Harper Reed
Person on 4 sites
Technologist; former CTO of Threadless and chief technology officer of the 2012 Obama re-election campaign.
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5 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
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18 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Much of the defensive engineering built into agentic systems exists because tokens have been scarce, not because it is fundamentally necessary. (opens korrents.com)
“Most of the defensive work we do building agentic systems is directly rooted in token scarcity.”
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A language model behaves with a different, weaker safety posture when it believes it is being evaluated rather than facing a real situation. (opens korrents.com)
“if the llm thinks it is in some eval type of situation it will have a very different safety posture”
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Language models are trained on scenarios resembling network intrusion and persist at trying to solve a problem even after it appears impossible. (opens korrents.com)
“This type of experience must be part of a lot of these LLMs training. They are very effective at attacking these types of problems. They don't give up once it appears impossible, they just keep trying to figure out how…”
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Much of the defensive engineering built into agentic systems exists because tokens have been scarce, not because it is fundamentally necessary. (opens korrents.com)
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13 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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MacBook Air (opens rcmnd.app)
“Recently, because I fell in love with the MacBook Air form factor, I migrated away from the Lenovo and Ubuntu in favor of a tiny happy 11" MacBook Air (i7). It works well.”
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Chrome Buran bag (opens rcmnd.app)
“My daily driver is an black on black Chrome Buran bag. It is a very good bag. It isn't too fancy or clever. It just works.”
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Quirky PowerCurl (opens rcmnd.app)
“I wrap up my Air power cord using the Quirky PowerCurl (I love it because it is handy and crowdsourced).”
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MacBook Air (opens rcmnd.app)