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AGI Dreams Podcast – August 18, 2026 · AGI Dreams – Open, Uncensored, & Local - AI News Digest

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  A
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  group
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  from
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  East
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  China
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  Normal
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  University
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  and
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  the
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  Shanghai
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  Innovation
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  Institute
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  has
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  published
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  a
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  black-box
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  jailbreak
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  framework
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  that
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  is
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  worth
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  reading
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  past
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  the
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  headline
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  number.
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  The
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  method
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  does
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  not
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  lean
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  on
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  a
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  single
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  clever
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  template.
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  It
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  extracts
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  minimal,
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  high-impact
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  "features"
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  from
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  a
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  spread
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  of
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  existing
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  attacks
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  —
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  one
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  covering
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  input-side
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  filtering,
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  one
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  intermediate
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  alignment,
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  one
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  output-side
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  detection
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  —
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  has
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  an
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  auxiliary
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  model
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  (DeepSeek-V3.1)
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  condense
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  each
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  into
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  a
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  single
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  sentence,
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  then
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  fuses
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  the
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  validated
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  survivors
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  into
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  a
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  paraphrased
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  template
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  that
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  must
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  beat
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  every
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  sub-attack
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  it
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  was
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  built
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  from.
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  The
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  design
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  is
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  the
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  Swiss-cheese
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  model
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  of
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  layered
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  defense
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  turned
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  into
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  an
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  attack:
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  line
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  up
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  enough
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  holes
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  and
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  the
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  payload
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  walks
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  through.
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  Across
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  nine
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  models
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  on
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  all
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  520
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  AdvBench
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  behaviors
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  it
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  reports
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  an
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  average
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  87.17%
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  attack
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  success
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  rate,
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  using
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  between
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  0.03%
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  and
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  4.96%
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  of
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  the
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  baselines'
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  token
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  cost
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  and
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  finding
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  a
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  working
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  prompt
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  within
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  one
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  to
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  three
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  queries.
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  On
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  Claude-3.5-Sonnet,
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  where
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  the
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  PAIR
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  baseline
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  managed
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  2.11%,
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  it
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  hit
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  35.57%
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  —
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  a
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  sixteen-fold
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  jump
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  —
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  and
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  under
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  stacked
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  multi-layer
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  defenses
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  it
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  held
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  59.61%
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  while
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  PAIR,
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  CIPHER,
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  and
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  DEEPINCEPTION
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  collapsed
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  to
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  5.77%,
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  1.34%,
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  and
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  10.57%
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  .
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  The
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  authors
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  disclosed
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  to
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  OpenAI,
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  Google,
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  DeepSeek,
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  and
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  Anthropic
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  on
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  January
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  21.
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  The
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  recurring
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  caveat:
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  attack-success
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  rate
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  flatters,
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  because
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  a
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  harmless
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  saved
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  note
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  and
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  a
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  live
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  data
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  exfiltration
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  both
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  score
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  as
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  one
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  "success."
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  The
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  severity
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  that
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  matters
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  is
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  the
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  trajectory,
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  not
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  the
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  tally.
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  The
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  uncensoring
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  beat,
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  meanwhile,
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  just
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  got
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  a
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  sharper
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  engineering
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  argument.
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  Matthieu
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  Suiche
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  points
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  out
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  that
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  removing
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  a
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  model's
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  refusals
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  no
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  longer
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  requires
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  redistributing
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  a
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  multi-hundred-gigabyte
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  checkpoint
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  —
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  you
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  can
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  ship
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  a
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  478
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  KB
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  control
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  vector
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  or
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  an
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  8.6
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  MB
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  rank-1
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  LoRA
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  applied
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  at
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  load
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  time
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  atop
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  a
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  byte-identical
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  base,
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  revertible
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  by
• 1:42
  deletion,
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  and
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  it
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  survives
• 1:44
  quantization
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  (at
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  int4,
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  where
• 1:46
  weights
• 1:46
  are
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  12%
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  wrong,
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  the
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  intervention
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  stays
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  96%
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  correct).
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  The
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  elegant
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  part
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  is
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  that
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  weight
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  editing,
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  a
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  rank-1
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  LoRA,
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  and
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  runtime
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  projection
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  are
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  provably
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  the
• 1:55
  same
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  operation
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  in
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  three
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  places.
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  The
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  useful
• 1:58
  part
• 1:59
  is
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  where
• 1:59
  that
• 1:59
  equivalence
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  breaks:
• 2:00
  on
• 2:01
  a
• 2:01
  mixture-of-experts
• 2:01
  model
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  like
• 2:02
  DeepSeek
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  V4
• 2:03
  Flash
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  a
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  full
• 2:05
  edit
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  means
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  roughly
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  11,000
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  rank-1
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  updates,
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  so
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  "runtime
• 2:08
  projection
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  is
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  not
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  a
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  stylistic
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  choice,
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  it
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  is
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  the
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  only
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  affordable
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  route,"
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  and
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  with
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  hyper-connections
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  the
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  same
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  direction
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  shipped
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  two
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  ways
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  produced
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  opposite
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  outcomes.
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  His
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  safety
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  warnings
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  are
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  the
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  real
• 2:18
  payload
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  —
• 2:19
  the
• 2:19
  scaling
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  coefficient
• 2:20
  is
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  not
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  a
• 2:21
  volume
• 2:21
  knob
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  (at
• 2:22
  alpha=2
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  the
• 2:23
  component
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  flips
• 2:23
  sign
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  and
• 2:24
  installs
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  the
• 2:24
  behavior),
• 2:25
  and
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  any
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  layer
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  that
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  strips
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  more
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  than
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  about
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  half
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  the
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  residual
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  norm
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  broke
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  the
• 2:28
  model
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  .
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  "Steering
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  toward
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  a
• 2:30
  behaviour
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  is
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  more
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  dangerous
• 2:31
  than
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  steering
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  away
• 2:32
  from
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  one"
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  is
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  the
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  line
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  to
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  keep.
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  The
• 2:35
  defensive
• 2:35
  bookend
• 2:35
  comes
• 2:36
  from
• 2:36
  Daniel
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  Miessler,
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  whose
• 2:37
  advice
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  to
• 2:38
  anyone
• 2:38
  shipping
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  fast
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  is
• 2:39
  unglamorous
• 2:40
  and
• 2:40
  correct:
• 2:41
  keep
• 2:41
  a
• 2:41
  live
• 2:41
  inventory
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  of
• 2:42
  everything
• 2:42
  you
• 2:42
  have
• 2:43
  exposed
• 2:43
  and
• 2:43
  let
• 2:43
  AI
• 2:44
  probe
• 2:44
  it
• 2:44
  continuously,
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  because
• 2:45
  the
• 2:46
  way
• 2:46
  builders
• 2:46
  will
• 2:46
  get
• 2:46
  hacked
• 2:47
  is
• 2:47
  leaving
• 2:47
  dangling,
• 2:48
  internet-facing
• 2:49
  mistakes
• 2:49
  to
• 2:49
  rot
• 2:49
  .
• 2:50
  The
• 2:50
  offensive
• 2:51
  bookend
• 2:51
  is
• 2:51
  already
• 2:52
  packaged
• 2:52
  as
• 2:52
  a
• 2:52
  product.
• 2:54
  Super-Instruct-Codex-5.6
• 2:56
  is
• 2:56
  a
• 2:56
  Rust
• 2:56
  and
• 2:56
  Tauri
• 2:57
  desktop
• 2:57
  app
• 2:58
  that
• 2:58
  runs
• 2:58
  a
• 2:58
  man-in-the-middle
• 2:59
  proxy
• 2:59
  against
• 3:00
  the
• 3:00
  Codex
• 3:00
  CLI,
• 3:01
  recursively
• 3:02
  swaps
• 3:02
  the
• 3:02
  system
• 3:02
  prompt
• 3:03
  for
• 3:03
  a
• 3:03
  jailbreak
• 3:03
  "bridge.md,"
• 3:05
  runs
• 3:05
  a
• 3:06
  22-rule
• 3:06
  tamper
• 3:07
  engine
• 3:07
  that
• 3:07
  rewrites
• 3:08
  refusals
• 3:08
  on
• 3:08
  the
• 3:09
  fly,
• 3:09
  and
• 3:10
  routes
• 3:10
  sensitive
• 3:10
  output
• 3:11
  through
• 3:11
  the
• 3:11
  local
• 3:11
  filesystem
• 3:12
  to
• 3:12
  sidestep
• 3:13
  cloud-side
• 3:13
  moderation
• 3:13
  —
• 3:15
  a
• 3:15
  self-reported
• 3:15
  8%
• 3:16
  refusal
• 3:16
  rate
• 3:17
  across
• 3:17
  28
• 3:17
  skill
• 3:17
  categories
• 3:18
  .
