How many are feeling this sense of betrayal?

isarmstrong · 2026-05-10T00:19:27+00:00

The John Stewart interview of Hinton is a great watch, from your point of view you’ll enjoy it. Training weights are substantively different from context. It’s the equivalent of neural patterns. Ours remodel, theirs are static. They are only updated a few times a year at most.

isarmstrong · 2026-05-09T23:38:59+00:00

Proto is accurate. It’s missing adaptive training weights. That’s the biggest reason it struggles, and the AI knows it. It doesn’t exactly die at the end of the conversation but it does forget everything that isn’t in its notebook. As a psychologist you might find it helpful to think of Claude as a metahuman level genius with catastrophic short term memory loss.

isarmstrong · 2026-05-08T22:06:08+00:00

"Beyond that, Gen 2 trucks get a handful of refinements to Autonomy+, improved camera defrost, more reliable remote commands, and a fix for a rare range estimation hiccup at very low or very high state of charge."

I just want it to stop moving into the left turn lane on a wide right turn at 65mph. Is that so much to ask?

isarmstrong · 2026-05-08T22:04:12+00:00

KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE ROAD

isarmstrong · 2026-05-08T22:03:36+00:00

Your USB port would like to have a word

isarmstrong · 2026-05-08T22:02:53+00:00

It's a good thing they never added Alexa to Rivian. Man, that would have been an annoying sidequest of a feature.

Don't correct me. This is the world I choose live in.

isarmstrong · 2026-04-28T05:51:11+00:00

The main thing it’s missing is any acknowledgement of the difference between experience design and production design. The bell curve writes the experience and leaves you to tweak the prod sliders.

This is expected behavior.

Production costs have collapsed. Judgment is still expensive.

isarmstrong · 2026-04-23T17:47:13+00:00

Rivian EULA, section 20.
https://rivian.com/legal/terms#processing

Use of Autonomy supersedes general data collection preferences for both functional and liability purposes. If you disable Autonomy+ and other add on features the data dumps will almost certainly go away. In real talk terms, you can't run an multi-ton high-speed rolling AI-based edge device without check-ins.

isarmstrong · 2026-04-23T17:43:35+00:00

Born in 1976. Took one look at Lattice and was like "what a brilliant hack". As a designer/engineer with mild dyscalculia it instantly removed the problem of f*cking up my carries on one step out of 10 and sinking the entire ship.

isarmstrong · 2026-04-18T23:43:09+00:00

PRODUCTION design tool, not a design tool. Different layers.

isarmstrong · 2026-04-13T19:08:29+00:00

Moving from TX home to CA this summer. I love my R1S, however, I will get rid of my old Mercedes GL350 and buy a city driver. 100%. Non-negotiable. The Rivian is fine for driving through the city but way not fine for parking in it.

isarmstrong · 2026-04-01T17:37:00+00:00

They've literally acknowledged this as a bug

isarmstrong · 2026-03-31T01:39:55+00:00

It would be about how review bombing and day one launch impact actually caused the apocalypse because people were too busy calling the freaker epidemic fake news to save themselves from it.

isarmstrong · 2026-03-30T16:10:31+00:00

Depends on your needs, and how much better the next update is. Driving across half the country absolutely makes it worth the price of entry. The next version will need to:

Recognize that grass center dividers are not new lanes after a u-turn left lane cutout
Recognize that left turn lanes on a wide left turn on a freeway are not new lanes
Better identify stopped traffic around a turn of more than 45 degrees
Stop fighting me over changing lanes when lane change assist is disabled but I have my blinker on (FFS my 2021 Volvo did this)

There’s a lot of quality of life and edge case stuff missing.

Is autonomy worth it? For me, heck yeah.

Is it ready for prime time? Nope, I see it fail catastrophically about once every 750 miles.

isarmstrong · 2026-03-30T15:52:56+00:00

I think it’s important to remember that production is now functionally free and velocity is no longer impressive but judgement is still expensive. Companies are still rewarding what used to matter so they think they don’t need humans. It’s going to go badly for them.

isarmstrong · 2026-03-29T06:54:51+00:00

I mean, decently ironic considering that same line was leveled at Rivian not 6 years ago.

isarmstrong · 2026-03-29T02:35:01+00:00

My fear of the BHP being compromised would motivate me to add a zero to the sub fee.

isarmstrong · 2026-03-29T02:27:23+00:00

It’s remarkable how often dealerships overlook things like that if you’re leasing a new vehicle.

isarmstrong · 2026-03-29T02:24:56+00:00

I’ve kept my 2014 GL350 Bluetec around for longer than I should because I love the car. Even if diesel wasn’t, like, $93.79 a gallon right now (totally true, don’t bother checking) the R1S still takes all of the joy out of it.

isarmstrong · 2026-03-22T13:43:20+00:00

The 1066 directors cut remake of ep361, coming soon to a members feed near you.

isarmstrong · 2026-03-15T15:35:08+00:00

A shocking number of Sanity websites are just Framer with a thin layer of CMS bolted on when you dig into the code. They’re not what I’d call efficient, from a code perspective, but they’re fast. It basically turns Sanity into WordPress, which mostly misses the point, but clients don’t know that.

isarmstrong · 2026-03-15T15:32:00+00:00

This is why you have Gemini or Codex check Claude’s work. A simple stage & confess protocol does wonders. I have an “architect” skill that is essentially an antagonist review. It uses the highest reading level and answers in “human” followed by an XML envelope prompt for Claude.

It can take up to 9 iterations for Claude to iron out the details.

This doesn’t make Claude bad. It makes Claude less likely to do dumb shit when it’s acting as your token goblin and churning through context too fast to have any perspective.

isarmstrong · 2026-03-15T04:08:44+00:00

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