lateinteraction: 8 hours of frontier-model 'Ultra' work still collapses like autocomplete
lateinteraction · x · 2026-09-20
lateinteraction (Charles Packer) describes the agony of extracting merely OK work from frontier models at "Ultra" settings: he now provides more detailed context and feedback than he has ever given a human — and giving feedback is literally his job. His thesis: if you're particular about what you want in a high-dimensional way, you'll quickly lose your mind over how brittle and autocomplete-like even 8 continuous hours of Astra or Fable work remains. Don't be distracted by sparse unimodal verifiable successes, he says — they predict nothing about the seemingly inherent brittleness/collapse on high-dimensional tasks.
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