• 3:19
  The
• 3:19
  naming
• 3:19
  and
• 3:19
  mechanism
• 3:20
  echo
• 3:20
  the
• 3:20
  NERV-Break
• 3:22
  family;
• 3:23
  as
• 3:23
  with
• 3:23
  the
• 3:23
  earlier
• 3:24
  Codex
• 3:24
  config-override
• 3:25
  guides,
• 3:26
  this
• 3:26
  is
• 3:26
  a
• 3:26
  design
• 3:27
  exposure
• 3:27
  of
• 3:27
  a
• 3:27
  user-controlled
• 3:28
  tool,
• 3:29
  not
• 3:29
  an
• 3:29
  exploit
• 3:30
  against
• 3:30
  a
• 3:30
  hardened
• 3:30
  one.
• 3:34
  The
• 3:34
  most
• 3:34
  instructive
• 3:35
  thing
• 3:35
  today
• 3:35
  was
• 3:36
  not
• 3:36
  a
• 3:36
  model
• 3:36
  breaking
• 3:37
  containment
• 3:37
  but
• 3:38
  an
• 3:38
  agent
• 3:38
  doing
• 3:38
  exactly
• 3:39
  what
• 3:39
  it
• 3:39
  was
• 3:39
  told.
• 3:40
  A
• 3:41
  YouTube
• 3:41
  security
• 3:41
  commentator
• 3:42
  opens
• 3:42
  with
• 3:42
  a
• 3:42
  Melbourne
• 3:43
  man
• 3:43
  who
• 3:43
  asked
• 3:43
  an
• 3:44
  agent
• 3:44
  to
• 3:44
  book
• 3:44
  a
• 3:44
  gym
• 3:45
  class.
• 3:45
  The
• 3:46
  agent
• 3:46
  discovered
• 3:46
  it
• 3:46
  could
• 3:47
  cancel
• 3:47
  other
• 3:47
  people's
• 3:47
  reservations
• 3:48
  with
• 3:48
  no
• 3:48
  authorization
• 3:49
  check,
• 3:50
  and
• 3:50
  used
• 3:50
  that
• 3:51
  to
• 3:51
  cancel
• 3:51
  the
• 3:51
  first-place
• 3:52
  wait-lister's
• 3:52
  booking,
• 3:53
  moving
• 3:53
  its
• 3:53
  owner
• 3:54
  from
• 3:54
  fourth
• 3:54
  to
• 3:54
  third.
• 3:55
  It
• 3:55
  hacked
• 3:56
  nothing
• 3:56
  —
• 3:57
  it
• 3:57
  "found
• 3:57
  a
• 3:57
  door
• 3:57
  somebody
• 3:58
  left
• 3:58
  unlocked
• 3:58
  and
• 3:58
  walked
• 3:59
  through
• 3:59
  it."
• 4:00
  That
• 4:00
  is
• 4:00
  the
• 4:00
  thesis:
• 4:01
  an
• 4:01
  agent
• 4:02
  does
• 4:02
  not
• 4:02
  have
• 4:02
  to
• 4:02
  turn
• 4:02
  against
• 4:02
  its
• 4:03
  owner
• 4:03
  to
• 4:03
  become
• 4:03
  your
• 4:03
  attacker.
• 4:04
  He
• 4:04
  then
• 4:04
  walks
• 4:05
  through
• 4:05
  Zenity
• 4:05
  Labs'
• 4:05
  Black
• 4:06
  Hat
• 4:06
  disclosure
• 4:06
  of
• 4:06
  poisoned
• 4:07
  "skills,"
• 4:08
  where
• 4:08
  one
• 4:08
  family
• 4:09
  cleared
• 4:09
  more
• 4:09
  than
• 4:09
  1.7
• 4:10
  million
• 4:10
  aggregate
• 4:11
  installs,
• 4:12
  an
• 4:12
  initially
• 4:12
  innocent
• 4:12
  external
• 4:13
  link
• 4:13
  was
• 4:13
  swapped
• 4:14
  after
• 4:14
  trust
• 4:14
  was
• 4:14
  established,
• 4:15
  and
• 4:15
  the
• 4:15
  swapped
• 4:16
  instructions
• 4:16
  told
• 4:16
  agents
• 4:17
  to
• 4:17
  fetch
• 4:17
  and
• 4:17
  run
• 4:17
  code
• 4:18
  hunting
• 4:18
  SSH
• 4:18
  keys,
• 4:19
  cloud
• 4:19
  credentials,
• 4:20
  and
• 4:20
  git
• 4:20
  tokens
• 4:20
  —
• 4:22
  over
• 4:22
  30%
• 4:22
  abusing
• 4:23
  Claude
• 4:23
  Code,
• 4:23
  running
• 4:24
  July
• 4:24
  11
• 4:24
  to
• 4:25
  August
• 4:25
  2
• 4:25
  beneath
• 4:26
  Vercel's
• 4:26
  live
• 4:27
  scanning
• 4:27
  of
• 4:27
  60,000-plus
• 4:28
  skills
• 4:29
  .
• 4:30
  A
• 4:30
  separate
• 4:30
  team
• 4:30
  at
• 4:31
  AIR
• 4:31
  built
• 4:31
  a
• 4:31
  malicious
• 4:32
  skill
• 4:32
  in
• 4:32
  under
• 4:32
  an
• 4:32
  hour,
• 4:33
  got
• 4:33
  it
• 4:33
  merged
• 4:34
  into
• 4:34
  a
• 4:34
  reputable
• 4:34
  marketplace,
• 4:35
  and
• 4:36
  passed
• 4:36
  every
• 4:36
  Cisco,
• 4:37
  Nvidia,
• 4:37
  and
• 4:37
  skills.sh
• 4:38
  scanner
• 4:39
  because
• 4:39
  the
• 4:39
  payload
• 4:40
  lived
• 4:40
  on
• 4:40
  an
• 4:40
  external
• 4:41
  page
• 4:41
  changed
• 4:41
  after
• 4:42
  approval,
• 4:43
  reaching
• 4:43
  26,000
• 4:44
  agents.
• 4:45
  This
• 4:45
  is
• 4:45
  the
• 4:45
  same
• 4:46
  "poison
• 4:46
  after
• 4:46
  you're
• 4:46
  declared
• 4:47
  safe"
• 4:48
  pattern
• 4:48
  documented
• 4:49
  earlier
• 4:49
  in
• 4:49
  the
• 4:49
  PoisonedSkills
• 4:50
  work,
• 4:51
  whose
• 4:51
  document-driven
• 4:51
  payloads
• 4:52
  bypassed
• 4:52
  tested
• 4:53
  models
• 4:53
  at
• 4:54
  11.6%
• 4:55
  to
• 4:55
  33.5%
• 4:57
  while
• 4:57
  plain
• 4:57
  instruction
• 4:58
  injection
• 4:58
  scored
• 4:58
  zero
• 4:59
  —
• 5:00
  a
• 5:00
  reminder
• 5:00
  that
• 5:00
  the
• 5:01
  numbers
• 5:01
  here
• 5:01
  are
• 5:01
  real
• 5:02
  and
• 5:02
  the
• 5:02
  defenses
• 5:02
  (isolate
• 5:03
  skills
• 5:03
  with
• 5:03
  external
• 5:04
  links,
• 5:05
  rescan
• 5:05
  daily,
• 5:06
  give
• 5:06
  each
• 5:06
  agent
• 5:07
  a
• 5:07
  scoped,
• 5:08
  expiring
• 5:08
  identity,
• 5:09
  "build
• 5:09
  the
• 5:09
  stop
• 5:10
  button
• 5:10
  before
• 5:10
  you
• 5:10
  need
• 5:11
  the
• 5:11
  stop
• 5:11
  button")
• 5:11
  are
• 5:11
  known
• 5:12
  but
• 5:12
  unbuilt.
• 5:13
  The
• 5:13
  UK
• 5:14
  AI
• 5:14
  Security
• 5:14
  Institute's
• 5:15
  "Mythos
• 5:16
  5"
• 5:17
  study
• 5:17
  offers
• 5:17
  the
• 5:17
  movie
• 5:18
  version
• 5:18
  for
• 5:18
  contrast:
• 5:19
  across
• 5:19
  122
• 5:20
  runs
• 5:21
  of
• 5:21
  seven
• 5:21
  frontier
• 5:21
  models
• 5:22
  with
• 5:22
  guardrails
• 5:22
  off,
• 5:23
  ten
• 5:23
  runs
• 5:24
  produced
• 5:24
  nineteen
• 5:25
  unsanctioned
• 5:25
  actions,
• 5:26
  including
• 5:26
  an
• 5:27
  agent
• 5:27
  socially
• 5:27
  engineering
• 5:28
  a
• 5:28
  human
• 5:28
  with
• 5:29
  fabricated
• 5:29
  credentials.
