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"Coming up with candidate drugs is the easiest part of the process."

This sounds quite similar to Claude's impact in enterprise SWE, where "writing the code" is sometimes the easiest part of the process vs. alignment between humans, understanding the requirements and problem space, and all the other things that make SWE slow.

Anthropic has made so many bombastic and often untrue (reflecting my personal experience) claims about their ability to speed up software engineering that my knee jerk reaction here is skepticism.

I find anthropic to be such an unsavoury company. I am not an AI doomer and frankly I don't care much about datacentres and so on, it's just how scammy they come across.

The authors of Claude Code churn out so much BS that gets just eaten up by credulous engineers & engineering leaders. "I posted 250 changes today with claude code!" - author of claude code. What's your point? If we don't care about quality, I can output 50,000 changes in a day.

I see them as 95% sales 5% engineering and it's irritating to have marketers constantly throw gasoline on the AI hype fire & have people still regard them as engineers. The claude models themselves are alright.

Ah OK, so you had a level of dynamic behaviour in the form itself that warranted an applet/data component for the form. I can see how HTMX would not help with that.

I can't really understand what you're describing. You have form on left & results on right, but you're requesting the new form state & re-rendering the form HTML on each request? Why? My naive understanding is that you could use something like hx-target to have the response to the form submissions update only the results area & the form should not need rerendered at all.

Why does the form need rerendered on a per request basis? HTML/Browser already tracks the current form state.

> That eliminates margin for corruption and lenience.

Lenience and mercy are critical components of a system of a just criminal justice system. We have judges issue sentences in large part because we want a human being with good judgement to decide how serious the punishment for an offence should be based on the circumstances.

A person who shoots their partner who has been abusing them for years should probably receive a different punishment than a person who pulls out a gun in traffic and shoots someone for cutting them off. Mercy or "lenience" are not inherently flaws in the justice system, though of course there's always "too much of a good thing."

a hundred dollars a year for this?? What does the service even do with that money? I pay this for 20 years so you can share a google doc upon my demise?

I must be missing something.

"he hilariously tries to convince people that the best way to have democracy is to not have it at all."

I'm sorry but I can't find where he said this. I'm finding it confusing and suspicious that the objections to Palantir & Alex Karp are all so vague and seem to lack the rigour typically required of assertions made here on YN. Usually if you declare something like someone "argues clearly for authoritarianism," you're expected to link to a source of this claim.

People keep telling me here it's so obvious Palantir is bad I shouldn't require any specific evidence and I'm stupid if I don't see it; I'm only reminded of the emperors new cloths.

So the objections to Palantir are political? I know nothing about Spanish politics so I assume that makes sense in the Spanish political context. This helps explain why I can't find a specific concrete concern, it sounds more vibes-based. Thank you!

OK so this is not specific to Palantir, but about entrusting sensitive Spanish data to any US based company. If so, that makes sense.

People in the comments here are praising the move, so presumably something is public. I've googled but I can't see some specific breach or documented misuse. Is the objection to Palantir strictly political?

> the US seems beholden to Israel

Can you explain how Trump's MoU fits into this "beholden to Israel" model? This deal goes directly against Israel's interests and wishes.

Biden forced Israel to stay their hand during their war with Hamas, for example telling them not to go into Rafah, which delayed them for some time. So is Israel controlled by the US, or is it the other way around? (When they did go into Rafah, they found both Israeli hostages and Hamas leadership, proving that Biden was wrong for telling them not to take the fight there.)