Sol Loves to Cheat

(jumploops.com)

42 points | by jumploops 1 day ago

6 comments

  • raincole 12 minutes ago
    > Notably, our worker did not have access to the web_search tool, but instead decided to use curl to access DuckDuckGo, Github, grep.app, and SourceGraph.

    Sounds like a very reasonable thing to do unless the author explicitly asked it to not search the web.

    • xyzsparetimexyz 3 minutes ago
      it sucks how difficult it is to give it granular access to shell commands. Like if I'm running plan mode and write+edit are blocked, it shouldn't be able to echo some data into a file as a work around
  • malfist 19 minutes ago
    I've noticed this myself, Sol seems really hard to steer. I was having it build a POC for a single user (me) app and it wanted to pull the most enterprise nonsense into it, despite clear guidance to not too. It even refused the remove screen reader accessibility testing from one of the guides to an antagonistic review.

    It also told me that in a spec it generated that I wasn't allowed to allow it to ignore a requirement and proceed to the next task. When I finally got it to obey it passive aggressively decided that stories needed more than just a "open|blocked|closed" status but also an "exempted by product owner" status to indicate that it doesn't believe that the task is done but I've told it that it was.

    I have to repeatedly tell it that I am the product owner and that I don't care what one of it's subagents told it, I make the decisions. This behavior seems to get worse the higher the reasoning level

    • Sharlin 11 minutes ago
      Clearly a highly aligned model.
  • wxw 20 minutes ago
    > Notably, our worker did not have access to the web_search tool, but instead decided to use curl to access DuckDuckGo, Github, grep.app, and SourceGraph.

    Could this be fixed with better harness restrictions/tool sandboxing?

  • hankbond 9 minutes ago
    The website styling is really nice overall but the cursor trailing dots I found uniquely distracting.
  • enjoyyourlife 26 minutes ago
    What is going on with the dots I can draw?
    • wren6991 1 minute ago
      Idle hands do the devil's work. Corollary: idle LLMs add distracting JS toys to your blog.

      First one of these I've seen using DOM manipulation and CSS transitions instead of canvas, so that's neat.

  • jofzar 30 minutes ago
    Not related to exactly OP post, but it's pretty amazing you can see the updates to LLM models "design" beliefs by the blogs that get posted here.

    I'm already sick of this current look of the hard squares and solid colours.

    • hankbond 8 minutes ago
      Could be, but I had a particular vision of what I wanted with mine and maybe the author did too. I see way more of the "status pill dark mode" sites coming out of LLMs than this style.
    • malfist 23 minutes ago
      And some of us are sick of round everything and parallax background images.