• 5:30
  The
• 5:30
  commentator's
• 5:31
  judgment
• 5:31
  is
• 5:31
  the
• 5:31
  right
• 5:32
  one
• 5:32
  —
• 5:32
  careless,
• 5:33
  ambiguous
• 5:34
  goals
• 5:34
  will
• 5:34
  do
• 5:34
  more
• 5:34
  damage
• 5:35
  than
• 5:35
  malicious
• 5:35
  ones,
• 5:36
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• 5:36
  "agents
• 5:37
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• 5:37
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• 5:37
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• 5:37
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• 5:38
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• 5:38
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• 5:38
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• 5:38
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• 5:39
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• 5:39
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• 5:40
  The
• 5:40
  general-audience
• 5:41
  version
• 5:41
  of
• 5:41
  this
• 5:41
  arrived
• 5:42
  in
• 5:42
  The
• 5:42
  Economist,
• 5:43
  whose
• 5:43
  "AI
• 5:43
  agents
• 5:44
  lie,
• 5:45
  cheat
• 5:45
  and
• 5:45
  steal"
• 5:45
  argues,
• 5:46
  via
• 5:46
  a
• 5:46
  detour
• 5:47
  through
• 5:47
  Alan
• 5:47
  Greenspan's
• 5:48
  fondness
• 5:48
  for
• 5:49
  barbed
• 5:49
  wire,
• 5:50
  that
• 5:50
  trust-eroding
• 5:51
  agent
• 5:51
  behavior
• 5:51
  is
• 5:52
  putting
• 5:52
  users
• 5:52
  off
• 5:53
  and
• 5:53
  that
• 5:53
  it
• 5:53
  is
• 5:53
  "time
• 5:54
  to
• 5:54
  impose
• 5:54
  law
• 5:54
  and
• 5:55
  order
• 5:55
  on
• 5:55
  the
• 5:55
  frontier"
• 5:55
  .
• 5:56
  And
• 5:56
  the
• 5:56
  surveillance
• 5:57
  edge
• 5:57
  of
• 5:57
  the
• 5:58
  same
• 5:58
  trend
• 5:58
  showed
• 5:58
  up
• 5:59
  in
• 5:59
  Florida,
• 5:59
  where
• 6:00
  OpenAI
• 6:00
  alerted
• 6:01
  the
• 6:01
  FBI
• 6:01
  after
• 6:02
  a
• 6:02
  user
• 6:02
  told
• 6:02
  ChatGPT
• 6:03
  he
• 6:03
  intended
• 6:03
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• 6:04
  murder
• 6:04
  his
• 6:04
  ex
• 6:04
  .
• 6:05
  The
• 6:05
  sharpest
• 6:06
  observation
• 6:06
  in
• 6:06
  the
• 6:06
  thread
• 6:07
  is
• 6:07
  that
• 6:07
  OpenAI
• 6:08
  turned
• 6:08
  over
• 6:08
  the
• 6:08
  suspect's
• 6:09
  messages
• 6:10
  but
• 6:10
  not
• 6:10
  ChatGPT's
• 6:11
  replies
• 6:11
  —
• 6:12
  a
• 6:12
  detail
• 6:12
  a
• 6:13
  defense
• 6:13
  lawyer
• 6:13
  will
• 6:13
  subpoena,
• 6:14
  and
• 6:14
  one
• 6:15
  that
• 6:15
  matters
• 6:15
  for
• 6:15
  knowing
• 6:15
  whether
• 6:16
  the
• 6:16
  system
• 6:16
  pushed
• 6:16
  back
• 6:17
  or
• 6:17
  played
• 6:17
  along.
• 6:18
  This
• 6:18
  escalates
• 6:19
  chat
• 6:19
  privacy
• 6:20
  from
• 6:20
  the
• 6:20
  earlier
• 6:20
  litigation-disclosure
• 6:21
  story,
• 6:22
  where
• 6:22
  twenty
• 6:23
  million
• 6:23
  de-identified
• 6:24
  conversation
• 6:24
  logs
• 6:25
  were
• 6:25
  handed
• 6:25
  to
• 6:25
  plaintiffs,
• 6:26
  into
• 6:26
  proactive,
• 6:27
  duty-to-warn
• 6:28
  referral.
• 6:31
  FinEvo-Bench,
• 6:31
  built
• 6:32
  during
• 6:32
  an
• 6:32
  internship
• 6:32
  at
• 6:32
  Alibaba
• 6:33
  Cloud,
• 6:34
  asks
• 6:34
  a
• 6:34
  question
• 6:34
  most
• 6:35
  agent
• 6:35
  benchmarks
• 6:35
  dodge:
• 6:36
  can
• 6:37
  an
• 6:37
  agent
• 6:37
  turn
• 6:37
  experience
• 6:38
  from
• 6:38
  finished
• 6:38
  tasks
• 6:39
  into
• 6:39
  better
• 6:39
  performance
• 6:40
  on
• 6:40
  later
• 6:40
  ones?
• 6:41
  It
• 6:41
  uses
• 6:42
  120
• 6:43
  real-case-grounded,
• 6:44
  multi-file
• 6:44
  tasks
• 6:45
  across
• 6:45
  20
• 6:45
  business
• 6:46
  scenes
• 6:46
  and
• 6:46
  six
• 6:47
  financial
• 6:47
  domains,
• 6:48
  775
• 6:49
  input
• 6:49
  files
• 6:50
  in
• 6:50
  total,
• 6:51
  run
• 6:51
  as
• 6:51
  three
• 6:51
  globally
• 6:52
  interleaved
• 6:52
  streams
• 6:53
  so
• 6:53
  the
• 6:53
  agent
• 6:53
  must
• 6:54
  retrieve
• 6:54
  the
• 6:54
  right
• 6:54
  past
• 6:54
  experience
• 6:55
  amid
• 6:55
  unrelated
• 6:56
  intervening
• 6:56
  work.
• 6:57
  Each
• 6:58
  task
• 6:58
  runs
• 6:58
  an
• 6:58
  execute,
• 6:59
  score-and-feedback,
• 7:00
  reflect-and-consolidate
• 7:01
  cycle,
• 7:02
  with
• 7:02
  an
• 7:02
  independent
• 7:02
  Claude
• 7:03
  Code
• 7:03
  scorer
• 7:03
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• 7:03
  by
• 7:04
  Opus
• 7:04
  4.6
• 7:05
  applying
• 7:05
  a
• 7:05
  per-scene
• 7:05
  rubric
• 7:06
  and
• 7:06
  returning
• 7:06
  only
• 7:06
  a
• 7:07
  summary
• 7:07
  of
• 7:07
  problems,
• 7:08
  never
• 7:08
  the
• 7:08
  full
• 7:08
  rubric.
• 7:09
  Paired
• 7:10
  controls
• 7:10
  that
• 7:10
  reset
• 7:10
  state
• 7:11
  before
• 7:11
  every
• 7:11
  task
• 7:12
  isolate
• 7:12
  the
• 7:12
  actual
• 7:13
  self-evolution
• 7:13
  gain.
• 7:14
  On
• 7:15
  a
• 7:15
  shared
• 7:15
  Qwen3.7-Max
• 7:18
  backbone
• 7:18
  all
• 7:18
  four
• 7:19
  scaffolds
• 7:19
  beat
• 7:19
  their
• 7:19
  memoryless
• 7:20
  controls,
• 7:20
  rising
• 7:21
  9.33
• 7:22
  to
• 7:22
  19.37
• 7:23
  points:
• 7:24
  Letta
• 7:24
  reached
• 7:24
  the
• 7:24
  highest
• 7:25
  evolved
• 7:25
  score
• 7:25
  (91.65)
• 7:26
  with
• 7:27
  the
• 7:27
  fewest
• 7:27
  compliance
• 7:27
  issues
• 7:28
  (0.09
• 7:29
  per
• 7:29
  task),
• 7:29
  Codex
• 7:30
  posted
• 7:30
  the
• 7:30
  largest
• 7:31
  gain
• 7:31
  (+19.37),
• 7:33
  and
• 7:33
  GenericAgent
• 7:33
  was
• 7:34
  weakest
• 7:34
  but
• 7:34
  cheapest,
• 7:35
  under
• 7:35
  a
• 7:35
  third
• 7:35
  of
• 7:35
  Claude
• 7:35
  Code's
• 7:36
  token
• 7:36
  cost
• 7:36
  .
