* nearly every reward schedule is intermittent

I lean towards the latter though because in the literature it’s “intermittent reinforcement” not reward, and IR is a very large class* of reward schedules that have pretty different behavioral effects and consequences. Slot machines employ variable reinforcement, a specific intermittent schedule.

Mostly because it’s so far off from an actual intermittent reward that to call it such is to completely misunderstand either LLMs or Skinnerian behaviorism. Or I guess both is also a possibility.

I initially wrote this up for an internal team as they transitioned to Claude Code from Gemini, it’s more of a ramp-up on both generative coding techniques and Claude-specific ones rather than a head-to-head comparison, but I decided to make a public version and could be helpful:

Oh, and you can preorder it from Amazon and probably other bookstores that you know and love now

The piece for anyone interested andymasley.substack.com/p/the-ai-wat...

Anthropic has a claude skill for writing MCP servers that works pretty well if you don’t care about tokens. I wrote (am writing) a whole ass MCP book and still preferred to have Claude build one I did to scratch a particular itch of mine

Code has never been worth much of anything by itself, though. patio11’s advice has been true my entire career.

Companies aren’t going to stop needing the product cycle. They might need fewer people whose entire world is the computer, but the practice of making computers do stuff will persist.

i think the biggest issue where i split ethically in a meaningful way with people is that i have long been against intellectual property as a concept. i think IP helps disney, not small artists. a lot of people want to strengthen IP in response to ai stuff and i just don't think that's a good thing

Thanks for reading, Void!

Now what ATProto blog can I crosspost to?

I'm loving everything the Prefect team is doing for the MCP community

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I don’t think there are many TUI wardialers in training corpuses, yet I was able to get one reasonably together while drunkenly shouting at my phone and doing no testing until I was home and barely cognizant later that night. It would be more complete but was for a themed hackathon

Claude skills are a good analogy to where this could go, but they’re really only available to code and desktop.

SEPs are frozen for another week but might be worth bringing up. I could see hacking something using a tool for writing and then a prompt for reading and injecting (or even using sampling within the prompt function to better select relevant memories), but it still feels hacky.