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metek··on Claude, change the “Add to Cart” button to blue
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metek··on The turbulent AI era is here
The fascist leader needs to catch every single revolutionary group every single time. But a single revolutionary with a pistol only needs to catch the leader ONCE.
metek··on My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality
LLM comments for code are almost unfailingly completely redundant or impenetrably verbose bordering on word salad.
metek··on Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed
You can do quite a lot with a few MB. Don't tell every React behemoth on the web that we know this trick.
metek··on Grok 4.6
A locked door stops the lazy thieves, and the lazy thieves are the most common ones.
metek··on Grok 4.6
I've spent the last year working as an annotator/evaluator for DataAnnotation. All the frontier/flagship model providers use independent contractors for iterating on their LLMs. I'm not able to tell you which models I've worked on as a term of my NDA.

The system prompt seems plausible, but in my experience they are much much much much longer and more verbose.

metek··on We Induced Smells With Ultrasound
You literally give them write access to your brain every time you interact with social media.
metek··on The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting
I've recently started going full send and using Ad-Nauseaum instead of simply using an ad-blocker. I've even started seriously boning up on Javascript to see if I can come up with some horribly hacky :click:hover:focus smokescreen sideload.

I'm sick to death of companies thinking they have any right to keep tabs on me because they think it'll make them a buck.

metek··on Claude can now search the web
Your average white collar worker is certainly challenged, but I think the talent of neurodiverse people is going to become even more vital as average-ability people are more and more challenged. Of course, there's the saying: "A man is his own easiest dupe, because what he wishes to be true, he will generally believe to be true." and I'm neurodivergent, so it makes sense that my assumption that shit'll probably turn out okay for me is a foregone conclusion.
metek··on Claude can now search the web
There's more options than those two; there's a reason that "spanner in the works" is a colloquialism. Humans become disagreeable when our status is challenged, and many people are very attached to the status of "employed".
metek··on Claude can now search the web
I try to apply my layman's understanding of whatever law of thermodynamics states that a minimum of <x> percent of a reaction's energy is lost as waste heat; whatever you try to do in life, <x> percent of your effort is going to be spent dealing with people who are utterly incompetent. I try to apply it to myself as well; there's certainly many things I'm utterly helpless with and I want to account for the extra effort required in order to carry out a given task despite those shortcomings.