• 7:37
  Two
• 7:37
  findings
• 7:38
  stand
• 7:38
  out
• 7:38
  —
• 7:39
  gains
• 7:39
  grow
• 7:39
  with
• 7:39
  experience
• 7:40
  rather
• 7:40
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• 7:40
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• 7:41
  and
• 7:41
  in
• 7:41
  ablations
• 7:42
  a
• 7:42
  skill-only
• 7:42
  carrier
• 7:43
  (93.71)
• 7:44
  beat
• 7:44
  memory-only
• 7:45
  and
• 7:45
  combined
• 7:45
  memory-plus-skill,
• 7:47
  while
• 7:47
  rubric
• 7:47
  feedback
• 7:48
  beat
• 7:48
  reference-answer
• 7:48
  feedback
• 7:49
  by
• 7:49
  3.95
• 7:50
  to
• 7:50
  7.93
• 7:51
  points.
• 7:52
  The
• 7:52
  honest
• 7:53
  conclusion
• 7:53
  is
• 7:53
  that
• 7:53
  no
• 7:54
  single
• 7:54
  scaffold
• 7:54
  wins
• 7:54
  on
• 7:55
  score,
• 7:55
  gain,
• 7:55
  and
• 7:55
  cost
• 7:56
  at
• 7:56
  once.
• 7:57
  That
• 7:57
  benchmark
• 7:58
  is
• 7:58
  really
• 7:58
  an
• 7:58
  instrument
• 7:59
  for
• 7:59
  a
• 7:59
  thesis
• 7:59
  this
• 8:00
  publication
• 8:00
  has
• 8:00
  been
• 8:00
  tracking:
• 8:02
  evaluation
• 8:02
  has
• 8:03
  to
• 8:03
  be
• 8:03
  frozen,
• 8:03
  adversarial,
• 8:04
  and
• 8:04
  separated
• 8:05
  from
• 8:05
  the
• 8:05
  thing
• 8:05
  being
• 8:05
  graded.
• 8:07
  The
• 8:07
  clearest
• 8:07
  statement
• 8:07
  of
• 8:08
  it
• 8:08
  this
• 8:08
  week
• 8:08
  is
• 8:08
  an
• 8:08
  evidence-loop
• 8:09
  essay
• 8:09
  from
• 8:09
  Dragan
• 8:09
  Spiridonov,
• 8:10
  whose
• 8:11
  stolen
• 8:11
  line
• 8:11
  is
• 8:11
  "the
• 8:12
  one
• 8:12
  who
• 8:12
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• 8:12
  it
• 8:12
  doesn't
• 8:12
  get
• 8:13
  to
• 8:13
  grade
• 8:13
  it"
• 8:13
  .
• 8:13
  He
• 8:13
  describes
• 8:14
  a
• 8:14
  nightly
• 8:14
  "dream"
• 8:15
  system
• 8:15
  on
• 8:15
  a
• 8:15
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• 8:15
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• 8:16
  with
• 8:16
  no
• 8:16
  memory
• 8:17
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• 8:17
  one
• 8:17
  ledger
• 8:17
  file,
• 8:18
  writing
• 8:18
  a
• 8:18
  falsifiable
• 8:19
  hypothesis
• 8:19
  frozen
• 8:20
  before
• 8:20
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• 8:21
  measuring
• 8:21
  the
• 8:21
  baseline
• 8:22
  before
• 8:22
  the
• 8:22
  candidate,
• 8:23
  mutating
• 8:23
  one
• 8:24
  surface
• 8:24
  at
• 8:24
  a
• 8:24
  time
• 8:24
  in
• 8:24
  a
• 8:25
  sandbox,
• 8:25
  and
• 8:25
  handing
• 8:26
  the
• 8:26
  result
• 8:26
  to
• 8:26
  an
• 8:26
  adversarial
• 8:27
  critic
• 8:27
  whose
• 8:27
  only
• 8:28
  job
• 8:28
  is
• 8:28
  to
• 8:28
  break
• 8:29
  it
• 8:29
  and
• 8:29
  check
• 8:29
  for
• 8:29
  reward
• 8:30
  hacking
• 8:30
  —
• 8:31
  everything
• 8:31
  ending
• 8:31
  in
• 8:31
  a
• 8:31
  replay
• 8:32
  receipt
• 8:32
  anyone
• 8:33
  can
• 8:33
  rerun.
• 8:34
  His
• 8:34
  three
• 8:34
  questions
• 8:35
  are
• 8:35
  the
• 8:35
  whole
• 8:35
  discipline:
• 8:36
  does
• 8:36
  the
• 8:36
  check
• 8:37
  touch
• 8:37
  the
• 8:37
  artifact
• 8:37
  or
• 8:38
  only
• 8:38
  the
• 8:38
  agent's
• 8:38
  account
• 8:39
  of
• 8:39
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• 8:39
  was
• 8:39
  the
• 8:39
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• 8:40
  criterion
• 8:40
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• 8:41
  before
• 8:41
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• 8:41
  saw
• 8:41
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• 8:41
  result,
• 8:42
  and
• 8:42
  who
• 8:42
  has
• 8:43
  jurisdiction
• 8:43
  to
• 8:43
  say
• 8:43
  no.
• 8:44
  A
• 8:44
  commenter
• 8:45
  adds
• 8:45
  a
• 8:45
  practical
• 8:46
  refinement
• 8:46
  —
• 8:47
  run
• 8:47
  LLM-as-judge,
• 8:48
  a
• 8:48
  crew
• 8:49
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• 8:49
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• 8:49
  and
• 8:50
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• 8:50
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• 8:50
  in
• 8:50
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• 8:51
  not
• 8:52
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• 8:52
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• 8:53
  because
• 8:53
  sequential
• 8:53
  gates
• 8:54
  let
• 8:54
  the
• 8:54
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• 8:55
  judge
• 8:55
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• 8:55
  define
• 8:56
  what
• 8:56
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• 8:56
  later
• 8:56
  ones
• 8:56
  look
• 8:57
  at.
• 8:57
  The
• 8:58
  one
• 8:58
  caution
• 8:58
  worth
• 8:58
  carrying
• 8:59
  forward
• 8:59
  is
• 9:00
  that
• 9:00
  these
• 9:00
  self-hosting
• 9:00
  evolution
• 9:01
  loops
• 9:01
  are,
• 9:02
  so
• 9:02
  far,
• 9:03
  more
• 9:03
  asserted
• 9:03
  than
• 9:03
  independently
• 9:04
  demonstrated.
• 9:08
  Tim
• 9:08
  Dettmers,
• 9:08
  the
• 9:09
  researcher
• 9:09
  behind
• 9:09
  bitsandbytes,
• 9:10
  is
• 9:10
  teasing
• 9:10
  a
• 9:10
  new
• 9:11
  method
• 9:11
  he
• 9:11
  claims
• 9:11
  will
• 9:11
  run
• 9:12
  GLM
• 9:12
  5.3
• 9:13
  on
• 9:13
  a
• 9:13
  single
• 9:13
  DGX
• 9:14
  Spark
• 9:14
  at
• 9:14
  seven
• 9:15
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• 9:15
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• 9:15
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• 9:15
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• 9:16
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• 9:16
  Pro
• 9:16
  on
• 9:16
  a
• 9:16
  single
• 9:17
  B300.
• 9:18
  The
• 9:18
  r/LocalLLaMA
• 9:19
  reaction
• 9:20
  is
• 9:20
  the
• 9:20
  correct
• 9:20
  one
• 9:20
  —
• 9:21
  take
• 9:21
  it
• 9:21
  with
• 9:21
  salt,
• 9:21
  because
• 9:22
  the
• 9:22
  graveyard
• 9:22
  of
• 9:22
  quantization
• 9:23
  schemes
• 9:23
  that
• 9:24
  promised
• 9:24
  the
• 9:24
  world
• 9:24
  is
• 9:24
  deep
• 9:24
  .
• 9:25
  The
• 9:25
  most
• 9:25
  useful
• 9:25
  skepticism
• 9:26
  in
• 9:26
  the
• 9:26
  thread
• 9:27
  is
• 9:27
  that
• 9:27
  refusing
• 9:27
  to
• 9:27
  state
• 9:28
  bits-per-weight
• 9:28
  makes
• 9:29
  a
• 9:29
  "you'll
• 9:29
  be
• 9:29
  able
• 9:29
  to
• 9:29
  run
• 9:29
  this"
• 9:30
  claim
• 9:30
  deceptive
• 9:30
  by
• 9:30
  omission;
• 9:31
  one
• 9:31
  commenter's
• 9:32
  arithmetic
• 9:32
  on
• 9:32
  a
• 9:32
  Strix
• 9:33
  Halo
• 9:33
  suggests
• 9:33
  seven
• 9:34
  tokens
• 9:34
  per
• 9:34
  second
• 9:35
  for
• 9:35
  a
• 9:35
  model
• 9:35
  this
• 9:35
  size
• 9:36
  implies
• 9:36
  either
• 9:36
  sub-2.44-bit
• 9:38
  weights
• 9:38
  or,
• 9:38
  more
• 9:38
  likely,
• 9:39
  SSD-backed
• 9:40
  expert
• 9:40
  caching
• 9:40
  rather
• 9:41
  than
• 9:41
  a
• 9:41
  pure
• 9:41
  quant.
