My work on the trans porter is doing great

#caturday #caturdayeveryday

“But adequately stigmatizing Rowling’s weaponization of childhood not only requires personal withdrawal for most people, it necessitates something much more difficult: being a giant fucking killjoy. You should tell people discussing the show that you’re not watching it, and why, and you should let yourself openly cringe at your sister-in-law’s Harry Potter tote bag, and you should bring up unprompted that the onslaught of legislation against trans people makes you sad and angry, presuming it does, and you should do this because, not despite, the fact that it will make you look annoying as hell and may make everyone present uncomfortable.”

https://defector.com/its-time-to-grow-up-hbo-harry-potter

The prompt strings have an odd narrative/narrator structure. It sort of reminds me of Bakhtin's discussion of polyphony and narrator in Dostoevsky - there is no omniscient narrator, no author-constructed reality. narration is always embedded within the voice and subjectivity of the character. this is also literally true since the LLM is writing the code and the prompts that are then used to write code and prompts at runtime.

They also read a bit like a Philip K Dick story, paranoid and suspicious, constantly uncertain about the status of one's own and others identities.

I seriously need to work on my actual job today but i am giving myself 15 minutes to peek at the agent tool prompts as a treat.

"regulations are written in blood" seems like too dramatic of a way to phrase it, but these system prompts are very revealing about the intrinsically busted nature of using these tools for anything deterministic (read: anything you actually want to happen). Each guard in the prompt presumably refers to something that has happened before, but also, since the prompts actually don't work to prevent the thing they are describing, they are also documentation of bugs that are almost certain to happen again. Many of the prompt guards form pairs with attempted code mitigations (or, they would be pairs if the code was written with any amount of sense, it's really like... polycules...), so they are useful to guide what kind of fucked up shit you should be looking for.

so this is part of the prompt for the "agent tool" that launches forked agents (that receive the parent context, "subagents" don't). The purpose of the forked agent is to do some additional tool calls and get some summary for a small subproblem within the main context. Apparently it is difficult to make this actually happen though, as the parent LLM likes to launch the forked agent and just hallucinate a response as if the forked agent had already completed.

ADHD folks: getting five nines of shit done despite nine fives of uptime

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Imagínense ser astronauta y no poder hacerse unas quesadillas pa la cena.

Happy Poetry Month to all who celebrate.

Current vibes

Rather emotional to see the Artemis launch.

Hoy salió publicado este libro. Vienen textos escritos por algunxs de lxs mejores antropologxs y paleoantropologxs del mundo. Yo tuve oportunidad de contribuir con un ensayo sobre cómo pudo haber evolucionado la ontología social humana. https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/AbadiaAlterity

I've added a few drawings to my website tomgauld.com/art-for-sale

Claude code source "leaks" in a mapfile
people immediately use the code laundering machines to code launder the code laundering frontend
now many dubious open source-ish knockoffs in python and rust being derived directly from the source

What's anthropic going to do, sue them? Insist in court that LLM recreating copyrighted code is a violation of copyright???

This code is so fucking funny dude I swear to god. I have wanted to read the internal prompts for so long and I am laughing so hard at how much of them are like "don't break the law, please do not break the law, please please please be good!!!!" Very Serious Ethical Alignment Technology

My dogs I am crying. They have a whole series of exception types that end with _I_VERIFIED_THIS_IS_NOT_CODE_OR_FILEPATHS and the docstring explains this is "to confirm you've verified the message contains no sensitive data." Like the LLM resorts to naming its variables with prompt text to remind it to not leak data while writing its code, which, of course, it ignores and prints the error directly.

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TFW you are finally able to merge a branch you've been working on for 4 months 💪