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intelligence = compression + learning_rate

Custom simulation engine. Feeling good about the camera/nav system. Video recorded in browser using the WebCodec API

Prediction is compression

I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out. I lived through the great MTBF vs MTTR (mean-time-between-failure vs. mean-time-to-recovery) reckoning of infrastructure during the transition to cloud and cloud automation. All those arguments are rearing their ugly heads again but now its... the whole software development industry (maybe the whole world, really). It's frightening, because the psychosis folks operate under an almost absolute "MTTR is all you need" mentality: "its fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can't do!" We learned in infrastructure that MTTR is great but you can't yeet resilient systems entirely. The main issue is I don't even know how to bring this up to people I know personally, because bringing this topic up leads to immediately dismissals like "no no, it has full test coverage" or "bug reports are going down" or something, which just don't paint the whole picture. We already learned this lesson once in infrastructure: you can automate yourself into a very resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happens so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying. I worry.

To solve a problem write a program

The new ChatGPT image model is really solid. Feels much better at following fine grained direction and editing instructions.

I just chat to it, get it to ask me questions, provide responses, create keel mission, execute keel mission spoke.sh/keel/

There were signs

Paddles keeps running into spikes. I wonder if I can throw the Gemma 4 ball into the pond before Cloud Next? blog.google/innovation-and-a…

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