timcobb

Cargo culting is still a thing, the power imbalance is still real here. Kicking people out is generally much trickier than letting them in, these aren't simple things. Remote populations aren't global idea consumers at the internet-accessible global ideas mart.

Twitter itself doesn't even suck too much for me it's the broader context that makes it a no go

Haha thanks for the check, I am, tbh, pretty surprised. It's within the same order of magnitude, which is interesting too.

I doubt our flying machines are anywhere near as energy efficient as birds. Our flying machines combust jet fuel, birds can fly by ATP. Not to mention earth-destructing.

And going into space is pointless why would any animal ever develop such a facility :)

And yet

> But the AI is not the problem there; the economic system is

These two things are surely related eh?

> Torches and pitchforks should be properly applied to the economic and the political elites, not to data centers.

What's the difference between these? You can't actually separate them meaningfully, unless you, uh, nationalize the data centers at which point... :|

> why cant people here just read this for face value?

Because that would be foolish.

What part of public good is stealing giant corpuses from their owners and selling them back to them? People who show contempt for laws do so pretty consistently usually.

It's really sad that people fall for this stuff over and over again.

Just cause something has already happened many times to other people doesn't mean it's not special or interesting when it happens to you. It's been extraordinary seeing this unfold before me.

And I think it's worth noting that the novel thing about what's happening now is that, unlike before, when physical labor was devalued and commodified, we are now seeing intellectual labor, even at its highest levels, suffering the same fate.

So what's your function now?

Yeah I agree but I think the question these days isn't about the workplace anymore, it's about the meaning and value of human endeavor.

My first thought after reading this was, good for this person to have only been broken, or nearly broken, I guess, by society finally now.

I was broken long before AI. I learned that no one was interested in my doodads even before generative AI. People were interested in all this other stuff, like ROI, how much money things make, how practical something is, etc. "No one cares about the code" was beat into me 10-20 years ago. Big ups to Joel for making it this far.

This is interesting but as always these days the slop effect just makes it feel like I'm reading Claude which sucks too much and makes me not want to read this.

Add to that that this is content marketing, and the whole thing really collapses. I'll consume interesting content marketing, I may even consume interesting slop, but I can't consume slop content marketing.

> Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory

If only though, because:

> There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life

What does success look like?

> but a full data trail of all inputs is difficult to trace through.

Great use case for AI agents

I imagine Astra is/will soon will be on Cerebras?

> who clearly isn't a sociopath

Or is a sociopath, just not *clearly*.

He could have done this if he was from a more privileged background for sure.

But I meant, isn't saving articles for personal record a legitimate use of Fair Use? Do you really need to paraphrase them first?

So does Fair Use in the states?

I'm confused and disturbed by the need to invoke Pangram (a model) as the arbiter of slop here. Slop, like smut, is self evident. You know it when you see it. Yes, some effort may be required before realizing that something is slop, which, yeah, is annoying, but that's nothing in comparison to outsourcing your shiite detection to a model! What do you get, except the loss of self worth, by needing a model to have the confidence to call something slop?

> Why do people have this reaction? Beyond having to endure aggravating stylistic tics, when reading a piece that has had substantial LLM assistance, we — the readers — don’t know what is real and what isn’t.

This is well said. But, here too, I would pause and reflect on what it means to (think you) know what is real and what isn't in a pre-LLM setting. For example, authority bias predates LLMs, and can have disastrous consequences.

Is that context rot or model deficiency?

Try codex! This is not the case there at all.

SaaS where I work has an MCP, it's popular with our customers. They can use it without knowing what a CLI is, just from however they use their AI.

I use MCP all the time at work as well from Claude code etc, it's convenient with uniformity of configuration and access inside the harness.

Yeah these are microscopic

How is this comment relevant and why is it the top post on this thread.

Politics

> Optimizing a OS build? -> block

Why would fable block optimizing an OS build

A click downstream: https://micra.com

All the people you know, or claw users?