Oh good we have a distraught twenty-something in Ops command center who things emoting into walkie-talkie in middle of incident is best practice. Oh management outside command center is making lock/unlock decisions via cell phone? While driving, for bonus points.
@patio11
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Jurassic World Operations: Critical Security Failures in Tech Management
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Rewatching the Jurassic World movie scene and I understand intellectually that it is there because they need a movie to happen but ahhhh every five seconds there is another teachable moment for Ops on Things No One In This Job Should Ever Do.
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LLM Design Choices Outperform Traditional Sci-Fi Set Design
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… “transition corridor.” (Probably not what I would have called it, but it’s a two stage airlock design, because LLM makes better choices than movie set designers out of the box.)
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LLM World Models and Failure Case Defense Mechanisms
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Sometimes people say that the LLMs make obvious errors because they don’t have a world model, but one is welcome to one’s guess as to what percentage of population has sufficiently detailed world model to discuss layers of defense against failure cases in a remotely operated…
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Mechanical Failsafe System: Remote Control and Lock States
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understanding of what the mechanical failsafe which saves the day *actually does*, because it is elsewhere implied that it can be actuated remotely by Ops and that it moved to a locked state versus almost always being in a locked state.
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Security Seams: Rapid Deployment and Access Control Gaps
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“If you go looking for the seams, what do you find?” Example: canary deploy to fleet-wide rollout in 12 seconds per timestamps, no description of why someone is attempting to access raptor enclosure during a shift change (or any discussion or motivation at all), and mysterious
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Mastering Prompt Engineering: Effort and Video Production Skills
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Will happily cede the field to someone who has spent 5X as much effort as I have on getting better at prompting in last 24 months and actually enjoys producing video.
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AI-Generated Creative Content Quality and Economic Valuation
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Result is not Shakespeare but it’s subjectively similar to what you’d expect a Google SRE with a flair for fanfiction to crank out in 2-4 hours, and that’s a pretty expensive person to task with on demand flash fiction.
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Tiny AI Joy Machines: Hyperspecialized Fictional Worlds
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These things are tiny little joy machines, for those five minutes at Starbucks where you would prefer a hyperspecialized fictional world to all the ones humans devote more effort to.
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o3 Generates High-Effort Fanfiction with Competent Analysis
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o3 can write something which would be decently high-effort fanfiction (prompt gestured in direction of “Jurassic Park but with competent people involved; scathing postmortem of five sigma near miss”)