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You have a specific idea of customer in mind. Likely different than the gp’s. Many types of customers are quite happy to have prototypes thrown at them. Sometimes it’s even contrac…

If someone wants to propose an amendment allowing the feds to do this, they can. They just need to get 2/3rds of both the House and the Senate to approve the proposal and then get …

Sure. But by the text of the constitution (the thing we made up) Congress does not have the power to criminalize “anything,” but only things in specific areas. Everything else is l…

Customers aren’t in the habit of paying for things they don’t want.

These are factors to be considered, not pass/fail questions.

Nope. Virtually every fast food restaurant has free wifi, to say nothing of public libraries. It’s more common now than it ever was previously.

Presumably you don’t anymore if you have 5.4.

Codex added skills support recently. It appears to work exactly the same as Claude Code.

Cursor, Copilot, Roo Code, Cline, among others.

“firing people while turning a profit is 100% bad faith that should be regulated or barred.” That’s far too broad a claim. Just because you’re turning a profit doesn’t mean you sho…

Your expanded version is also incorrect.

> If it really was "just a complex situation", you would expect equal percentages of simple and complicated cases for regular joes and huge corporations, no? Obviously not. Regular…

Still relevant, as it means that a coding agent is more likely to get things right without searching. That saves time, money, and improves accuracy of results.

Citation needed for the idea that zero is the optimal price for public benefit. Among other issues, I expect medication compliance would be higher when the patient has to pay for t…

I believe they are talking about the OpenAI API, not ChatGPT.

I’ve never provided a number first. I’ve also never been dropped from interviews or negotiations because of that. I’m an expert in my specialty now, but I wasn’t when I started fol…

I’m not a celebrity or superstar, and I’ve successfully used his techniques several times. The very first time it resulted in $20k improvement over the initial salary offer. Anothe…

I ran into this as well, but now I have given standing instructions for the llm to pull the latest RR docs anytime it needs to work with RR. That has solved the entire issue.

Why wouldn’t you put your inputs in a form element?

Have you ever read the books? The main characters are middle class or poor.

Part of that is that Claude is exceptionally good at turn-based interactions compared to other models that are better at one-shot reasoning.

In my experience it is true, but only for relatively small pieces of a system at the time. LLMs have to be orchestrated by a knowledgeable human operator to build a complete system…

This article covers a lot of the history. https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/why-cant-the-us-build-ships Basically the US wasn’t great at shipbuilding post civil war due to high costs. …

How else do you propose to get a company to build a factory at your preferred location rather than theirs? Paying companies is the usual way to get them to do things. The economic …

> Here [2] is a table of best selling movies, inflation adjusted. No movie made in the past 25 years, including the endless men in spandex movies, is among them. The Force Awakens …