If the work stood a good chance of leading to AGI, I suspect you wouldn't have to pay the researchers anything like these amounts (cf most scientists doing fundamental research in academia)

The prospect of being a part of that kind of groundbreaking research would be incentive enough.

My guess is the reason they have to pay top researchers such vast amounts of work on LLMs is that they all know the path to AGI lies elsewhere.

Top researchers would prefer to be working in areas that might lead towards AGI, not the dead-end that is LLMs.

So they have to paid extra to compensate.

"I like how [Claude 3.7 Sonnet] solved the problem of pelicans not fitting on bicycles by adding a second smaller bicycle to the stack."

This is a great metaphor for the sort of thing Claude will often do when attempting to fix problems in code it has written...

Yes, the plug/socket components can be used completely independently of the brick geometry.

diarmidmackenzie.github.io/aframe-compo...

So they could be used with any 3D model you like.

I don't have any sloping/curved bricks either yet, but that might not be too hard to add.

Snappable flags and flagpoles might also be do-able.

Did I miss anything else from the picture?

Things that would be hard:
- minifigures
- bricks with holes in
- physics integration

Things that are easy:
- different sizes of brick / plate, that already exists.
- placement of bricks with controllers, including snapping into place.

Happy to help if you want some help building something here.

A very helpful set of links!

Particularly enjoyed this discussion with Bob Martin about the issues that arise when applying "Clean Code" principles without some level of restraint.
github.com/johnousterho...

For clarity, it's not that Cline/Roo fill up the LLM context window any faster than other agentic coding tools like Cursor or Windsurf.

The difference is that Cline and Roo are transparent about how much of the context window they are using, while other tools are opaque.

I asked ChatGPT to estimate the resulting CO2 emissions from these 1T tokens.

It came up with a figure of 57,000 tonnes of CO2, which is the same as the emissions from 253 round-trip transatlantic flights of a full Boeing 747.

@annecurrie.bsky.social

Very nice.

I tried to do something similar on a pancake screen a while back, using head tracking...

diarmidmackenzie.github.io/aframe-compo...