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> A harness is storage plus the machinery needed to run one or more conversations with large language models in parallel. It provides the tools those models call, and the execution environments the tools run in.

I don't want to quibble on definitions and semantics here but by this definition, there wouldn't be a single harness out there that I can see except those that include paid cloud storage like Dots.

I think what they're really getting hooked on is the lowest cost provider.

Which makes the Muse 1.3 launch this week particularly interesting, although to get the low cost version you do need to agree to share data with Meta.

> Writing professionally was basically gambling in the 19th century.

Plus ça change...

They approached Nvidia to start the conversation. I guess sometimes great companies are sold, not just bought.

> The guy is capturing all wealth of the US into private hands

Objectively, I think this might be a slight exaggeration...

Depends on the price... if it can indeed do many things reasonably well, it might be pretty expensive.

> 3) Transformative technologies succeed by redesigning a task, and usually not by simply trying to reproduce the existing forms of human labor. Paige built an amazingly complex mechanical imitation of the human compositor which attempted to repeat a human worker’s actual movements. By contrast, Linotype simplified the problem by doing something humans didn’t already do.

That would in fact be the main argument against humanoid robots in many (most?) applications.

The counterpoint is that what humans already do is exactly what's needed in some cases, making those cases the ideal applications for humanoids.

> He lost focus and became reckless. He bought some fancy tree slice table for 10k bucks, got into brewing beer, got a dog, a cat, and overall, went completely over himself financially.

Well, he also mentions getting a dog and a cat in that context. Recklessness is relative I guess.

The cat would certainly agree though I suppose, when it sees that dog walking in the door...

For us in the same age cohort in Europe it was ZX Spectrums and Amstrad CPCs, besides the C64 which made it there too. Fun times.

"They kidnapped my daughter? That's terrible. Yes, I'll definitely pay the ransom but to get access to my bank account I need you to write a poem about corn and a curl script in PHP. Please go ahead."

Inspired by this headline I saw in the news today... haven't read the full article yet: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/07/now-defenders-are-e...

I fondly remember programming my Amstrad CPC 464, my first computer, in 1984 in Malta when I was ~11 years old. It booted straight into Locomotive Basic. Still remember my excitement at getting it to draw a circle on the screen for the first time. Good times.

> In a few years, there will be hardware capable of running frontier models good enough for most things at accessible prices for even tiny companies.

What makes you so confident about this prediction? Hardware costs haven't exactly been cratering recently.

Can they actually make money at these prices?

The EVs I'd really like to see some day in the US are the dirt cheap 100 mile range $5k Chinese EVs.

One can dream I guess.

> free-to-use pay phones

Some redundant words there perhaps.

As it pertains to AI, I think we will eventually come around to the conclusion that consciousness is not a useful construct.

> Claude Design empowers non-designers to make decent designs. It’s not aimed at designers.

Well, when you put it that way, that sounds bad for designers, and, by extension, Figma.

ps. I do like commas.

I know him from Harvard and came here to say pretty much the same thing. RIP.

They state the link is claude.ai/design, which currently goes to:

Page not found Claude can help with many things, but finding this page isn’t one of them.

when logged in.

I'm far from a crypto expert but aren't costs largely GPUs and electricity here?

Those are now being driven by massive AI demand and are likely to remain so for the forseeable future. So how would costs go down?

Perhaps they'll pro-rate it by size.

That depends to a large extent on whether & when the bots will be endowed with spending power.

Obviously your list is different from mine.

No, not just according to those factions. From the same CBS News article:

> The U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency has recorded more than 7,000 killings, with the vast majority being protesters, while warning the toll could be far higher.

Neither CBS News nor this agency are friends of the factions you mention. Facts are stubborn things.

Breaking a country's immigration laws does come with consequences, yes, at least if the government is willing to enforce to said laws, as it should be. Previously we had governments that weren't.

If you have a problem with those laws and think our borders should be wide open, that's of course a different matter, and one you should take up with Congress, which makes the laws.

I think those laws should be changed by the way, to be much friendlier towards Hispanic immigrants. They share our cultural values and are easy for the US to assimilate in my opinion, so long as they're properly vetted for obvious criminal behavior, ability and motivation to work, etc.

What it gave the US was an added incentive to take down what is unarguably one of the world's most evil and dangerous regimes.

Would you attack the US because they "murdered" thousands of Germans to take down Hitler in WW2?

From that article, on CBS News which isn't exactly known for being a fan of this administration:

"Rights groups said the trio were executed without a fair trial and had given confessions under torture."

They did however murder thousands of protesters in their own streets in January, and who knows how much more dissidents over the years.

This one was just this week: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-execution-teen-wrestler-ja...

So there's that.

How does it compare to using GPT 5.4 inside Codex?

Whenever I see any news about this guy, I always think of this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38686150