SrslyJosh

This is hard to understand without any references. Can you please share a relevant link or two?

We're in the same situation now, with your access to the Internet - commerce, social networking, information - going through a walled garden of Gemini or OAI or Ant or Perplexity.

Really? I'm still using the internet, and I don't touch any of that stuff.

by providing developers the ability to choose to use their own AI tooling

Wait, what does that have to do with any of what you said before? That doesn't sound like "access to the Internet."

create a viable alternative to a bleaker, non-open Internet.

And now you've switched back to talking about the open (or not) Internet, which has nothing to do with "developers [choosing] their own AI tooling".

It sounds like you're just pursuing your own pet project while trying justify it using the language of internet freedom.

So, using artificial intelligence requires more expertise than not using it?

The writing was fine, and each individual paragraph was fine, but the whole thing together was meandering and dare I say pointless. It was so many words and yet so little seems to have been said.

I bet that I know why!

"Agents need control flow, not more prompts"

Can't wait for ya'll to come full circle and invent programming from first principles.

I can't tell if this is satire or not. Well done!

Rules for thee but not for me.

Yes, no credit if I have to ask someone to turn it off for me. It could obviously be a toggle here in the US.

"coding the old way"

You mean the way that the majority of code is still written by professionals?

A lot of people got into crypto because they want to manage their own money

uncontrollable laughter

Not "investing" in cryptocurrency would be a good start. =)

The Fremont factory lines that built those cars are converting to manufacture Optimus humanoid robots: one million units per year at $20,000 each, with public sales beginning in 2027.

Sure, why not? Seems just as likely as Tesla having 1 million robotaxis on the road by the end of 2026. =)

This is where I stopped reading:

Scotty was built with the help of AI

So it sounds like my heuristic worked. =)

I can't think of a less useful avenue of research in cryptography right now.

I think that the ideas of AI boosters and other tech maximalists will pretty much always "struggle to land" with normal people. (See also: the ring ad.)

That's not a search box.

the AI did respond graciously and appears to have learned from it

I have a bridge for sale, if you're interested.

Because it's simpler, duh. </sarcasm>

The middle class have financially benefited very little from the past 20+ years of productivity gains.

More like the last 50 years.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/08/07/for-most-...

"For most U.S. workers, real wages have barely budged in decades"

The TL;DR is that in 1964 the average hourly wage was $20.27. As of 2018, average hourly wage was $22.65.

Using an LLM for a "financial workflow" makes as much sense as integrating one with Excel. But who needs correct results when you're just working with money, right? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Detecting "human speech" means shutting out people who cannot speak and rely on TTS for verbal communication.

Durable execution paired with an unpredictable text generator? Sign me up! /s

The key word here is "if".

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/robert-jr-caruso-23080180_ai-...

An October 2024 report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime described the use of Starlink in fraud operations. About 80 “Starlink satellite dishes linked to cyber-enabled fraud operations” were seized between April and June 2024 in Myanmar and Thailand, the report said. Starlink is prohibited in both countries.

They knew about it over a year ago.

From a Wired article ("Elon Musk’s Starlink Is Keeping Modern Slavery Compounds Online"):

Starlink connections appeared to be helping criminals at Tai Chang to “scam Americans” and “fuel their internet needs,” West alleged at the end of July 2024. She offered to share more information to help the company in “disrupting the work of bad actors.” SpaceX and Starlink never replied, West claims.

The whole article is worth a read.

I wanted to use the agentic powers of the model

Do you have an in-depth understanding of how those "agentic powers" are implemented? If not, you should probably research it yourself. Understanding what's underneath the buzzwords will save you some disappointment in the future.

See also: 3 Blue 1 Brown's fantastic series on deep learning, particularly videos like "Transformers, the tech behind LLMs".

My own mental model (condensed to a single phrase) is that LLMs are extremely convincing (on the surface) autocomplete. So far, this model has not disappointed me.

And to understand that while Apple's mission is to provide a walled garden, Windows has been and is used in a million different scenarios.

You're conflating the vertical integration of hardware and software (Apple's walled garden) with Microsoft's current direction (you can't use Windows without MS online services).

Microsoft has never given a damn about customers being free to use the software the way they want to. In light of how the company is behaving today, the "openness" of Windows WRT to hardware was clearly only about market share.

The crypto crash left behind Coinbase and a few real revenue generating companies.

A lot of us clocked the crypto bullshit waaaay before the crash.

If they stop getting returns in intelligence, they will switch to returns in efficiency

I don't think we can assume that people producing what appear to be addictive services are going to do that, especially when they seem to be addicted themselves.

It is indeed hard to tell how many of the people selling this stuff are True Believers. It's also a bit scary, given how incredibly implausible some of these stuff they're saying is.