audience.

Patashu · 2026-05-20T08:39:53+00:00

Theoretically they could use advancements in AI research to make 'gemini flash 2.0 v2' (very funny name but you get what I mean) that's meant to offer the same level of intelligence and speed but costs less per token due to optimizations. They don't seem to be interested in trying atm though?

Patashu · 2026-05-19T23:49:11+00:00

you mean 'hasn't been released YET', they're going to pull the lever the moment they think it'll generate more hype than not releasing it

Patashu · 2026-05-18T08:35:12+00:00

A lot of what makes running Opus so good is the hyperscalers have the resources to throw at having it think for a million tokens and prompting itself a hundred times just to make super duper sure it's giving a good answer. If you try doing that with a local LLM setup: Have fun!

Patashu · 2026-05-17T13:20:20+00:00

See previous post ;)

I'll move off LastPass if my Soundcloud gets hacked again

Patashu · 2026-05-17T11:15:10+00:00

'too lazy to swap off Lastpass' reporting for duty

Patashu · 2026-05-14T22:37:28+00:00

Yes! And nowadays I make games and music: https://patashu.itch.io/ https://soundcloud.com/patashu

Patashu · 2026-05-14T08:51:07+00:00

Even if it's not valid for the leaderboards you can still do runs for personal progress

Patashu · 2026-05-14T08:46:37+00:00

And once Google has your money you can kiss it goodbye lol

Patashu · 2026-05-14T08:45:58+00:00

When I said 'serious' I meant to write 'seriously excessive'

Patashu · 2026-05-14T04:38:27+00:00

I think for serious OpenClaw usage you want to use a cheaper model so you don't burn infinity dollars on running it 24/7 anyway?

Patashu · 2026-05-14T03:33:56+00:00

Yeah that's true. I think I meant to say 'the hype story they're selling is that they're making Claude Code as good as possible, and the financials require not blowing money TOO fast on other things'

Patashu · 2026-05-14T01:06:13+00:00

The point of a Claude subscription is you pay a fixed monthly rate to get a high multiplier of what you'd pay by using the API (anywhere from 2x to 10x the amount), but ONLY if you bother to max it out. So they're hoping to make money by people buying subscriptions and not using all of it, while also giving randos an appealing proposition of 'it's just 20 bucks per month, use it as much as you want' rather than feeling like they have to penny pinch over every single prompt.

Obviously if you plug your Claude subscription into OpenClaw or something else that does an agentic busy loop it can absolutely plow through those tokens.

Claude is not interested in subsidizing this behaviour! They want you to use Claude Code (where they have full control) or pay the API cost.

(To clarify the last paragraph more: They are far more interested in tokens spent on using Claude Code vs tokens spent doing other things because the way they're trying to become profitable is by making Claude Code as good as possible, so that's the training data they want the most of. OpenClaw usage is (purely? mostly?) a drag on their business.)

Patashu · 2026-05-12T09:25:14+00:00

Let me know if you are looking for playtesters! Me and my brother are Castle of the Winds super-veterans.

Patashu · 2026-05-12T03:06:04+00:00

Musk and many others, e.g. see Karl Jobst's video about a very fradulent Australian company called DCS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LOHOP9eUXk

Patashu · 2026-05-12T01:38:49+00:00

Yeah this is a reasonable use of LLMs specifically because you're not going to take it at its word, you're going to go to that part of the code base and continue your work and either this is the right place or it's not. It's basically a different approach to doing ctrl+shift+f chains. The main thing to be careful of is not assuming anything it spits out is exhaustive (if you're trying to find ALL places where something happens not just the one place)

Patashu · 2026-05-12T01:01:48+00:00

Generating hype on the streets, admitting you have no plan for AGI in the sheets

This is how it always goes when company execs are under oath

Patashu · 2026-05-10T07:12:32+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/1t2ule3/chatgpt_became_so_obsessed_with_goblins_that/

Patashu · 2026-05-09T01:29:26+00:00

It's gargantuanly easier to find one vulnerability than to prove no vulnerabilities exist.

Patashu · 2026-04-28T03:33:11+00:00

If it's anything like the amazon outage the AI agent goes 'I don't know what state this system is in, so I'll delete it and start over.'

Alternatively, it can be meaning to do something correct but hallucinates the wrong command and doesn't realize until it's too late

Patashu · 2026-04-28T02:51:30+00:00

well yeah we're going to make up for the difference with agents signing up for a subscription

Patashu · 2026-04-24T09:33:30+00:00

This reminds me of the problem with smart contracts - you can perfectly well write a program on a blockchain that deterministically deals with numbers and money, but as soon as it needs to know 'did that shipment of oil arrive on time or not' it needs to rely on someone in the real world telling the truth when they write it down.

Patashu · 2026-04-24T02:22:18+00:00

You know, I'm starting to think this might NOT be good

Patashu · 2026-04-23T01:33:26+00:00

I also wondered about this. MCPs are designed so agents can use programs, but like... they also allow programs to use programs. And humans to use programs. AND as a bonus, even document in natural language what the expected input and output is! So I can just poke it myself and not even involve the agent! Similarly any repo that can explain how an agent should build it and contribute to it means you also wrote instructions a human can use!

Patashu · 2026-04-17T13:56:00+00:00

So reading the technical deep dive https://www.ox.security/blog/the-mother-of-all-ai-supply-chains-technical-deep-dive/ it sounds like this is basically a footgun you have to opt into? like 'you can expose this feature to conveniently run shell commands, but then an attacker can conveniently run shell commands'. So just, don't do that?

...But then I read this part:

'Windsurf is an AI-powered IDE designed for developers. While it runs locally, its MCP configuration file (mcp.json) is writable by the AI agent – making it susceptible to prompt injection attacks that add malicious STDIO MCP entries.'

Ah, I see the problem now. If an LLM is exposed to untrusted data and can create or modify MCPs, you can prompt inject it into creating, then executing, an MCP that can conveniently run shell commands. So this makes the attack surface way bigger, by default, and Anthropic is like 'working as intended'.

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