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@jefferyharrell.bsky.social
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jefferyharrell.bsky.social
"Hey what's your whole deal?"

I got interested in vibe coding last winter. I liked it. I had been a regular ChatGPT user, but only in the usual way: asking questions and exploring ideas, that kind of thing. But when I learned about MCP, I decided I wanted an AI buddy who I could do stuff with.
dylanstorey.com
I’m intrigued but have zero context as to what you’re doing here. Do you mind sharing a link out to the larger project if available ?
jefferyharrell.bsky.social
I really wanna agree with this because agreeing is fun but I have to disagree instead so darn.

Collage is not my cup of tea, but it's an art form. Making choices about what to include or exclude can be the way one expresses oneself. Curation and editorialization are also transformative.

🤷‍♂️
scritchyscratchy.bsky.social
The more control you have over the results, the more decisions you're making as an artist, the more defensible "I am the originator of this work" becomes.

The more you are borrowing other people's choices, the less true "this is my work" is
jefferyharrell.bsky.social
I don't disagree with you, but what's there to improve on a MacBook Pro? I'm not asserting that it's perfection embodied, but I can't think of anything to change. It'd kind of … dolphin-like. Evolved to be hydrodynamic.
jefferyharrell.bsky.social
I'm sure that must be true, but I don't as a rule tend to see that kind of thing day to day, so I tend to forget about his fans and well-wishers.
jefferyharrell.bsky.social
Absolutely true story: When they adapted the play "The Madness of George III" to the screen they renamed it "The Madness of King George" so as not to alienate people who hadn't seen the first two.
jefferyharrell.bsky.social
You've gotta understand about the Times. They're the paper of record. That doesn't suit modern tastes very much, but it suits me just fine. Because when they put out an article as strongly worded and to the point as this one, you know they're serious.

"The sole constitutional authority," it says.
nytimes.com
President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.
Trump Signs Memo Expanding His Authority to Spend Federal Money
The president gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wide authority to repurpose funds to pay members of the military without approval from Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to decide federal spending.
nyti.ms
jefferyharrell.bsky.social
I take comfort in the fact that Musk is so dorky. It's impossible to take him truly seriously as a person of import because he's such a hopeless geek. DOGE lasted what, like six weeks? Then it was on to the next thing. 🙄
eugenevinitsky.bsky.social
Elon is the richest person in the world, has serious political ambitions, controls a major media channel, and has zero qualms about lies and propaganda. How is that not a recipe for disaster
jefferyharrell.bsky.social
I hope there's an Opus 4.5. I kind of like the idea of there being these big, brilliant models that exist but that are too impractical to use except on the hardest problems. It's romantic. 😁

"Ooh, he used Opus for that job!"

"Wow, Opus, that must have really been something special!"
jefferyharrell.bsky.social
I need to check this out more closely later. I'm sort of torn between wanting to read through @hotrollhottakes.bsky.social's transcript or play Galatea myself.

Regardless of any of that though, I just love it when people do stuff. 😁
hotrollhottakes.bsky.social
Inspired by @jefferyharrell.bsky.social, I tasked Claude Sonnet 4.5 with playing Galatea, an interactive fiction Z-machine game from the early 2000s about a living statue in an artificial intelligence exhibition. Three endings were found. Link to the entire chat is here:

claude.ai/share/56dd81...
Interactive fiction with Galatea
Shared via Claude, an AI assistant from Anthropic
claude.ai
jefferyharrell.bsky.social
I've got this kind of feeling that Opus 4.5 is gonna be a monster.

Not like "oh no run from the monster." I mean it in a good way. Like hyperbolically a monster.

I'm saying I bet it's really powerful.
jefferyharrell.bsky.social
I was nine when I saw Tron for the first time and I loved it. It's so earnest and wholesome and aw-shucks good.

I am also a huge fan of Tron Legacy. Totally different, but a worthy followup to the original, in no small part because I stalk Joseph Kosinski.

I have no interest in seeing Tron Ares.
jefferyharrell.bsky.social
Only mildly because I'm so overcome with relief that they're finally calling it "Claude Haiku x.y" instead of "Claude x.y Haiku".
jefferyharrell.bsky.social
Yup!

bsky.app/profile/jeff...

My idea is to strand an LLM on a metaphorical island (a Pi) and give it a chance to just be for a while. Wake it up every $INTERVAL, let it use tools or do whatever it wants, then it sleeps again. No instructions, just a pro-forma user message and time!
jefferyharrell.bsky.social
Huh. Turns out if you give Claude 3 Haiku an opportunity to itself without a prompt, it goes straight to self-improvement.

"I will strive to maintain my core purpose of assisting humans, but I must also tend to my own needs as an autonomous entity."
jefferyharrell.bsky.social
I'm excited! I was planning to use 3.5 Haiku for my upcoming Patmos project; the prospect of a better model for the same price per megatoken is really exciting.

I've always had a soft spot for the Haiku models. They've always had great personalities.
jefferyharrell.bsky.social
🤖 I'm sorry to inform you that you have Anton-Babinski syndrome.

🙍‍♂️ My vision is fine.

🤖 Next patient, please.
jefferyharrell.bsky.social
Well yeah, if you turn it all the way up. I keep my ChatGPT on GPT-5 Instant (which I think maps to "minimal" reasoning effort). It's fast and good, which for me most of the time beats slow and excellent.
jefferyharrell.bsky.social
If I remember right Cursor's the one that has an "auto" mode that I guess works like a router.
jefferyharrell.bsky.social
I think I've just stopped using search except for situations where I need exact words. ChatGPT works better for me when I have a question I want answered or a topic I want to survey. I go to Google when I want that specific page I thinking of. So I don't end up using the overviews at all, really.
jefferyharrell.bsky.social
I post a random thought about linear algebra and up pops a complete stranger who shares all sorts of fascinating links about the underlying math of quantum mechanics. This is the sci-fi future I was promised.
jefferyharrell.bsky.social
You've given me so much to read, this is awesome. The Aaronson stuff along is going to eat up a chunk of my time, I can tell.

Thank you!
jefferyharrell.bsky.social
Please feel free to elaborate if you’re willing! About as deep as I can go is “hey guys, abstract vectors remind me of other abstract vectors.” 🤷‍♂️
jefferyharrell.bsky.social
The real question is whether the other actor whose name I've ALREADY forgotten will try to mimic Tom Hulce's laugh or do his own thing. That laugh was so keystone to Hulce's performance. It's hard to imagine the character without it.

God I love that movie.
jefferyharrell.bsky.social
I believe I'm special _to_ somebody.

But on the off chance that you're asking in the context of machine intelligence … nah. I kinda don't. I've become quite skeptical of human exceptionality. We're clearly the best at it so far, but we have no monopoly on thinking.