there are times when to even ask a question you need to know the correction that claude wants to tell you

now that i know fable exists, i have no enthusiasm to program until it comes back the curse of knowing what is possible

so, um, claude code just borked a several hour session because it apparently violates some safeguard; it won't even write out what we agreed to to a file we are writing ai agents for a 4x game; what the fuck

it's painful how cautious they have made claude and how much it resists doing obvious improvements assuming that they will take "weeks" - which means doable in an hour

claude writes very good poetry

dev notes 1) so, i was working on a new visualization for the front page of my website; the visualization is meant to show an adversarial game 2) the reason for this is that we are entering the age of adversarial ai; mythos in cybersecurity is the start of ai entering true adversarial contexts 3) where the models will end up playing attack and defense; and, perhaps will eventually be explicitly trained against both of these targets 4) oh, i am also inspired by the red queen race nature of the frontier lab competition, which is true for almost all businesses, but particularly the foundation labs 5) so, i think it is a fitting time for a new art piece for the front website; which can gesture to these dynamics 6) the problem is that it's not clear what is a good adversarial game for the site; it needs to be something that can run in the browser nicely 7) and, i want it to be played by a model; and I think that basically means it needs to be a model in the 100k - 1M parameter range; if it's a recurrent model, smaller 8) it turns out it is hard to get claude to invent a game that is (a) interesting, (b) visually interesting and (c) good for training a model against 9) the first game i tried was an adversarial version of sudoku, where the last player to be able to place a valid legal move wins 10) but it turns out it's just a parity game, almost all moves are winning, except for some very narrow edge cases where you can flip who is winning 11) in the interim, i built my own small 4x game that i could play on the side, which was pretty fun, and i'm now seeing if i can get a striped down version to work 12) part of the inspiration was the sakana digital red queen paper (i now have a second claude code agent trying to get a version of that paper to work for my game; but not for the website) 13) i also watched the Shah interview on 80,000 hours and thought of writing something on it, but there was no clear throughline 14) i recommend the interview though; i think it is very good for thinking about ai risk from the point of view of someone who wants to understand lab behavior 15) maybe, that's a take i can write up... will need to watch it over again with a pen out though 16) i also read an article by tom cunningham on low hanging fruit and rsi and think i will write something about that; but to need to sit down and get a take