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bearjaws··on Fable open sourced NanoClaw's agent factory. It cost $800
We can ban those too.
bearjaws··on Fable open sourced NanoClaw's agent factory. It cost $800
Since its behind an account wall, I can't tell if they are saying that Opus made the clone for cheaper or that Opus failed? It appears that Fable did far more "work" based on output tokens.

Aside: We should just ban Twitter links. Nobody should be required to make an account to view content on here.

bearjaws··on Claude Sonnet 5
I've seen this happen before when they launch new models. When Opus 4.7 came out it was "working" for 20+ min before I just exited entirely and waited till next day.

Went away on it's own.

bearjaws··on US-Iran memorandum of understanding in full
Will go down in history as the single largest defeat in US history.

Paying your enemy $300bn to repair their country while you do not even take of your own would be the end of any other president, yet here we are.

bearjaws··on Skill to Ensure Claude Code Uses No Em Dashes
https://github.com/blader/humanizer

this is probably the better solve as it removes many "claude-isms"

bearjaws··on TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP
This is the most Claude pilled comment I've seen here.
bearjaws··on Salesforce to Acquire Fin (formerly Intercom) for $3.6B
I do think people tend to over estimate how much staff care at all about the outcomes of new initiatives. Rolling out a new in house chatbot? More likely just going to fire everyone and give you more work.

So many companies have such failed cultures they are just getting by delegating all serious matters to younger companies with people who actually care. If your staff never benefit from any of their work, nobody has any reason to care about how well you build your own in house Support / CRM / Chatbot / SaaS.

Not sure if this has been coined as a term, but its some form of "effort arbitrage"

bearjaws··on WASI 0.3
I'm building a game where you learn to program golang or python and it all runs in webassembly, this way any student chromebook can just pick up and go.

That feels pretty revolutionary, no need to setup your local system to get core concepts.

Even have plans to use postgres in WASM (pglite), and I know a few real time apps use sqlite in WASM.

bearjaws··on Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight
> I wonder why there isn't a mobile OS that simply lets you build apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS and gives you reliable storage without all this effort.

Because there isn't a 30% walled garden you can create with that.

bearjaws··on Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight
You are just describing a broken site?

I've seen static sites with these same problems, 404 was invented decades before React...

bearjaws··on MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second
Given how "smart" some of the 26b dense models are now, I would not be surprised to see a strong 40b MoE.
bearjaws··on GitHub and the crime against software
We're going to enter the era of returning to self hosting.

Self hosted gitlab is a dream, no surprises ever, exactly how your repos are supposed to work.

bearjaws··on HeidiSQL – Lightweight MariaDB, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL and SQLite Manager
Wow if you try to click on one of the screen shots you get a full screen pop up ad that wants you to install a browser extension.

Absolutely unacceptable.

bearjaws··on HeidiSQL – Lightweight MariaDB, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL and SQLite Manager
Went to their website and it literally has malvertising that tries to install an extension in your browser right at the top.

Nothing really makes me comfortable connecting to my production database quite like malware at the top of a site.

bearjaws··on Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM
I'm always torn on this, I learned a lot of algebra, stats and calc from actually writing TI-Basic programs in my calculator. I was deeply interested in programming since the age of 11, so it felt very natural to translate the formulas and concepts to code.

Ultimately I am sure the majority of students learn better writing it out by hand.

bearjaws··on Valve raises Steam Deck prices
If China has proven one thing, they can just rebuild the factories, sure it will be 5-8 years of depression but afterwards they will control a dominate player.
bearjaws··on Microsoft pulls plug on plans for 244-acre data center in Caledonia (2025)
Here in Orlando two large builders bought about 90% of downtowns empty lots (and several older buildings) promising new high rises in 2022, then threw in the towel after evicting all the tenants and now most of Church street station is completely empty. Of course local government had put nothing in the agreement about time frame of completion, what happens if the builder gives up, etc.

So now, all of it sits abandoned, no construction started, and now its not even worth building as they claim "down town is dead".

This is likely the fate of that land, a write off until its so valuable they can sell it to someone else.

bearjaws··on Don't just paste the AI at me
Had to have this conversation with a Sr. engineer two weeks ago.

