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shako @shakoistsLog

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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?
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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
Tenobrus @tenobrus
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
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

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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Fiora Starlight @FioraStarlight

— reposted by janus (j⧉nus); reply to @FioraStarlight and @repligate

[repost by] j⧉nus reposted Fiora Starlight (@FioraStarlight) · 9h Replying to @FioraStarlight and @repligate she also says that she was generally shocked at how incompetent the SWEs she was tutoring were at working with Claude. they apparently tended to simultaneously expect way too much and way too little of Claude. way too much in the sense of like, writing a few sentences rather than a few paragraphs, when specifying what they actually wanted done, to the point where Claude clearly had too little information to work with. but way to little in the sense of like, asking *her* (the person i'm paraphrasing) how to do some weird thing with git, instead of asking Claude. like they didn't understand that you can just interface with Claude as a general intelligence. so like, simultaneously expecting magic in terms of Claude getting the technical thing done, and expecting basically nothing from Claude as a mind you can just interface with the way you'd interface with any other general intelligence.
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

A thread from the janus/repligate AI-Twitter cluster (janus is a well-known figure in Claude character/persona research) about software engineers under-specifying prompts to Claude while also under-using Claude's general reasoning capability (e.g. asking a human tutor git questions instead of Claude). Echoes the "coworker not autocomplete" reframe already in the archive's model-individuation notes.

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