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Comment · 11 days ago
I mean, if we're not gonna read any code ever again, who cares?

Why don't we have the AI output machine code binaries. Surely that's even better!

To be clear, I think this is ridiculous and I'll still use Ruby/Rails for web apps because it's tested, it works and I can read it without relying on a paid black box translator.

Once/if the paid black box becomes so good we no longer care, then it'd be stupid to force it to use an inefficient language just for the sake of it.

Comment · 1 month ago
It's the age old privatize the profits and socialize the losses.

People lose their jobs, the environment is destroyed, our bills skyrocket and all of the gains go to the people who own all the shit...

I honestly cannot believe some people still believe that we'll ever get to a society where nobody has to work and we can live our lives happily ever after. Maybe too many Disney stories?

Comment · 1 month ago
Honestly, I'd rather have a word printed doc for the menu than this. It's not that difficult, doesn't require any skills and doesn't take any time.

IDK, you own a business and do this sort of stuff and all sorts of red flags go off for me.

Comment · 1 month ago
Correct, but they own a coffee shop, they aren't building rockets. The menu is definitely a significant part of it.

If they can barely do that, then I'm sure they're slacking off on more stuff too.

Comment · 1 month ago
Isn't the internal monologue exactly what Anthropic is always trying to hide to avoid distillation?

If it was useless, they wouldn't bother.

It's probably not as useful as if you also have the prompts, but even assuming they really don't train on the prompts (which we can never verify), you can probably get to the prompts based on the monologue. Some agents essentially repeat the prompt in the monologue.

"The user asked me to build X using Y..."

Comment · 1 month ago
Yes there's an android TV app. It's not the greatest feature-wise but never had any issues
Comment · 1 month ago
I'm not sure what you propose. Generally speaking we don't get a perfect solution on the first try.

Would it be great if we could make all digital purchases better? Hell yes. Is it realistic? No.

If we can make one company/segment pay or set legal precedent that this is not okay, we're at least moving in the right direction.

Comment · 2 months ago
Whether or not the people being investigated have guns or not, won't showing up with guns up escalate the situation rather than defuse?

I would be absolutely terrified if people with guns came up to me, whether they're cops or not, and if I had a gun with me, I'd be much more likely to go for it in that scenario compared to a normal human interaction. But IDK, maybe I'm an outlier?

Comment · 2 months ago
Do we take into account the people they handle in those safety statistics? I'm pretty sure we don't.

A guy got shot after being swatted not so long ago and that would be a data point with no injuries for officers, masking the real victims.

Comment · 2 months ago
Bubblewrap plus some whitelisting of domains/sockets is all you need.

Docker is always a pain to use and this way I don't have to re-install everything a billion times for every different project.

Comment · 2 months ago
Taking aside the fact that free markets are a myth, all we have to do is look at our current society and you'll see how utopic this view is.

In the real world, oligopolies are the rule not the exception.

Comment · 3 months ago
Only 1.7? I got $55B up from 41 cents.

I literally almost had a heart attack today.

Comment · 4 months ago
But don't forget the vast majority of people can't produce masterpieces.
Comment · 4 months ago
I'm guessing you never hit this issue then, but it's a real issue. Whether or not it's in the RFC as a hard limit it doesn't matter, no HTTP server will allow unlimited sized URIs.

You simply can't base64 large payloads and you're stuck with workarounds.

Comment · 4 months ago
Definitely. We should ignore it and it'll go away by not going into these damn climate conferences. There are so many of them!

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