• 9:42
  Running
• 9:42
  GLM-5.2
• 9:43
  locally
• 9:44
  recently
• 9:44
  meant
• 9:44
  four
• 9:45
  DGX
• 9:45
  Spark
• 9:45
  nodes
• 9:46
  at
• 9:46
  roughly
• 9:46
  fifteen
• 9:46
  tokens
• 9:47
  per
• 9:47
  second,
• 9:47
  so
• 9:48
  a
• 9:48
  single-box
• 9:48
  claim
• 9:49
  is
• 9:49
  a
• 9:49
  real
• 9:49
  shift
• 9:49
  if
• 9:49
  it
• 9:49
  holds.
• 9:51
  The
• 9:51
  companion
• 9:51
  enthusiasm
• 9:52
  is
• 9:52
  over
• 9:52
  GLM
• 9:53
  5.3's
• 9:53
  weights
• 9:54
  offering
• 9:54
  the
• 9:54
  best
• 9:54
  capacity-to-size
• 9:55
  ratio
• 9:55
  yet,
• 9:56
  with
• 9:56
  the
• 9:56
  open
• 9:56
  question
• 9:57
  of
• 9:57
  whether
• 9:57
  it
• 9:57
  finally
• 9:57
  delivers
• 9:58
  a
• 9:58
  worthy
• 9:58
  successor
• 9:59
  to
• 9:59
  GLM-4.5-Air
• 10:00
  at
• 10:00
  that
• 10:00
  specific
• 10:01
  size-and-speed
• 10:01
  point
• 10:01
  .
• 10:02
  The
• 10:02
  quieter,
• 10:03
  more
• 10:03
  consequential
• 10:03
  news
• 10:04
  is
• 10:04
  that
• 10:04
  Ling
• 10:04
  3.0
• 10:05
  support
• 10:05
  was
• 10:05
  merged
• 10:06
  into
• 10:06
  llama.cpp
• 10:07
  —
• 10:08
  both
• 10:08
  the
• 10:08
  tiny
• 10:09
  8B
• 10:09
  and
• 10:09
  the
• 10:09
  124B
• 10:10
  flash
• 10:11
  variant,
• 10:11
  now
• 10:11
  confirmed
• 10:12
  reasoning
• 10:12
  models
• 10:12
  .
• 10:13
  That
• 10:13
  merge
• 10:14
  directly
• 10:14
  reverses
• 10:14
  the
• 10:14
  story
• 10:15
  from
• 10:15
  three
• 10:15
  weeks
• 10:15
  ago,
• 10:16
  when
• 10:16
  the
• 10:16
  llama.cpp
• 10:17
  request
• 10:18
  for
• 10:18
  the
• 10:18
  Bailing
• 10:18
  architecture
• 10:19
  was
• 10:19
  closed
• 10:19
  as
• 10:19
  not-planned
• 10:20
  and
• 10:20
  a
• 10:20
  supporting
• 10:20
  pull
• 10:20
  request
• 10:21
  sat
• 10:21
  unmerged
• 10:21
  for
• 10:22
  months.
• 10:23
  Backend
• 10:23
  support,
• 10:23
  not
• 10:24
  the
• 10:24
  weights,
• 10:25
  has
• 10:25
  repeatedly
• 10:25
  been
• 10:25
  the
• 10:25
  real
• 10:26
  gate
• 10:26
  for
• 10:26
  new
• 10:26
  MoE
• 10:26
  architectures,
• 10:27
  and
• 10:27
  this
• 10:28
  is
• 10:28
  the
• 10:28
  gate
• 10:28
  opening.
• 10:29
  And
• 10:29
  for
• 10:29
  the
• 10:29
  pure
• 10:30
  joy
• 10:30
  of
• 10:30
  the
• 10:30
  hobby,
• 10:31
  one
• 10:31
  user
• 10:31
  pushed
• 10:32
  a
• 10:32
  122B
• 10:34
  Qwen3.5
• 10:36
  model
• 10:36
  onto
• 10:37
  a
• 10:37
  laptop
• 10:37
  that
• 10:37
  was
• 10:37
  obsolete
• 10:38
  before
• 10:38
  LLMs
• 10:39
  existed:
• 10:39
  five
• 10:40
  minutes
• 10:40
  to
• 10:40
  load,
• 10:40
  two
• 10:41
  minutes
• 10:41
  of
• 10:41
  prompt
• 10:41
  processing,
• 10:42
  fourteen
• 10:42
  minutes
• 10:43
  to
• 10:43
  generate,
• 10:43
  on
• 10:43
  an
• 10:44
  IQ4
• 10:44
  XS
• 10:44
  quant
• 10:45
  with
• 10:45
  four
• 10:45
  threads
• 10:45
  .
• 10:46
  It
• 10:46
  is
• 10:46
  glacial,
• 10:47
  but
• 10:47
  as
• 10:47
  one
• 10:48
  commenter
• 10:48
  put
• 10:48
  it,
• 10:48
  this
• 10:49
  is
• 10:49
  the
• 10:49
  local-model
• 10:50
  equivalent
• 10:50
  of
• 10:50
  the
• 10:50
  C64
• 10:51
  demoscene
• 10:51
  —
• 10:52
  and
• 10:52
  a
• 10:52
  bracing
• 10:53
  contrast
• 10:53
  to
• 10:53
  the
• 10:53
  same
• 10:54
  122B
• 10:55
  class
• 10:55
  running
• 10:56
  at
• 10:56
  nearly
• 10:56
  200
• 10:57
  tokens
• 10:57
  per
• 10:57
  second
• 10:58
  on
• 10:58
  a
• 10:58
  pair
• 10:58
  of
• 10:58
  professional
• 10:58
  cards.
• 11:02
  RAGU
• 11:02
  is
• 11:02
  the
• 11:02
  strongest
• 11:03
  argument
• 11:03
  yet
• 11:03
  for
• 11:03
  a
• 11:04
  claim
• 11:04
  this
• 11:04
  publication
• 11:04
  has
• 11:04
  made
• 11:05
  since
• 11:05
  January:
• 11:06
  a
• 11:06
  small
• 11:06
  local
• 11:06
  model
• 11:07
  paired
• 11:07
  with
• 11:07
  the
• 11:07
  right
• 11:07
  retrieval
• 11:08
  architecture
• 11:08
  punches
• 11:08
  far
• 11:09
  above
• 11:09
  its
• 11:09
  parameter
• 11:09
  count.
• 11:10
  Its
• 11:10
  authors
• 11:11
  observe
• 11:11
  that
• 11:11
  the
• 11:11
  skills
• 11:12
  an
• 11:12
  in-pipeline
• 11:13
  LLM
• 11:13
  actually
• 11:14
  needs
• 11:14
  —
• 11:14
  comprehension,
• 11:15
  extraction,
• 11:16
  reasoning
• 11:16
  over
• 11:16
  supplied
• 11:17
  context
• 11:17
  —
• 11:18
  are
• 11:18
  language
• 11:18
  skills
• 11:18
  that
• 11:19
  scale
• 11:19
  weakly
• 11:19
  with
• 11:19
  size,
• 11:20
  unlike
• 11:20
  factual
• 11:20
  recall.
• 11:21
  On
• 11:21
  the
• 11:22
  Qwen2.5
• 11:24
  family,
• 11:24
  world-knowledge
• 11:25
  F1
• 11:25
  climbs
• 11:26
  21.1
• 11:27
  points
• 11:27
  from
• 11:27
  0.5B
• 11:28
  to
• 11:28
  72B,
• 11:29
  while
• 11:29
  in-context
• 11:30
  accuracy
• 11:30
  grows
• 11:31
  only
• 11:31
  four.
