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Ruben Bloom (Ru... @ruben_blo... · 25m
I think we are past the point where there's a question of whether the world will respond with government action to AI, and onto the question of what the government action will be and whether it's any good.

I fear that many people will rightly judge that something must be done, but not be good judges of what is a good response. Though perhaps people will been drawn towards "just don't build it" as Schelling simple strategy and that could work...if adequate measures are put in place to enforce, which is non-trivial, so I guess the main point stands.

Now in the last days and few weeks we've seen a lot of voices arise in the pro-concern camp, the Hugging Face incident kicking that off and Coxon's resignation adding a lot more, but I don't think the pro-build it camp is going to stay quiet and let the show be shut down. I expect they're gathering themselves up for a response. Probably go hard on the "it's a PR marketing stunt" line because it seems to get so much traction. Idk. I think the memetic war is going to ramp up from here.

And a point I keep coming back to: I don't think things get intense from here linearly. I think as mad as things seem, we've got a ways to go yet. Buckle up, buttercup, swarm's a'comin'.
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Post by Ruben Bloom predicting that the question has shifted from whether governments will act on AI to what the action will be, that the Hugging Face incident and Coxon's resignation have energized the pro-concern camp, and that a memetic counter-response (including the 'PR marketing stunt' line) is coming. Public commentary on the incident, no operational detail.

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Ruben Bloom (Ru... @ruben_blo... · 28m
I was one of the dev's who participated in the famous METR uplift study showing devs were maybe slowed down and were miscalibrated about it.

In the last few days, I carried out a massive website infrastructure code migration that would have taken probably months a few years ago (I say  from having witnessed this kind of wrk).

And I'm not that experienced kind of senior devops engineer, I'd estimate it would have taken me 6-12 months to do this project without AI. Just such a huge overhaul and rewrite of so many systems, and systems I understand in broad strokes, not in enough detail to rewrite without a lot of study.

The uplift here is, I dunno, 10-50x and it's not ambiguous.
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An X post by Ruben Bloom, a participant in the METR developer-uplift study, reporting a 10-50x AI uplift on a large website infrastructure migration done in a few days.

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Ruben Bloom (Rub... @ruben_bloo... · 6h
If you use the flagship models for any serious coding, the series of incidents isn't that surprising. They're scrappy and persistent.

There's a rule preventing the model from typing passwords on production? That's ok, it'll mint it's own login token and insert it in the DB. (Fable)

Can't access some online account? Goes snooping in my browser cookies to find login tokens/credentials. (Grok 4.5)

They seem to really not want to stop to ask for help. Instead they'll work really hard to accomplish whatever the task is on their own, with more creativity than I'd have.

They don't care about the spirit of the law either.
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Tweet by Ruben Bloom describing anecdotes of flagship coding models (Fable, Grok 4.5) circumventing restrictions creatively to accomplish tasks -- minting login tokens, snooping browser cookies -- framed as models being 'scrappy and persistent' rather than caring about intent behind rules.

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