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This is also the hilarious part of "prompt engineering".

It's just effective linguistics and speech; what people have called "soft skills" forever is now, obviously, trying to be a science for some reason.

It's like 5-10% more for a Waymo (which is nothing in the $10-30 range) and you don't have to talk to anyone and/or sit in awkward silence for the ride. Yeah, I'll pay that every time.

As an author... same!

Is there a source for this that isn't twitter?

> I think the opposite, MCP is destined to fail for the exact same reason the semantic web failed, nobody makes money when things aren't locked down.

Is there a way to handle "locking down" things with MCP? It seems like a potential opportunity for freemium services if they have a mechanism for authentication and telling the MCP caller "this user has access to these tools, but not _these_ yet".

To be fair, a lot of people said 3.7 should have just been called 4. Maybe they're just bridging the gap.

People will always become lazy with new tools. But not all people.

It'll lower the barrier of entry (and therefore the quality floor before people feel comfortable sharing something "they made" if they can deflect with an easy "the AI made this" versus "I put XY0 hours into this"), but it'll also empower people who wouldn't otherwise even try to create new things and, presumably, follow their passion to learn and do more.

Windows is adding an OS-level LLM (Copilot), Chrome is adding a browser-level LLM (Gemini), it seems like Android is gearing up to add an OS-level LLM (Gemmax), and there are rumors the next game consoles might also have an OS-level LLM. It feels inevitable that we'll eventually get some local endpoints that let applications take advantage of on-device generations without bundling their own LLM -- hopefully.

Is there a trick question in here, where the cold milk is trending closer to room temperature over the two minutes waited?

I'm so confused by the verbiage of "sycophancy". Not that that's a bad descriptor for how it was talking but because every news article and social post about it suddenly and invariably reused that term specifically, rather than any of many synonyms that would have also been accurate.

Even this article uses the phrase 8 times (which is huge repetition for anything this short), not to mention hoisting it up into the title.

Was there some viral post that specifically called it sycophantic that people latched onto? People were already describing it this way when sama tweeted about it (also using the term again).

According to Google Trends, "sycophancy"/"syncophant" searches (normally entirely irrelevant) suddenly topped search trends at a sudden 120x interest (with the largest percentage of queries just asking for it's definition, so I wouldn't say the word is commonly known/used).

Why has "sycophanty" basically become the defacto go-to for describing this style all the sudden?

I've only briefly used an AVP (used a friend's before he returned it), but I didn't really notice that much difference in screen quality between it and my Quest 3. That's really what I was hoping it'd excel at given the price, but the real killer for me was just the bulkiness/weight of it compared to other headsets. I can't see myself working in it for longer than maybe 30-45 min compared to the 6+ hours I've put in with virtual desktops in Quest 3/Vive.

People say emdashes are a signal that something's from chatgpt also — yet people forget that the cliches or patterns of LLMs are learned from real-world patterns. What is common in something like ChatGPT has a good chance to also be common outside of it, and _lots_ of false positives (and false negatives) are bound to creep up frequently when trying to do any sort of pattern-based "detection" here.

Wait, the API is free? I thought you had to use their web interface for it to be free. How do you use the API for free?

GDPR may not prevent it explicitly, but around the world GDPR has a chilling effect on many businesses, small and large, that often results in longer launch delays to covered countries while armies of lawyers double and triple check everything in fear of large fines.

RAG still has lots of benefits for anyone paying per input token (e.g. over APIs).

Looks like a parked domain?

Is this also why unpkg has been up and down all morning?

UDDI = Universal Description, Discovery and Integration

(I didn't know what UDDI was.)

Also: People (especially kids, students, etc) who want to make music but don't have the technical expertise to (yet?).

Obviously these tools don't do everything necessary to make great music, but the barrier of entry to making music is being lowered, and the quality floor is being raised -- and that'll result in a lot more would-be "musicians"[0] creating music that wouldn't otherwise exist[1].

[0] I leave the argument of whether these generative musicians count as "real" musicians to the Scotsmen in the audience.

[1] Bonus question: does art still hold value if no one sees it?

> They could've at least tried to sell a paid version - what's the worst that could happen? Any sale would be on top of what they're currently earning per download, i.e. pure "profit" that could be reinvested in the product.

Assumedly, a paid version would exclude some features that Mozilla is otherwise monetizing through (like selling your data). This doesn't seem like sales "on top of" what they're already earning, but rather an alternative that replaces (at least some of) existing monetization routes.

ARPU isn't a great metric here since it's revenue averaged across all users. In my experience, the vast majority of free software users sit below ARPU and are hoisted up by whales -- who are also the main reason one-off pricing like this doesn't typically exist: Mozilla would be fine if most users just paid ARPU (in fact, they'd probably make a slight profit if they could get a higher-than-industry-average free->paid conversion rate...), but they'd quickly lose their cash cows when their whales suddenly only paid ARPU instead of the 10x, 100x, 1000x, etc they already "pay".

It's been many years since I used a mac, but I feel like the alt+tab (mac+tab?) menu had this behavior also.

I would wager most people that offer to buy software "one off" typically underestimate their lifetime worth earned through other means like ads and data sales.

Would you pay a one-time $10 for a lifetime Firefox license? $100? $1,000? $10,000?

It's convenience. I have a device in my kitchen that's hands-free, can set timers, show recipes, etc, that's always there when I'm cooking.

I don't usually have my phone on me, but even if I did I need to at least unlock it to enable voice commands, which instantly kills any notion of it being truly hands-free.

I don't think this project is meant to "solve" a task (hammer, nail) insomuch as it's just an interesting "what if" experiment to observe and play around with new technology.

Building self-ask NPCs and other game systems (crafting, harvesting, quests, automation) in a large open-world RPG that uses the latest generative AI tech to enable new kinds of game mechanics that weren't possible even just a few years ago.

Also, thinking about building a catio for my cat.

What makes pay-per-use pricing inherently more or less fair than unlimited usage from a subscription?

We're 1-2 years into our AI game studio [1] if anyone has more questions on it.

Seeing awesome feedback from players on our demos (and seeing an insane amount of stickiness from players playing even small demos built around generative AI mechanics). Raising now. Hiring soon to move faster. Feel free to reach out - dru@chromagolem.com

[1] https://www.chromagolem.com/

I'd argue that quality actually makes it an amazing show to binge. It wouldn't "work" in the current climate of one-episode-per-week with bountiful time to analyze and Internet sleuths/theorists often coming up with better plots than the actual writing in each next episode, but Lost promises high quality episode after high quality episode for you to, well, just get lost in.

For anyone who hasn't seen it: you're in for a wild ride. Don't look up spoilers.

I probably listen to Suno (both my own songs, and songs other people have created) about as often as I listen to Spotify, these days.