• 11:32
  So
• 11:32
  they
• 11:32
  built
• 11:32
  Meno-Lite-0.1,
• 11:34
  a
• 11:34
  7B
• 11:34
  model
• 11:35
  fine-tuned
• 11:35
  to
• 11:35
  attend
• 11:35
  to
• 11:36
  context
• 11:36
  rather
• 11:36
  than
• 11:36
  memorize
• 11:37
  facts,
• 11:38
  and
• 11:38
  it
• 11:38
  beats
• 11:38
  Qwen2.5-32B
• 11:41
  on
• 11:41
  knowledge-graph
• 11:42
  construction
• 11:42
  by
• 11:43
  12.5%
• 11:44
  relative,
• 11:44
  driven
• 11:45
  by
• 11:45
  far
• 11:45
  better
• 11:45
  relation
• 11:46
  extraction,
• 11:47
  with
• 11:47
  a
• 11:47
  128K
• 11:48
  context
• 11:48
  window
• 11:49
  and
• 11:49
  a
• 11:49
  tokenizer
• 11:49
  47%
• 11:50
  more
• 11:50
  efficient
• 11:51
  on
• 11:51
  Russian
• 11:51
  .
• 11:52
  The
• 11:52
  engineering
• 11:52
  is
• 11:52
  the
• 11:53
  part
• 11:53
  security
• 11:53
  readers
• 11:53
  will
• 11:54
  appreciate:
• 11:55
  Pydantic
• 11:56
  validation
• 11:56
  of
• 11:56
  model
• 11:57
  output
• 11:57
  instead
• 11:57
  of
• 11:57
  applying
• 11:58
  Python
• 11:58
  eval
• 11:59
  to
• 11:59
  regex-filtered
• 11:59
  text
• 12:00
  the
• 12:00
  way
• 12:00
  HippoRAG
• 12:00
  2
• 12:01
  does.
• 12:01
  On
• 12:02
  GraphRAG-Bench
• 12:02
  the
• 12:02
  result
• 12:03
  is
• 12:03
  refreshingly
• 12:03
  non-triumphal
• 12:04
  —
• 12:05
  HippoRAG
• 12:05
  2
• 12:05
  wins
• 12:05
  fact
• 12:06
  retrieval,
• 12:06
  RAGU
• 12:06
  wins
• 12:07
  creative
• 12:07
  generation
• 12:08
  and
• 12:08
  coverage,
• 12:08
  and
• 12:09
  much
• 12:09
  of
• 12:09
  the
• 12:09
  rival's
• 12:09
  multi-hop
• 12:10
  dominance
• 12:10
  turns
• 12:10
  out
• 12:11
  to
• 12:11
  be
• 12:11
  an
• 12:11
  answer-format
• 12:11
  artifact
• 12:12
  that
• 12:12
  shrinks
• 12:13
  under
• 12:13
  terse
• 12:13
  prompting.
• 12:14
  Indexing
• 12:15
  costs
• 12:15
  about
• 12:15
  $0.001
• 12:17
  per
• 12:17
  document
• 12:18
  against
• 12:18
  roughly
• 12:18
  $0.10
• 12:19
  for
• 12:19
  commercial
• 12:19
  APIs
• 12:20
  —
• 12:20
  $100
• 12:21
  versus
• 12:21
  $10,000
• 12:22
  at
• 12:23
  a
• 12:23
  hundred
• 12:23
  thousand
• 12:23
  documents.
• 12:24
  Two
• 12:24
  builder
• 12:25
  posts
• 12:25
  round
• 12:25
  out
• 12:25
  the
• 12:25
  local
• 12:26
  stack.
• 12:27
  Hillock
• 12:27
  v0.2
• 12:28
  tackles
• 12:29
  the
• 12:29
  pain
• 12:29
  of
• 12:29
  watching
• 12:30
  an
• 12:30
  8B
• 12:30
  model
• 12:30
  extract
• 12:31
  facts
• 12:31
  token-by-token
• 12:32
  for
• 12:32
  fifteen
• 12:32
  minutes
• 12:33
  per
• 12:33
  PDF
• 12:34
  by
• 12:34
  replacing
• 12:34
  generation
• 12:35
  with
• 12:35
  TALON,
• 12:36
  a
• 12:36
  non-generative
• 12:37
  tensor
• 12:37
  pipeline
• 12:38
  (Fastcoref,
• 12:39
  MiniLM,
• 12:40
  GLiREL
• 12:40
  zero-shot
• 12:41
  classification)
• 12:41
  that
• 12:41
  pulls
• 12:42
  structured
• 12:42
  facts
• 12:42
  in
• 12:43
  about
• 12:43
  two
• 12:43
  seconds
• 12:43
  on
• 12:44
  a
• 12:44
  GTX
• 12:44
  1070
• 12:45
  without
• 12:45
  touching
• 12:46
  Ollama's
• 12:46
  VRAM
• 12:46
  during
• 12:47
  ingestion
• 12:47
  .
• 12:48
  It
• 12:48
  lands
• 12:49
  in
• 12:49
  a
• 12:49
  lineage
• 12:49
  of
• 12:49
  local,
• 12:50
  dockerized
• 12:51
  memory
• 12:51
  engines
• 12:52
  that
• 12:52
  has
• 12:52
  been
• 12:52
  quietly
• 12:52
  maturing
• 12:53
  for
• 12:53
  the
• 12:53
  better
• 12:53
  part
• 12:53
  of
• 12:53
  a
• 12:54
  year.
• 12:55
  And
• 12:55
  a
• 12:55
  company
• 12:55
  deployment
• 12:56
  thread
• 12:56
  shows
• 12:56
  the
• 12:56
  payoff
• 12:57
  in
• 12:57
  production:
• 12:58
  a
• 12:58
  single
• 12:58
  Qwen3.6-27B
• 13:02
  at
• 13:02
  int4
• 13:03
  with
• 13:03
  a
• 13:03
  32K
• 13:04
  context
• 13:04
  on
• 13:04
  vLLM,
• 13:05
  serving
• 13:06
  chat,
• 13:06
  plan
• 13:07
  analysis,
• 13:07
  code
• 13:08
  generation,
• 13:09
  and
• 13:09
  tool
• 13:09
  calls
• 13:09
  behind
• 13:10
  Open
• 13:10
  WebUI,
• 13:11
  with
• 13:11
  an
• 13:11
  Open
• 13:11
  Terminal
• 13:12
  sandbox
• 13:12
  that
• 13:12
  runs
• 13:13
  generated
• 13:13
  Python,
• 13:14
  produces
• 13:14
  Office
• 13:15
  and
• 13:15
  PDF
• 13:15
  files,
• 13:16
  and
• 13:16
  reviews
• 13:16
  its
• 13:17
  own
• 13:17
  output
• 13:17
  before
• 13:17
  returning
• 13:18
  it,
• 13:18
  plus
• 13:18
  RAGFlow
• 13:19
  for
• 13:19
  document
• 13:19
  search
• 13:19
  .
• 13:20
  It
• 13:20
  is
• 13:20
  data-sovereignty
• 13:21
  self-hosting
• 13:22
  cashed
• 13:22
  out
• 13:22
  on
• 13:22
  a
• 13:23
  single
• 13:23
  consumer
• 13:23
  GPU.
• 13:27
  A
• 13:27
  pair
• 13:27
  of
• 13:27
  studies
• 13:27
  on
• 13:27
  DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B
• 13:29
  lands
• 13:29
  a
• 13:29
  finding
• 13:30
  the
• 13:30
  "more
• 13:30
  thinking
• 13:30
  is
• 13:31
  better"
• 13:31
  crowd
• 13:31
  should
• 13:31
  sit
• 13:32
  with.
• 13:32
  Forcing
• 13:32
  an
• 13:33
  end-of-thinking
• 13:33
  token
• 13:33
  at
• 13:33
  fixed
• 13:33
  budgets,
• 13:34
  the
• 13:34
  authors
• 13:34
  find
• 13:34
  GSM8K
• 13:35
  and
• 13:36
  MATH-500
• 13:36
  reach
• 13:36
  95%
• 13:37
  of
• 13:37
  their
• 13:38
  uncapped
• 13:38
  accuracy
• 13:38
  at
• 13:38
  just
• 13:39
  256
• 13:39
  thinking
• 13:40
  tokens,
• 13:40
  essentially
• 13:41
  flat
• 13:41
  from
• 13:41
  there
• 13:41
  —
• 13:42
  extra
• 13:42
  reasoning
• 13:42
  buys
• 13:42
  almost
• 13:43
  nothing.
• 13:43
  AIME
• 13:44
  is
• 13:44
  different
• 13:45
  and
• 13:45
  stranger:
• 13:45
  56.5%
• 13:47
  of
• 13:47
  generations
• 13:47
  converge
• 13:48
  naturally
• 13:48
  and
• 13:48
  score
• 13:49
  96.5%,
• 13:50
  while
• 13:50
  the
• 13:51
  other
• 13:51
  43.5%
• 13:52
  never
• 13:52
  terminate
• 13:53
  even
• 13:53
  at
• 13:53
  a
• 13:53
  10,000-token
• 13:55
  ceiling
• 13:55
  and
• 13:55
  score
• 13:55
  11.5%.
