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I'm continually impressed with Claude's ability to create its own benchmarking systems and rip through a series of hypotheses about how to achieve some hard-to-define optimal outcome.
I recommend trying this when you're deep into a problem looking for an optimal path: give the agent a laboratory.
Give Your Agent a Laboratory, Pt. II
Writing
We're talking about a guy who in all seriousness has said on many public occasions that people should be paying him to work at Amazon. He hands out little yellow stickies with his name on them, reminding people "who runs the company" when they disagree with him. The guy is a regular... well, Steve Jobs, I guess. Except without the fashion or design sense. Bezos is super smart; don't get me wrong. He just makes ordinary control freaks look like stoned hippies.
Stevey's Google Platforms Rant · GitHub
Gist
There’s an impetus to hide the technical details of the world, but I think that’s a devastating mistake.
Hints of the existence of a deeper technical layer is how kids are inspired to become engineers.
Turning technology into a magical black box arguably makes technology much less magical than hinting at how that black box actually works.
A Frivolous Feature
kontakt@marginalia.nu (Viktor Lofgren)
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