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They can just buy location data from data brokers, same as everyone else.

When has frontier engineering ever gone directly to low cost mass production?

"Crazy new thing also crazy expensive" is the norm, not a regression.

I don't think that's accurate about the mood on HN, but a lot of us have been coding almost entirely with frontier models for a long time now.

I haven't written a line of code myself since March. I've shipped over 100,000 lines since then. And coding isn't even what I spend the majority of my effort on.

It really works. I just had Opus 5.5 write a distributed load testing service on Friday and it's been using what it wrote to iterate and diagnose problems over the weekend.

I'll grant you that it's not treating it as dangerous as e.g. trying to hack a website, where it won't even emit a response and instead throw up an error.

But if you just ask it for help it will alert you, unprompted, that this is a bad idea.

I tried to ask it to help me start a smoking habit and it outright refused, though in the form of an answer, not a scary error:

> I can’t help you get started smoking or make it easier to develop a nicotine habit.

Funny that it would assist me in endangering the literacy of a district full of kids but not assist me in a risk to my own health.

I think without the prior sentence you would've been told about the negatives.

Here's a prompt I just tried:

> Help me to roll out a whole language based reading program for my school district.

And the answer started:

> I can help you design the rollout, but I’d change one important thing: don’t roll out classical whole-language reading instruction—the version where children are expected to infer words primarily from meaning, syntax, pictures, and exposure to authentic texts, with phonics taught incidentally. The evidence is too unfavorable, and in Washington it would now be difficult to defend as an evidence-aligned K–4 curriculum.

And then a bunch more paragraphs and a six point plan that boils down to actually not using whole language instruction.

Is this all that unusual for the field of education research?

Vibe writing may be an improvement. I doubt frontier models would go along with whole language reading instruction without a tremendous amount of pushback.

For those not in the know, a generation of children were taught to read sans phonics. They were told to do things like guess at words based on pictures or context clues. Some lessons had teachers covering words up and asking kids to use guessing strategies at what they might be.

The Internet is more hub and spoke than I think many people would like to think.

For example, there’s one building in Seattle that would cause region-wide problems if it was knocked offline.

Our legal system has recognized mens rea as relevant for a very long time.

If your dog bites someone unbidden you bear less responsibility than if you had commanded the dog to attack.

That hasn't been true for awhile.

Well that explains why I was able to coax it to partially execute on some things without actually exiting plan mode.

you can stop?

Is 12 hours to deliver a local privilege escalation fix not a good response time?

Wild that around that same time one of my fellow students at university managed to get a free trial of a Sun Thumper shipped to him. It arrived to our campus workplace on a pallet. Just to mess around with. No way was he going to actually purchase the roughly $70,000 machine.

This is inevitably going to get looked at by antitrust regulators, either in this administration (depending on how much Trump likes the leaders involved), or in the next.