dominiek

I think these system prompts reveal a couple of things about Claude Code and agentic tools in genereral.

1. Adding MCP/plugins creates a lot of overhead in the context window. For example you can see Figma taking up large base prompt and tool listings.

2. As agentic wrappers get more bloated, the system prompt grows. The memory facility is a good example. It's a wholly unimpressive mechanism taking up a large part of the context window.

3. Perhaps the most revealing thing is the security constraints that are just part of the prompt. The "auto mode" for permissions is just part of the system prompt.

As impressive as LLMs are, it seems that the only way to control this statistical beast is to add stuff to the base prompts. "IMPORTANT: Don't talk about goblins".

"Any application that could be done on a blockchain could be better done on a centralized database. Except crime."

What if the actual crime is committed by those that control our money...

Saifedean Ammous' book "The Bitcoin Standard" gives an excellent history of hard money and shows that any new form of hard money will inevitably replace the lesser form (e.g. from the silver standard to the gold standard).

Crypto is composed of interesting projects and scams. Gambling and speculations are symptoms of a wider problem of debased currency and a lack of hard money.

Bitcoin fixes this...

Talking about Bitcoin in the same vain as Crypto shows a profound lack of understanding of history both past and recent when looking at Bitcoin.

While people trade their little Pokemon NFTs Bitcoin will be doing what Bitcoin has been doing from the beginning: Staying exactly 21 million bitcoin - the scarcest and most accessible form of hard money the world has ever seen. It's a black hole sucking in monetary inflation.

1 Bitcoin = 1 Bitcoin.

Keep in mind that I have no control on the client. No manufacturer has implemented TLS let alone sFTP.

If I had any influence on the protocol it would be HTTPs. This is why I wasn't expecting to build an FTP server in 2020.

Exactly my reasoning. See my comment above for more info.

I'm making the maintenance of this less painful by doing a hacking/debugging session with manufacturers once a month where we hook up many devices and fix issues. After addressing most edge cases fewer are coming up now (despite a relentless stream of new cheaply manufactured devices)