lexandstuff

I remember Experts Exchange somehow managed to have every question one could ever ask, but no actual answers - even with a paid account.

I was glad when S.O. put an end to them.

I prepared my taxes this year using Astra + Codex. It did a thorough job on a complicated return, and I sent it to my accountant to fill out the tax form, with everything laid out in a spreadsheet. They sent it back for final review, and I had Codex check it; it was riddled with errors. The refund was nearly $2k lower than it should have been, and they put a bunch of stuff into the wrong fields. Had to go back and forth multiple times to get it 100% correct. Made me wonder how many previous years' returns were wrong.

I feel like we're going to get to a point where it's mandatory to use AI for certain tasks - humans just can't be trusted to get things right that require a level of precision.

In a lot of ways, robotics - navigating and operating in the physical world - seems to be a very verifiable problem. It's fairly easy to verify that a robot moved from A to B, or that it built a structure that completely aligns with the plan, for example.

The main issue is cost and speed to verify, but simulations and world models will help there. I think we'll start seeing rapid progress pretty soon.

I worked in a mattress factory for a while, doing the same repetitive task day in and out.

I remember feeling like the days passed painfully slowly, but the years flew by.

To the contrary: Twitter has the lowest content engagement rates out of any of the networks.

Yep.

LinkedIn is pretty much the only social network out there where the average person has a shot at a little reach for their posts.

Even if it’s just past and present colleagues and various acquaintances, I actually have an audience of people who are sometimes interested in what I have to say. I can't say that for any other social network.

Yes, MCP is an API.

Previously, it was an API with a weird stateful standard; now it is essentially a bog-standard stateless JSON-RPC API with conventions for tool discovery, long-running tasks and multi-round-trip requests

If you wrote your own JSON-RPC API for an LLM, you would probably eventually end up with something that looks very much like the standard they're describing.

It should be SotA.