Is this the only way to get coding agents to produce shippable quality code?
@alexjc
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Scaling AI Without Purpose: A Critique of Growth
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Scaling just for the sake of it even if it produces nothing useful? Heh.
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Debating AI Topics Without Clear Definition Consensus
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It's amazing how the topics can be debated without there being much of a consensus on what's being debated…
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The Bitter Lesson: Compute versus Other Approaches in AI
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Without checking, what is the message behind the "Bitter Lesson", in your opinion? (a) all other things being equal, using more compute is better.
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Sigmoid Curves Not Exponential Growth Stack Innovation
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Worse, they imply other scaling laws should rather be fit to sigmoids. The only reason we're seeing "exponential" looking growth is because of human ingenuity stacking the sigmoid curves! (Great time to be in fundamental research rather than blindly following corporate trends.)
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RL on LLMs Hits Scaling Ceiling at 61% Performance
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It's hard to overstate how devastating this paper is, not only for reinforcement learning. They spent $4m of compute to find out that RL on LLMs basically taps out at 61% "asymptotic pass rate" (exact rate depends on context), but they built a *ceiling* into the scaling law!
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Claude vs GPT-5: Performance Degradation in Extended Conversations
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Claude struggled a bit with syntax errors after a long chat, uncharacteristic, but complexity did build up. Whereas GPT-5 just seems to stop working after a while though, it thinks and then says what it'd do without doing it.
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Cursor AI Token Limits: Smart Summarization Over Extended Context
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The recent @cursor_ai updates to summarize your chat when you hit token limits prove you don't really need a long context, just solid problem-solving. The chat about my project is a long list of related things to solve and doesn't need stop…
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Vibe Coding vs Sloptimizing: Programming Quality Debate
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Who called it vibe coding and not sloptimizing?
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Should AI-Generated Content Require a .slop File Extension?
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Do we need a .slop file extension as suffix to inform (and warn) users the content has not been reviewed or approved by a human? .jpg.slop
.docx.slop
.py.slop You'd have to manually remove the .slop as an explicit acknowledgement of the risk!