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davidmckayv

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    Comment #49199612

    OP here. I work with Mike on the SDK, and he covered why we built it, so here's how it actually works. We treat "channel" as one layer with four pieces: Adapters normalize each pla…

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    Comment #45445454

    That's fair, but how do you grep down to the right 100-200 documents from millions without semantic understanding? If someone asks "What's our supply chain exposure?" grep won't fi…

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    Comment #45445280

    This glosses over a fundamental scaling problem that undermines the entire argument. The author's main example is Claude Code searching through local codebases with grep and ripgre…

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    Comment #45421952

    Having technical access to prompts doesn't equal knowledge for criminal liability. Under 18 USC § 842, you need actual knowledge that specific information is being provided to some…

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    Comment #45421042

    You're conflating individual criminal liability with mandated prior restraint. If someone tells a chatbot they're going to commit a crime and the AI helps them, prosecute under exi…

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    Comment #45420315

    There's no contradiction. "True threats" is already a narrow exception defined by decades of Supreme Court precedent. It means statements where the speaker intends to communicate a…

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    Comment #45420105

    You're actually making my point for me. 18 USC § 842 criminalizes distributing information with knowledge or intent that it will be used to commit a crime. That's criminal liabilit…

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    Comment #45419086

    Thank you!

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    Comment #45418951

    No. I just write well.

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    Comment #45418930

    This is censorship with extra steps. Look at what the bill actually requires. Companies have to publish frameworks showing how they "mitigate catastrophic risk" and implement "safe…

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    Comment #45376889

    This really captures something I've been experiencing with Gemini lately. The models are genuinely capable when they work properly, but there's this persistent truncation issue tha…

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    Comment #14723432

    CTO of PolicyGenius (NYC) here. We'd love to have former SoundClouders come join. Not just for engineering, we have a bunch of openings across the business. You can also email recr…

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    Comment #14689154

    I actually specifically wrote about this after receiving an email calling imposter syndrome out as the reason the person wanted to stop the interview process. Some thoughts on how …

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