so openai failed and they're sorry. plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.


gigo my amigo

applied ml, data science, all is data janitoring, always has been. priors are the trashcans, you sweep up the floor

only diamonds are forever

long running agents can't work in highly entropic environments.

in real life observability is baked in by default. we mostly know what to clean up. can't remember last time somebody disagreed about the ontological concept of dirt (mind you the philosophy is there, douglas 1992 says matter out of place)

complex dynamical virtual systems can't see and don't know what dirt is. that's why janitors of such systems get highly paid. define dirt, endow systems with sensors, clean up. make the system operate for the long term.

Toni Kukurin on Twitter / X
missing step (c) figure out how to properly model the inevitable emergent phenomena (artist formerly known as reward hacking). everything is a tradeoff etc. pic.twitter.com/VqyDeMZClm— Toni Kukurin (@tkukurin) July 30, 2026
https://x.com/tkukurin/status/2082707686777393358

not sure who does hiring for openai's cleaning staff

seems to need cleaning.


tragicomedy follows around, catharsis is tbd.