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This was definitely also a 'thing' when I was growing up in Somerset, I think they just called it a 'garden open day' or similar, but I can distinctly remember wandering around one massive garden and nearly walking straight into the pond covered in Duckweed.

I've been around the 'net long enough to remember when Altavista didn't even have it's own domain name, it was altavista.digital.com, this triggered some great memories of my first year or two using the web on the only computer in school with access to it.

I'm working on something similar (won't link to it as don't want people to think I'm spamming) but if you want to compare notes happy to talk.

I've been working on an integrated deterministic/agent integrated system for a few months now. It basically runs an AI step to build a plan, which biases towards deterministic steps as much as possible but escalates back to AI when it needs to (for AI only capabilities or deterministic failures) so effectively (when I perfect it, I'm about 90% there) it can bounce back and forward as needed with deterministic steps launching AI steps and AI steps launching deterministic steps as needed.

Probably not explaining it very well but I think it's pretty effective at reducing token usage.

Haven't looked at the app itself but the MCP tool problem is mainly solved now using lazy loading, it's far from perfect but the immediate context window overload problem is gone (in clients that support it anyway).

Now just onto the fact that most MCP tools are just transforming API calls and their functionality and return data structures suck for LLM's....

Nope, at least for ours it limits on export produced (on a technical basis, not a planning permission one). It will deliberately downgrade the energy produced to ensure it doesn’t exceed export limits. You get used to optimising for sunshine for when you run power heavy equipment eg car charging

You always knew when summer had arrived when you could smell burnt brakes!

Saw more than the occasional jackknifed lorry as well on that hill

Very random seeing Porlock on here. I grew up in the Village, although haven’t been back in many years

Have just signed up, was (yet again) looking for a solution like this for monitoring outbound API calls. Look forward to trying it

Anecdata

I used Cabin late last year, and am 6ft 2. It was compact but I had enough space (would have liked more ceiling height but length was ok)

Didn't have any problems with the bus noise, or other people, and the bus was about 3/4 full.

Biggest issue for me was the bumps in the road, so the latest ideas sound like a good step forward.

Being able to go from Santa Monica in the late evening to San Francisco first thing the next morning worked out really well for me, I'd use them again.

Disclaimer: Workplace Partner @ Job

I was cynical about it to begin with, when it was just 'Facebook at Work' but I do believe it addresses a lot of the issues brought up in the blog post and the Workplace team are executing very well.

Accounts are completely separate from Facebook, no crossover at all.

I don't think it's a Slack killer, as they both solve different problems in different ways, and Workplace is very much a 'big co, top down' approach.

I do think other existing collaboration tools have a lot to be worried about between Slack & Workplace though.

Last stat I heard was there is over 14k companies using it.