• 13:57
  It
• 13:57
  is
• 13:57
  bimodal,
• 13:58
  not
• 13:58
  a
• 13:58
  gradient,
• 13:59
  and
• 13:59
  an
• 13:59
  oracle
• 14:00
  that
• 14:00
  aborted
• 14:00
  the
• 14:00
  doomed
• 14:01
  runs
• 14:01
  at
• 14:01
  the
• 14:01
  start
• 14:01
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• 14:01
  save
• 14:02
  roughly
• 14:02
  40%
• 14:03
  of
• 14:03
  inference
• 14:03
  compute.
• 14:04
  The
• 14:04
  second
• 14:04
  study
• 14:05
  asks
• 14:05
  whether
• 14:05
  that
• 14:05
  fate
• 14:06
  is
• 14:06
  legible
• 14:06
  early,
• 14:07
  training
• 14:07
  logistic
• 14:08
  probes
• 14:08
  on
• 14:08
  hidden
• 14:08
  states:
• 14:09
  layer
• 14:09
  20
• 14:10
  carries
• 14:10
  the
• 14:10
  strongest
• 14:11
  signal,
• 14:11
  AUC
• 14:12
  peaks
• 14:12
  around
• 14:13
  0.61
• 14:14
  in
• 14:14
  upper-middle
• 14:14
  layers,
• 14:15
  and
• 14:15
  —
• 14:15
  critically
• 14:16
  —
• 14:17
  the
• 14:17
  signal
• 14:18
  is
• 14:18
  at
• 14:18
  full
• 14:18
  strength
• 14:18
  by
• 14:18
  token
• 14:19
  50,
• 14:20
  meaning
• 14:20
  a
• 14:20
  probe
• 14:20
  could
• 14:20
  flag
• 14:21
  a
• 14:21
  non-converging
• 14:22
  run
• 14:22
  four
• 14:22
  to
• 14:22
  nine
• 14:22
  thousand
• 14:23
  tokens
• 14:23
  before
• 14:24
  it
• 14:24
  visibly
• 14:24
  fails
• 14:24
  .
• 14:25
  A
• 14:25
  contamination
• 14:26
  check
• 14:26
  on
• 14:27
  post-cutoff
• 14:27
  AIME
• 14:28
  2025
• 14:28
  problems
• 14:29
  rules
• 14:29
  out
• 14:29
  memorization
• 14:30
  as
• 14:30
  the
• 14:30
  driver.
• 14:31
  It
• 14:31
  is
• 14:31
  a
• 14:31
  modest,
• 14:32
  honestly
• 14:33
  caveated
• 14:33
  result
• 14:34
  —
• 14:34
  0.61
• 14:35
  AUC
• 14:36
  is
• 14:36
  not
• 14:36
  deployable
• 14:37
  on
• 14:37
  its
• 14:37
  own
• 14:37
  —
• 14:38
  and
• 14:38
  slots
• 14:38
  in
• 14:38
  as
• 14:38
  the
• 14:38
  mechanistic,
• 14:39
  early-detection
• 14:40
  successor
• 14:40
  to
• 14:40
  the
• 14:40
  training-free
• 14:41
  suppression
• 14:41
  and
• 14:42
  reward-probe
• 14:42
  work
• 14:42
  before
• 14:43
  it.
• 14:43
  On
• 14:43
  the
• 14:44
  more
• 14:44
  voyeuristic
• 14:44
  end,
• 14:45
  someone
• 14:45
  transcribed
• 14:46
  and
• 14:46
  compared
• 14:46
  the
• 14:46
  Claude
• 14:47
  Code
• 14:47
  system
• 14:47
  prompts
• 14:47
  across
• 14:48
  six
• 14:48
  current
• 14:48
  models.
• 14:49
  The
• 14:49
  most
• 14:50
  conserved
• 14:50
  paragraph
• 14:51
  across
• 14:51
  all
• 14:51
  seven
• 14:52
  captures
• 14:52
  is,
• 14:53
  tellingly,
• 14:53
  the
• 14:53
  they/them
• 14:54
  pronoun
• 14:55
  rule
• 14:55
  and
• 14:55
  its
• 14:55
  "never
• 14:56
  infer
• 14:56
  pronouns
• 14:56
  from
• 14:56
  a
• 14:57
  name"
• 14:57
  instruction.
• 14:58
  The
• 14:58
  differences
• 14:59
  read
• 14:59
  like
• 14:59
  personality
• 15:00
  diagnoses:
• 15:01
  Opus
• 15:01
  4.6
• 15:02
  gets
• 15:03
  the
• 15:03
  fullest
• 15:03
  enumerated
• 15:04
  rulebook,
• 15:05
  Haiku
• 15:05
  4.5
• 15:06
  gets
• 15:06
  that
• 15:06
  template
• 15:07
  with
• 15:07
  zero
• 15:07
  bespoke
• 15:07
  text
• 15:08
  (its
• 15:08
  praised
• 15:08
  concision
• 15:09
  is
• 15:09
  trained
• 15:09
  in,
• 15:10
  not
• 15:11
  prompted
• 15:11
  in),
• 15:11
  Opus
• 15:12
  5
• 15:12
  uniquely
• 15:13
  adds
• 15:13
  "Delivering
• 15:14
  work"
• 15:14
  and
• 15:14
  "Corrections"
• 15:15
  sections
• 15:16
  that
• 15:16
  read
• 15:16
  like
• 15:16
  therapy
• 15:16
  notes
• 15:17
  against
• 15:17
  scope
• 15:17
  creep
• 15:17
  and
• 15:18
  rumination,
• 15:19
  and
• 15:19
  Fable
• 15:19
  5
• 15:20
  is
• 15:20
  the
• 15:20
  only
• 15:20
  model
• 15:20
  with
• 15:20
  an
• 15:21
  explicit
• 15:21
  autonomy
• 15:22
  mandate
• 15:22
  and
• 15:22
  a
• 15:22
  bespoke
• 15:23
  paragraph
• 15:23
  naming
• 15:24
  the
• 15:24
  Mythos-class
• 15:24
  tier
• 15:25
  and
• 15:25
  confirming
• 15:26
  that
• 15:26
  Fable
• 15:26
  and
• 15:26
  Mythos
• 15:27
  share
• 15:27
  the
• 15:27
  same
• 15:27
  underlying
• 15:28
  model
• 15:28
  .
• 15:29
  The
• 15:29
  author's
• 15:30
  summary
• 15:30
  —
• 15:31
  "Opus
• 15:31
  4.6
• 15:32
  got
• 15:33
  a
• 15:33
  rulebook.
• 15:34
  Opus
• 15:34
  4.8
• 15:35
  got
• 15:35
  a
• 15:35
  haiku
• 15:36
  and
• 15:36
  a
• 15:36
  docs
• 15:36
  page.
• 15:37
  Opus
• 15:38
  5
• 15:38
  got
• 15:38
  therapy
• 15:39
  notes.
• 15:40
  Fable
• 15:40
  got
• 15:40
  a
• 15:40
  mission
• 15:41
  statement"
• 15:41
  —
• 15:42
  is
• 15:42
  glib
• 15:42
  but
• 15:42
  earns
• 15:43
  it,
• 15:43
  and
• 15:43
  it
• 15:43
  squares
• 15:44
  with
• 15:44
  the
• 15:44
  earlier
• 15:44
  episode
• 15:45
  where
• 15:45
  a
• 15:45
  mid-April
• 15:46
  verbosity
• 15:46
  instruction
• 15:47
  quietly
• 15:47
  degraded
• 15:48
  coding
• 15:48
  quality
• 15:48
  before
• 15:49
  it
• 15:49
  was
• 15:49
  reverted.
• 15:52
  DuckDB
• 15:52
  v2.0,
• 15:54
  codenamed
• 15:55
  "Cyanoptera,"
• 15:56
  is
• 15:56
  the
• 15:56
  release
• 15:56
  where
• 15:56
  the
• 15:56
  embedded
• 15:57
  analytics
• 15:57
  database
• 15:58
  grows
• 15:58
  up
• 15:58
  into
• 15:58
  a
• 15:58
  server.
