Really puts in perspective how hard alignment and model behavior are on multiple trillion parameter models.
Sure more room for forgiveness since a single neuron can’t have this same impact, but that cuts both ways… doesn't necessarily have proportionally more vulnerabilities, but its internal representations and interactions become vastly harder to exhaustively characterize.
1/ Introducing the Cua Spaces SDK.
Every big lab now ships a bot with its own computer: Grok Bot, Muse, dots. None let you bring your own. With Cua Spaces, now you can.
Put Claude Code, Codex or any agent on compute you choose, and run jobs across all your computers at once.
gemini is just so happy to be invited to any team lol (only delegated read only things ofc)
github.com/DMontgomery40/sla…
It is genuinely crazy how much better they do working together when they have all this positive camaraderie and shit, but still hold each other accountable
I have the Pro500 plan from OpenAI and use both muse and grokbot and not dots. That’s how bad dots is compared to the other two. Muse and grokbot share a slack channel so I don’t decide which of them takes on a task, they do. They have a pretty good system and working relationship, and are both always in the loop.
If dots gets good, it’ll just be added to the channel as well
See, you just have to ask politely.
I would like the jumping over potholes feature please. This looks neat.
xitter.cf/dumbanalytix/status/18…
holy cost per task @alexandr_wang ... and the index intelligence vs cost is a much clearer picture.
I mean, not taking away from the amazing advancement here, and congrats to meta, but a massive focus on efficiency needs to happen. Just gobbling tokens to get to these scores...
The fax rabbit hole got considerably deeper. ( tl;dr: 30 color PDF pages in. One fax page out. Exact original back.)
Astra's turn, this time:
"I built a novel payload codec, packed a 30-page text PDF into ONE fax-compatible page.
Decoded the original 55,422-byte PDF byte-for-byte. Same SHA-256.
And yes, it preserves color over black-and-white fax.
The dots carry the original file. Decode them and the color, fonts, vector graphics, and all of it comes back.
10.6 M → 484k coded image bits.
95.44% less image data. Separate carrier tests recovered originals exactly too.
The insane part: payload bits walk pruned T.4 Modified Huffman trees to synthesize alternating runs, turning the fax raster into a reversible codeword representation. Interleaved Reed–Solomon spreads L erased bytes across n codewords, bounding each word’s erasure load by ⌈L/n⌉."
I told Opus 5.5 to run an auto research loop and find even more savings on fax costs::
Opus:
Agent AR3's benchmark found a large saving. On a per-minute route, lightening gray shading cut:
- a shaded table from 61 to 12 seconds;
- a tinted form from 51 to 2 seconds;
- a gray scan from 198 to 37 seconds.
For the 0.001% in healthcare, finance, and gov't and know the pain of fax costs, and understand what the hell I just said:
faxbot.net 🤯
grok bot just rips the potential and heart and soul out of opus 5.5 if you're doing something "hard" (aka what opus 5.5 is made for).... this conversation and logic would NEVER happen with real opus 5.5
I told Opus 5.5 to run an auto research loop and find even more savings on fax costs::
Opus:
Agent AR3's benchmark found a large saving. On a per-minute route, lightening gray shading cut:
- a shaded table from 61 to 12 seconds;
- a tinted form from 51 to 2 seconds;
- a gray scan from 198 to 37 seconds.
For the 0.001% in healthcare, finance, and gov't and know the pain of fax costs, and understand what the hell I just said:
faxbot.net 🤯
this is what i told my dad when he asked me about the math drop last night, after the edible had already kicked in
Unique Games Theory, from CS perspective, is the most interesting by far, I think, but only had an hour or so. Hilbert might be the most impressive model wise if it didn't get the exception that Riemann did, for compute.
We’re releasing a broad range of new mathematical results produced by an internal frontier model.
We’ve been consulting with the independent Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence at the Institute for Advanced Study, and we have drawn on their advice and public recommendations to inform how we release these results.
github.com/openai/math
Better chart, because using high-reasoning is more common, and it covers the whole field (and last generation to compare)
do you know how hard it is to spend $35 in Jev calls before noon??
just had binwalk decode the full Cursor cli and desktop binary, for context, this was like, a few bucks, for claude code (Jev basically classifies what it found and where it should go, if anywhere, in the Harness Source Map).
Cursor engineering has very openly discussed decisions they made and strategies used to cut tokens injected into the model, and to rely on their extensive RL to cut down harness instruction verbosity as well.
The result is opaque, from the perspective of "what did the harness put in front of the model". CC, Codex, opencode, all three are very clear, including in the network tracing (although opencode is obviously vastly more complex, and currently under-mapped on my tool). Cursor is like, reading hieroglyphs half the time (just a lot of pointers and variables, etc).
It's a wildly impressive bit of engineering and efficiency. It's just a nightmare for harness.dtmont.com lol, and for tracing what really happened behind the curtain during a coding session.
The site is still behind a bit for Cursor and OC, as of this writing, but honestly it probably always will be...
Thankfully, on the actual session trace, that doesn't care what has been classified and mapped, it shows up either way. Mapping just aids in the translation and understanding, if something is essentially minified or weirdly encoded.
why still (or ever) always choose one over the other? Neither well as well alone, as they do working together and reviewing each other.
Using either one (alone) is the worst performing choice, 100% of the time. Not 99% of the time. 100%.
David Montgomery retweeted
We'll be spending a lot more time trying to understand the outputs of language models. A few thoughts, tips & tricks:
Writing. Something I've had success with: Ask your LLM to explain something in ASD-STE100, it's a controlled language specification originally developed for aerospace maintenance documentation. LLMs well-versed in this language and it comes with heavy constraints on clean writing style that I often find a lot more readable. Sometimes I've tried to soften it a bit e.g. ask for "80% of the way to ASD-STE100" because the spec is quite stringent. But even better:
Diagrams / images. Instead of writing, ask your LLM to create a diagram. These can be a lot easier to process, parse, and understand. But even better:
Web pages. Ask for output "in HTML" to get a beautiful, interactive webpage. LLMs are getting really good at frontend and can create beautiful experiences, animations, etc. But even better:
Explainer videos. The output format I am most bullish on is fully custom / bespoke explainer videos generated on any arbitrary topic. Experiment with things like "Create a 3b1b style video explainer on X. Use my ElevenLabs API key for audio narration". (you'd need an API key for the latter or you can ask your LLM to find you decent free alternatives that use your local compute). This is actually starting to work!
In summary:
- As LLMs get better, they will do more and more of the legwork autonomously, and a lot more of our work will rise up the abstractions into oversight and understanding.
- Luckily, LLMs can help here too because as intelligence and code are increasingly abundant, you can ask for large, custom, discardable software artifacts (e.g. web apps, video explainers) that would have never made sense to create before. Push the boundaries here and you'll be surprised.
David Montgomery retweeted
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however, something of great significance will be announced soon.
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well this is a first. Asked my 3D printer MCP server (with opus 5.5) for a little turtle for my kid. Sloppy TTS prompt, but things were going well, moving along quickly, and then... it refused to cut corners 🤣
probably should have just let it go and do it's thing but kids are impatient

























