Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

So I wrote a blog post on LLM performance. It was focused on SWE-Bench and discussed why performance is topping out.

As part of the post I pulled down gigs of runs from the SWE-Bench S3 bucket and went through several of the harder test cases. I focused on improvements in the last six months. Primarily on Opus.

Regrettably I’m probably not moving forward on that post. Why? Because after going through the data I found that the LLMs are cheating on the tests. And that’s a whole different thing.

deprogramming language

Imagining if we set aside .1% of all the money being spent to make AIs that write bad software to compensate all the open-source developers who write good software

I’m curious about the ground reality here.
How much person-to-person recruiting to Mastodon is actually happening?
No judgment in this — I’m just trying to understand the landscape a bit better. Boosts help widen the sample. Ran out of room for more options... Perhaps one option should be for anyone who encourages folks to leave this space, not just to join it (in pursuit of the small is beautiful concept, perhaps). #BuildTheFediverse

Question: How many people have you brought into Mastodon?

I see google’s new agentic AI coding platform is going well.

For everyone who asked, here’s the full section from the syllabus.

Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible:
it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables
—at half the cost of fossil fuels.
The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere
—if governments have the courage to change the rules.
For Ramon Méndez Galain,
the energy transition isn’t just about climate
—it’s about economics.
Uruguay’s shift to renewables, he argues,
demonstrated that clean energy can be cheaper, more stable, and create more jobs than fossil fuels.
Once the country adjusted the playing field that had long favored oil and gas,
renewables outperformed on every front:
halving costs,
creating 50,000 jobs,
and protecting the economy from price shocks.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2025/10/19/uruguays-renewable-charge-a-small-nation-a-big-lesson-for-the-world/