The incomparable Ethan Ding on the disjunction that most of us are feeling right now. Claude speeds up certain things - quite a lot - but it also slows us down. We need to have a more accurate model of what’s happening to software, and this is an accessible primer on one possible scenario.
(I also loved his piece on levered beta, which I think played out essentially as he wrote.)
As an author, I strongly dislike O’ Reilly’s Early Release model, since my stuff gets poked at before it’s ready. As a reader, I strongly like O’ Reilly’s Early Release model, since I can poke at other people’s stuff before it’s ready!
O’ Reilly’s Safari platform is hosting the latest chapters on STPA and AI for SRE.
I strongly suspect that Zvi doesn’t need more inbound links, but his latest model card assessment (which is, as usual, very well written) has a couple of notable quotes:
So yeah, none of that sounds great. It all sounds like the types of thing that, if you caught a human doing them even once, that would be a very bad sign, and in several cases you would obviously have to fire them.
Check out the examples of Mythos Preview attempting (and in some cases succeeding, only to be caught by the human at the last moment) to escape containment.
