jimbokun

Be careful with Lisp!

You might end up founding one of the first e-commerce sites, sell it for a handsome payday, and then create the first startup accelerator and make insane amounts of money while transforming the industry.

Safer to stick to Blub.

That’s some Tiananmen Square bullshit right there.

A lot of people would find it easier to pull out a few quarters and put it in the parking meter than download and update an app and give it your financial information. Or hand over a paper ticket to get into an event that’s easy to transfer instead of yet another app with a barcode.

Etc.

It creates a bigger context, and a longer time horizon.

Even some very basic questions, like “are humans inherently valuable?” have been thought through and discussed thoroughly in many faith traditions. For many people not part of such a community it’s a question that’s suddenly very important and they lack the tools to address it.

I wouldn’t be able to fix a bug in a library I have only called but never contributed to, without a lot of time and effort.

But SOMEBODY should be familiar enough with the code to fix, improve and maintain it. Using unmaintained libraries can be risky.

You’re right, you need TWO people who have read and reasoned through the code.

In reality, you need people who understand the design of the code well enough that they can quickly find, read, and understand the relevant parts when something goes wrong.

Being part of an organized faith community really helps with this sort of thing.

Not sure how atheists are coping with the existential risks we are facing.

Many people want less software to deal with now, not more. Being forced to download and update apps on your phone that previously could be done without an app, for example.

Right.

So accelerate the vibe coding of shit nobody wants or asked for, just to see some metric go up somewhere.

Are we still getting bonuses for the number of tokens we can burn?

Absolutely fucking nothing.

I want to understand more about how the world around me works. Not less.

Humanity advances in proportion to how well we understand the world. If the machines understand better than us, the world will bend to fit their preferences, and ours only incidentally to the extent they coincide with the machines.

Yes, because consumers just LOVE to pay for anything associated with AI!

And the Mac.

He did praise tiling managers as being better for large screens, though.

In usability studies, it’s not uncommon for users to report they are faster at doing things one way, but actually timing them they were faster doing those things a different way, which they thought was slower.

So I don’t know about your particular set up. But maybe a usability researcher will come up with a way of working that’s more productive or efficient than what you’re doing now.

You have been unusually blessed in the sandwich department of your life.

What’s the advantage of MCP over a regular old security proxy?

Honest question: which startups are trying to write a sandboxed-by-default easy to configure bash meant to be safely used by agents?

Well yes, guessing words is the entirety of what an LLM is engineered to do.

Are you saying that is the entirety of what human minds do as well?

If you go far enough in a field, you start to recognize areas where your personal opinion differs from the “best practices” usually recommended.

I think by design an LLM can’t do that. It’s built to reflect the distribution of the knowledge it has been trained on.

Because of the definitions of the words you strung together into that question.

It answers itself.

Agents are perfectly capable of using the same APIs designed for humans.

Why not just give the agent a short lived token with limited access rights?

We have reached the point where we need to control agent access the same way we control human access to systems.

True but a pretty shitty sandbox and we need a less leaky and more general sandbox solution ASAP.

Or just write good API docs that humans can use too.

What about just handing the agent a token with limited time to live and constrained access permissions?

Understood but it seems like effectively sandboxing cash is a very very important problem for the industry to solve!

Would be a much more robust and general solution of the problem of controlling and auditing agentic access to sensitive information.

Congratulations you reinvented man pages!

Did you know that computer programs, once written, can be stored to disk once and run many times?

Heisenberg begs to differ with your view of reality.

A protocol is not a program.