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Research on model behavior outside training conditions and agent cost illustrates the limits of extrapolation from a single setting.

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500B tokens later: Letting AI agents decompile a first-person shooter
The headline says “500B tokens later,” but the linked post is absent; the technical details available here are commenters’ arguments, not the story author’s account.
Why it matters: The discussion highlights a practical choice: whether a project needs byte-identical output or can accept tested functional equivalence. One commenter describes concrete checks for the latter, but this capture does not verify how well that approach applies to the linked project.
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Predicting how model propensities generalize out of distribution

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500B tokens later: Letting AI agents decompile a first-person shooter

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