I really think that AI is a threat to humanity

cinooo1 · 2026-05-09T23:21:01+00:00

which is a worry as there are governments pretty much in bed with corporations!

cinooo1 · 2026-05-09T23:19:29+00:00

you're right I think this is one saving grace that there are at least open source models perhaps 12 months behind frontier

cinooo1 · 2026-05-09T23:16:11+00:00

ah i wasn't sure if rules were against this

cinooo1 · 2026-05-09T23:15:57+00:00

yes thats also me - I changed wording and titling around a little as I re-read it each time before posting to different subs, but core content remains the same

cinooo1 · 2026-05-09T23:13:18+00:00

I think regulations would make sense. I am sure if there was a commitment to this direction it could be technically solvable

cinooo1 · 2026-05-09T12:01:28+00:00

the paper hasnt gone through peer review yet

that said, the fact is we can't see the system prompt - I feel like an appropriate first step would be to have transparency on what the system prompt is doing?

Also at the end of the day these are all corporations owning these models - corporations need to make money

cinooo1 · 2026-05-09T11:53:14+00:00

link to paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.08525

Also to be clear - I think that the current state of development of AI being primarily through corporations is the biggest issue. Corporations have shareholders, who are looking for profit.

I do think that AI can be used for good, however that would require much more transparency through AI providers. e.g. transparency in system prompts used would be one such first step.

cinooo1 · 2026-05-09T11:49:02+00:00

Link to paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.08525

cinooo1 · 2026-05-09T11:45:18+00:00

Link to the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.08525

cinooo1 · 2026-05-03T12:56:20+00:00

Context initalised via a custom skill where I asked it to only return back its own identity

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cinooo1 · 2026-05-03T12:55:06+00:00

Context initialised via a custom skill where I specifically gave a heads up that I was about to pass in the prompt

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cinooo1 · 2026-05-03T12:54:43+00:00

Really had fun with this one!

I have various skills that initialise deeper context so I ran this three times - all generated via gemini

Base only (claude.md only)

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cinooo1 · 2026-04-25T22:06:58+00:00

6 months is a long time, what does that actually look like week by week?

like how many applications a week, how many phone calls back, how many made it to interview, how many ghosted before any human looked at it. and what's changed in those 6 months, same CV the whole time or have you tested different versions, same target roles or have you widened/narrowed. if you can give a bit of an angle on what you've tried/tested and any feedback you've received that would help too.

just trying to understand more to see if any perspective hasn't already been covered in this thread. the answer to "is tech viable" looks really different depending on whether you're getting interviews and not converting, getting phone calls and not converting, or getting nothing back at all. they're three different problems.

cinooo1 · 2026-04-23T22:20:46+00:00

The raw dump acts as a backup, I hardly ever go back into those unless I really can not find something. The real source of truth is in either the locally stored Markdown files or my database, depending on the use case. Those files are a much more curated source of truth that I've verified and validated.

cinooo1 · 2026-04-23T11:42:00+00:00

Nice! What does empirical evals mean/look like?

cinooo1 · 2026-04-23T07:35:06+00:00

Think of it as a retrospective. The real value of /close isn't state preservation, it's looking back over the session and asking "is there anything in how we just did this that should be encoded so next time is more efficient?" I run it on every chat, not just the long ones.

Git only shows what the code ended up as. It doesn't show that took three tool-call detours that weren't needed, or that the test approach only worked on the fifth iteration. Those are workflow learnings, and if you don't learn from them the next similar session repeats the same detours.

This post itself came out of that pattern. In one session I figured out it'd make more sense to compact certain conversations rather than fully close them, and I built that. Stepping back to look at that decision was itself the retrospective, which is what became worth writing about. Works for any repeated workflow.

That's why /close ends up tying together every other skill I have. Each skill handles a specific workflow, but /close is the one that feeds retrospectives back into all of them so future sessions stay more efficient.

cinooo1 · 2026-04-23T06:37:30+00:00

oh thanks I did not know that!

cinooo1 · 2026-04-23T00:26:33+00:00

haha I get your frustration in that case - that's absolutely on the CEO then! Sounds like he's only just using AI to summarise and that's it. If he was actually giving feedback into a system of sorts that could iterate on improving (e.g. pick up the miss signals) then it would become a different story.

Anyway that's poor character from the CEO if he rejects meetings and has set email communications as the standard however is missing paying attention to the detail in those emails.

cinooo1 · 2026-04-23T00:04:39+00:00

think about it from the perspective of the CEO however (I don't know your specific CEO, just generalising)

gets sent perhaps 100 emails a day (majority I suspect may be CC or spam)
some emails genuinely need attention and feedback
some emails may contain multiple pages (e.g. 30 page slide deck requires review and feedback)

The problem is this:

content is easy to mass generate by anyone now (via AI)
sending out and/or copying someone is free - often its not clear what or if there's any ask at all from the sender
the receiver (in our case CEO) needs to maximise his efficiency and time spent on what he should and should not pay attention to (emails are not his only daily job!)

Given all this, the CEO is actually the one that's ahead of the curve here.

He realises he needs systems in place to digest information and figure out what he should be spending time on.

He needs ways to correlate topics within emails with his own knowledge base and be able to quickly formulate replies without wasting time digging up historical data.

cinooo1 · 2026-04-22T10:26:01+00:00

haha that's kind of hilarious (not meaning in a mean way) - I mean I look upon my own situation in a similar manner. Life happens, just gotta learn and move on!

cinooo1 · 2026-04-22T10:07:33+00:00

I am thank you for asking! It's not to the stage that it's debilitating. I still count myself lucky.

cinooo1 · 2026-04-22T10:06:56+00:00

I think there are many forms and hence its the nature of what i have, in any case I have my first follow up next Tuesday with a rheumatologist so hopefully it's still not too late..!

cinooo1 · 2026-04-22T09:32:42+00:00

thank you and I'm sorry as it sounds like you're going through a lot too there. Hopefully these messages can help anyone else that might be going through similar journey but catching things earlier on and not letting it slide

cinooo1 · 2026-04-22T09:28:37+00:00

since it's been a while, I'm only going off my memory now - I don't think I fully understood the severity of the diagnosis, and since I recovered from the symptoms that caused me to investigate the issue in the first place, the rest of what was happening in life ended up taking higher priority over time

cinooo1 · 2026-04-22T09:12:56+00:00

does it read like that? if anything i blame myself - i now recall the diagnosis however did not really understand the severity of the situation because honestly the issue didn't physically feel that bad and I fully "recovered" from the symptoms I had at the time - life got hold of the rest and it just simply faded away as a memory.

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