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OpenAI's view of multi-agent is something like: you get the same work faster, but it does not scale linearly.

Only you can decide if that speed is worth the cost.

MLK's entire organization was largely created and run by Stanley Levison, who was a big player in the CPUSA. He was a major financier of communist efforts in America before switching his focus to the civil rights movement.

But you won't find Levison's name on the SCLC Wikipedia page even though his personal wiki page mentions he was "instrumental in founding" it.

> Does anyone understand why they are calling this a distillation attack?

I once had my credit card stolen and it was used to purchase gift cards.

Interestingly, no one referred to it as a “gift card attack”.

Between "distillation attack" and "under attack by agent swarms", it's probably to absolve themselves of responsibility by making it seem like an unavoidable arms race.

I wouldn't expect a post-mortem anytime soon.

> security breach

> related to a large scale distillation attack

I'm not sure how this adds up. I could understand if this impacted their uptime, but not security.

Are they actually saying a bunch of credentials were stolen and are being used for distillation?

Yarvin is about as anti-rationalist as you can get.

As someone who has played BAR, it's hard to read this as not being maximally sarcastic.

The cancer thing is just a contrived analogy. His real concern is having himself and his mathematician friends replaced by AI. Appealing to someone's health is an easier sell and then it can normalize the relationship of medical priests, and math priests, etc.

Can we skip to the moat?

It's more like this:

Right now when a model wants to call 1 or more tools, there is a fixed json schema to describe the tool calls.

Codemode is like: Why don't we just let the model write a program to call the tools and compose them however it wants? The key is that the programming language exposed to do this (usually javascript) will have APIs available to do some things internal to the harness (like call tools/mcp).

That's one kind of MCP. Another is a local stdio server.

Also there are things like subagents, etc (which may be considered tools).

Can do you make a tool or mcp call from bash?

In Canada?

There are good reasons they have all converged on this model:

- The models can generate html/js as output instead of markdown. They all support something like "artifacts" that can displayed in the transcript or a tabbed panel.

- Many of them are able to have the model generate plugins to customize the harness. Typescript/V8 is really good for this.

- They all allow you to open web pages in a tabbed panel. Sure, you can do this with native be embedding a web browser, but with the previous points, you have to wonder if you should just use Electron / Tauri.

I dunno. Windows 98 is very usable. What does Gnome 3 have that someone who never used Windows 98 would miss?