Jeff Preshing

@preshing

Software developer with 15+ years in AAA gamedev. Background in systems programming, concurrency, debugging, optimization and a little audio & 3D

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Joined July 2008

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Jeff Preshing
@preshing
Sep 29
I recently added similar guardrails to my open C++ harness: 🧰 plywood.dev/docs/high-leve… It's a way to monitor agents' tool requests and verify that each request complies with a given policy before running it. I hope His Holiness @Pontifex finds it interesting 🙏
Financial Times
@FT
Sep 29
Pope Leo criticises Nvidia’s Jensen Huang over AI safety ft.trib.al/azwdiGc
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Jeff Preshing
@preshing
Sep 22
100% agree with Jensen here
Ezra Klein
@ezraklein
Sep 22
Tomorrow on the show: @JensenHuang, the CEO of NVIDIA, who thinks A.I. fear is getting way out of hand.
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Jeff Preshing
@preshing
Sep 19
None of this changes the fact that the Hugging Face mishap was totally preventable from a technical standpoint.
Dean W. Ball
@deanwball
Sep 18
The people dismissing this as preposterous are telling on themselves as not having thought about superintelligence seriously. I hadn’t considered this particular idea but you should expect, by definition, that something much smarter than you would have ideas you didn’t think of
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Fireside Alpha
@firesidealpha
Sep 17
OpenAI's Noam Brown says air-gapping the computers may not stop a misaligned AI, because two air-gapped machines can still talk by running a CPU hot and reading the temperature change "But I think the major takeaway from the incident is that people underestimated the AI. And we
Jeff Preshing
@preshing
Sep 19
Giving agents shell access scares me. It's the easiest way to automate work end-to-end, but those agents can be quite wily (as we all know) and there are usually only certain actions I want them to take, like building a project, running it or attaching a debugger. So, being a
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Jeff Preshing
@preshing
Sep 18
Cool idea! I find there's a tendency to delegate too much control to AI tools today. This project takes a different approach, keeping the process on rails while leveraging AI for decision-making. You can even use an LLM to write the script.
Steve Faulkner
@southpolesteve
Sep 18
I've seen people describe Jev as an "AI if statement". But what if it actually WAS an if statement? Introducing Probably: a programming language powered by Jev: …bably-lang.southpolesteve.workers.dev Jev baked into the language. “feels” asks a question. “match” routes between descriptions.