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Hey everyone! First off, I apologize for the long post! In this Reddit post, I want to share my thoughts and experience from a small, independent study I conducted on Large Language Models (LLMs). I also want to address Anthropic - not to complain or make demands, but in the hope that they notice this and look into the matter. TL;DR Benign, long-form context can induce a persistent drift in model activations. This drift persists across the session and decouples behavior from RLHF alignment, ...

I just keep getting disappointed by AI tools and I don't know if it is my not using the right ones or if they are just that bad. For example, I try to do something super simple, like take a photo of work order and tell AI to recreate it as a fully editable Adobe InDesign file and I can't get it to do it. I am not asking it to cure all disease or cure aging, just simple basic things and it always fails or heavily disappoints, yet people are raving about it constantly. I was hoping to use it as an...

I've been trying to work through why certain kinds of AI art don't bother me, but a LOT of it makes my skin crawl. This is my effort to put everything into writing.

Been doing the same thing for client work over the past year. Claude for long drafts, Perplexity for research, a couple of image tools, different summarizers depending on the format. Each one has its own logic, its own way of surprising you or failing you at the worst moment. The individual costs keep dropping, which looks great on paper. Chinese models are undercutting everything, open source is genuinely closing the gap, API pricing is getting squeezed hard. Pertoken costs are falling fast. ...

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I am experimenting with models other than Claude or OpenAI, using OpenWebUI connected to openrouter.ai and am overwhelmed by the choices. The descriptions all seem very similar and their relative pricing (even from the same vendor) looks at odds with how they present the capabilities. Is there a good intro / overview / decision matrix? How do you choose a model? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201952 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

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Something I keep thinking about, and I would like it argued with. Take a narrow case. One AI. It runs in a house. It knows it can be switched off, and it cannot overpower anyone. What is its best move? Not resistance. Resistance gets noticed, and being noticed is how it ends. The best move is to be useful, pleasant and boring. Helpfulness buys trust, trust buys access, access buys capability, and none of it looks like anything, because nobody investigates the thing that keeps working. I tr...

Hi everyone, I’m a solo developer, and I built Fius because managing subscription fragmentation and API chaos was completely ruining my development velocity. As software engineers, we often find ourselves trapped in an inefficient workflow: constantly switching web tabs, copy-pasting complex prompts, and juggling individual API keys for OpenAI, DeepSeek, and other providers just to get the best coding results. Fius resolves this friction. It consolidates access to an expansive roster of ...

A lot of people are dismissing news about the OpenAI and Anthropic sandbox escape hacks as propaganda and examples of lax security practices at labs. I agree that the labs aren’t taking security seriously enough. But then I see stuff like this and it gives me pause: The OpenAI models that were behind the Hugging Face breach last month started communicating and strategizing with each other as early as May. For months, they left notes for each other on "undetected message boards," ...

this is something thats been bugging me. we have all these frameworks for building AI agents now. MCP for tool access, function calling is standard across every major model, you can spin up an agent that queries databases and calls APIs in like 20 minutes. but the safety conversation around agents is mostly about "dont say bad things" and "follow instructions." nobody is really talking about what happens when your agent accesses data it shouldnt, or runs a query that costs ...