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s0ulf3reon Fewer Americans Pay to Use LLMs Than Still Pay to Play World of Warcraft

This probably isn’t a very accurate article. But I still find it plausible anyway. I feel like most AI subscriptions have only now started showing value to me. And even then it’s because I’ve been willing to work and experiment with it to get it to do things on my behalf.

The vast majority of users are likely comfortable with just asking it quick questions, and probably don’t need agents running in the background all the time.

s0ulf3reon EY Canada published a cybersecurity report and most citations were hallucinated

IBM once said “a computer can never be held accountable. Therefore a computer must never make a management decision”

s0ulf3reon EY Canada published a cybersecurity report and most citations were hallucinated

I am not exactly sure if this would solve the overall problem. The main one being lack of oversight. The solution to a social issue generally isn’t to throw more technology at it.

s0ulf3reon Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user

Just one more good reason to be doing unit tests

s0ulf3reon Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls

Coupled with the recent price increase of V-Bucks, things do not look like they are shaping up well.

https://www.fortnite.com/news/fortnite-v-bucks-price-increas...

s0ulf3reon MCP is dead; long live MCP

I’ve always felt like MCP is way better suited towards consumer usage rather than development environments. Like, yeah, MCP uses a lot of a context window, is more complex than it should be in structure, and it isn’t nearly as easy for models to call upon as a command line tool would be. But I believe that it’s also the most consumer friendly option available right now.

It’s much easier for users to find what exactly a model can do with your app over it compared to building a skill that would work with it since clients can display every tool available to the user. There’s also no need for the model to setup any environment since it’s essentially just writing out a function, which saves time since there’s no need to setup as many virtual machine instructions.

It obviously isn’t as useful in development environments where a higher level of risk can be accepted since changes can always be rolled back in the repository.

If I recall correctly, there’s even a whole system for MCP being built, so it can actually show responses in a GUI much like Siri and the Google Assistant can.