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I think we’re seeing a similar thing pan out with AI. When the barrier for something is too low, people realize that it’s not actually worth the other party’s effort to communicate it to them.

For me, physical communication is quickly becoming a signal that someone actually put effort into things.

This is where you and I are different. I’m neurodivergent so having another low-mental load activity (like cleaning) actually helps my mind from wondering.

I love learning, but I hate reading. Most of my learning now is via audio books while I'm doing something else.

In my view, software development is mostly skimming and pattern recognization. Very little actual, deep reeding in my opinion.

I’ve found no value in AI note takers. I’m not really sure what the value of a note taker is when you can simply transcribe the entire meeting and search within context.

For me, the value of notes is writing down what’s important to me/the participants, including the actual process.

Heat pumps can effectively bring that temp up higher.

The problem is really how much energy is actually available.

Not at all! I ended up identifying that a lost of my symptoms lined up with what /r/HistamineIntolerance and MCAS people describe as symptoms.

Chronically:

* I my energy levels were dropping. * I had terrible brain fog. * My moods were less stable and I was often very irritable. I felt way less resilient to stress. * My joints were constantly hurting * GI symptoms comparable to IBS

Acutely, I would get flare ups between 2 to 48 hours after eating food that were essentially a mix of flu and allergic reaction symptoms (despite not having allergies to these foods). I felt feverish, dizzy, light-headed, joint pain, head aches, diarrhea, nausea. There were a few times that it knocked me out for 24+ hours.

Three's also this "bucket" theory that I resonate with. Symptoms can fluctuate according to how "full" your bucket is. If you have an empty bucket, you might be able to tolerate whatever triggers with limited reaction. If you have filled bucket and overflow it, your symptoms cascade horrendously.

This part actually made self-diagnosis extremely hard because the same food wouldn't consistently trigger issues. This is on top of triggers already feeling a bit random. Pizza, for example, is wildly hit-or-miss by brand. Despite it all being essentially the same ingredients, some of it, I tolerate incredibly well. Some of it, I flare up terribly. Even more confusing, the cheap/low quality places (like Little Ceasars) sit perfectly fine with me, but many "fresh" or "high quality" ones completely crash me.

I solved a similar issue with the help of AI. I doubt I would have ever solved it with the help of a PCP, because of really subtle nuances. It’s been almost a year and my symptoms have basically disappeared.

AI helped me figure out my symptoms were related to histamine issues. This was really hard to track down. I started to tune into chicken and eggs causing me issues, but (1) I wasn’t actually allergic (2) chicken and rice is a standard safe diet (3) chicken is low histamine itself, but can trigger histamine release . It was further complicated because a bunch of foods didn’t consistently trigger reactions.

It was only after I tracked a bunch of foods and tried a bunch of different remedies that Claude was able to track down the pattern. From there, I was able to understand what foods would trigger my issues.

Yes, it’s the friction of setting up the MCP server in the first place. Especially, in environments where that is not straightforward or easy to do. When our users are looking for information, they don’t want to figure out how to setup the MCP.

I don’t think this is about advertising an MCP at all. All of this can be accomplished with plain old HTTP requests. I want to be able to tell users “tell your LLM do go to https://example.com/only-bots”.

There’s absolutely no need for an MCP, because the website will tell the LLM everything it needs to know, including other actions and endpoints available.

This is great for normal "apps". We have a really deep need for a lower touch way for our users to interact with us agentically without setting up MCP. It'd be really great to have some sort of temporary session or out-of-band token storage available.

Here's our use case: During the sales cycle, the buyer and seller need to exchange a bunch of information then analyze it (which is increasingly agentic). The problem with MCP is the initial setup friction is far greater than users login in themselves and grabbing the information they need. MCPs are great for regular, frequent interactions - but create a lot of problems for these quick one-off sessions.

