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I find the watermarking dynamic to be really interesting in the legal space, as more large model providers provide increasingly powerful legal capabilities, and adoption (presumably) also increases. Attorneys aren’t the same as developers as their work can be traced back to them, and there are personal bar licenses and reputations at stake. I wonder if knowing the likelihood that AI generated something helps or hurts in that respect.

I also see a lot of watermark removal services popping up as a result.

where are the benchmarks

> By using the legal search index, Astra for Law can search U.S. case law, statutes, regulations, court rules, and administrative decisions across a corpus of more than 230 million URLs, with sources added daily. Our work with Free Law Project, the nonprofit behind CourtListener, brings its case-law collection covering more than 99.9% of published U.S. precedential case law (opens in a new window) into this research experience.

Found that to be very interesting

why tho? genuinely curious

Man I can't count the number of shell wrappers I've written or reached out to over my career. Looking forward to having an official Swift SubProcess helper.

I'm building SMS alerts for Kalshi market movements, upset alerts, big trades, specific teams and more. Starting a private beta (if interested, send a message via X @OddsLineSMS).

Very true, especially when there are different turn around times and review policies for the various app stores, things can get out of sync quickly

From the changelog:

Whole-file rewrites for small changes. When editing text files, the model is more likely to rewrite the entire file than make a targeted edit. The result is usually the same, but the rewrite costs more output tokens and time.

So we are to catch that somehow? And then add their recommendation (below) to our prompts?

https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt...

If Claude Fable 5.1 rewrites whole files for small changes, append the following instruction to the system prompt or the first user message. Claude Fable 5.1 is more likely than Claude Fable 5 to rewrite an entire text file rather than make a targeted edit. The resulting file is usually the same, but unless the file is short or most of it is changing, a rewrite costs more output tokens and time. The instruction brings Claude Fable 5.1 back in line with Claude Fable 5 for small and medium changes.

> The number of tokens used to edit files is best minimized, all else being equal. Therefore, when it will not affect the end result, try to surgically edit a file rather than rewrite the entire thing.

They imply that Claude Design can handle the design work for anything serious. I understand it's still marked as 'beta' but in my team's experience it is a long way away from being ready for this kind of flow.

> Our evaluation found Thomson’s citation quality generally competitive with leading frontier models, even when tested on Canadian employment-law questions without a Canada-specific setting.

That’s it? It was generally competitive with leading frontier models? Neat, but why would someone pay for frontier models and also a generally competitive additional product?

Totally agree. I wonder if git itself needs to be looked at, its objects and history are likely not as important as the context/instructions used to make code changes these days imho

my understanding is that it's a probability so it can never really be removed? only made smaller.

That is a good question

> We’re applying watermarking globally at launch because we don't yet have a durable way to scope it by region. However, we will continue to evaluate different approaches, and will share updates when we have them.

So unless they figure it out, would that 'major global market' essentially need to be the US?

dotIPA, an iOS app build size inspector that runs locally on your macOS [$4.99] Track app size growth over time, inspect contents, spot duplication and size bloat and more. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dotipa/id6742254881

Sports betting odds over sms (US only). I’ve had to work with carriers to get exemptions as they have rules about providing betting advice or being affiliated with sportsbooks, which has been interesting.

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dotIPA, an iOS app build size inspector that runs locally on your macOS [$4.99]

Track app size growth over time, inspect contents, spot duplication and size bloat and more.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dotipa/id6742254881

Sports betting odds over sms (US only). I’ve had to work with carriers to get exemptions as they have rules about providing betting advice or being affiliated with sportsbooks, which has been interesting.

I’m working on building AI-backed sms phone numbers for lead generation campaigns needing 24/7 or multilingual support. Less friction than downloading apps or interfacing with chat bots, and just as powerful.

clicked on a website link for a course near me and it took me to a weird site wopraja

Ah, I do not unfortunately, except maybe exploring a partnership with someone based in the US (not sure though).

I feel like it’s more “would you like build an app with me” guy

Thanks! Curious what kind of friction you’ve encountered. In my experience buying phone numbers is not hard, finding vanity phone numbers (especially in certain area codes) is because it requires keeping an eye on their rolling availability.

I’ve set up a few 10DLC campaigns as well, it’s a little finicky and takes time but something I can do pretty predictably.

Typical use case can be someone's running an existing campaign (ads, billboard, referrals) and we add a dedicated texting number as the 24/7/multilingual layer on top. No new spend, just coverage after hours or in Spanish etc. Can also serve as the primary feature of a new campaign, admittedly a novel approach but I see there being potential to provide a new channel to reach users where they already are (sms) in extremely saturated markets.

I work mainly with law firms, there are some potential examples on my website if you're curious: https://fractional-engineer.com/sms-intake.

Happy to chat more.

I’m working on building AI-backed sms phone numbers for lead generation campaigns needing 24/7 or multilingual support. Less friction than downloading apps or interfacing with chat bots, and just as powerful.

Raised multilingual here (as in father spoke one, mother spoke another, living abroad and US back and forth). I don't know about the stronger social ties but I have found that thinking in a different language helps me get to sleep easier. There are times when I'm spinning around in webs in English (work, life etc) at night, and when I switch over to Spanish thoughts I fall asleep easier.

Maybe just stuff like that is enough to make a difference.

I work in AI, both building at a large company and consulting on the side. My manager (of two months) uses claude to reply to everyone in Teams and emails, usually filled with nonsensical slop. I believe in its potential when applied correctly but also am realizing that it's unlocking an entirely new kind of fraudster.

At a kill s@@s hackathon at work, I was able to build something that

uses a node image installs claude code runs a /review-like command puts inline comments to PR deletes old comments when rerunning

OCR seems cool, but overkill, and I'm definitely not using Code Rabbit after their CEO was on here acting snobbish a while back.

Point being AI code review in Git** itself isn't hard to do and can add a lot of value quickly.

even worse on mobile

Now can LinkedIn please label posts