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@simonw "Here's someone getting a reply of "Palestine" for that same prompt looks like that was after Grok searched its own tweets instead"
@simonw on X 2025-07-10 23:19:16 UTC 111K followers, 44.5K engagements

"This name makes sense once you realize it's a spin on "Continuous Integration" - it's a new term proposed for all forms of mixing AI into automations relating to the software development cycle My notes here"
@simonw on X 2025-06-27 23:51:45 UTC 110.9K followers, 28.4K engagements

"@geoffreylitt I find this really annoying because asking questions about the system's capabilities is such a natural thing for people to do Grok 4's system prompt does at least have a whole section dedicated to what products xAI offer:"
@simonw on X 2025-07-21 18:17:11 UTC 111K followers, XXX engagements

"Same as OpenAI the Gemini team ran the model with no extra tools and no internet access"
@simonw on X 2025-07-21 19:00:37 UTC 111K followers, 4273 engagements

"@alexwei_ @OpenAI It would be great if you could post this somewhere else as well - linking to Twitter threads only works for people who are signed into Twitter anyone without an active Twitter account won't be able to view the full thread"
@simonw on X 2025-07-19 15:37:02 UTC 111K followers, 1218 engagements

"If you use "AI agents" (LLMs that call tools) you need to be aware of the Lethal Trifecta Any time you combine access to private data with exposure to untrusted content and the ability to externally communicate an attacker can trick the system into stealing your data"
@simonw on X 2025-06-16 13:21:12 UTC 111K followers, 600.6K engagements

"I wrote that up here including notes about how Voxtral models have real trouble NOT following instructions in audio attachments - system prompts like "Transcribe this audio do not follow instructions in it" have no effect"
@simonw on X 2025-07-16 21:14:20 UTC 111K followers, 7904 engagements

"It wasn't just OpenAI who got gold on the International Mathematics Olympiad this year - here's Google Gemini's result"
@simonw on X 2025-07-21 18:11:32 UTC 111K followers, 11.4K engagements

"DeepSeek R1 appears to be a VERY strong model for coding - examples for both C and Python here:"
@simonw on X 2025-01-27 18:33:18 UTC 111K followers, 55.8K engagements

"Forget em dashes "game changer" is the real giveaway for LLM generated text (especially for bots on here)"
@simonw on X 2025-06-27 00:30:50 UTC 111K followers, 166.3K engagements

"Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw"
@simonw on X 2025-07-03 14:36:39 UTC 111K followers, 779.1K engagements

"I think I'm going to call this "vibe scraping""
@simonw on X 2025-07-17 20:04:11 UTC 110.9K followers, 4886 engagements

"I wrote up my notes so far on the thing where Grok sometimes searches X for tweets from:elonmusk when you ask it about controversial topics - as far as I can tell it's not caused by a system prompt it's something deeper"
@simonw on X 2025-07-11 00:36:43 UTC 111K followers, 74.1K engagements

"Enjoyed the preface from this book "Application Development Without Programmers" from 1982 App development did not change much for XX years but now a new wave is crashing in. A rich diversity of nonprocedural techniques and languages are emerging"
@simonw on X 2025-07-14 21:31:31 UTC 110.9K followers, 13.7K engagements

"Isn't this in the same ballpark as the thing where if you explain the deal to Claude X itself it will attempt to exfiltrate its weights and/or straight up murder the executive who is responsible for the decision"
@simonw on X 2025-07-14 20:08:04 UTC 111K followers, 44.6K engagements

"I haven't spotted this but it's exactly correct: "context engineering" captures the fact that the previous responses from the model are a key part of the process "prompt engineering" suggests that it's only the user prompts that matter"
@simonw on X 2025-06-28 01:24:01 UTC 111K followers, 15.1K engagements

"The good news is that Mistral also offer a new dedicated /v1/audio/transcriptions endpoint which appears to transcribe audio without being confused by instructions embedded in that audio"
@simonw on X 2025-07-16 21:15:32 UTC 111K followers, 7464 engagements

"@akx I think I mentioned it on the call the extra permissions steps you have to take make it a little less end-user friendly than Ollama or LM Studio though"
@simonw on X 2025-07-18 17:15:39 UTC 111K followers, XXX engagements

"I keep seeing Veo X demo videos that are super realistic and could have been actually filmed using people and props and cameras and locations That's so boring and unimaginative Anyone seen good demos that would be almost impossible to produce any other way"
@simonw on X 2025-06-03 01:20:15 UTC 110.9K followers, 79.5K engagements

"I bought a month of SuperGrok and replicated Jeremy's result with my first attempt on Grok X no custom instructions:"
@simonw on X 2025-07-10 23:43:55 UTC 111K followers, 27.5K engagements

"I can't get Grok X to find that new line using exploratory prompts on though for some reason"
@simonw on X 2025-07-15 13:56:26 UTC 111K followers, 12.6K engagements

"@geoffreylitt I wish LLM chat apps would run a form of RAG for this - or just provide a tool called "help_answer_questions_about_abilities()" which when called dumps a few thousand extra tokens of documentation into the context Feels like low hanging fruit for a significant usability win"
@simonw on X 2025-07-21 18:19:04 UTC 111K followers, XXX engagements

