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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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