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> Claude can add comments in code that are better just living as a comment on the PR.

Not to Claude – its own, old comments have helped me/it solve new issues on more than one occasion.

> Banks are lending to private equity firms to fund purchases of businesses.

Yes some businesses are SaaS but here's the real problem: Many businesses' sole purpose is _leveraged buy-outs_ which really is the devil in disguise.

It goes like this: A VC specialising in veterinary clinics finds a nice, privately owned town clinic with regular customers and "fair" prices, approach the owners saying "we love the clinic you've built! We'll buy your clinic for $2,500,000! You've really earned your exit!".

So now the VC lends the money from the bank, buys the clinic, and here's the important part: _they push the debt onto the clinic's books_. So all of a sudden the nice town clinic has $2,500,000 in debt, raise prices accordingly, ~~burn out personnel~~ slim operations accordingly, and any surplus that doesn't go to interest and amortization goes straight to the VC.

Debt and collateral on the veterinary clinics.

Risk free revenue to the VC.

I... what did I just read?!

How. On. Earth. did you turn yourself around with those pre-conditions??

Interesting, and black magic as far as I'm concerned. How does that algorithm translate onto the Rubik's cube (which I evidently never learned to solve)?

Does this export LLM.txt’s?

"...Than your Phone" = pure clickbait. The article compares touchscreens to physical buttons.

Nothing new here.

We're missing a piece of middleware technology. Imagine a network like Reddit or IMDB that:

a) offers posting under anonymity, b) allows users to associate with exactly one physical passport, c) has no knowledge of who an account belongs to, d) allows for filtering on content by passport-authenticated users.

Me too – really surprised he missed the opportunity of making a six-stringed version played with the same guitar he used to build the game.

Unless The People do something, it's probably going to be much more than four years. I think the administration, whoever that is, is far from brain dead, even if their puppets may be.

Aidemos... the greek god... of intelligence...?

Interesting! Can I hook this up to my calendar and e-mail?

edit: s/an/and

The company that deliberately destroys its own market hasn't been born yet. They will find ways to build customer retention.

Really cool engineering feat!

I think you're making your route to market overly complicated by calling it autonomous. Just call it what it is – a drone with a AI navigation system. As long as a person commands it and monitors it (and thus _is responsible_), there's no reason to call it autonomous.

First video has 131 views – I hope this blows up.

I know a large retailer that sells electric screw drivers for €19 a piece. I also know from the chinese manufacturer's backwaters that it's deliberately designed to last for 12 minutes. That's roughly two years in the hand of an average non-professional, who will probably go back and buy another since it was so cheap.

These tools don't have a second-hand market. The expensive built-to-last ones do.