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but you cannot even inspect the instructions those agents are working off of?
It makes more sense when you realize they don't want developers to be doing any coding at all. That's what they seem to be moving towards. From product manager to product via AI.
They should refrain from using AI if it turns more people off to their ideas than it turns people on to them. There's no need to invent "AI police" as a big baddie here.
A strategy for people who feel they can't write is to just keep it short and sweet. Intelligence is such a potent force. It shines through.
What humans want most is to hear the voices of other humans.
I got a month-long Eurail pass in the mid 2000s. It was a great experience for me. Only a few places I chose/needed to buy a ticket. I don't know if it's still a good value, though.
You mean you haven't installed screens to the inside of your eyelids so you can micro-read whenever you blink? Amateur hour...
The Joint Chiefs know this.
Any thoughts on why they presented the operational plan to the President as an option then?
I'd call him more of a catalyst than a mere symptom.
It would really just save everyone a lot of time if we just said "branch" instead of "race". We all branched off from some shared ancestors somewhere back in the mists of time. We're all cousins from different branches of the family.
Possibly, but I can't imagine a writer taking that kind of chance at the height of the Cold War just for verisimilitude.
I think state-of-the-art AI is going to be defense industry only from now on. We can have our toy drones but not the Predators and Reapers.
I think the author of the website should next work on some kind of alerting system for the owners of these webcams to let them know they're exposed and how to make them private.
Then everyone could get what they want: voyeurs can watch exhibitionists like God intended.
I don't think it needs research the person developing just has to care what the website looks like. A lot of people just want functionality. But there are also pre-made front-end skills that do a lot of that front-end "taste" legwork for you (still obviously pre-made, but not in the default Claude look)
Hmm... Didn't he try to pack the Supreme Court?
I think Anthropic could manage
He seems to be a good coder with poor judgment. But I think it would be wiser to manage him better than to fire him so long as he recognizes what he did was wrong. I'm a bit of a softie for the clueless, brilliant coders, though.
Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken.
Yeah for a side project I just switched over to DS4 and between Pro and Flash a few days ago I've spent $1.96 both for code work and some large LLM text processing tasks.
It feels to me as good as the last version of Opus I was using (I think 4.6 or 7?). I'm going direct through the DeepSeek API, not Openrouter.
It sounds like an ad-hoc rent strike. Not a great sign for an economy.
I think they mean playing different instruments not other instances of the same instrument. A tuba's interface differs from a violin's, etc.
Growth versus blue chip (do we even use that term anymore?)
this is clearly targeting either vibecoders or people with extremely limited experience in software
From the PDF:
Launch energy is generated from ephemeral forces, like your founder’s friends, prospective buyers at your investor’s other portfolio companies, or a Hacker News headline that drives a spike. Unfortunately, none of these reliably predicts what happens at week six or week twelve when that initial boost has faded
It looks like it's targeted to HN users
Yours is an "ends justify the means" argument, but are you comfortable with the way these cuts were done? Would you approve so robustly of your own research being cut with a keyword search for government-unapproved terms?
using them for data labeling would be a waste of resources
Would it? It seems like they can spend a few months extracting intelligence and "taste" from their engineers then get years worth of it back from the AI.
So you can then look at the diff and figure out what the vulnerabilities were.
It doesn't even take reading or understanding the vulnerabilities at all.
You just ask it to write tests and the tests themselves can be copied and pasted as bonafide exploits.
That reply is rather non-prescient:
Lmfao anthropic is basically done, I don’t think they’ll survive. By 2026, they are done.
I'm not working on anything that interesting at the moment, but I just wanted to say that these threads are absolutely my favorite part of HN. Just so much creativity and hard work on display.
There's always been a premium paid for custom work, though. OP just paid off-the-rack prices for a custom-made suit.
Quality of what's produced in that medium might be one thing. People reading for pleasure are usually reading works published by authors that have gone through some sort of filtering process for quality. Sure, it might be "trashy" novels relative to literature, but at least there's a floor to the quality level or else it just doesn't get published.
But with the advent of other forms of media, more easily produced and consumed, the quality of what is being consumed is lower than the quality of pleasure reading. Combine that with the firehose rate at which it's being consumed and pleasure reading seems better than it might once have.
It used to be called journalism
That's pretty neat. Thanks
Do you have a write-up on how it works under the hood or is it meant to be more mysterious?