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I encourage you to read NTSB accident reports. The work the investigators do and the reports they assemble are unparalleled. There are also good parallels to complex systems in general.
It's possible that we get to a place where everyone cooks their own meal (vibe coded app), and only goes out to eat sometimes (official app store). Spreadsheets are the same, you can get a lot of milage, and most still buy and use closed source software.
Reminds me of this: https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/
I was offering a tangible example of where the thing being proposed was a failure.
(true stories)
Here's how this will pan out.
- A number of "officials" (friends) will get cushy jobs for running this program.
- It will lose millions of tax dollars
- a small portion of the population will get cheaper produce for a photo op
- Mamdani and friends will call it a success
- But net, this will be net negative for the city (ie. tax dollars to crony jobs and subsidizing food for some).
Whats the point? The USSR has tried this (subsidized grocery stores centrally planned). Lets not.
If on the other hand, the issue was hey its expensive to bring produce XYZ, so why don't we work to reduce that cost by legalizing Kei [1] trucks and exempt from tolls. Now that would be something interesting.
How is that not casus belli?
How much energy, how long is the pulse, how close were the drones?
Regardless I think the primary challenge with these systems will be energy on site and a surge of it during waves of attacks. Charged up capacitors can only handle so many waves.
I went pretty simple, used OpenAI agent sdk and built a couple of tools like “run_query” with read only connection. Initially I also had a tool for getting the join path from A to B, but the context I wrote out was sufficient.
I think main challenge with this agent is how to keep the context up to date.
If everyone is using it now prompts aren’t a good gauge.
People driving and making decisions are error prone.
A simple test is to watch how people turn. Do they turn early potentially hitting the curb or cutting it too close to pedestrians. Or do they increase their radius by turning late? The latter are better drivers.
Edit: here are more tests,
- do they signal
- do they cutoff others
- do they let those who signal in
- do they drive too slow or too fast for the given road and conditions
- do they have an awareness of all cars around them
- do they block the passing lane
- do they maintain a reasonable distance behind other cars
- do they let emergency vehicles pass
etc.
“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.”
The conclusion ought to be that the executive shouldn’t have such powers.
DOGE is also an example of this. No clue whether for the better or worse. But the mechanism being used was put in place by Obama during affordable care act overhauls, as part of USDS (US digital services).