So anyone have prior art we can point to? Because no way is a rpc call novel.
September 26, 2025: https://blog.cloudflare.com/code-mode/
Mistral Patent for “Code implemented tool calls”
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#22no shot my gpt-3 discord chatbot that did this beats it as prior art
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#23Patent for the most basic pattern seen in literally all of software engineering
Or it’s a patent for ”a method” of doing that, that is much more specific?
The question is whether the method is sufficiently novel or specific enough to the problems/difficulties of solving a specific domain’s problems to warrant a patent.
It’s one of those kinds of patents i assume I’m violating every 100 lines of code I write.
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#24These don't really do anything, its just investement bait/participation trophies.
Once worked at a startup with a legendary dumbass who would tell anyone who listened about their patent for URL routing in javascript. Please don't hurt yourself rolling your eyes
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#25Do software patents only exist for rich players to build a moat against poorer players? At this point with patents of this quality only reason for them to exist seems to be to cross-license them for extra revenue and to possibly block anyone too poor to fight for themselves...
Precisely the reason is to give breathing room for big players to invest in development of technology so they can capitalise exclusively for a period
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#26I'd like to patent the term "disadvertisement" and use this as a prime example.
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#27It should be embarrassing and shameful to apply for such a trivial patent.
“Claude, please review my repo for any work that could be novel enough to receive a patent. Be liberal in your definition of ‘novel’”
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#28Do software patents only exist for rich players to build a moat against poorer players? At this point with patents of this quality only reason for them to exist seems to be to cross-license them for extra revenue and to possibly block anyone too poor to fight for themselves...
They exist so you can not be forbidden to do what you invented.. but there might be unintended correlation ;)
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#29Mistral has set off my stink test for a while now, they seem to be a "friendly EU AI provider" who are really an EU mouthpiece for regulation and stifling competition instead of actually innovating Edit: downvote if you want, but here's another example: "Companies selling artificial intelligence models in Europe should pay a "levy" to support cultural industries, the head of French developer Mistral said on Friday, M…
They all do that, when OpenAI reached a licensing deal with Reddit, it's to prevent less financially capable competitors to enter the market. (And I'm not saying that's right either)
Re: Mistral Patent for “Code implemented tool calls”
#30Mistral has set off my stink test for a while now, they seem to be a "friendly EU AI provider" who are really an EU mouthpiece for regulation and stifling competition instead of actually innovating Edit: downvote if you want, but here's another example: "Companies selling artificial intelligence models in Europe should pay a "levy" to support cultural industries, the head of French developer Mistral said on Friday, M…
Mistral aren't an EU mouthpiece. They're a startup backed by Microsoft, nVidia, and Salesforce.