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I’m not looking forward to our customer service future.

I called my window contractor this week, I need new skylights. Instead Janet answering, they now use an AI operator-lead-generator thing.

After a few of minutes of answering questions, I just hung up. I’m unsure why, I don’t miss Janet or even genuinely like talking to people, and Im definitely not anti-AI. I just intensely disliked the experience, enough to walk away from a vendor with whom I’ve done tens of $ks in business (I found another window guy).

Apnea sufferer here, for whom cpap stopped working after weight loss. It turned out that my mouth was opening during sleep, reducing the effectiveness of cpap, and after adding a chin strap to keep my mouth shut I have had very few apnea events.

The mouth-tapers aren’t always wrong (though we do always look silly).

I’ve relied on iCloud as well, but just learned that it allows apps to store persistent data. This data is synced between all devices, and there’s no way for you to view or manage/delete it. Even determining which apps do this requires you to enumerate the apps entitlements, which is nontrivial. And so an app you install on your iPhone can have configuration or credentials persist to each iCloud-connected device, and you have no control over it. This is certainly convenient, if that’s the behavior you want; if not, there’s no visibility or control.

I worry about this from an access continuity perspective; if a query like this caused my access to Claude to be revoked, it would affect my livelihood. Coupled with the new rigorous identity verification, you risk not being able to get replacement accounts - they don’t ban your username, they ban you.

For this reason (and others) I pay for both Team and Personal LLM plans, use a diversity of them for specific purposes, and use some LLMs very carefully; if I were to lose access to Gmail for Gemini wrongthink, it would be personally devastating.

Did you use generative AI to design this? Superpowers plugin? This is cool, but if you did use AI that’s another level of cool :)

https://github.com/markomarkovic/nena-ilo-lili/blob/main/doc...

This presumes that they won’t maintain those, which would be a valid choice to maintain PayPal’s market penetration (if that’s the goal). Diverse offerings etc

It must have been removed, given that the initial evidence of the exfil specifically demonstrated .env files being included. And .ssh/* for the user which ran this in $HOME.

I’d like it if my leadership stopped using load-bearing, and others like “shape” and “estate”.

In the past, when you saw a new term of art it came from some book being passed around leadership (like Architect Elevator) or some new training program. “Platform mindset”, “Shift-left everything” etc.

These days, they are all coming from LLMs. You can probably infer which contracts we have from the wording of all-hands messages.

I even LIKE “shape”, it’s nice and generic and everyone immediately understands it. I just see it as an obvious low-impact brainwashing, and wonder what other effects there are that we don’t notice.

That’s the fault of the SEC EDGAR tool. The Edgar MCP docs show setting an env var: ‘SEC_EDGAR_USER_AGENT="Your Name (name@domain.com)"’.

Claude just followed the instructions. Which is maybe even more risky?

The LibRedirect link in that post is 404

Same question, same scenario. I tried it on MacOS, and the first issue I experienced (don’t recall what it was) had me deep into Redhat forums to even understand what was happening. Switching to OrbStack was a no-brainer, but there are obvious tradeoffs from a features perspective.

I think the target market isn’t doing this; heck, I’d normally be like you, but the price is low enough here to “one and done and forget it” here.

Indeed. I read the entire article, it was great. Domains can be a big PITA.

I’m just happy to see diversity here; sometimes I feel like Nvidia is going to eat the world, with buying other fabs and branching out - or up, I guess - from chips and racks to models, frameworks, and end user stuff.

I unfortunately agree with you, selfishly. This used to be the forum where one could mostly find interesting technology and ideas and discuss them with intelligent people. An escape from the standard online hell and it’s people who must truly enjoy conflict - which my body instead interprets as anxiety and terror.

But now it’s here, and so are they. It’s probably the same people. It’s probably me.

WRT “Claude learns over time” - this is the biggest gap for me in the current system. As I scale my usage of Claude at work, I observe that it’s quite bad at distinguishing what it should “learn” (memorize) from experimental or just wrong data. It builds and builds on a foundation of sand, making sometimes hidden assumptions and turning them into actionable insight thats just not correct.

It recently wrote an entire dissertation for an epic, assuming it was related to some other project, where it had earlier made the wrong guess about a vendor capability (from their marketing materials, no less), and it all had to be thrown away. I cleared the memory, but it appears to be still pulling from some corporate data source i cant control or locate.

“There have been so many red flags with W Social since its hastily cobbled-together *announcement at Davos*”

I think that last bit explains why European govt orgs have migrated to it, over the open source Eurosky.

What were your constraints and how were they not met? Looking to buy the same, Dream Machine specifically.

Is it though? “Continues to work as it did before”, referencing a period when we had no freaking clue if our accounts would be banned.

I like your app, and was a Premium subscriber for a while; I cancelled in a big purge, but seeing you post here has me reconsidering. Great product, the privacy angle was the biggest plus for me personally. Best of luck to you!

OK, sounds fascinating; following! (your GH)

IME it’s more like 60, which then makes more sense given vision deterioration. Then again most of my over-40 experience is with folks in the tech industry.

They likely did, and this autocorrect slip might suggest why OP is using local models :)

Unfortunately, any “creator” who wants to be searchable on YouTube needs to optimize for that algorithm. I have the same feelings as you - and it includes pictures of their face pointing to something, with a particular expression of surprise.

I give Jeff a pass though, and make sure I send alternate goodness signals like liking his YT videos after I watch them. He’s one of us.

Do you have an example? Sounds interesting.

I assume this trust issue is related to the not-infrequent MacOS notifications asking for permission to run Ruby in the background or when the machine starts. It says nothing about Homebrew though.

Did you write the skill.md files yourself? I often wonder this; there’s so much text in most skills, and I can’t imagine it’s human generated.

I don’t write my own - I can’t optimize for the models understanding, and so I just give the skill-creator skill an outline and then have it refine until the output is what I want.

Fair, and thank you for the nudge dang.

You guys are rockstars; thanks!

I had an issue with installing OpenClaw, and it helped me debug the failure and get itself working. I had to sit quietly for a moment. No reading docs or inspecting the system, just “what’s wrong here?”.

While I didnt find a use for openclaw, it opened my eyes to the potential for distributing software which, once bootstrapped a bit, can interrogate … itself, understand its own requirements, communicate with the device, and become operable.

Add capable small models to the mix, and it’s almost frightening what good (or malicious) software might be able to do.