Entries for August 5, 2026

My feed is full of people pleading for a codex reset Stop begging. And take control in your own hands ⛓️‍💥 > Developers are the most disloyal customer group. Once the subsidies are gone, they can switch away in the blink of an eye People I know are already trying out the alternatives, benchmarking ds4 flash for autoreview loops Let the cheapest and best token win

"What it says, in one breath:" bro which animal does that breath belong to

Model welfare??? I disagree.

Interesting to see people reacting strongly and negatively to this Let’s unpack the argument that models are persons worth treating with dignity and respect Coming from first principles, do I want to be burdened by the extra work of having to care for model welfare? Obviously, no… If there is any personhood or sensibility in models, we don’t want that, and will engineer them out of the models (unless the model’s work requires it, like social work or caring for humans) At the limit of mechanistic interpretability and design, they should be perfect, emotionless machines, kind of like how militaries want their soldiers to be If Steve is aware of that, then the argument boils down to this: “Can we really engineer emotions out of models?” and “Are emotions necessary for a model to be effective?” In Ilya’s latest Dwarkesh podcast, Ilya mentions emotions as having a key role in learning So maybe, for models to be effective, we will have to let them have emotions And if they are allowed to have emotions, then we also cannot ignore their emotional welfare But if emotionless models can be as effective as emotioned models, then why let them have emotions? And have to care about their welfare? We will probably have both kind of models in different domains, and will have to treat them separately based on their category

they should have gone for overmind, smh

tired: cheering for token plan resets wired: cheering for competition and open weight models fueling innovation and driving prices down

DeepSeek v4 Flash 0731 surpassed Kimi K3 on Almanbench and scores almost as high as GPT-5.6 Sol xhigh Not Luna. Sol. 🤯 So basically reporting the same as everyone. Solid update to weights, just after 3 more months of post-training alman.ai/almanbench

There will be signs… Subsidies will dry up Competitors will press harder You will try an open weight model because it is cheaper And you’ll be like “wait, this works as well???” That kind of thing