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I absolutely agree, although even that doesn't solve the root problem. The underlying LLM architecture is fundamentally insecure as it doesn't separate between instructions and pure content to read/operate on.

I wonder if it'd be possible to train an LLM with such architecture: one input for the instructions/conversation and one "data-only" input. Training would ensure that the latter isn't interpreted as instructions, although I'm not knowledgeable enough to understand if that's even theoretically possible: even if the inputs are initially separate, they eventually mix in the neural network. However, I imagine that training could be done with massive amounts of prompt injections in the "data-only" input to penalize execution of those instructions.

Gemini 3.1 Pro 5 months ago

I find Gemini is outstanding at reasoning (all topics) and architecture (software/system design). On the other hand, Gemini CLI sucks and so I end up using Claude Code and Codex CLI for agentic work.

However, I heavily use Gemini in my daily work and I think it has its own place. Ultimately, I don't see the point of choosing the one "best" model for everything, but I'd rather use what's best for any given task.

Why would they be? Cursor took an existing editor and added some AI features on top of it. Features that are enabled by a third party API with some good prompts, something easily replicable by any editor company. Current LLMs are a commodity.

I Am Tired of AI 2 years ago

But that does not prove anything. We don't know where we are on the AI-power scale currently. "Superintelligence", whatever that means, could be 1 year or 1000 years away at our current progress, and we wouldn't know until we reach it.

Even my brother and I share only ~50% DNA.

This is completely false. Any two random humans have more than 99% overlap by virtue of being the same species. It's even higher for brothers. We also share around 90% DNA with cats, dogs and elephants.

https://www.amacad.org/publication/unequal-nature-geneticist...

I'm not too worried about it because it's never a 100% overlap.

This doesn't make sense. If they were equal, you'd be the same person except for environmental differences. Many applications don't need equal DNAs. E.g.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=KT18KJouHWg

About insurance companies, they're legally forbidden to use such data.

This is a very weak argument. There's a long history of companies doing illegal things, and even if it's illegal today it doesn't mean it'll be illegal tomorrow.

The options might exist, but that doesn't mean that they are viable/usable. I agree with many of your points, but regarding document processing, LibreOffice really does not compare with any of the best alternatives (Google Documents, Office Word). It lacks options, if the options exists they are hidden in obscure menus, it doesn't display many things correctly (at least on my Linux computer), etc. For document processing, I'm still stuck on Google Docs, which is quite a sad state of affairs.

With Firefox you can toggle some settings that will make much harder to generate useful fingerprints. That's already a massive privacy difference.

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Here we go again. Just require POST requests with a CSRF token for upvotes...

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Maybe the author shared the upvote link instead of the link to the post itself? It sounds like the most likely explanation.

I do wonder why this issue has never been fixed?!

A message ID only needs to be unique per workspace, in which case you'd expect very few collisions to begin with, and you could even retry on insert failure with a new timestamp. I don't think that would cause significant performance penalties.

This matches my experience.

I use ChatGPT when form matters but content doesn't, i.e. emails, letters, etc. I tell it the topic or the information that should be present and most of the time it generates a good email or letter.

If I need to find a specific piece of information I use FastGPT by Kagi, I'm consistently surprised by how good it is at finding exactly what I ask it, and it provides real references too.

I experienced this as well. The key for me is to only nap if I'm really tired and to limit the nap at 20 minutes max (although usually I wake up after 10-15 minutes) and to avoid napping too late. If it's after 2:30pm I don't nap even if I'm tired.

They're the best. They don't even ask for personal information when creating an account (heck, they don't ask for anything at all) and you can pay with crypto or cash. They use Wireguard and their desktop and mobile apps are very good.

They shouldn't keep logs but even if they did there's no personal information metadata.