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shako @shakoistsLog · 22h
even in the era of AI software, people still think software is a thing that you build once then use forever, rather than the maintaining cost being much greater than the initial working version.

I build some great agent scaffolds 6 months ago. it would "just" take me 2-3 hours a month to upkeep it. I don't have time!!!!
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Tweet from @shakoistsLog making the point that even in the AI era, software maintenance cost outweighs initial build cost, citing agent scaffolds built 6 months earlier that would only need 2-3 hours/month upkeep but which the author has no time for.

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shako @shakoistsLog · 12h
could you just.... like.... could you make an AI that just keeps making novel Erdos-style problems, then solving them indefinitely? Like... how deep is the well of mathematics?

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rohit @krishnanrohit · 12h
I hope AI can actually create more Erdos problems by 2028 x.com/sir_lemmings/s...

10 replies, 1 repost, 98 likes, 4.6K views

Shannon Sa... @max_papercl... · 10h
adversarial training, but it's just a pair of agents where 1 is creating Erdos problems & the other is solving them
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Tweet from shako (@shakoistsLog) musing whether an AI could generate and solve novel Erdos-style math problems indefinitely, quote-tweeting rohit (@krishnanrohit) hoping AI creates more Erdos problems by 2028, with a reply from Shannon Sa... (@max_papercl...) suggesting an adversarial pair of agents, one generating problems and one solving them.

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shako @shakoistsLog · 3h
agents are godlike at math, but can't update an invoice for a customer without fucking it up.

what does this tell us about reality? about humans?
[26 replies, 4 reposts, 199 likes, 7.9K views]

Tenobrus @tenobrus · 3h
imo something like..... general intelligence is very real and very powerful, but 1. domain specific intuition can get you *incredibly* far and 2. even very powerful general intelligence can be blocked by inherent lack of basic training and expertise in a domain
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Sharmake Farah reposted
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imo a lot of what we think of as general intelligence is *capability to learn and acquire new skills*, and models do this exclusively ~offline or in context. if we had continual learning / ways to train intuition on the fly across multiple tasks invoices would look v different
11:12 AM · Aug 1, 2026 · 508 Views
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Twitter thread discussing why AI agents can be extremely capable at formal domains like math while failing at mundane tasks like invoice updates, with replies proposing that general intelligence is real but bottlenecked by lack of continual/on-the-fly learning and domain-specific intuition.

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roon reposted shako ✔️ @shakoistsLog · 5h "I think we need to pause AI. Not for AI risk reasons. I just feel bad for my friends at the labs, they all seem sad and burned out. We should give them a vacation without screens. Maybe on a bucolic resort."
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shako @shakoistsLog · 12h "Do not listen to the market Donald. This is necessary. It is simply the globalists selling. Canada will pay for their treachery. Trudeau caused the selloff. We do not trust the Canadians. They conspire against us" [image: still from Lord of the Rings — Gríma Wormtongue whispering into the ear of King Théoden, who is bowed/aged under Saruman's influence, styled as a meme comparing a Trump advisor whispering trade-war conspiracy talk to Trump]
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A political meme satirizing Trump-era trade war rhetoric (tariffs/market selloff blamed on Canada/Trudeau) using the Wormtongue-and-Théoden image as a stand-in for a manipulative advisor. General political/current-events content, not AI-related.

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