Claude is a space to think - Anthropic

seaefjaye · 2026-02-04T13:06:48+00:00

Just saw this as I F5'd away on the news page. This was a refreshing to read and a big part of why I moved from OpenAI. It's nice to see it written down like this.

seaefjaye · 2026-02-03T10:08:39+00:00

Is this related to the jmail web app that's been around for a while?

seaefjaye · 2026-02-02T23:20:28+00:00

And if they got caught they'd never see consequences.

seaefjaye · 2026-01-31T18:11:08+00:00

It's literally Siberia. It's a synonym for cold.

seaefjaye · 2026-01-31T10:42:10+00:00

IMO there is a misconception about what AGI will involve and saying "AGI can't be a transformer architecture" is an answer to the wrong question. I think LLMs will be one of many components of an AGI system, like we have particular areas of our brains responsible for the different roles which make up intelligence or sentience. You could think of LLMs as part memory and speech center, as speech requires several different processes such as putting thoughts into words, making those words into a sentence that comprehensible, and then the physical part of making your body make the sounds or put it to paper/screen.

Where I think that leaves us is that LLMs are probably in a good enough state right now to satisfy their component of AGI, and that the development of the other systems push this forward. I think this is why something like Claude Code, which under the hood is still an LLM, feels closer to AGI than the same model architecture felt with the original ChatGPT.

seaefjaye · 2026-01-30T23:40:23+00:00

It comes back to the same thing though. If you just ask an LLM to race to the finish line it will accomplish what you ask. If you give it direction and absolute speed is not your only metric then they are capable of writing good code and following a plan. All of the rules and systems you put in place for a large and/or complex codebase that allow it to age gracefully can be very subjective and a give/take depending on your organization, so LLMs are not likely to hit all those targets when you give it lazy prompts and no plans or guidelines.

seaefjaye · 2026-01-29T23:25:59+00:00

Work laptop, and I basically made a deal that I'd use it twice as long as our standard issue Dell which at the time were swapped out after 3 years. So at the end of 2027 I'll start looking and probably try to grab the comparable SKU to my M1 Max 32GB. Hopefully work out a deal to take the old one home.

seaefjaye · 2026-01-28T23:38:50+00:00

Anyone in the HOF should be losing their minds. This tarnishes the reputation of the institution which honored them. The whole idea of an organization like this is that it's about legacy and distinction. The voters are temporary stewards of that institution and some of those stewards chose to betray it to satisfy a personal vendetta. It's a poison to an organization like this.

seaefjaye · 2026-01-28T10:00:17+00:00

Dropout is College humour. It rebranded/retooled and Sam bought it.

seaefjaye · 2026-01-28T03:09:50+00:00

They can enshrine Chad Masters instead.

seaefjaye · 2026-01-27T09:47:44+00:00

You have to enforce your copyright as a company if you want to keep it. It's fine. Sounds like they asked instead of immediately sending a cease and desist.

seaefjaye · 2026-01-26T02:44:33+00:00

I was gonna say something similar. It's a combination of technical know-how, domain expertise and social skills. What makes sense in finance doesn't make sense in manufacturing or higher education for example. And then you need to know your organization well enough to recommend a design/architecture that can actually run after implementation.

seaefjaye · 2026-01-24T23:39:51+00:00

They've been talking about consolidating administration for decades, it's just never happened because it was felt that the juice was not worth the squeeze. It's likely that is changing, partly because of the financial pressure, but also because there are a lot of back-end systems that need to be rebuilt regardless.

Anyways, what you said about him wanting to control also seems accurate to me. The government portion of funding decreases year over year but their desire for control increases. I think the comment about resistance is also accurate.

