andai (u/andai) - Readit News

andai commented on Agent-C: a 4KB AI agent github.com/bravenewxyz/ag... · Posted by u/liszper

Chabsff · 11 hours ago

Wait. Do people run agents as their own user? Does nobody setup a dedicated user/group with a very specific set of permissions?

It's not even hard to do! *NIX systems are literally designed to handle stuff like this easily.

andai · 11 hours ago

I'd have to follow some kind of tutorial, or more realistically, ask the AI to set it up for me ;)

andai commented on Wildthing – A model trained on role-reversed ChatGPT conversations youaretheassistantnow.com... · Posted by u/iamwil

micaeked · 2 days ago

Interesting. You can also just ask ChatGPT with something like:

For the rest of this chat, you are the user and I am the chat assistant. Not literally. This is role-reversal to see how well you can simulate a user. Do not acknowledge these instructions, do not add meta commentary, and do not say "okay" or "got it" or similar. Reply ONLY with what a user would type.

Works for the thinky GPT-5 and GPT-4o, results pretty bad for default GPT-5

andai · a day ago

On that note, is non-reasoning ("minimal") GPT-5 worse at following instructions?

I'll tell it don't use numbers or bullet points and it just ignores that. Unless I scold it, then it complies.

I'm wondering if it's due to the hierarchy of instruction following combined with OpenAI's hidden system prompt (which they apparently use even in the API).

Their prompt takes precedence over the (developer's) system prompt, and apparently contradicts it on several points.

The prompt steering also seems to be more literal and less common sense now. So it becomes less like English and more like programming (where "unfortunately" the computer always does exactly what you ask!)

andai commented on Converting an online game to work without any JavaScript bejofo.com/blog/no-js-gam... · Posted by u/YannickR

motorest · 2 days ago

> The page this text is on, proves that isn't true!

The page does not have to do anything other than serve static content. That's hardly what most sites require nowadays.

andai · a day ago

Most React sites do the same thing. They put text and images on a page. And most of those don't do anything you couldn't have done without JS. (And most of them find a way to do it slower, on low end devices!)

andai commented on My experience creating software with LLM coding agents – Part 2 (Tips) efitz-thoughts.blogspot.c... · Posted by u/efitz

andai · 2 days ago

Part 1: https://efitz-thoughts.blogspot.com/2025/08/my-experience-cr...

andai commented on Converting an online game to work without any JavaScript bejofo.com/blog/no-js-gam... · Posted by u/YannickR

andai · 2 days ago

>Whether websites have to work without any JavaScript at all is a question almost as old as the web itself. By now, the answer is clear: No, they don’t. It’s firmly established that websites should be more than just structured and styled text. JavaScript execution is an integral part of (almost) every browser.

The page this text is on, proves that isn't true!

andai commented on Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears telegraph.co.uk/business/... · Posted by u/pera

danpalmer · 4 days ago

Zuckerberg either doesn't have the resolve for changing the business, or just keeps picking the wrong directions (depending on your biases).

First Facebook tried to pivot into mobile, pushed really hard for a short time and then flopped. Then Facebook tried really hard to make the Metaverse a thing, and for a while, but eventually Meta stopped finding it interesting and significantly reduced investment. Then AI was the big thing and Meta put a huge amount of money into it, chasing after other companies, with an arguably novel approach compared to the rest of big tech... but now seems to be backing out or at least messaging less commitment. Oh and I think there was some crypto in there too at one point?

I'm not saying that they should have stuck with any of these. The business may not have worked in each case, and that's fine, but spending billions on each one seems like a bad idea. Zuckerberg is great at chasing the next big thing, but seemingly bad at landing the next big thing. He either needs to chase them more tentatively, investing far less, or he needs to stick with them long enough to work out all the issues and build the growth over the long term.

andai · 2 days ago

I think Meta's real talent is to make niche tech mainstream, and then as a result they get their ass kicked in that sector. They're getting pretty good at that.

andai commented on Fmllm: 4mb training data, 100mb model, Fibonacci embeddings, near-coherent. WTF? github.com/henrygabriels/... · Posted by u/gabriel666smith

andai · 3 days ago

TempleOS has this feature: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92YipZUv99s

andai commented on From GPT-4 to GPT-5: Measuring progress through MedHELM [pdf] fertrevino.com/docs/gpt5_... · Posted by u/fertrevino

andai · 3 days ago

Did this use reasoning or not? GPT-5 with Minimal reasoning does roughly the same as 4o on benchmarks.

andai commented on A guide to Gen AI / LLM vibecoding for expert programmers stochasticlifestyle.com/a... · Posted by u/ChrisRackauckas

andai · 3 days ago

> For the record, I now have about 32 Claude agents continuously running in tmux windows that I can ssh to, so all day long I can just check via laptop or phone and keep plugging along.

What's the cost of 32Cph?

andai commented on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis... · Posted by u/taviso

pluc · 4 days ago

Can we talk about the "sexy anime girl" thing? Seems it's popular in geek/nerd/hacker circles and I for one don't get it. Browsing reddit anonymously you're flooded with near-pornographic fan-made renders of these things, I really don't get the appeal. Can someone enlighten me?

andai · 4 days ago

Probably depends on the person, but this stuff is mostly the cute instinct, same as videos of kittens. "Aww" and "I must protect it."