jdejean

> You: I'm not sure, it seems random

> Nietzschian: "Random" is the word we use when we haven't looked hard enough. What do the server logs say for the 403 responses? Go look. I'll wait.

Imagine asking a language model talk to you like this.

I think I’ve invoked this response pattern organically after using swear words the models get “snarky” which is probably the worst debugging companion I could imagine.

For ex. this quote. “What do the server logs say?” is probably the only correct response

Is it just me or is something wrong with the doc starting at the ToC? Its gets super garbled. Everything before that point is Anthropic branding and a Claude generated multi page wall of text

The apps have always shared a native UI codebase, there seems to be Dia innerworkings in Arc.app

They’re likely making this decision because no one’s using their AI, something Arc makes totally optional and invisible, and obviously that’s a big problem

Arc was never made for you and me. It was made for VCs to make a bunch of money exponentially, and because they failed, you get your workflow remotely deleted

One of my favorite parts of Arc was that they already discontinued new features. It’s perfect, I get to open the same tool every day with fresh chromium patches. I would gladly pay for this experience yet they never asked.

Anything else like Arc does too much. This is a true disappointment, coming from The Browser Company

Your “private individual” wording is carrying a lot of weight here. I wonder if Google knows where all the cops with Androids are? Or if Meta lets you bid for ad impressions from users “interested in law enforcement”

What if I wanted to record the cops to schedule my lemonade stand?

Basically, the answer to “Who gets to surveil?” is: Everyone but you

It’s about the quality over quantity. I’d bet there’s significantly more bad React published online than Elixir. LLMs don’t know what’s bad and what’s not, only what’s more likely. How much bad Elixir is published online?

I’d also bet the nature of the language itself would only affect how few samples it can train on before appearing competent

I agree with that, the other side of that coin is executives creating incentive structures that encourage contributors to do risky things, while using the ambiguity to make it seem like nobody is really responsible.

Though I kind of doubt the Wells Fargo executives would’ve considered fake accounts a valid way to grow revenue. It seems Meta is happy to turn the blind eye, because addictive mechanics do in fact grow their revenue

My point isn’t that Zuck’s not responsible, but rather the system he’s created is fucked and a bandaid is to name all of those responsible

I hate when people say things like “Google did this” or “Meta did that.” There are actual named humans making these decisions. I want them found and held accountable. As of late these people have more power than ever. A single contributor at a company like Meta can make a change that impacts 0.025% of users (potentially hundreds of thousands of people) with zero notice or oversight, for their own individual gain. Not even to mention the systemic decisions this article describes.

I loved using Warp. I used it daily for over a year. Setup workflow scripts and customizations, it worked almost exactly how I wanted it to.

Then one day, I opened it up to find the command bar was replaced with a natural language prompt. It changed the behavior subtly, and changed how the prompt looked.

I uninstalled.

I don’t care that you can opt out. My gripe isn’t about AI. I don’t want my tools and workflows changing at random. If you have a new feature, mention it in the “what’s new” log and suggest I opt in.

Not to get meta but I loathe how this sort of thing is commonplace these days. I would pay so much money for app developers to just fucking stop shoveling. Constantly chasing new audiences only stands to ostracize your own. Maybe you care and maybe you don’t. I bounced tho.

My mini vision for Warp when I got really into it was keeping it lightly AI flavored, but leaning into the workflows. The way it multicursors to fill variables was awesome. I don’t care about agents, but I would want to see agents exist as workflows (tools) rather than ephemeral beings like opencode or cursor 3

Yeah but. They happily sold it to you

Agree with everything you’re saying but “enhancing office communication experiences” is absolutely the path they would take to excuse installing ads

Tips don’t include links to unassociated paid products. Call it a promotion if you prefer, it’s still an unsolicited funnel

What an intellectually bankrupt take; Extremely convincing until you realize less than 50% of people in the 60s even finished high school, and less than 8% of them even attempted post secondary education. Rejection of traditional values post 95 is attributable to any number of side effects of humans participating in the internet. We realized the scale of antiquated regulation. Something the “traditional media” would’ve never bothered to cover. This post is about weed not some soap box for your silent generation tears.

I find it hard to believe shifting spending from welfare to cash won’t result in inflation. It’s about accessibility and how liquid the assistance is. It’s also about how evenly that’s distributed.

To the parent comment’s point, if UBI is evenly distributed across everyone (“Universal”) and exists as liquid spending power (“Income”), there’s no way that doesn’t result in a rate of inflation that perfectly counteracts the existence of UBI.

Prices are only low when the seller wants to scale/reach more buyers. If low/no income buyers disappear, why would prices stay low? If there were an infinite number of high income buyers, cheap products wouldn’t even exist in a freely capitalistic system. Instead we have a limited number of buyers in a wide range of income levels, which drives a wide range of prices and sellers competing at every price point.

It feels like the laws of physics, once you cut off one side of the scale it will fling in the other direction. I also hate everything I just said, I would love to exist in a world that wasn’t subject to these forces. Just seems impossible in a freely capitalistic system.