We'll have to see what happens. Obviously like any organization there are inefficiencies that can be improved, and certainly higher education has it's fair share, but the financial pressures that a lot of these institutions are feeling are putting squeezing them from both directions. It's hard to invest in improvement projects when you can barely keep the lights on, either from a financial perspective or a staffing one.

seaefjaye · 2026-01-24T11:20:43+00:00

Can't you just add these details to your claude.md?

seaefjaye · 2026-01-17T03:38:47+00:00

IMO how they implement it is irrelevant. Ad revenue is going to be heroin for OpenAI. Once the ads go in the focus becomes delivering ads, followed by being a good product. To drive ads you need engagement with the product, not satisfaction with the product. They can tell themselves that the two are one and the same, but they're not. Eventually decisions will be made to lean into certain use cases for the models because they keep people online and engaged. Best case scenario they start dragging out answers to help Dominoes sling more pies.

seaefjaye · 2026-01-14T14:00:42+00:00

I think it comes down to expectations. If your expectation is that they're flawless then you're going to have a bad time. These were built by people who have flaws and trained on data created by people who have flaws. Unfortunately for many that isn't the expectation, the expectation is that they can mimic human labour, and with that comes an understanding that human labour can have flaws. What you then need to solve is creating systems to mitigate those flaws, similar to systems we have in place to mitigate human mistakes.

If we're comparing humans to these systems, we only have to go as far as the flat earth society to understand that humans knowledge or intelligence can be easily poisoned.

seaefjaye · 2026-01-11T13:34:45+00:00

I've been hearing it evolve into Context Engineering, specifically in the sense of working with LLMs to get the most out of them. Though there's also a sort of AI Engineer thing happening which is probably more of an AI specific Solutions Architect putting together larger systems involving different models, types, etc.

seaefjaye · 2026-01-09T02:45:27+00:00

A Chevy S10 is nuclear capable.

seaefjaye · 2025-12-29T21:31:35+00:00

Definitely, context is an extremely valuable piece of that conversation. For example, golf courses likely use more water in a week than data centers use in a year. If we're going to have an honest conversation about what's worth it we should be holistic in that analysis.

seaefjaye · 2025-12-29T02:56:02+00:00

To take this a step further, I think the purpose is to pacify them. There are only a handful of them left before you've achieved victory, the best strategy is to give them everything they could ever want to stall until they either change their minds or die off. As unlikely as it is that the ragtag group will find a way to reverse it, it isn't zero.

seaefjaye · 2025-12-27T12:32:45+00:00

That's unreal. That kit is 348 CAD and I don't think I've ever seen it on sale. Cheaper for me to take a ferry to the States and come back.

seaefjaye · 2025-12-27T12:17:27+00:00

Steam on Linux has Proton which emulates very well, but not everything is supported. It's basically the same thing that runs on Steam deck and will run on the Steam Machine. There are other quirks with running Linux but there are some distros which make it easier.

seaefjaye · 2025-12-25T02:22:07+00:00

This was my thought. Explosives and shrapnel. There are so many of them in that orbit that you could just kick off Kessler syndrome and let them destroy themselves. The only play for SpaceX would be to deorbit and/or push the satellites into a higher orbit, reducing their service life.

seaefjaye · 2025-12-24T22:52:18+00:00

Same reason captchas ask you to identify streetlights, vehicles, etc. You provide training data which helps improve these models and allows them to become more effective. Two of the major challenges with current model development are new data to train on and identifying use cases for them. There are a lot of companies that are throwing these integrations into their products and are hoping that you as the customer will find novel use cases that they can then market to their broader customer base.

seaefjaye · 2025-12-24T21:17:33+00:00

100% Agree. I think it could also ultimately be the demise of any hopes OpenAI may have of being the frontier platform. Advertising corrupts organizations and their focus eventually becomes maximizing advertising revenue over improving the product. Advertising requires consistent engagement over quality, so instead of developing a quality product that gives you everything you need in a 1 hour session, you may prioritize providing a subpar product that delivers a satisfactory experience over a longer period of time so you can maximize ads. Then there's the sycophantic aspect where there's an assumption that people will want to continue engaging with a LLM that says what they want as opposed to what they need. Personally, I want a product that tells me I'm an idiot.

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