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It's interesting, the "discernment horizon" as Yegge puts it: the point where humans can't verify an answer because checking it is harder than producing it. I'm not sure it's quite…

For the LLM it's a probabilistic set of strings that achieves the outcome, the highest probability set didn't work, try the next one until success or threshold met. A human sees th…

It's when they sniff the glue, then things get wild.

Isn't the what sftp is? sftp multiplexes commands and data, and is single port without all the old fashioned two port negotiation of FTP.

Yes, I'm saying it's not a good analogy

> We require age minimums for driving, voting, and drinking because we believe maturity only comes through lived experience. Not true, we do this because the 99% of the time it's t…

Nuance!? This is The Internet, we can't be having any of that here.

I have it (claude, codex) summarise what we've discussed about a design, big change, put it in an MD file and then I correct it, have it re-read it and then do the change. Then lat…

Can't you just reset the password on account without the dot it in? Lock them out.

Couldn't you play a WAV too? But they were too massive at the time for most peoples bandwidth.

Yes, but the concept existed in 'process servers' 'EAI hubs' and various other names. EBS caught on as the defacto term later.

SOA is more than just RPC it's about the decomposition of your organisation in to cohesive (from a functional(ity) perspective) units of software, to reduce the need to make the re…

SOA never required an ESB, this was simply vendors trying to shoehorn in a saleable unit of software - which they succeeded at better in the 90s. Likewise I've seen people implemen…