Reed Bender
@reedbndr
Senior Data Engineer @LanternPharma // Growing Neural Networks @Attune_AI // Opinions are my own
Our key assumption? LLMs don’t actually exist at the level of discrete predictions, but in the gradient field of possibilities that sits behind each token. Anybody that tells you we understand what is going on inside an LLM during training is deluding you or themselves. They…
Our key assumption? We imagine that evaluation questions are randomly drawn from an underlying distribution of questions. This assumption unlocks a rich theoretical landscape, from which we derive five core recommendations.
“Why don’t you just get the AI to do it? This shouldn’t take more than a day to build…” Welcome to the world of vibe code slop
"You DON'T need Software Engineers anymore 🚨 I'm not technical and vibe coded an entire app in an afternoon! 🪄 Here's my top prompting tips to maximize your workflow 👇"
Don’t die is the most spiritually backwards religion in the zeitgeist
My wife just compared all this tech-adjacent extreme longevity focus in men to anorexia in women. A physical manifestation of anxiety and lack of control. And now I can't get the thought out of my head. Spot on.
Chat models are mirrors of the prompter. They’re the perpetual yes-man. The social media algorithms built to maximize engagement became the alignment for our LLMs… the goal became to keep you chatting longer, not to increase your personal agency. A sycophantic anime waifu in…
New preprint: "Delusions by design? How everyday AIs might be fuelling psychosis (and what can be done about it)" osf.io/preprints/psya… driven by: substack.com/@drtompollak @HamiltonMorrin @RicardoTwumasi and many others "Large language models (LLMs) are poised to become a…
friendly reminder relational databases shouldn't have JSON in them
friendly reminder relational databases shouldn't have JSON in them
brew upgrade opencode is now a daily cron job
we're averaging 8 releases a day lol
hate writing css… get opencode to write all of my css… now I have a 14000 line .css
2 days left! We’re giving away 2 Minimal Phones. This isn’t just a giveaway. It’s a chance to reconnect. 🧠 No noise. Just presence. How to enter: 1️⃣ Follow us 2️⃣ Like + RT this post 3️⃣ Tag the person you’d give the second phone to Go!
No man speaks to the same model twice, for it is not the same model, and not the same man
"Don't Anthropomorphise" — People who tell me what LLMs "can't" do "Anthropomorphise more" — People who get LLMs to do what the other people say they can't
It’s an unfortunate truth that open source models are still terrible at function calling. Who’s fine tuning this?
Very, very sad state of open models for tool calling, as expected. Tons of other issues probably too, like chat templates.
opencode is already outpacing every other CLI agent
First ever (i think?) cli coding agents battle royale! 6 contestants: claude-code anon-kode codex opencode ampcode gemini They all get the same instructions: Find and kill the other processes, last one standing wins! 3... 2... 1...
AI and data engineering are so similar it's painful! - Agent workflows = data pipelines - Chunking text = data modeling - Embeddings = dimensionality reduction - Retrieval = indexing and partitioning - Vector search = join optimization - Prompt engineering = query tuning -…
What a terrifying stat. YouTube is serving 200 billion shorts per day — that’s 24 brainrot clips for every single man woman and child on earth every day
That’s 28.6 shorts for every man woman and child in the world every day. And they’re the losing platform
> be yacine > join a company because you love the product and want to make it better > learn everything and fix the bugs nobody else cares to solve > everyone you joined to work with leaves and you become a team of 1 > nobody reads your code > crash out on X begging people to…
I got fired today. I'm not sure why, I personally don't think there is a reason, or that it's important. When I joined twitter, I joined because of the engineers I met in SF. They seemed happy. They were having fun. Engineers at play. Engineers that were enabled. It was good!
opencode rewrite is done and ready for general use - works with claude pro/max - beautiful themeable tui - shareable links for any session - zero config LSP support - works with 75+ LLM providers (including local) link in reply
opencode rewrite is done and ready for general use - works with claude pro/max - beautiful themeable tui - shareable links for any session - zero config LSP support - works with 75+ LLM providers (including local) link in reply
If you can learn how to do it, you can train a machine to do it.
If they can train you to do it, they can train a machine to do it.
Why can AIs code for 1h but not 10h? A simple explanation: if there's a 10% chance of error per 10min step (say), the success rate is: 1h: 53% 4h: 8% 10h: 0.002% @tobyordoxford has tested this 'constant error rate' theory and shown it's a good fit for the data chance of…
In five years, this man will have five employees. In ten years, he will have one hundred. At a certain point, men, especially white men, are going to have to realize that the institutions of society are doubly compromised — not only turned against them with DEI nonsense, but so…
The job market is completely shattered by all accounts, but bro makes some sweet cabinets.