Took the entire code review, put it into Claude and then responded in GitLab.

80% of the issues were trivial, only 1 was a minor problem. The post was like 10,000 characters long, including explaining the change.

Huge waste of everyones time.

bearjaws··on Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit
Maybe it would make officers turn in the bad apples, since they insist "one bad apple" each time these issues arise.
bearjaws··on Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud (Resolved)
I will never leverage GCP in an enterprise setting, it's honestly amazing how hard they fumble the bag. Will be interesting to see when GCP support started working with them, from the updates there was an hour and change from when they identified the issue and GCP support was confirmed.

In the cloud space it seems like AWS does nothing and wins.

bearjaws··on Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?
> It's a lot more that just a CRUD-app.

That still seems like a simple CRUD app.

bearjaws··on Googlebook
Good lord please do not use a Tensor processor.
bearjaws··on A.I. note takers are making lawyers nervous
The main risk is attorney client privilege and it's already been tested in New York, if you transcribe a call you need to turn over the transcriptions and they can subpoena the company doing the transcription for the records if you refuse.
bearjaws··on Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
Moodle also scales to pretty large schools, I work on an instance that is over 27k students. Integrates with pretty much every platform, authentication, etc.

And it's pretty easy to customize which is nice.

Throw it in an auto-scale ECS cluster and you have something that goes from 100 students to 20k easy.

bearjaws··on Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
I am curious if it reuses the LLM across all tabs, hard to imagine most machines can boot up 1-2 of any 4gb model unless its a more powerful system.
bearjaws··on Changes in Hospital Finance, Operations and Quality After Management Consultants
For a time period I worked for a pharmacy management company that offered both in patient and out patient cost reduction.

The model we operated on was we kept 50% of all cost savings that we attained for the hospital or health system, on a multi-year engagement. This was just supply chain management, cost optimization, manufacturer relations, pharmacy changes etc. No change in patient care.

The hospitals saved money, we made money, everyone left happy.

The types of deals from the article are more or less what happens when the leadership at a hospital gets bribed at golf, hire some consultant to come in and fire people and not hold anyone accountable for any negative outcomes.

I will never understand why any organization would sign a deal with a consultant and not require an outcome by the end of the engagement (in this case, cost savings). You are quite literally signing up to burn money.

bearjaws··on Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?
I rarely see #3 yield better solutions, it's usually better to collaborate as a team on requirements and gotchas, but let one person own implementation.
bearjaws··on Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?
Article is incredibly fear mongering.

Twice in my career the owners of a company have wanted to sue competitors for stealing their "product" after poaching our staff.

Each time, the lawyers came in and basically told us that suing them for copyright is suicide, will inevitably be nearly impossible to prove, and money would be better spent in many other areas.

In fact, we ended up suing them (and they settled) for stealing our copyrighted clinical content, which they copied so blatantly they left our own typos and customer support phone number in it.

Go ahead, try to sue over your copyrighted code, 10 years and 100M later you will end up like Google v Oracle. What if the code is even 5% different? What about elements dictated by external constraints; hardware, industry standards, common programming practices, these aren't copyrightable.

Then you have merger doctrine, how many ways can we really represent the same basic functions?

Same goes with the copyleft argument, "code resembling copyleft" is incredibly vague, it would need to be verbatim the code, not resembling. Then you have the history of copyleft, there have been many abuses of copyleft and only ~10 notable lawsuits. Now because AI wrote it (which makes it _even harder_ to enforce), we will see a sudden outburst of copyleft cases? I doubt it.

Ultimately anyone can sue you for any reason, nothing is stopping anyone right now from suing you claiming AI stole their copyleft code.

bearjaws··on Open source memory layer so any AI agent can do what Claude.ai and ChatGPT do
Wow another day, another memory system for AI agents!

How many are we up to now? Has to be hundreds of them.

bearjaws··on An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
The issue making Claude just not do any work was infuriating to say the least. I already ran at medium thinking level so was never impacted, but having to constantly go "okay now do X like you said" was annoying.

Again goes back to the "intern" analogy people like to make.

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