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I'm for sure reinventing the wheel here but I've had an LLM generate an app that walks me through my existing tax routine I've been running with for years. Thus no real numbers go to any LLM I just give it my situation and it fills out the form.

The plan now is to retrieve the current year's tax forms then have an LLM compare them to stored versions from last year, and look for variances (e.g. new field, new form requirements, etc) all of which an LLM would excel at (whilst basic math it historically did not).

Man I'm sad you weren't happy with your books. I'll say it doesn't match my experience.

Of course, your child is supposed to get books for FIVE YEARS and their point-of-development is also relevant... meaning yeah some are kinda rudimentary... obviously.

Some of my favorite books to read aloud to my child were from there.

Classics are in there...

  - *Goodnight Moon*, where on your 10th reading you're still noticing little artistic differences from page to page
  - *Little Engine That Could*, everyone knows this classic and I think it's always the last book they send.

But some surprise wins:

  - My wife loved reading *Love, Mouserella* as theatrically as possible
  - I loved the art of *Where's my T-R-U-C-K?!* and sought out both the artist and the author because of it
  - I loved reading *Cool Time Song* in a gravelly African accent (I imagined Ofeibea Quist-Arcton - a gal that used to speak on NPR sometimes - reading it... go listen to her voice. Such a great voice.)
  - The Mine-O-Saur, Roly Poly Pangolin, 
  - The "Llama-Llama" books.

... So many more. I'm just riffing off of old happy memories here. I guess my point is that there are diamonds in there. Keep digging.

The info about the RAND corporation was engaging, but... since the post promised to connect it to "strikingly similar to the rhetoric coming out of places like Anthropic" ... I was surprised that it entirely lacked quotes from Anthropic, save one link to another blog post that was itself, IIUC, a joke.

Isn't "free market capitalism" is doing its job here, rewarding the best player of the game into brand-godhood?

More to the point - is it not government oversight that appears incapable of leveling the playing field for others?

That said - the only "others" we seem capable of getting is other governments' Amazons. So. Devil you know?

It even updated to let you choose the search engine. Surprisingly they haven't updated it to include OpenAI/Claude/Copilot/... guess he should've named the domain "lmFtfy" (s/Google/find/g)

The "taking credit" thing rings true for sure.

I have trouble saying "I" when an LLM has done the leg work.

"I found a report with this info..." turns into "There's a report with this info". heh.

> also assuming it was a scam, and then found out it very much wasn't.

Right, it's "just" an "honest" list of ingredients, how could a list of ingredients be a scam?

... but if splitting an unhealthy ingredient into 3 different obfuscated line items made you an extra pile of cash every year... would you do it?

Had the same thought.

> Scam American companies

... why would I do that?

> Scam American companies are using

... so fake companies?

> Scam American companies are using to manipulate ingredient lists

... What?

(reads post)

Oh. "Food companies are splitting up ingredients to manipulate you"

(as a tangent: There's zero percent chance this is only "American" companies. Useless addon word.)

You're defending the example (why idk), but what about, say, a dog food company listing "buffalo meat" as its #1 ingredient by simply splitting every filler ingredient into constituent parts?

How does one reward the "good guys" when one can't tell the difference between a gamed metric and an honest one?

OP says the article is to help CS majors soldier on.

... and I'm reminded of all the folks that have Accounting degrees. Their degrees ended up being proof that they could track a lot of rules.

That proof meant they got hired and their job was not to ... "account", but to "fit into our business".

Perhaps that's the majority of CS folks going forward?

"Your CS degree proves you can help me not get stuck in technical problems so I can go solve [business/engineering/scientific/...] problems"...?

As long as it has value... I'll allow it.

~guywithnopowertodisallowit

The first example (of HN) is the one that feels like it has the most potential to me.

"Teach me to do this" kinda stuff. "Guiding agent" rather than "doing agent".

Honestly, @franze, if you're reading this, maybe update your screenshots to show an agent in tutorial mode on some complicated app?