tech, startups, internet

Cursor agent system prompt.

How do you get a dumb LLM to do your bidding? You have to write a very good system prompt! Nobody wants theirs exposed as it’s intellectual property, but it seems that they inevitably leak because LLMs are inevitably jailbroken. […]

tech, startups, internet

On jagged AGI.

“You might find yourself “feeling the AGI” as well. Or maybe not. Maybe the AI failed you, even when you gave it the exact same prompt I used. If so, you just encountered the jagged frontier. My co-authors and I […]

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Anti-piracy campaign uses pirated font.

“Naturally, it would be hilarious if the anti-piracy campaign actually turned out to have used this pirated font, so I went sleuthing and quickly found a PDF from the campaign site with the font embedded. So I chucked it into […]

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Jury Now.

Get a dozen answers to any multiple-choice question you can pose — in real time. I asked about tipping. Specifically this: at a counter service restaurant where a 1-person meal costs $40, is it more appropriate to tip $0 – […]