I'm decompiling an obscure 1998 computer game using an LLM agent skill that I'm simultaneously developing from papers and books on reverse-engineering (a subject I've never previously engaged with) with the aim of migrating it (well, at least its assets) to the browser: https://esoteria.pages.dev
It's all slop, but it's battle-tested and producing results. It's quite fun and inspiring to see some of these assets like textures and geometry that are improperly decompiled, bit shifted or something like that. produces a lot of abstract, glitchy art.
To make sure that my process and results are reproducible, I've gotten back into maintaining Concourse CI pipelines. They were very useful when we were shipping a fork of k8s for VMware, and now they are a fun way of shipping cyberpunk billboard sprites to Cloudflare buckets.
I got back into Concourse in order to attempt a more rigorous approach to generative AI experimentation as well. Unfortunately, there are just so many odd techniques, configurations, loras, and utilities striking my fancy that my experiment pipelines have exploded into the dozens, and Concourse is not a large enough or a high-level enough organizing principle.
Spoiler alert for the dark forest trilogy but the overall series thesis revealed at the very end is that the human capacity to extend goodwill towards the unknown principally rescues us from the dark forest.
It was the oppressed daughter of the scientist whose first act of extending trust to an uncontacted alien species set on course the events that would be uniquely ours in defiance of the dark forest theory.
Ultimately, our two species do come to peacefully cohabitate. This would not be possible if we all thought as the unknown third species who destroyed the star targeted by the spell.
Well, for non-general tasks, of course. For example particular tooling that's required for the environment.
I will often make a skill out of the docs for any of the frameworks or libraries that we're using but with which I'm unfamiliar. When I'm creating that skill, I focus on idiomatic implementation and usage. It's not enough for the code to work—I want it to work "with the grain" and "through the front door", as it were.
By default, these models are just all too willing to reinvent the wheel and monkeypatch as they go.
If your "opt-in platform features" and "interface to allow permissioned access to data and capabilities between different apps" is more expressive/discoverable than eg Cloud Foundry's "Service Broker" approach[0], then I am pretty excited! I run a lot of disparate services which don't interoperate except through explicit workflow automation pipelines (I use ConcourseCI to eg upload images to Immich [1] albums, but others might use n8n[2] for the same purpose).
The "workflow automation" approach is a lot of resource overhead and broker-config maintainance, but my kingdom to be able to arbitrarily compose apps' states, eg commutimemap.com + Craigslist.
I believe the conspiracy was real, but was itself an emergent manifestation of the conspiracy hunters' paranoia.
As the occultist Agliè explicitly champions, "in its loftiest sense syncretism is the acknowledgment that a single Tradition runs through and nurtures all religion, all learning, all philosophy". He asserts that "true esotericism does not fear contradiction".
None of what was published could falsify the syncretic paranoia-therefore whatever existed was the cult, since no tradition could be excluded.
In 2024, I achieved 7th place at Quantiacs, a global quantitative trading competition. With a background in financial software, I built AIvestor to democratize AI-powered investing tools that were previously only available to institutions."
I have no idea of the legitimacy of Quantiacs, but for someone with these claims what they are selling is extremely unfaithful. Anyone with a sufficient knowledge of markets would understand the issues with what is being presented on the "portfolio" page, and the approach is bunk.
This post went a bit too far with the accusations and therefore I am responding. First of all, I am not sure why you felt the need to search for me on the Internet, considering the original post has nothing to do with this SaaS. Do you really have that much free time and you don't know how to fill the gaps that you start researching and potentially doxx people?
Quantiacs is absolutely a legit competition. If you are interested in quant trading it's impossible not to have heard about it. Here I can see that you have absolutely no clue about this field, which is fine, but don't act as if you're a market guru which "knows about current markets".
I don't know what knowledge you have about the current markets, these stocks shown on the landing page are picked by the agent. The SaaS I built is built on the OSS chatbot I created. I host it on a machine I pay for, I change the models frequently and you get support for any technical issues. People can still use the OSS agent, but they need to host it themselves, use their own API keys, do changes themselves etc.
I have no problem selling something that works for me and that I worked hard to bring up and I don't care what a random on the internet has to say, but do not spread misinformation about something that you have no idea on how it works.
You literally have a link to your Github on your SaaS product - are you that dense? You included your whole profile on there. It took me no more than 5 minutes to click it, see that you have a repo related to your product, and view one source file of AI slop.
Anyway, I stand by what I said. Advertising with "Look, AI picked my stocks and number went up" is disingenuous.
There's no reference to AIvestor in the article I shared. You decided to dig through Google, GH and what not to find stuff that could potentially be used against me personally and you really failed, exposing yourself as a rando sore loser on the Internet.
That's correct, there is no reference to AIvestor in the article you shared. However, the parent comment of this thread, the one I responded to and the one you are responding to, shares the link to your AI slop product. Once again, I did not have to dig through Google at all - it's all available on your product page. You're repeatedly proving how dense you are.
Having something like another planet or alien biology is necessary but not sufficient to make something science fiction. There is some fuzzy amount of focus on science/technology, style, and tropes that are needed to make something more science fiction than fantasy or speculative fiction. The Left Hand of Darkness read more like fantasy to me, and I don't think it would have been any different at all if the setting was Middle Earth and the ambisexual species were Hobbits. I think I wouldn't have blinked if it had been described as "science fantasy" to me rather than "science fiction".
I'll bump up Chiang on my reading list, I have heard a lot of good things!
Here's the skill: https://github.com/gavmor/x86-cpp-reversing-skill
It's all slop, but it's battle-tested and producing results. It's quite fun and inspiring to see some of these assets like textures and geometry that are improperly decompiled, bit shifted or something like that. produces a lot of abstract, glitchy art.
To make sure that my process and results are reproducible, I've gotten back into maintaining Concourse CI pipelines. They were very useful when we were shipping a fork of k8s for VMware, and now they are a fun way of shipping cyberpunk billboard sprites to Cloudflare buckets.
I got back into Concourse in order to attempt a more rigorous approach to generative AI experimentation as well. Unfortunately, there are just so many odd techniques, configurations, loras, and utilities striking my fancy that my experiment pipelines have exploded into the dozens, and Concourse is not a large enough or a high-level enough organizing principle.
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