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The wording in this post seems much more... restrained? than usual. Maybe Anthropic is afraid of exaggerating the capabilities and consequences of their new models to avoid governm…

What I hate about my new Toyota's volume knob is that there is no indication of volume level in the UI, and the knob itself doesn't ratchet. So I have absolutely no feedback about …

> no need to tear them down after a couple of decades Where are people constructing buildings that need to be torn down after a couple decades? This is a refrain I've heard about c…

IME it's Claude that pushes back, and Codex that just does the thing. It's happened once or twice where I've told Claude bluntly and directly "do this" and it responded "no, here's…

An image model could probably generate gore as long as there was, say, both PG-13 violence and surgery photos in the training set. There's probably no way to prevent the ability of…

'censorship' may be too strong a word, but there is something unprecedented about this. AI tools are supposed to be general-purpose and able to assist with all sorts of tasks. It's…

In my experience, an agent with "fresh eyes", i.e., without the context of being told what to write and writing it, does have a different perspective and is able to be more critica…

It is ridiculously more expensive and complicated under the hood, technically, but to the user, the sheer convenience of being able to text the computer "hey, when I get an email l…

Some nitpicking. > Modern JavaScript applications aren't just a few scripts anymore — they're sprawling codebases with thousands of dependencies, complex module graphs, and extensi…

Animal intelligence is often underestimated, (e.g. there's a famous test that shows that chimpanzee working memory is better than ours) but our use of language is qualitatively dif…

> spaghettification is also a non-issue, as long as the framework defines clear containers for spaghettis Sorry, but I disagree strongly with this. When there is, inevitably, a bug…

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they're referring to the infamous Corporate Memphis style which is frequently used in big tech branding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Memphis

It's not unreasonable to briefly forget details like that, especially when you're dealing with a multi-language codebase where "how do I make a log statement?" requires a different…

Another American holiday coming up with an equally useless name is Fourth of July. Nobody seems to have a problem with that name, and nobody I know calls it Independence Day. Neith…

I was dumbfounded too, but NBC explains in this same article: > "The law banning TikTok [...] allows the president to grant a 90-day extension before the ban is enforced, provided …

I agree - if I was a student, I would be very tempted to use an LLM for this sort of coursework-irrelevant busywork assignment, especially if I had other work on my plate. It's not…

A shame there's only one doctor left :(

Oh, that's nothing. I present to you a 1 byte program that outputs the complete works of Shakespeare: a The interpreter, written in Rust (for performance), evaluates the command `a…

Here's my two cents, not directed towards you, but to the discussion in general. If someone wants to lease a product to you, and you would rather they sell it, that doesn't give yo…

I'm reminded of the Itchy and Scratchy clip where they each pull out bigger and bigger guns on each other, until finally the earth explodes.

I'm shocked at how many bugs and UI issues I've encountered with the Quest 3 and the associated ecosystem (mostly the web store and android app). I can't help but think of Jonathan…

they don't care because the replacements are 70% as good but cost 90% less

I typed for years in a similar way, and only developed RSI after forcing myself to type "properly"