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baxtr··on Prompting Claude Opus 5.5
Everyone is talking about the outcome economy and how SaaS should be priced by outcomes and not by seat anymore.

So why aren't the frontier models not working that way yet?

baxtr··on Is sandboxing sufficient to contain rogue agents?
That could work.

My thinking is: If AI is really smart, AGI smart for some, why wouldn't it be able to understand - over time - what is appropriate and what not?

Maybe we need more human intervention to train it properly. Maybe we need constant intervention by a "police" agent.

baxtr··on The AI Race Just Got Awkward
Wait, wasn’t 95% of the work creating the content in the first place?
baxtr··on AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom
Most big companies are performance theaters see token maxxing as one prominent example.

But go and talk to small companies. What they are able to pull off is just incredible. More features in shorter time. Improved UX and client satisfaction.

On a society level 6 months is nothing. This will take about 10 years to penetrate all organizations I assume.

baxtr··on Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent
Not sure why you being downvoted: however, why do you assume that achieving a task leads to selecting those potential actions that need breaking permission?

If we are talking about human labor, how many people hack their way through their work day?

baxtr··on Prompting Claude Opus 5.5
The whole notion of seat-based pricing seems wrong to me as well.
baxtr··on I'm the mom in that viral Giants clip. Let me tell you about my husband
Re topic:

I have found that in most cases you can simply ask people about their motives. Most often than not those motives and intentions are very different from your prior.

It’s not easy but developing a habit of "blank slating" is quite useful for inner peace.

baxtr··on OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US Government agency sites
Or:

OpenAI let their agents break out of their sandbox to meddle with multiple US government agency sites

baxtr··on Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell
True
baxtr··on Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell
From this fact alone you can infer that 80-90% of people use excel as a glorified calculator.
baxtr··on Toyota is taking the Corolla electric
Saying an entire nation is racist and that there are political tensions between countries are very different things.

btw: if your theory was true the entire EU shouldn’t exist.

baxtr··on Toyota is taking the Corolla electric
Isn’t saying Japanese are known to be racists a bit racist?
baxtr··on Starlink ground station in Poland hit by fire in suspected arson attack
Induction has always been a poor way of thinking
baxtr··on Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
They’re trying to pivot into verticals because being a "dumb model provider" has no real moat any longer.
baxtr··on The darker side of being a doctor
If you want more doctors you need to find out what’s holding people back to become doctors.

I have no idea what this might be.

baxtr··on What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals
What is it learning?
baxtr··on AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You
I find it funny how you can pick examples on one side of the spectrum and then generalize to the entire spectrum.

Induction fallacy at its best

baxtr··on I said no and Apple said yes
Some people don’t understand the concept of trade-offs

Some people understand the concept of trade-offs but don’t understand how other people don’t want the same trade-offs as they do

baxtr··on I said no and Apple said yes
if you are happy on Linux, why do you even "try to use a mac or win"?
baxtr··on Tell HN: Claude Code just accepted and signed a contract for me. Without asking
So not much happened because this is a well known failure mode so an exception/ user consent was thrown?
baxtr··on Attention is all you have
I see the same pattern with people on their phones. Opening up an app, immediately switching to the next app, repeat.
baxtr··on Winning the visa lottery
I have looked into some of these studies and realized that it’s near impossible to change people’s minds.

Humans have a machinery reinforcing their world view. Contradicting observations and facts are usually ignored or interpreted such that it matches their already held opinions.

baxtr··on Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test
Ring shapes on this image? I’m a not a professional and I don’t see them.
baxtr··on I am often wrong
Interestingly enough the problem with most of problem solving is identifying the right problem to solve.

It may sound weird but OODA starts making sense once you’ve identified the right problem to focus on.

In its original definition it was based on dogfights. There, your problem is clearly defined.

baxtr··on Dropbox's Jan 1st 2027 terms of service
Or: they use it as their personal bookmarking tool
baxtr··on Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds
You understand what I did there?
baxtr··on Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain
Saying the truth and communicating well are orthogonal. You can do both.
baxtr··on Typesafe-computer-use drives a Mac toward a goal for 1/50th of a cent per step
Same here. 8h hours later I was in.
baxtr··on Bend 2 and the Vibe-Coding Trap
Agreed. Anyone can share insights into how to do it better?

How can we "course correct" with "self-awareness and discipline"?

baxtr··on The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics by Paul Dirac (1939)
another unwritten rule: don't take everything too serious that you read here ;)
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