Dan Mac
@daniel_mac8
Agentic Engineering @ampcode | Writing Token Stream | Goodness, Truth and AI | Building at http://github.com/DannyMac180
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Important AI vibeshift afoot. 1. Scaling will continue to pay off. Economically and socially. 2. Scaling Transformers based LLMs alone won't lead to AGI. Begs the question: What are LLMs missing? They are missing the ability to generalize outside their data distribution +…
One point I made that didn’t come across: - Scaling the current thing will keep leading to improvements. In particular, it won’t stall. - But something important will continue to be missing.
Gemini 3 Pro asked to find two ideas from disparate fields and connect them in a novel way. Proposed that tree ring growth in forests are the original blockchain. Interesting, weird and likely a unique idea. Wow.
We ran our latest Box AI advanced reasoning eval on Opus 4.5 with medium and high effort and saw a 20 percentage point boost over Opus 4.1. What’s insane to think about is Opus 4.1 came out just 3 months ago. This eval gets closer to approximating what a knowledge worker does…
In the intervening period, put some energy and attention into understanding how the current LLM paradigm works. This way you can: 1. Help yourself and your loved ones benefit from the positive economic and societal impacts. 2. Try to avoid the negative impacts.
Social media tends to frame AI debate into two caricatures: (A) Skeptics who think LLMs are doomed and AI is a bunch of hype. (B) Fanatics who think we have all the ingredients and superintelligence is imminent. But if you read what leading researchers actually say (beyond the…
LLMs are not a dead end. But they’re taking us somewhere different than ASI.
One point I made that didn’t come across: - Scaling the current thing will keep leading to improvements. In particular, it won’t stall. - But something important will continue to be missing.
Are the days of the Transformer as the dominant AI architecture numbered?
Every family member at Thanksgiving said they use AI. Either ChatGPT or Gemini. Spans Baby Boomers and Millennials. None have anything to do with tech besides me.
This is a *BIG* deal. Poetiq achieved superhuman performance on ARC-AGI-2 at ~$50/task using a mix of GPT-5.1 and Gemini 3 Pro. Current models are powerful enough to reach AGI. They just need the right agent scaffold.
Artificial Intelligence is a terrible term. Shoulda called it Artificial Cognition. Intelligence includes cognition and far more…
"if you value intelligence above all other human qualities, you’re gonna have a bad time" - ilya true intelligence is more than just abstracted cognition. it includes care. true asi will be capable of care.
Unfortunately don’t think we have enough training examples to make this work yet.
AI should be politically unbiased and strive for the truth. Still a lot of work to do.
Do try Opus 4.5 in Amp. Used it the past few days and it’s a great Agentic Engineering experience.
Another historic change, just a week later: Amp now uses Claude Opus 4.5 by default.
.@lukaszkaiser (OpenAI lead researcher, Transformer co-author) tells us what's really happening with pretraining at OpenAI: > scaling pretraining still improves models but we're at the top of the S-curve > due to economic constraints OpenAI shifted focus to more efficient…
Thanksgiving-week treat: an epic conversation on Frontier AI with @lukaszkaiser -co-author of “Attention Is All You Need” (Transformers) and leading research scientist at @OpenAI working on GPT-5.1-era reasoning models. 00:00 – Cold open and intro 01:29 – “AI slowdown” vs a…
Gemini 3 Pro and Opus 4.5 are great AI models but GPT-5.1 Pro is still the GOAT. It’s just not accessible. So not enough people know that.
"if you value intelligence above all other human qualities, you’re gonna have a bad time" - ilya true intelligence is more than just abstracted cognition. it includes care. true asi will be capable of care.
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