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Coding vs thinking — Paradigm 3

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We’re interested in the prospects for (presumably safer) narrow AI staying competitive, instead of general systems; Cursor’s Composer coding finetune of Kimi is probably the most intense attempt to specialise a general model: probably more than 10^25 FLOPs of post-training; We find that, compared to its base model, Composer shows…

TL;DR # We’re interested in the prospects for (presumably safer) narrow AI staying competitive, instead of general systems. Cursor’s Composer coding finetune of Kimi is probably the most intense attempt to specialise a general model: probably more than 10^25 FLOPs of post-training. We find that, compared to its base model, Composer shows significant gains (+20% to 60%) on visual reasoning benchmarks, RPG-style games, and (as you’d hope) agentic coding. But, surprisingly, we also saw severe losses (-30% to -40%) on mathematical and scientific reasoning benchmarks. This cuts against the old idea

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