Comment by taurath
10 hours ago
The moment code gets written and read back, the decisions made are often treated as gospel by frontier LLMs, even if it was just something that the LLM optimistically created itself. This seems to be one of the core alignment problems to me. See also: Gastown, the agent management project that could only end up working on Gastown, unceremoniously and quietly set aside.
> Gastown, the agent management project that could only end up working on Gastown, unceremoniously and quietly set aside.
I was ignoring that, but it did seem somewhat intentional by the human running it? There's a lot of "I'm going to use AI to make a better AI-using machine" projects about that aren't really focused on wider application.
Yup and this propagates those clumsy if this_new_code_branch: actual_code_that_matters else: old_legacy_code_that_should_not_be_there
> This seems to be one of the core alignment problems to me. See also: Gastown, the agent management project that could only end up working on Gastown, unceremoniously and quietly set aside.
I did not know this! Any link to an announcement or autopsy of sorts (even if not by the initiator of that project)?
I mean, it was pretty expensive, wasn't it? A few tens of thousands of dollars, IIRC?