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Any you can share?
Fight enshittification. For whatever reason, many travel sites no longer send full details in the e-mail confirmation, they want you to click through to the site...which means I can't forward it to plans@tripit.com for automatic import. Immediately after booking something,I tell Gemini to add it to my TripIt. Works great. I have a little prompt explaining how I like it formatted that I cut and paste, so I can just ma…
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Any you can share?
Fight enshittification. For whatever reason, many travel sites no longer send full details in the e-mail confirmation, they want you to click through to the site...which means I can't forward it to plans@tripit.com for automatic import. Immediately after booking something,I tell Gemini to add it to my TripIt. Works great. I have a little prompt explaining how I like it formatted that I cut and paste, so I can just ma…
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Gah - What a dumb take. There's nothing APT about an agent that you can open on a webpage to do things. If anything it's a fantastic accessibility win. Some people's critical thinking turns off when it comes to AI flows.
Fine. Now give me back browser plugins that can actually do whatever I want them to. You can justify manifest v3 for security reasons, or you can can do this. You cannot do both without severe cognitive dissonance.
Like that stopped anyone before from just ignoring the "cognitive dissonance" and moving ahead anyways with whatever gives shareholders the most short-term profits...
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What's the difference with complying to OpenAPI specification and providing an endpoint?
OpenAPI is primarily for machine-to-machine which needs determinism and optimized for some cases (e.g. time in unix format with ms accuracy). MCP is optimized for another use case where LLM has many limitations but has good "understanding" of text. instead of sending `{ user: {id: 123123123123, first_name: "XYZYZYZ", "last_name": "SDFSDF", "gender": "..."..... } }` you could return "Mr XYZYZYZ" or "Mrs XYZYZYZ" llm d…
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1) This is not APT. 2) While injection has potential, this is fairly well mitigated. Look at comet and others. These are all whataboutisms coming from a place of fear.
Pretty sure simonw's lethal trifecta [1] has not been "fairly well" mitigated. [1] https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/the-lethal-trifecta/
From the article: It's a side page agent that has only access to the page, and outputs content in text only, and awaits user confirmation on actions. It's all on the page. It's I guess it's a mono-fecta?
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Pretty sure simonw's lethal trifecta [1] has not been "fairly well" mitigated. [1] https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/the-lethal-trifecta/
Good thing we're not talking about a LLM then. From the article: It's a side page agent that has only access to the page, and outputs content in text only, and awaits user confirmation on actions. It's all on the page. It's I guess it's a mono-fecta?
PS: It is Gemini based, that's an LLM.
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Even if you’re competent and useful, work is an incredible sacrifice. Perhaps only 10% of workers (the most unattached and lacking in obligations) would voluntarily work. For example for parents there are only a litany of bad choices available. If UBI is offered, why would most people suffer through their work sacrifices.
> Perhaps only 10% of workers (the most unattached and lacking in obligations) would voluntarily work. That's not even close to true. Basically every study on UBI, everywhere, has shown that either more people work, or employment stays about the same, but in each case happiness and health go up vs the control. Since it's very clear you haven't researched your claim whatsoever - why are you making it? Why would you sa…
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This touches on something I've been thinking about. I'm making an ad blocker that tries to replace native ads with ads that actually add value to the viewer's life. In the public version, I'd like to offer some of the profits to the web hosts even if they haven't heard of it. Do you have any thoughts on how it would be best to go about that?
What do you consider to be an ad that actually adds value to the viewer's life in contrast to other ads?
The instantiation I'm working on is to track the viewer's long term goals and the habits they're trying to form, then only show ads relevant to those. Ads today are shitty because people with products that add no value to anyone's life can somewhat overcome that disadvantage by bidding more on ad space, so that's what we see. But there are plenty of products that would actually add net value which it doesn't occur to us to look for, and insofar as ads exist, they should help us find them.
This project (my working title is eudaimonia) aims to let the user essentially aikido the attention economy arms race by saying "here's what I think would add value in my life, you may pitch your product iff it's actually relevant to that".