Todd

I mean....ok. But if you are making one, and cleaning up that mess, might as well make 10 and enable your future self to be lazy by reheating it.

Same thing happened to me. Agree that it seems to be completely vibe coded. Need a human in the loop for some sanity.

A company bought it in January, not a bad time to look for alternatives, but it's fun to hack too

Pretty easy to prompt an LLM to be cynical too ....

I don't think a work free society would be paradise. Actually I think that it would enable a certain type of person to be likely to end up in dark thoughts. And a certain other type to isolate themselves. Maybe work will be less productive and more social? Less requirement and more passion?

I just had a waking nightmare where the compaction has a progress bar measured in k/s and the remaining time indicator for compaction is 2 hours and 33 minutes.

Hopefully! If we can only automate health care administration without turning it into the automated death Star

Taxies? You need a taxi? Oh wait taxes!
...I mean actually though the government workforce doesn't use much of our taxes. (5% on salaries). It's all the pesky other things like social security, Medicare, and a fun supply of aircraft carriers that make up the majority of our spending.

You're absolutely right, sir.

Coolest Claude Code finding of the day. I lost a script and Claude code managed to take the pyc (compiled python file), find a tool to extract it, and then cleaned it and polished the missing elements into the fully working 1800 line original script.
Magic.

Yes it's building vast infrastructure which will be infinitely useful and impactful. But the issue is that there is no guarantee that the companies that are investing will have the spoils in the end, which is why it makes it a bubble. This is the industrial revolution sped up.

And when it comes to things like random videos, no one has the niche service that would fit a group of people and sustain itself, so that's why the free model reigns there. Email? It's not obvious to most users the cost of free email, and for most it's realistically almost no cost. Friction.

I think a subscription service works if you have a targeted niche service that isn't offered for free, and if your price point matches the majority of users. That's true for early video streaming. As prices and competition increase, you want to capture market share, freemium captures more users.

It sounds right to me. I get the idea that the majority of people are in jobs they don't particularly want, doing jobs that could be mostly automated, doing the minimum to get by. We have already hit the point of many or most jobs being regardless. Who dreams to be a cog that barely turns?

That's very graphic. Thanks for the tag. Wouldn't want someone who is also in the Michigan winter seeing live plants this time of year.

The ultimate goal of all LLM companies is to make a self improvement feedback loop which can autonomously improve itself - Claude code as a tool is useful to people but imagine the possibilities of the company that can just add more cpus to customize and optimize. Anthropic seems to be way ahead.

Nana Nana boo boo my ears are plugged huh? Ok... Stay in your own world

Yeah I guess we should get rid of robots machines and factories huh?

It's going to happen. How many manual seamstresses are around anymore? How many blacksmiths? How many brick layers? Being a Luddite is inferior to trying to shape the technology and responsibly.

As the level of intelligence improves, it can interact with many more specialized tools to do almost anything in your imagination. Whether the value to society is there in the end is a real question of where the benefits go as with anything.

Further to that, another simple improvement is that it saves the value of a human responding to redundant questions. But longer term, when combined with other machine learning, can again take redundant and non value add actions away from people.

A few ways that it's ALREADY adding value is in programming and translation. Both of those fields have been transformed and the change there will accelerate.

That's like saying writing isn't worthwhile because it doesn't produce any value or broad benefit to society. Writing itself doesn't, but the ultimate value of the writing is not indeed the words themselves but the way those words translate into actions.

A hammer can build and destroy.

Ok I'll bite. Why?

Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."

Celebrity bot wars : Ultimate AI

I don't think it makes sense to measure profit today when models are evolving so quickly that the value that they can unlock is in its infancy. We may see players drop out, but the ultimate value of being able to automate nearly everything at life is nearly infinite. It's a printing press of money.

Someone will build it. A company that's at least taking ethical efforts is a much better company to build it than some of the others out there.

Yes. I cycle when it's warm and definitely enjoy the scenery. Helps so much to stay grounded.