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basedpolymer··on ProGantt: Gantt charts your AI agent can read and write via MCP
That's quite funny, I'm also working on a similar project, but I plan to release it as open source.

We agree on MCPs. They're going to become indispensable.

basedpolymer··on Homebrew 7.0.0
And that's the end of Homebrew for me as a user. I like the app, but my old Intel MacBook apparently can't handle it anymore.

I'm back to the old installation methods !

basedpolymer··on We must pace the frontier
One might think they will slow down the development of new models at Anthropic, but Dario does not really mention that in the text.

This certainly looks like a way to slow down competitors and regulate foreign and open models.

It's always about money

basedpolymer··on Check if a file was made with Claude
Rather, concerns related to user identification combined with copyright issues

I don't believe it, but I still haven't seen any in-depth discussions on these issues

basedpolymer··on Check if a file was made with Claude
Most critics of watermarking have no idea how it works. Yet there are valid arguments against (and for) it, but they prefer to be misleading
basedpolymer··on Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS
The same as on macOS. Comzmeti. And dns block
basedpolymer··on Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS
UBlock Origin Lite on Safari iOS is still king I guess
basedpolymer··on Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces (2025)
The anthropomorphization of LLMs should be discouraged as much as possible. It perpetuates bad practices and encourages the use of these bots for tasks they are not intended for (particularly as chatbots).

Thinking traces should be treated as black boxes. There is no point in reading them. Only the LLMs’ conclusions are relevant. This is particularly true of Opus 5, which employs reasoning that seems highly questionable but very often reaches excellent conclusions (compared to its peers)

basedpolymer··on Show HN: Mole – Deep research agent for your terminal
https://github.com/tw93/Mole I see a certain conflict of interest.