Passing thought on the Claude code leak, and how messy and wasteful the code apparently is (as many of us suspected):

There’s been a lot of focus on the energy & environmental costs of running LLMs. There are also energy & environmental costs to deploying LLM-generated code.

Similarly, there’s a lot of focus on the kickbacks cloud vendors who fund AI get from LLMs renting their servers. There may be a similar kickback from computationally inefficient LLM-generated software renting their servers.

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I remember when it was a scandal that a company laid people off over Zoom. Now that seems warm and fuzzy compared to the norm today.

Oracle laid off 30K people with a 6AM email with a link to click and accept terms if they wanted severance.
https://www.hardresetmedia.com/p/the-coldest-cold-email-oracles-30000

the source code for Claude Code leaked. some people have posted analyses using Claude, without reading it. Some people have translated the source to other languages using Claude without reading it. Anthropic uses Claude to make Claude without reading it

This means that you could be the first to read or understand the design

Bonding over fish:

The fish eating cultures of South and Southeast Asia have a lot in common.

Despite the 'everybody is vegetarian' myth that people somehow believe about South Asia, the fish-eating peoples of coastal India, Bangladesh, through the porous hills of Bangladesh / Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, all the way to southeast China, to Indonesia share many things.

For centuries, there was so much trade and sea-faring adventures between these places. While we now think of those locations are completely separate geographic spheres, there were Hakkas in Calcutta and Dhaka, and there were Bengalis in Malaysia, Indonesia and beyond.

Heck, the I-Ching says there were regular ships between the Bay of Bengal and the Srivijayan empire (..700 AD?)

#Food #Asia #StoriesAboutFood

Nicolas Carlini has been experimenting with what attackers can do with tools like Opus 4.6. He found severe security issues in the Linux kernel that had been lurking since 2003

He describes himself as an LLM skeptic, but concludes that LLMs are already better than the top individual security researchers in the world and soon will exceed the collective capability of the entire security community

https://youtu.be/1sd26pWhfmg