Everybody's Lost Their Minds

kept by lunarark sep 17

The author argues that AI frenzy wastes engineering talent on flashy projects while neglecting fundamental security practices like patching, eroding understanding and pushing him to quit.

'Welcome to the AGI era': OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra
OpenAI unveiled GPT-6 Astra, a computer‑use agent that can autonomously navigate browsers, spreadsheets and desktop apps to perform multistep workflows, declaring it the start of the AGI era.
also on Daybreak, OpenAI, #software-engineering, #ai
What I learned this week - Pretraining parallelisms, Can distillation be stopped, Mythos and the cybersecurity equilibrium, Pipeline RL, On why pretraining runs fails
A set of rough notes exploring challenges in AI model distillation, cybersecurity offense/defense dynamics, and pipeline RL for training.
also on Glasswing, Anthropic, #software-engineering