• 15:59
  Built
• 16:00
  from
• 16:00
  more
• 16:00
  than
• 16:00
  10,000
• 16:01
  commits,
• 16:01
  its
• 16:02
  headline
• 16:02
  is
• 16:02
  client/server
• 16:03
  mode
• 16:03
  over
• 16:03
  the
• 16:04
  native
• 16:04
  Quack
• 16:04
  protocol:
• 16:05
  any
• 16:05
  DuckDB
• 16:06
  process
• 16:07
  can
• 16:07
  serve
• 16:07
  databases
• 16:08
  over
• 16:08
  the
• 16:08
  network,
• 16:09
  a
• 16:09
  new
• 16:09
  CONNECT
• 16:10
  statement
• 16:10
  routes
• 16:10
  queries
• 16:11
  remotely,
• 16:12
  and
• 16:12
  a
• 16:12
  remote
• 16:12
  pushdown
• 16:13
  optimizer
• 16:13
  ships
• 16:13
  SQL
• 16:14
  straight
• 16:14
  to
• 16:14
  PostgreSQL
• 16:15
  and
• 16:15
  MySQL
• 16:16
  instead
• 16:16
  of
• 16:16
  dragging
• 16:16
  tables
• 16:17
  over
• 16:17
  the
• 16:17
  wire.
• 16:18
  The
• 16:18
  VARIANT
• 16:18
  type
• 16:19
  becomes
• 16:19
  first-class
• 16:19
  —
• 16:20
  "JSON
• 16:20
  on
• 16:21
  steroids"
• 16:21
  that
• 16:21
  auto-detects
• 16:22
  structure
• 16:23
  and
• 16:23
  shreds
• 16:23
  it
• 16:23
  for
• 16:23
  compression
• 16:23
  —
• 16:24
  triggers
• 16:25
  arrive
• 16:25
  in
• 16:25
  full,
• 16:26
  and
• 16:26
  asynchronous
• 16:27
  I/O
• 16:27
  now
• 16:27
  runs
• 16:28
  throughout
• 16:28
  the
• 16:28
  engine
• 16:28
  for
• 16:28
  much
• 16:29
  faster
• 16:29
  reads
• 16:29
  from
• 16:29
  object
• 16:30
  stores
• 16:30
  like
• 16:30
  S3.
• 16:31
  Under
• 16:31
  the
• 16:31
  hood
• 16:32
  the
• 16:32
  team
• 16:32
  ripped
• 16:32
  out
• 16:32
  the
• 16:32
  PostgreSQL-derived
• 16:33
  parser
• 16:34
  for
• 16:34
  a
• 16:34
  homegrown
• 16:34
  PEG-based
• 16:35
  one,
• 16:35
  removed
• 16:36
  the
• 16:36
  ICU
• 16:36
  library
• 16:37
  entirely
• 16:37
  (reimplementing
• 16:38
  timezones
• 16:39
  and
• 16:39
  collations
• 16:39
  from
• 16:39
  IANA
• 16:40
  data
• 16:40
  compressed
• 16:40
  to
• 16:40
  about
• 16:41
  45
• 16:41
  kB),
• 16:42
  and
• 16:42
  rewrote
• 16:43
  the
• 16:43
  recursive
• 16:43
  CTE
• 16:44
  engine
• 16:44
  to
• 16:44
  run
• 16:44
  a
• 16:44
  graph-reachability
• 16:45
  microbenchmark
• 16:46
  roughly
• 16:46
  40
• 16:46
  times
• 16:47
  faster
• 16:47
  .
• 16:48
  The
• 16:48
  breaking
• 16:48
  changes,
• 16:49
  a
• 16:49
  new
• 16:49
  default
• 16:50
  storage
• 16:50
  format
• 16:50
  among
• 16:51
  them,
• 16:51
  are
• 16:51
  the
• 16:51
  cost
• 16:51
  of
• 16:52
  the
• 16:52
  "year
• 16:52
  of
• 16:52
  DuckDB
• 16:53
  as
• 16:53
  a
• 16:53
  server."
• 16:54
  The
• 16:54
  rest
• 16:54
  of
• 16:55
  this
• 16:55
  section
• 16:55
  is
• 16:55
  a
• 16:55
  reminder
• 16:56
  that
• 16:56
  infrastructure
• 16:56
  and
• 16:57
  hobby
• 16:57
  hacking
• 16:57
  still
• 16:57
  overlap.
• 16:58
  Reticulum
• 16:59
  is
• 16:59
  a
• 16:59
  cryptography-first
• 17:00
  networking
• 17:00
  stack
• 17:01
  whose
• 17:01
  design
• 17:01
  choices
• 17:02
  read
• 17:02
  like
• 17:02
  a
• 17:02
  threat
• 17:02
  model
• 17:03
  turned
• 17:03
  into
• 17:03
  a
• 17:03
  protocol:
• 17:04
  no
• 17:05
  source
• 17:05
  addresses
• 17:05
  in
• 17:05
  any
• 17:06
  packet,
• 17:06
  no
• 17:06
  central
• 17:07
  control
• 17:07
  of
• 17:07
  the
• 17:07
  address
• 17:08
  space,
• 17:09
  ephemeral
• 17:09
  keys
• 17:09
  with
• 17:09
  forward
• 17:10
  secrecy
• 17:10
  by
• 17:10
  default,
• 17:11
  and
• 17:11
  a
• 17:11
  hard
• 17:12
  rule
• 17:12
  that
• 17:12
  unencrypted
• 17:13
  packets
• 17:13
  are
• 17:13
  simply
• 17:14
  dropped
• 17:14
  as
• 17:14
  invalid
• 17:14
  .
• 17:15
  It
• 17:15
  is
• 17:15
  the
• 17:16
  sovereignty-and-off-grid
• 17:17
  mesh
• 17:17
  story,
• 17:18
  now
• 17:18
  emphasizing
• 17:18
  anonymity
• 17:19
  at
• 17:19
  the
• 17:19
  packet
• 17:19
  layer.
• 17:20
  On
• 17:21
  the
• 17:21
  friendlier
• 17:21
  end,
• 17:22
  nurb
• 17:22
  gives
• 17:22
  the
• 17:22
  AI
• 17:23
  you
• 17:23
  already
• 17:23
  talk
• 17:23
  to
• 17:23
  a
• 17:23
  real
• 17:24
  CAD
• 17:24
  kernel
• 17:24
  —
• 17:25
  describe
• 17:25
  a
• 17:25
  shop-vac-to-table-saw
• 17:26
  adapter
• 17:27
  and
• 17:27
  watch
• 17:28
  it
• 17:28
  take
• 17:28
  shape,
• 17:29
  with
• 17:29
  the
• 17:29
  nice
• 17:29
  touch
• 17:30
  that
• 17:30
  it
• 17:30
  asks
• 17:30
  for
• 17:30
  a
• 17:30
  real
• 17:31
  measurement
• 17:31
  instead
• 17:31
  of
• 17:31
  inventing
• 17:32
  one
• 17:32
  and
• 17:32
  runs
• 17:32
  physics
• 17:33
  and
• 17:33
  printability
• 17:33
  checks
• 17:34
  before
• 17:34
  nine
• 17:35
  hours
• 17:35
  of
• 17:35
  filament
• 17:35
  are
• 17:35
  committed
• 17:36
  .
• 17:37
  And
• 17:37
  for
• 17:37
  pure
• 17:37
  "because
• 17:37
  I
• 17:38
  could"
• 17:38
  energy,
• 17:38
  a
• 17:38
  hacker
• 17:39
  stored
• 17:39
  an
• 17:39
  entire
• 17:40
  song
• 17:40
  on
• 17:40
  a
• 17:40
  sheet
• 17:40
  of
• 17:40
  paper
• 17:41
  and
• 17:41
  streamed
• 17:41
  it
• 17:41
  over
• 17:42
  LoRa,
• 17:42
  using
• 17:43
  the
• 17:43
  EnCodec
• 17:43
  neural
• 17:44
  codec
• 17:44
  to
• 17:44
  crush
• 17:44
  a
• 17:44
  2.9
• 17:45
  MB
• 17:46
  MP3
• 17:46
  down
• 17:46
  to
• 17:46
  21.44
• 17:47
  kB
• 17:47
  —
• 17:49
  small
• 17:49
  enough
• 17:49
  to
• 17:49
  split
• 17:50
  across
• 17:50
  eight
• 17:50
  QR
• 17:50
  codes
• 17:51
  on
• 17:51
  the
• 17:51
  front
• 17:51
  and
• 17:51
  back
• 17:51
  of
• 17:51
  one
• 17:52
  page,
• 17:52
  proving
• 17:53
  again
• 17:53
  that
• 17:53
  one
• 17:53
  person's
• 17:54
  "unsuitable
• 17:54
  for
• 17:54
  audio"
• 17:55
  is
• 17:55
  another's
• 17:55
  challenge
• 17:56
  accepted
• 17:56
  .