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> become the only company in the world This is not a necessary end state. It is the byproduct of the disease of sociopathic MBAs.
Remember: MBAs are sociopathic by training. (Source, worked for multiple tech companies that were laser focused on delighting customers until money people came in and ruined it, to the point they would prefer devs sit idle than work on things the MBAs didn’t have on a priority list).
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> It seems that everyone loves agentic Claude code things these days but I don’t understand how you can review what it did and remain as much in the flow as you do with cursor. The way I review it is to let it finish a PR sized slice and then I review the whole diff in a separate terminal as if it’s a PR from someone else. Then I very impolitely list the shit that needs fixing, let the LLM grind out a new batch and r…
Considering the amount of rejects I do every single day I'm not sure I agree. Now that I cannot reject I am unable to do any agentic coding anymore.
Look at the finished piece of work and then treat the agent as if it’s that colleague you really hate and nitpick the shit out of the change it wrote. Usually the agent writes some over-engineered garbage which you then “help it” whittle down to something you would be okay approving if another human wrote it.
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> become the only company in the world This is not a necessary end state. It is the byproduct of the disease of sociopathic MBAs.
> sociopathic MBAs For the record, with the exception of Amazon’s Jassy, the CEOs of the top 5 companies are all engineering types with engineering credentials. The CEO credentials of the top 5 AI companies are all science degrees.
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> It is just a matter of time. The state, as we know it, will collapse or will be greatly reduced Doubt. The networking between people in power at the top will, in my opinion, most likely assure that they remain in power, because at the end of the day that is what they want most. I expect government will seize control of the most advanced models (if they haven't already), and the rest of us will be throttled, and sta…
There will be a moment where the government will depend so much on the tech that if the tech cuts the supply, they are f... Who do you think will rule at that point? They just cannot fight that, they do not have the technology these companies have.
And that's just the most obvious one. There are many other kinds of threats which are much more subtle.
That is how governments traditionally stay in charge, and I expect the pattern to continue. Citizens simply don't have access to the levels of destruction the state is capable of, by design. The common people can have all the advanced technology they want, so long as it doesn't threaten our leaders' monopoly on violence.
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The integrated review UI is super helpful, but apparently nobody reviews code anymore except me.
I use Claude Code (both Desktop and CLI) all day every day (as well as OpenCode with DeepSeek V4 among others). For non-mission-critical stuff (small internal tools, anything that doesn't touch the client and doesn't handle critical data or infra), I'm on Auto (sandboxed in the working directory). For everything else I approve every change, meaning I review every code change the model proposes. Plan mode is great to…
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"I am pretty sure" .... CONSPIRACY THEORY. Stop willing worst case scenarios and take your meds.
This kind of comment is not helpful. The prediction has predated the discussion since at least Space Merchants (1953)
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Yeah I haven’t had a problem yet which was too difficult for Fable to solve. I do have problems which Sol does not do well on. But if I could get Fable-level intelligence faster/cheaper and less restricted, that’s all I need.
Fable is great minus it's annoying writing style. It's nowhere near as bad as Opus 5 but it's very "AI trope-y" even with heavy steering. I can spot the writing immediately.
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Interesting. So what makes theirs not “optional text nobody reads or understands”?
> what makes theirs not “optional text nobody reads or understands”? You accept it. You pay consideration for it. If your website has a TOS dickover, that requires someone attest with their legal name and pay you $1, yes, it may be enforceable under some circumstances.
Without a licence you can’t wget -r a website and make copies of the materials on it, alter them, and so forth.
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And then powerful local LLMs become feasible and everyone and every government self hosts and the megacorps lose all power. Imagine the United States DoD, CIA, NSA training an LLM on all its top secret intel.
I can’t imagine any agency in their right mind training an LLM on their top secret data… especially considering that essentially it would collapse all need to know data in one easily leakable single access domain. The models have no feasible or reasonable way to implement rbac. So you would end up in a situation where people who need to know who killed A, also know who killed B, not to mention cell A knowing potentia…