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Surely people feeling that way can be attributed to the industry?
For hopefully most people, it should be attributed to the "Wait, now I have such a freedom and power?". Opposite to "before the invention of bicycle, people married within a radius in the order of the mile" (can't remember the exact stat right now).
I like running Claude in a VirtualBox VM managed by a Vagrantfile. The nice thing about that is that I can just give it root access to the machine and be certain that it can't exfiltrate any private data from my laptop (on top of that I also run the VM on a dedicated server on Hetzner). The VM has no SSH access to anything, so it is pretty much limited to the code in the workspace that I give it access to. The main r…
Tangentially, I was wondering if Firecracker micro-vms could be use as light-weight alternatives to a full VM?
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I don't think the pressure of the auto lobby is really the reason. People feel cars are more convenient and more prestigious than riding on a bus. Car lobby certainly accelerated the process, but car users were the main driving force.
Surely people feeling that way can be attributed to the industry?
We are family of 4 with 2 small kids. Whenever we travel, its a series of backpacks, other bags, other stuff, and then some more. Heck, even if I travel alone its almost never just me - there are heaps of garbage to dispose, big shopping bags to bring back, big backpack with camping or climbing or skiing gear etc.
It would have been absolute, utter nightmare to do this over public transport. This comes from European who has generally very good public transport (given rural area) and world's best train network specifically (Switzerland). Yet roads are choke full of cars and every year there is more.
Public transport simply ain't cutting it for anything but the simplest use cases, ie just me and nothing or small backpack. Some routes I take would take 3-5x longer with public transport, or are just not possible at all. No industry massage required here, ever. Not everybody lives in some dense city and never leaves outside for evenings or weekends.
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> I'm continually bemused and astonished I'm not. Everyone is told to get 10X the amount of shit per day done these days. Safety checks are out the window at that point.
You can get 10x shit done without `rm -rf`ing your files. I don't see any correlation to getting things done with having a proper sandbox.
Let's say I have daily backups, and get 10x done each day by being reckless and risking an "rm -rf", and let's say there's a 1% chance of an "rm -rf". I break even after 2 days of being reckless even if I get unlucky and on day 2 it wipes my drive. I spend day 3 and 4 recovering, and am still 6 days ahead based on the 10x work I got done on day 1.
What if I have a 50 day streak of not hitting an "rm -rf"? Early retirement?
I guess the work on day 1 should be to build a proper sandbox and drop the chance of an "rm -rf or worse" even down to 0.001%.
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This is a great analogy. Like driving on the freeway, agents are super time efficient, generally safe, but the stakes are high in terms of the worse possible outcomes.
The analogy falters in scope, it should be more like ”do you put your entire family and all your friends in different cars, on different highways, and try to remote control them all at the same time, while also driving yourself, facing backwards”
You would also be correct if your risk estimate concluded that Tesla FSD has arguably killed people, makes mistakes humans would not, can glitch, and has no one to hold accountable. For these reasons, you choose not to use it.
Fable feels like a version of Opus running on a harness that won't let it halt until it's sure the issue is fixed, which makes sense if what you want is a model that's better at benchmarks. It's a very good model, but it comes at a huge premium: not only do the tokens cost more, but the model itself really wants to spend them all. For example, working with React Native, Fable never just says "okay, I did the thing, t…
Author wants to hide a horizontal scrollbar. Any junior frontend dev worth their salt will be asking right away "where do I stick `overflow-x: hidden;`?" A complete solution will then require hitting "Inspect element" in the browser to find the CSS class and running (rip)grep to find where it is in code, to then add a single line to.
An actual proactive programmer might start asking more pointed questions like what content does an empty textbox have that it overflows? And why do I need to insert this workaround that treats the symptom and not the root cause in two different places? Isn't it better to style `textarea` once? Etc, etc.
[0] https://github.com/datasette/datasette-agent/commit/a75a8b72...
This to me reads like a poignant commentary on the catastrophic loss of human agency, with the actual commit being highly revealing [0]. Author wants to hide a horizontal scrollbar. Any junior frontend dev worth their salt will be asking right away "where do I stick `overflow-x: hidden;`?" A complete solution will then require hitting "Inspect element" in the browser to find the CSS class and running (rip)grep to fin…