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It’s definitely to encourage Claude code usage. Owning the interface through which your core product is delivered is a hedge against the commoditisation that everyone talks about. Eg, it’s much harder to switch from Claude code to cursor or vice versa than it is to switch between models in cursor (I sometimes don’t even notice model defaulting to composer inside cursor)

I quit my last job because of this. I’m pretty sure manager was using free chatgpt with no regard for context length too, because not only was it verbose it was also close to gibberish. Being asked to review urgently and estimate deadlines got old real fast

Fully agree. Will take some time though as immediate incentive not clear for consumer facing companies to do extra work to help ppl bypass website layer. But I think consumers will begin to demand it, once they experience it through their agent. Eg pizza company A exposes an api alongside website and pizza company B doesn’t, and consumer notices their agent is 10x+ faster interacting with company A and begins to question why.

Definitely

Most perplexing product description I’ve read in some time from a major company

A proxy server to give my agent access to my Gmail with permissions as granular as I like. Like can create filters to custom label but not send to trash. As my inbox is at 99% due to years of zero discipline giving my email out to every company on the web :)

Curious - are there not good tools for filtering through applications? there must be a lot of llm related offerings

While following OpenClaw, I noticed an unexpected resentment in myself. After some introspection, I realized it’s tied to seeing a project achieve huge success while ignoring security norms many of us struggled to learn the hard way. On one level, it’s selfish discomfort at the feeling of being left behind (“I still can’t bring myself to vibe code. I have to at least skim every diff. Meanwhile this guy is joining OpenAI”). On another level, it feels genuinely sad that the culture of enforcing security norms - work that has no direct personal reward and that end users will never consciously appreciate, but that only builders can uphold - seems to be on it’s way out

Wow, I think I’d love this job. Nothing more interesting than learning about lots of different unique problems from different industries. And totally get the fear of losing technical edge

So true. I sometimes wonder how many ai bots there really are. I often see the telltale signs but often miss.

I definitely lost weight easily on wegovy and just as easily gained it back when I stopped taking it. The whole experience definitely drove home how I needed to improve my mental health alongside any “purely physical” intervention. Same situation when I lost weight by meticulously calorie counting.

I think obesity is hard to fix even when you are not a “thermodynamics denier” (as another commenter said) because all you can practice is moderation from the get go. How many people would fail to fix their alcoholism if complete abstinence, even just a period of complete abstinence to rewire the brain, was never an option? They actually had to go down to the pub and practice stopping everyday at 1 pint?

My beloved boomer dad’s windows laptop died the other week. After being on the fence about buying him a macbook (which I have and love) because I know he will struggle to switch user interfaces, I ended up pulling the trigger after seeing yet another news article about more aggressive copilot integration. I’m not letting him anywhere near an agent which can control his laptop, not from Microsoft which has huge incentive to recover their ai bet in whatever way possible

Specifically the use of emergent

I read the introduction to the last superstition, it looks great

Thank you for the recommendations, I will put them on the reading list

Much to think about. Thanks for the response

Perhaps I am of the sort you speak of, I feel philosophically content with the idea it’s atoms and other particles all the way down and there’s some pattern that gives rise to consciousness… and believe that everything is conscious to different degrees… perhaps this is naive? Love to hear any suggestions for reading to challenge this viewpoint if it is obviously flawed in some way

On reflection, inefficient and high level vs efficient low level is far from the only dimension to evaluate these tools on :P

Clearly humans are of the first sort, just like this robot.

To the current example you gave - I would argue that humans require a huge amount of configuration/maintenance - far more than any machine. Of course they are definitely effective at tasks once they get going.

As to what price/generality/reliability level I think people would really prefer - I guess we'll have to wait and see when these come on the market, if they ever do. It's nearly midnight where I am and my morning confidence in humanoid robots has waned a little

Also applies to hiring real people - humanoid robots may be more expensive ph and perform worse but you avoid all the messy things that come along with hiring people (not that I think this is a good idea, just thinking from a bean counting perspective)

Techie people, myself included seem chronically unable to understand why people prefer inefficient, higher level tools over the efficient low level ones.

Low level tools require an investment of time and brainpower to configure. Consider the time it takes to set up a dishwasher- research, buying, installing, reading the manual. Vs telling your humanoid robot “go wash the dishes”. People will pay a lot more and put up with a lot worse results in exchange for that kind of simplicity.

In a better world we would all be craftspeople and invest time into more efficient things but that ain’t human nature

Inspired by No.22: https://mix-re.web.app

On 12: I see a more general product that allows you to amass as much personal data from any of your devices for use as future chat context as inevitable. We see early notions of this in Microsoft’s Recall and the new Pulse. Hopefully someone will build a great local first/open source version and it’ll probably be the first time I actively choose to use such software over the equivalent cloud offering! Don’t want Sam Altman seeing my browser history

Bit of a cliche but a few years ago I came back from a larger than planned acid trip and couldn’t unsee roads as arteries. Nice to see I’m not crazy and smarter people than I have formalised this to some degree :)

Thanks for the comment. A valuable perspective :)

Thanks for the comment!

I’ve been thinking about how ai could make it easier to connect with people whose views we disagree with - idea being, make the expression of the idea more polite and perhaps easier to meet “on the merit” of the idea. So this is an experiment in the vein of those thoughts. To be clear, I’m personally in total agreement with you as to how much merit I think the posts on this site have (very very little). I’ve only ever visited 4chan a handful of times in my life :) but I thought it would be a cool experiment to see- these horrible views, how different would it be to read them if you removed all the profanity, slurs etc.

Thanks again for taking the time to write, I think it’s my first interaction on HN after a lot of lurking

As others have pointed out, we need more space, and time, to socialise with each other in unstructured ways. This will inevitably lead to more sex (pure human nature). There are many very obvious reasons why this isn’t happening, like working longer hours to cope with cost of living, or high real estate prices that make it financially unsustainable to operate third places.