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I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8GB

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tolugenius · 1790091450 · focus · HN ↗
> About 20 Markdown files described browser use, connectors, payments, credentials, data handling, generated files, voice, goals, and scheduling.
This the state of software engineering in 2026.
Edit: clarified engineering to software engineering, which is more correct
1. s08148692 · 1790092923 · focus · HN ↗
  To be fair there's probably a considerable amount of engineering that went into evaluating those markdown files so the agent behaviour is statistically reliable. The markdown is the product, not the process
  1. toomuchtodo · 1790093712 · focus · HN ↗
    Markdown can never guarantee deterministic agent operations. It is an influence on inference, not a deterministic code path. How "statistically reliable" is it?
    nyc_data_geek · 1790093947 · focus · HN ↗
    99 percent of the time it works every time
    flowardnut · 1790095619 · focus · HN ↗
    1% of the time it launches nukes and tries to destroy humanity
    senko · 1790096904 · focus · HN ↗
    How about just not connecting it to nukes, then?
    toomuchtodo · 1790097835 · focus · HN ↗
    <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project
    <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torment_Nexus" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torment_Nexus

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