We'd really love a way to do something like this:

* In Claude: "Grab documents from X, Y, Z"

* Claude hits that website, it returns (1) basic usage information (2) a login link that the user can open in their browser

* User auths in their browser (annoying, but mindless)

* That callback returns a unique, short-lived, one-time token that gets exchanged on all future requests to the site.

Now, we can quickly auth users AND maintain a session state as they do things.

I've been working on an MCP for creating semi-deterministic flows in Claude code (essentially skills, but broken down into pieces). In order to track execution and state, I have the LLM pass the MCP a unique "execution id" with every call. This lets me programmatically step it through skills and know exactly where execution progress is.

I've been considering a similar approach for the web. Essentially, do a short-lived, one-time use token exchange for every single call back and forth.

* LLM: "I'd like to interact with your site"

* Site: "Great, here's first token. I will exchange it for a new one on the next call. Do not share with with another site. You can authenticate in your browser with this link: [example.com]"

* Then you can go back and forth.

It'd be rather annoying to auth in the browser every time, but it would enable a low-touch flow.

Long term, it'd be ideal to have some sort of out-of-band credential store/tool available, but this would start proving the concept out. Don't use it for highly sensitive stuff, but it would enable a lot of agentic flows that are currently blocked by high-lift MCP setup.

Only consider compensation you control.

If you don’t control equity, you cannot control the outcome, value, or liquidity of it.

This stat is limited to print-books only. He talks about all sorts of other forms of content, but seems to mysteriously miss audio books.

If this source [0] is true then 65% of audiobooks (in 2022) were non-fiction. Likewise that the audiobook industry has grown by nearly 3x since 2022. So, by my math, it's simply that people prefer to listen to self-help books (which matches my own experience).

[0] - https://electroiq.com/stats/audiobook-statistics/

I think they're all trying to be a phone replacement, when I need them to be a smart watch replacement. Give me smart glasses and a ring that controls them. Give me simple, watch like actions, notifications, but keep them out of view.

I like to bounce around between a few different things at once.

Normally, I work on my core work plus something tangentially related (e.g. 20% projects). The 20% projects keep my attention while the core work is LLM'ing.

As someone who often drives pitch dark country sides, you'd be surprised how hard it is to see people on the side of the road at night. Those blinding lights make a huge difference between you blending into the dark background and seeing you early enough to react (if needed).

Table 2 and 3 tell you basically all you need to know. When you use a harness that is tuned towards programing (Codex and Claude Code), grep wins. When you use a neutral harness, vector search wins.

So far every Grep vs RAG discussion I've seen conflates overlapping factors. The most common is simply that a company rebuilt their pipeline from scratch and fixed a bunch of problems. The worst is when they go from one-shot RAG to multi-step Grep and completely miss the fact that multi-step RAG would likely get them similar results.

At the end of the day, the most important thing is knowing the _product features_ your users care about and making sure that's represented in the pipeline.

Linear has become the thing it sought to kill - complex.

It's really the only way for companies to survive and go up market, unfortunately.

You’ve built a generic, be all for everyone product while requiring your user to be technical enough to understand what model to pick and why. This basically means your target audience is the exact same person who’s willing (and likely prefers) to do this on their local machine. They’re not going to be sold to, have their data resold, or have to worry about a rug pull on their local machine.

It’s almost like you’re offering a taxi service to people who want to own cars. Now, here’s the thing, even when people own cars, they still outsource driving in certain situations: taxi home from the bar, limo/party bus for evens, rides to the airport, group tours, long distance, etc, etc.

Instead, of general, focus in on a specific use case and make it as simple as possible to get good results with that specific use case.

Even, then, I’m doubtful of the ability to get traction in this space. People don’t really appreciate AI generated art. The only place obviously AI generated art seems to get traction is terrible FB ads and NSFW content.

If I can get Claude to thing about the actual science and bio-chemistry, it can reasonably be through things extremely well.

I found H2 anti-histamines like Pepcid actually made my symptoms worse.

I was in a similar situation where Claude finally helped me make a breakthrough. It seems that my issue is entirely related to histamine levels.

