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An Alien Mind

> You can always manipulate a human. Yes, but to make "apocalyptic" scenarios happen your AI would need to manipulate at least millions of people. So far it's not yet clear they can successfully manipulate even one, or even that "manipulate" is a coherent concept, since LLMs pretty clearly have no agency or intrinsic goals. So like... I guess if we start seeing AI systems autonomously throwing elections and starting wars I'd be more concerned? It doesn't look likely anytime soon.

Programming is Art

I think a discussion about programming being an art is incomplete without bringing into scope live coding, where you write code that produces music in front of an audience; Processing, a programming language for artists; and literate programming, where you intertwine prose and code to form a coherent narrative or story. Many people here are talking about programming as a tool you use to solve problems and build systems, but that’s just the subset of programming tasks corporations pay you to do. Programming is for many other things and it can be as expressive or constrained as you like.

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3 Scored 99.95% with Provider Adapter Harness

ARC-AGI-3 consists of various games specifically made for the competition, and the goal is to clear the game with as few moves as possible. So there's no answer key per se, but Astra was probably trained on game-like reinforcement-learning environments to the point where most games look very similar to a game it was already trained on. In any case, the competition was designed to highlight an issue with existing agents at the time where they couldn't maintain coherence over long sequences of actions, and it seems that problem has been remedied. I'm looking forward to finding out which weakness ARC-AGI-4 will be targeting.

ripwire: ripgrep of AI context (CLI+MCP) giving coding agents a map of any repo

My policy is that if someone doesn't understand the tool they've vibe-coded well enough to make the documentation coherent, they don't actually use it, and so I probably shouldn't use it either.

ripwire: ripgrep of AI context (CLI+MCP) giving coding agents a map of any repo

Opus can't speak coherent English anymore. I dunno what happened, but it's not speaking a language humans can understand. It uses unusual shorthand and slang, which it seems to use pretty consistently, so it's probably possible to learn its particular dialect. But, I'd rather it speak a language I already know.