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Totally get that for code! But there are orgs where non-code things are compartmentalised — maybe for leak reasons — that still want to employees to make use of agents.
[I work for Slack, opinions very much my own]
Having agents see everything you and your colleagues see is cool.
The challenge comes when you want to make certain things private to certain people. In that world you don’t want multiplayer agents leaking data, so you end up having to write and maintain complex rulesets about what specific resources agents have access to.
Single-player agents, on the other hand, are much more straightforward — they act on a single user’s behalf, and then the challenge is ensuring the single-player agent cannot exfiltrate private data into a shared space unless the user specifically permits it.
FWIW, LLMs make this 95% less of a problem.
It’s possible to create read-only viewers for Word, Excel & PowerPoint files that are more-or-less pixel accurate on 99% of files, so long as the user has the correct fonts installed (or, in the case of the PowerPoint, they come embedded).
The language an application is authored in does not matter to me, as a user. I care that it is widely-used (safety in numbers), that it works, and that it is fast.
It's cool that the Zig project exists, but I'm unlikely to ever use Zig so that’s sort of orthogonal to my interests.
Alex Karp says a lot of things
15+YOE. Fable 5 is well above the level of Opus. I have used it alongside Opus for a range of hard problems, including porting a large static analysis tool to Rust, building various tooling around .pptx and .xlsx documents.
In all cases, Fable clearly outperformed Opus.
That PAC doesn't look like they are ideologically oriented, they just care about whether a candidate is pro crypto or not
Surely the more disturbing thing is that they're spending money at all.
In the olden days a CEO would ring up a politician and say something like "if you vote for this bill, my 50,000 employees in your state will not be happy" — a sizable voting bloc gave those execs power.
Now the crypto companies say "if you vote for this bill, my 1,000 employees in your state will not be happy..." — less compelling, voting-bloc wise — "...and also I will donate millions to your opponent in the primary"
Very cool that the language allows specification of a type in this way.
I added a similar type — “non-empty-string” to a typechecker for PHP, and it’s been adopted widely in the PHP ecosystem. It turns out to be pretty handy, especially when there’s a full type system to support it.
Maybe related to the heatwave? I've heard some European data centres are having trouble with their cooling systems.
As far as I can tell, Relays[1] are the glue that makes ATProto work performantly. I think they're supposed to be content-agnostic — they just shuttle data through, reducing the number of services each AppView needs to be aware of.
As the blog mentions, the big improvement vs Mastodon is that Relays, AppViews and PDSes are separate services with their own distinct scaling demands. It's a rather beautiful solution to a system design problem.
Revenue went from $3.7B to $13.07B — roughly 3.5x.
Operating loss went from ~$8.8B to ~$20.9B — roughly 2.4x.
Doesn't seem like a domesday scenario.
What exactly? From what I’ve heard, most of what was released in the months after the acquisition were features that were already in development/behind feature flags.
Yeah — but includes a fun cameo from a famous 90s TV dad.
get hired at a comp number that requires a comma you've never used before
Gotta hand it to Claude, that's almost a pretty decent line.
Seems like the most plausible explanation. OTOH it feels like this is the sort of thing that might have been discovered/mitigated more quickly had there been a human in the loop.
And Michael was based on some of the most expensive & beloved IP in the world (extremely popular with Gen X despite everything)
I’m also an immigrant.
When I heard the crowd roar every time Trump said “we’re going to kick them out” I knew exactly what the crowd was cheering. Trump never used those moments to say “but America is a nation of immigrants and we celebrate their contributions”. He wanted to rile up a crowd while maintaining a fig-leaf of “oh it’s only illegals who are evil”
You don’t have to have a PhD to understand the appeal and consequences of nativist populism — just the slightest understanding of history.
This like if BitTorrent cut off Windows support over objections to Microsoft embrace/extend/extinguish. It’s a slightly incoherent position.
To be fair, that's the authentic London telephone box experience of old.
I’m reasonably certain that Schmidt anticipated that reaction after the first speaker was booed.
It had the vibe of “These people need to hear the Truth”.
output from LLMs, once published, is essentially in the Public Domain, since there isn't any human who owns it
That’s not what the court case in question was about: https://www.morganlewis.com/pubs/2026/03/us-supreme-court-de...
If I ask an LLM to come up with an entirely new story on its own, the output is not copyrightable.
But if I feed an LLM a Tom Clancy novel and ask it to regurgitate that same novel, I cannot legally then put the output on a website for anyone to download.
For select tasks the latest LLMs can speed things up by an order of magnitude.
Best example I’ve found: translating code from one language to another where there’s a large corpus of existing acceptance tests.
Not sure if Spotify got that same memo.
Banning people is way easier on small servers
Big “citation needed” here. My bet is that Meta have far better moderation systems than any other social media company on the planet.
It's Psalm — see the section on security analysis here: https://psalm.dev/docs/security_analysis/
Most of these vulnerabilities could have been discovered much earlier had the same security researchers pointed a SAST tool at the codebase.
I wrote an OSS PHP SAST tool 6 years ago, but it's suffered from industry neglect — most people only care about security after an incident, and PHP has enough magical behaviour that any tool needs to be tuned to how specific repositories behave.
I agree there's a big opportunity for LLMs to take this work forward, filling in for a lack of human expertise.
The author is deeply AI-pilled — to the point the whole article is written with AI. Slop begets slop.
A similar cohort are discovering, in myriad painful ways, that advances in agentic coding — the focus of a lot of pre and post training — does not translate into other domains.
All gossip I hear about the extremely powerful leads me to believe that they’d be utterly unable to organise any sort of conspiracy themselves.
Most haven’t touched Google Calendar in a decade. They can’t call anyone without their assistant typing in the number first.
Sure, but it's sort of dumb for me to bring an idea I value to the table until I have answers to all the obvious questions.
I owe it to my colleagues to not make them the bad guys by shooting down an idea.
Their worth is tied to what people are prepared to pay for them. And right now most people aren’t prepared to pay for Teslas.