* H1 (like Zyrtec) help block the body’s response to high histamines

* H2 (like Pepcid) actually worsen my symptoms overtime because my body was readjusting baseline

* Quercitin and DAO enzyme help massively.

Also being extremely mindful of histamine levels in food helps keep my baselines low. This can be tricky because histamines collect as food ages (so two batches of something can lead to different responses) and some “low histamine” foods can still trigger your body to dump histamines (so they actually act like high histamine foods).

I was on a similar path, but way less severe. I’ve become intolerant to eggs and chicken (and a bunch of other stuff) for some completely unknown reason. Over the course of the past 5 years, my overall health got progressively worse and worse.

I tried all sorts of different things, but couldn’t nail down a pattern for years. Even worse, some days I could tolerate something and others it would blow me up. It wasn’t until I started telling Claude literally everything I consumed and how I felt that it dialed into histamine response triggering mast cell activation.

I started to realize that a lot of “low histamine” foods either build up histamines as they age (so leftovers kill me) and some “low histamine” foods actually cause the body to naturally liberate histamine (essentially mimicking high histamine foods).

It’s extremely hard to get a diagnosis because the triggers are seemingly random and don’t always correlate with common buckets.

How'd you get the license to use "The Jetsons" cartoons?

How does your technical approach actually create accurate fact extract?

You loose sooooooo much meaningful context and information when you transform something into a knowledge graph. Simple cases like "Gabe is CEO of Valve" map nicely to a graph, but things like "Matt Garman is CEO of AWS" don't represent that AWS is a sub-company of Amazon (with it's own CEO).

Additionally, one of my biggest gripes of Claude's memories and every memory system I've worked with is they completely fail to capture intent. The architecture notes I documented while doing a wild spike on a critical infrastructure component absolutely should not be referenced in every day work. Yet, somehow, that type of memory always works it's way into unrelated sessions.

This comment is really insightful. It is the thing that genuinely flips this. It’s not just the structure, but the robotic voice in my head that autoplays. I had incorrectly assumed everyone felt that was normal. Now let me [completely 180 on my opinion].

Just missing some em-dashes.

I discover the sleep issues were related to my inability to digest the monohydrate form. I’d get sweats, chills, all of the nasty side effects.

I switched to HCL and tolerate it massively better.

Some people simply don’t digest the monohydrate form well. I get all of the symptoms you list.

The HCL form is more expensive, but does wonders for me. None of the negative side effects.

I don't really get this. At this point, my limiting factor is not how quickly Claude can self-trudge through code. It's whether Claude is going to do the task correctly or not.

I need more mechanisms for controlling long-running sessions and dynamically injecting my thoughts, correction, and nudges rather than faster ways to burn through my tokens without knowing if the results are going to be correct.

I'm extremely skeptical that dynamic workflows had anything to do with this. I've been able to refactor one of the most complicated parts of our code base with similar results.

Mechanical refactors are relatively straight forward for agents.

> My own experience w/ 4.6 and 4.7 are that I don't firmly grasp any capabilities improvements over my memory of 4.5, but it's all so fuzzy that it's truly difficult to tell.

I've actually intentionally switched back to 4.5. I hated 4.7 so much that I decided to jump back all the way to 4.5.

Now that I've been using 4.5 for a few weeks, I find it significantly more reliable but a bit more forgetful than 4.6/4.7. I'm okay with that because it's really easy to identify this forgetfulness and nudge it.

I found 4.7's adaptive thinking to be extremely unreliable. It seems to overcorrect on the current message without considering the difficult of the overall problem. I wonder if 4.8 will improve on that.

The problem is voting has historically been limited to, real, living things. This has inherently limited the total amount of votes cast and where.

Corporations are an artificial entity that literally anyone can make. Even things like property ownership are somewhat artificial. Lots can generally be split and joined through a process.

This allowance of artificial entities voting seems to open a rabbit hole of secondary issues.