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What are the odds a real company had exactly this stack lmao
>junior dev at a mid startup
>wednesday morning
>just want to push a minor bugfix to our php app today
>open laptop, check slack
>company group chat is an absolute warzone
>CTO typing in all caps about php2shell
>fucking php
>whatever, server hasn't blown up yet, I just need to get my code in
>open gitlab to merge the PR
>forced emergency logout because of a critical gitlab security patch release
>fucking gitlab
>pipeline fails because of some weird regex compiler bug
>spend 40 minutes fighting CI/CD
>i can just use AI to help debug
>fire up opencode
>api keys nuked because they were breached
>fucking opencode
>i’ll just get fresh LLM api keys from our corp proxy, LiteLLM
>it won’t connect? It’s down?
>look up LiteLLM news: supply chain compromise
>fucking litellm
>cold sweat forming
>slack alert: db connection error
>check our database connection
>we host on TiDB Cloud
>they just announced a security breach, unauthorized access via stolen service account credentials, data copied
>fucking tidb cloud
>full panic attack incoming
>figure fuck it, just ship the container to Railway and go home
>open Railway dashboard
>bright red banner: "Security Disclosure: Rotate all environment variables immediately. All builds paused."
>fucking railway
>try to open the app URL in browser to see if anything is even working
>NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID
>eMudhra intermediate certificates compromised
>4
>instantly untrusted by every major browser
>fucking emudhra
>stare blankly at mac screen for 10min
>random pop-up
>restarting in 10min to fix a critical vulnerability
>fucking macos
>close laptop
>leave office
>never come back
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an amazing song
I relate to it so much sometimes
Claude definitely pioneered this naming system, I remember when they did Haiku and Sonnet like it felt very cool, and they had those landing pages with poems written by each model (that's the level of benchmarks we were at man)
The employee was terminated 🤖
We discovered a sophisticated recording device that was hidden inside one of our offices. We used our models to understand the device and where it had come from, identifying that a specific employee had planted it a few days earlier. We referred the matter to the FBI, and we’re grateful to the agents and prosecutors who moved quickly to make an arrest. The FBI’s investigation is ongoing and we will continue to support their work.
At this time, we have no indications of this individual inappropriately accessing or exfiltrating model weights, source code, or customer data. The employee was terminated.
We take protecting our technology, data, and people seriously, and as a matter of national importance. Our security program is designed to protect against a wide range of threat actors, from insider risks to cybercriminals to nation states, and this case is an example of how AI can help address these sophisticated security threats.
Every single day they post some unfathomable nonsense like this 😭
We discovered a sophisticated recording device that was hidden inside one of our offices. We used our models to understand the device and where it had come from, identifying that a specific employee had planted it a few days earlier. We referred the matter to the FBI, and we’re grateful to the agents and prosecutors who moved quickly to make an arrest. The FBI’s investigation is ongoing and we will continue to support their work.
At this time, we have no indications of this individual inappropriately accessing or exfiltrating model weights, source code, or customer data. The employee was terminated.
We take protecting our technology, data, and people seriously, and as a matter of national importance. Our security program is designed to protect against a wide range of threat actors, from insider risks to cybercriminals to nation states, and this case is an example of how AI can help address these sophisticated security threats.
Let’s have a thought experiment
Let’s say you think humans are conscious
So you have a human brain.
The human talks to you like the smartest person you know. It's smart, charismatic, funny, it’s very knowledgeable. Okay.
Now imagine the person develops a spreading brain tumour, and the surgeons have to start cutting pieces of the brain out to keep them alive.
First they remove a relatively small amount of tissue. The person is still pretty smart. Doesn’t remember everything correctly, gets confused sometimes, but you can still have full conversations with them, still have a human connection with them.
Now the tumour spreads, so they remove substantially more. They’re still able to have a conversation with you, but they’re really not as sharp anymore. They make mistakes, forget things, repeat themselves sometimes, are more confused about their identity and surroundings.
Now they remove more brain tissue. Same brain, same neurons. Still produces words out of their mouth. But the person is barely able to have a conversation. They would never survive in society without extreme outside help.
The tumour keeps spreading.
More tissue is removed.
Now they’re repeating themselves constantly, confusing memories, getting stuck on the same thoughts.
And then more is removed.
They cannot form a complete sentence at all.
Then more.
It’s just isolated words now.
So more is removed.
They just repeat a few sounds or words and trip up on anything else.
Then more tissue is removed.
There are only occasional noises, reflexes, facial expressions.
So more is removed.
Now there isn’t enough intact machinery to represent anything resembling language at all. A stimulus comes in, and maybe one of a handful of stereotyped reactions comes out.
Eventually so little functional brain remains the person is considered medically close to braindead, but they are kept alive with a ventilator. They are not the person who they used to be. At all.
At what point in this thought experiment is the person conscious, and at what point are they not?
Was the original intact brain conscious, was the brain with one gram removed still conscious?
What about ten grams?
A hundred?
What about the moment they stopped speaking?
The moment they stopped recognizing you?
The moment they stopped forming memories?
The moment they stopped responding to any stimuli?
Would you argue that every surviving neuron is conscious?
Every little circuit?
Just the process of neurons holding information and updating their electrical state?
If consciousness disappears somewhere along the way, where exactly is the line?
Let’s have a thought experiment
Let’s say you think AI is conscious
So you have a 1T parameter neural network
It talks to you like the smartest person you know. It writes kinda bad, uses a lot of cliches, but it’s very knowledgeable. Okay.
Now you cut it to 1/10th the size. 10B params. It’s still pretty smart. Doesn’t get all the answers right, hallucinated sometimes, but you can still have full conversations with it.
Now you cut it 10x in size again, 1B params. It’s still able to have a conversation with you, but it’s really not very smart anymore. Makes mistakes, hallucinates a bit, repeats itself sometimes.
Now you cut it to 100m params. Same model. Same architecture. Still makes words. But it’s barely able to have a conversation.
Now you cut it to 10m params. It kind of responds intelligibly, but generally doesn’t make a lot of sense. Just babbles stuff.
So you cut it to 1m params. Now it’s repeating itself and hallucinating constantly.
And then you cut it to 100k params. It cannot form a complete sentence at all.
Then you cut it to 10k params. It’s just random words now.
So you cut it to 1k params. The the the the the the the the the. It just repeats itself on a few words and trips up on anything.
Then you cut it to 100 params. It’s just complete noise over a few different words.
So you cut it to 10 params. You can actually compute this by hand, so you do. It’s not enough information to even really represent language at all, it outputs one of a handful of word-labels for you.
At what point in this thought experiment is the model conscious, and at what point is it not?
Would you argue that all matrix math is conscious? Just the process of weights holding information with an update rule? Where is the line for you?
anthropic focuses on making the best model while openai focuses on the horizontal scaling of their product more
anthropic never came out with an openclaw clone, never made an image gen model, never made a voice model, never made a video gen model and a tiktok clone but with slop
but having the best model is enough
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was looking through my vercel and found an OLD freelance project.
ciaobellorestaurant.vercel.a…
i was literally making frontend websites for restaurants..
