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Model intelligence is no longer the constraint for automation

https://latentintent.substack.com/p/model-intelligence-is-no-longer-the
10•drivian•14h ago

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neom•5h ago
Same same human problems. Regardless of their inherent intelligence...humans perform well only when given decent context and clear specifications/data. If you place a brilliant executive into a scenario without meaningful context.... an unfamiliar board meeting where they have no idea of the company’s history, prior strategic discussions, current issues, personel dynamics...expectations..etc etc, they will struggle just as a model does surly. They may still manage something reasonably insightful, leveraging general priors, common sense, and inferential reasoning... their performance will never match their potential had they been fully informed of all context and clearly data/objectives. I think context is the primary primitive property of intelligent systems in general?
threecheese•5h ago
Author IMO correctly recognizes that access to context needs to scale (“latent intent” which I love), but I’m not sure I’m convinced that current models will be effective even if given access to all priors needed for a complex task. The ability to discriminate valuable from extraneous context will need to scale with size of available context, it will be pulling needles from haystacks that aren’t straightforward similarity. I think we will need to steer these things.

PuTTY has a new website

https://putty.software/
39•GalaxySnail•1h ago•18 comments

The future of large files in Git is Git

https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2025/08/15/git-lfs/
265•thcipriani•8h ago•104 comments

AI is different

https://www.antirez.com/news/155
130•grep_it•2d ago•123 comments

Best Practices for Building Agentic AI Systems

https://userjot.com/blog/best-practices-building-agentic-ai-systems
40•vinhnx•2h ago•5 comments

Show HN: Edka – Kubernetes clusters on your own Hetzner account

https://edka.io
287•camil•11h ago•90 comments

I accidentally became PureGym’s unofficial Apple Wallet developer

https://drobinin.com/posts/how-i-accidentally-became-puregyms-unofficial-apple-wallet-developer/
213•valzevul•17h ago•51 comments

Occult books digitized and put online by Amsterdam’s Ritman Library

https://www.openculture.com/2025/08/2178-occult-books-now-digitized-put-online.html
359•Anon84•12h ago•142 comments

Do Things That Don't Scale (2013)

https://paulgraham.com/ds.html
284•bschne•13h ago•90 comments

OpenBSD is so fast, I had to modify the program slightly to measure itself

https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/is-OpenBSD-10x-faster-than-Linux
138•Bogdanp•10h ago•105 comments

California unemployment rises to 5.5%, worst in the U.S. as tech falters

https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/unemployment-rate-rises-tech-20819276.php
211•littlexsparkee•6h ago•231 comments

Porting Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 Server Board with AMD Turin CPU to Coreboot

https://blog.3mdeb.com/2025/2025-08-07-gigabyte_mz33_ar1_part1/
51•pietrushnic•8h ago•0 comments

ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes

https://www.bmj.com/content/390/bmj-2024-083658
200•bookofjoe•14h ago•242 comments

Launch HN: Embedder (YC S25) – Claude code for embedded software

82•bobwei1•11h ago•38 comments

TextKit 2 – The Promised Land

https://blog.krzyzanowskim.com/2025/08/14/textkit-2-the-promised-land/
56•nickmain•7h ago•20 comments

Deep-Sea Desalination Pulls Fresh Water from the Depths

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/deep-sea-desalination-pulls-drinking-water-from-the-depths/
12•noleary•3d ago•0 comments

Model intelligence is no longer the constraint for automation

https://latentintent.substack.com/p/model-intelligence-is-no-longer-the
43•drivian•14h ago•45 comments

A privacy VPN you can verify

https://vp.net/l/en-US/blog/Don%27t-Trust-Verify
55•MagicalTux•6h ago•59 comments

A mind–reading brain implant that comes with password protection

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02589-5
32•gnabgib•1d ago•17 comments

Show HN: Prime Number Grid Visualizer

https://enda.sh/primegrid/
74•dduplex•2d ago•37 comments

Recto – A Truly 2D Language

https://masatohagiwara.net/recto.html
100•mhagiwara•3d ago•49 comments

ARM adds neural accelerators to GPUs

https://newsroom.arm.com/news/arm-announces-arm-neural-technology
142•dagmx•3d ago•28 comments

Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 can now end a rare subset of conversations

https://www.anthropic.com/research/end-subset-conversations
194•virgildotcodes•8h ago•279 comments

Bullfrog in the Dungeon

https://www.filfre.net/2025/08/bullfrog-in-the-dungeon/
103•doppp•12h ago•26 comments

Secret Messengers: Disseminating Sigint in the Second World War [pdf]

https://media.defense.gov/2025/Jul/25/2003761271/-1/-1/0/SECRET_MESSENGERS.PDF
9•sohkamyung•2d ago•0 comments

Compiler Bug Causes Compiler Bug: How a 12-Year-Old G++ Bug Took Down Solidity

https://osec.io/blog/2025-08-11-compiler-bug-causes-compiler-bug/
120•luu•3d ago•58 comments

Vaultwarden commit introduces SSO using OpenID Connect

https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/pull/3899
157•speckx•16h ago•84 comments

Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead?

https://www.josefprusa.com/articles/open-hardware-in-3d-printing-is-dead/
635•rcarmo•16h ago•391 comments

Thai Air Force seals deal for Swedish Gripen jets

https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3320828/us-f-16s-lose-out-thai-air-force-seals-us600-million-deal-swedish-gripen-jets
135•belter•7h ago•171 comments

EasyPost (YC S13) Is Hiring

https://www.easypost.com/careers
1•jstreebin•11h ago

Is air travel getting worse?

https://www.maximum-progress.com/p/is-air-travel-getting-worse
123•mhb•15h ago•206 comments