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We still don’t know exactly what happened, but I publish software to public registries, and supply chain attacks scare the hell out of me. They also frustrate me, because most of the defenses aren't automatic and often really hard to get right. We're really failing as an industry to do better here.

5,000*

I can't tell if they're withholding access to manufacture some sense of scarcity but the delays are really prolonged. I'm nervous to use Gemini models anyway, as its attached to my Google account and I've seen too many people having their whole account banned for dubious reasons (with little recourse).

Also the whole "we're only releasing it to cyber defenders first" framing is weird, is any Gemini model an actual cyber risk?

Small sample size, but I've heard from multiple physicians that AI note taking allows them to see more patients or spend more time with them and they're very happy with those kinds of capabilities that take over toil

Yea, I think all the tools have this now but its not a default. Install scripts should also be turned off by default and require some hassle to turn them on for the first time in a package.

IMHO defaults for uv, npm, etc should all have a cooldown for 24 - 48 hours by default, you should have to go out of your way to install something newer.

what word?

I’ve noticed a growing pattern of people creating repositories full of Markdown documentation, or adding large amounts of it directly to their main repositories, often generated by agents. In some cases, this can add up to megabytes of material, and I haven’t yet seen much evidence that this level of documentation meaningfully improves an agent’s performance and that it just doesn't rot over time.

If someone has good A/B evals of this being more effective I'll eat my hat, but the reason no one is publishing them is because well, evals are hard, and this is likely just magical thinking.

My current view is that an agent generally needs three things to work effectively: a way to discover information that isn’t obvious, such as a minimal `AGENTS.md` that points to more focused brief files; a clear way to verify that its work is correct; and some guidance on project-specific tastes. Everything else is noise.

These guys are on twitter angry about the rate limit decrease and allegedly cancelled all their OpenAI accounts. Wonder how they'll maintain this.

I am quite convinced that the whole nerfing phenomenon is 90% AI psychosis. I have the word muted on X.

Oh wow those fees are predatory

It is a money grab from Amazon I'm sure. They want to make a deal with meta to get paid for access. Maybe also worried about liability I imagine on accidental unauthorized purchases?

> No special cases introduced. All properties preserved.

I don’t actually know if this is LLM-generated, but phrasing like this is weirdly triggering to me now

Everyone sharing the 513 ways you can already do this is entirely missing the point. Standards matter and there's very few things in the AI world everyone agrees on and this is one of them. .agents/skills is another and anthropic is still holding out there.

The example of the plant watering business is the hellscape future where humans have to deal with agents bugging them to sell them their services constantly. We're already seeing the first hints of this with iLands.

And the "hiring technicians" thing... great, humans on call for robots isn't the future I want.