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If the "study" is interesting at all, it's because of the implication that driving a taxi somehow wards off Alzheimers... but at the cost of killing you before you get it.

Usually customers are open about this kind of thing though. They play you off your competitors and vice versa. I don't totally disagree, I just think the real secrets have nothing …

The truth is that most software companies don't have any secrets worth hiding. The saas industry is all about sales and deals. The market runs on access, not intelligence.

And agentic enthusiasts apparently believe agents can do anything except REST.

The funny thing is that Anthropic and its boosters here framed MCP as a brilliant development. It's a terrible protocol with zero value beyond bigtech sponsorship. We're all worse …

it's a dumb comparison and you're doubling down on it

There ARE two types of people. Those who ride bicycles and those who prefer a self-driving car.

Spot on. But logic is lost on people who are ideologically motivated.

Or have too few programmers read classical literature?

I don't know why you wouldn't think they could do this already. Without the system prompt these models can be used to do all sorts of terrible things. That's precisely why they nee…

Labelling images, transcription, and vacuuming are things humans can do already. The vacuum is a great example of an actual invention. Making it "autonomous" just isn't that impres…

Productivity gains maybe but nothing actually novel. And those productivity gains are moot if AI costs (including externalities) increase commensurately.

People's workday has been transformed by it. But I fail to see actual transformation beyond "more crap, faster." AI hasn't done anything we couldn't already do. It's just doing it …

I love AI because it has quickly revealed to the general public how all these tech geniuses are really just rich morons. It's very much like the Naked Emperor. Sycophantic AI has c…

My point is that you get used to it. I don't like if aesthetically, but I like that it has an aesthetic at all. I have coworkers who overuse phrases, oftentimes incorrectly. It doe…

Because the software platforms are so jank you need dedicated support personnel... That, and you laid off all your FTEs so you could afford the shiny platform your execs bought aft…

I don't really care if it says load-bearing or belt and suspenders so long as it's using them correctly, which it mostly does. I don't know how programmers, who are so used to star…

every one-hit wonder asks the same question. we liked it until we didn't.

I was involved in both sides of this battle over ten years ago. Things haven't changed all that much. It's important to note that neither side has moral legitimacy. Not everyone wh…

The losers spending 8hrs of free time on their phone were just watching TV before all this. Bad parents are not a novel invention.

Yes they will approve as many as possible to drive the price of turbines even higher.

Same is true if you're reading a newspaper

It can only deal in tokens, so you're essentially right that it creates a textual description before describing it back to you. This process is obviously incredibly lossy and detai…

I'll see your "government wants biometric surveillance" conspiracy theory and raise you a "pedofiles want to keep kids on social media" theory.

I agree. Very little in here specifically applies to fintech except the ledgering and rounding parts, which are pretty light. I would prefer to read a defense of something more rad…