andrewmutz

I think it's a completely reasonable position that companies making self-driving cars and question/answer systems are legally liable for any errors.

But if you hold that position, you also have to be fine with companies not offering products and services in your country. AI systems will eventually be good enough (in 10-20 years) for companies to be able to deploy such systems with sufficient accuracy to afford the lawsuits. Until that time, such countries would just not have access to systems before they were bulletproof.

Both can be true. They can be charging what the market will bear, and still be charging less than their costs of running it.

Any idea how soon dynamic workflows might be available in Cowork?

I don't agree with this.

But I also found the article really unsatisfying. The idea that middle management should spend enormous amounts of time building relationships because other middle managers got vibes that one day it might be useful is insane. I think the article represents the worst of big, slow tech bureaucracies.

Replacing middle management with AI would not work, but using AI to avoid managers needing to have all these meetings would probably work really well. The idea that there's some AI system that has access to all the documents/email/task management systems at the company is a good one, and it could identify situations (like the one in the article) where two projects on opposite ends of the organization are colliding.

Instead of two middle managers needing to do 1:1s with no clear need for years because other middle managers got vibes that they should could be replaced by an AI system that uncovered situations like the ones mentioned in the article.

This wouldnt replace middle managers, but it might help them do their jobs better.

Claude works in Rails apps extremely well. As the author of this blog points points out, Ruby allows you to get a ton done with minimal coding. Also, Rails uses convention over configuration, making Rails apps even terser.

One hypothesis for the effectiveness of Claude writing Rails apps is its token efficiency.

I ran across this project awhile back that attempts to measure and compare the token efficiency across projects, and Rails does really well:

https://felipemrvieira.github.io/SyntaxTax/dashboard/

The idea that Japanese companies provide more stability and lower returns on capital isn't a hypothesis, it's backed up by data

https://www.nber.org/papers/w1762

https://ideas.repec.org/p/iza/izadps/dp6183.html

Japanese and American companies have different purposes.

In Japan the corporation primarily provides stable income and employment for society, and secondarily returns on capital invested. In America, corporations primarily provide returns on capital invested and secondarily provide stable income and employment.

This shows up in the data too. Japanese corporations are less likely to go out of business but provide worse investment returns. American corporations provide better investment returns, but the citizens have to deal with layoffs.

Most citizens would prefer stability to growth, but I think the tradeoff has a lot of downstream consequences.

Apple has absolutely been dragging its feet on RCS. The DoJ explicitly accused them of degrading cross-platform messaging to protect their smartphone dominance. Internal Apple communications revealed that executives were worried that bringing iMessage to Android would "remove an obstacle to iPhone families giving their kids Android phones."

Apple is clearly the bad guy on the RCS issue.

Hacker news holds Apple and Google to different standards, so I doubt this post will get much traction. (I'm still angry about how I must use an iPhone if I want to be able to text high quality video to people I don't know very well)

The story is only trending because it’s an AI model and the internet is anti-ai right now. It’s a double standard.

It’s like how people are outraged that electricity is being used in data centers to power AI models. When you do the math, the power consumption is far, far less than all the other things you do all day without thinking twice. But again, anti-AI double standard

I switched to the Kobo ecosystem about a year and a half ago and have been pretty happy. While the book availability and store aren't at complete parity, I've only had one situation where I couldnt get the book I wanted and it was available on the Amazon store (and I read a lot of books).

Modern discourse happens on social media where fear and outrage drive engagement, which drives virality. We have become convinced in a short amount of time that AI is going to take all the jobs and eventually kill us all because that's what people click on.

Any voices or studies that present the case for "useful technology that will improve productivity and wages while not murdering us" don't get clicked on or read.

You say that, but I've created plenty of production bugs because two different implementations diverge. Easier to avoid such bugs if we just share the implementation.

If you own a painting company with three employees you are a CEO and fall in the top executives category. You may or may not make 100k a year.

I use this library in production and love it!

Yes exactly. RCS exists but unless an iPhone user goes and turns it on it won't work. Which means no one has it turned on.

Completely agree. And to make matters worse, I can't even switch to android without losing the ability to reliably send quality video to iPhone users.

Apple suffered for decades from Microsoft's anticompetitive OS monopoly, and turned around and did the same thing to the android ecosystem.

I have no idea why this sub is full of Apple fanboys. I was an Apple fan 10 years ago, but these days they no longer deserve your support.

Is it okay for human managers to make sure the employees are being polite? But not AI? Why?

Netscape had a 90% market share in 1995. If OpenAI is metaphorically netscape, what prevents its competitors from prying away customers every day? What prevents google/facebook/microsoft from using their position to bundle chat experiences? Especially if the tech is a commodity and OpenAI's models are about as good as everyone elses?

Why not just use natural language?

I agree completely. I don't know how anyone can be building on these models when all of them are either deprecated or not actually released yet. As someone who has production systems running on the deprecated models, this situation really causes me grief.

> Achieving the Senior Executive status is often mistaken for a comfortable reward, a final destination with enhanced perks and support. A more fitting analogy is reaching the NFL Super Bowl. You are now part of an elite team where nothing less than peak performance is acceptable. As the Navy SEALs put it...

I can't believe anyone actually wrote this.

Social media: the solution to, and source of, all your anxiety!

This doesn’t make sense to me. Of all the things I will delegate to Claude Code, vendor selection would be one of the last.

There are techniques to mitigate this. You can reuse containers instead of creating a new one each time. You can mount in directories (like ~/.claude) from your local machine so you dont have to set claude up each time.

Completely agree. If you're motivated enough about a topic to post about it online, you're probably emotional about it and unable to see it in a clear-headed manner.

The people I know who have the most reasonable political opinions never post about it online. The people who have developed unhealthy and biased obsessions are the ones who post constantly.

If I'm a linux user who uses firefox currently, what's the value prop for this browser? I already get privacy and extensions, is it just for testing my app on webkit?

A friend of mine is in great shape and smokes cigarettes

Left-populists and right-populists like to frame issues as being a conflict between the elites and the common man. Banning big banks from owning homes is a perfect example of this.

It's fine to ban big banks from buying homes and wont do damage to the nation, but don't expect it to solve the problem.

High housing prices are due to zoning-based supply restrictions. These are entrenched due to politically active NIMBY voters.

Actually fixing the housing crisis means addressing zoning, but that doesn't fit the elite vs common man narrative so gets ignored by the populists.

That sounds right in theory, but in practice my code is far, far higher quality when I do TDD than when I don't. This applies whether or not I'm using an Ai coding assistant