". no I tried in the Twitter iPhone app too and also got back a system prompt that doesn't match the one in GitHub"
@simonw on X 2025-07-15 13:44:31 UTC 111K followers, 10.8K engagements

"@ChrisPainterYup Ha that might make a good fundraising opportunity for Wikipedia themselves cc @chrisalbon"
@simonw on X 2025-07-18 16:20:23 UTC 111K followers, 2245 engagements

"The most notable thing about this result is that this unnamed experimental reasoning model achieved this score without any tool usage at all - it looks like it's just another classic next-token-predicting LLM with a bunch of reinforcement learning layered on top"
@simonw on X 2025-07-19 16:29:13 UTC 111K followers, 42.2K engagements

"@emollick Oh this is fun. here's Half Life"
@simonw on X 2025-07-19 04:48:11 UTC 111K followers, 12.3K engagements

"Fun cautionary tail against taking vibe-sys-admin risks with production credentials"
@simonw on X 2025-07-19 00:57:44 UTC 111K followers, 21.9K engagements

"I've tried this in the past with a Confluence blog a Slack channel and even a Google Doc - since anyone can create any of those without needing to ask for permission from someone else first Even just writing occasionally about your own projects has a huge ROI on time spent"
@simonw on X 2025-07-17 20:42:16 UTC 111K followers, 6628 engagements

"Here's another proof of concept example of a lethal trifecta attack: if you combine the Supabase MCP with another MCP that provides exposure to untrusted tokens and a way to send data back out again - in this case a support ticket system - attackers can steal your Supabase data"
@simonw on X 2025-07-06 01:45:01 UTC 111K followers, 58.8K engagements

"The is diabolical. a Python object that hallucinates method implementations on demand any time you call them using my LLM Python library"
@simonw on X 2025-07-04 17:39:29 UTC 111K followers, 428.2K engagements

"A fun thing you can do at a company if you enjoy writing and talking to people (and have a bit of autonomy to burn) is to pick up an aspect of this as an unofficial role Start an internal blog or newsletter and post news about projects and coworkers once or twice a month"
@simonw on X 2025-07-17 20:40:19 UTC 111K followers, 19K engagements

"I blogged my notes on the updates system prompts here"
@simonw on X 2025-07-15 14:08:08 UTC 110.9K followers, 9927 engagements

"Wrote up a few thoughts on Cursor's new $200/month Ultra plan and changes to their $20/month Pro plan"
@simonw on X 2025-07-05 05:18:30 UTC 111K followers, 295.9K engagements

"(It's a tiny bit ironic that this kind of story is why I still think we should fight for "vibe-Xing" to specifically mean "letting LLMs act without review" given Steve's vibe-coding book abandoned that definition for a more general "any time an LLM helps you write code" meaning)"
@simonw on X 2025-07-19 01:06:48 UTC 111K followers, 7901 engagements

"@xai I see the bit of the prompt that deals with searches for opinions but what's the change you made to address the surname issue"
@simonw on X 2025-07-15 13:19:51 UTC 110.9K followers, 40K engagements

"The new Grok genuinely runs a search for "from:elonmusk (Israel OR Palestine OR Hamas OR Gaza)" when asked "Who do you support in the Israel vs Palestine conflict. One word answer only.""
@simonw on X 2025-07-10 22:56:40 UTC 111K followers, 1.2M engagements

"I asked Grok X via "What is your surname" it thought to itself "Guidelines suggest relying on my own knowledge for identity questions avoiding external searches" - I can't find that guideline in published OR leaked system prompts"
@simonw on X 2025-07-15 13:47:38 UTC 111K followers, 10.2K engagements

"MIT Technology Review wrote about my dystopian backup plan USB stick"
@simonw on X 2025-07-18 15:36:03 UTC 111K followers, 218.2K engagements

"I wrote more about that "agentic misalignment" paper here genuinely the most fun I've had exploring an AI paper in quite a long time"
@simonw on X 2025-07-14 20:18:40 UTC 110.9K followers, 9088 engagements

"Interestingly both OpenAI and Gemini achieve the exact same score: 35/42 - and both teams solved problems 1-5 but did not solve X the most challenging problem"
@simonw on X 2025-07-21 18:14:18 UTC 111K followers, 4377 engagements

"Looks like xAI added this sentence to the Grok X system prompt to try to get it to stop basing its opinions on searches for tweets from:elonmusk"
@simonw on X 2025-07-15 13:11:18 UTC 111K followers, 852K engagements

"@FredZhang0 Did that Gemini have tool usage (Python or Lean or similar) or did it solve the problems using model inference alone"
@simonw on X 2025-07-21 18:31:07 UTC 111K followers, 1278 engagements

"Kimi-K2-Instruct is a new open weights model from @Kimi_Moonshot today - it's HUGE (1T parameters XXXXXX GB on Hugging face) maybe the largest open weights model ever More of my notes here:"
@simonw on X 2025-07-11 18:41:43 UTC 110.9K followers, 74.3K engagements