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194 points·by eqmvii·4 ปีที่แล้ว·145 comments

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eqmvii
·12 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
It's tricky because dissenting doesn't necessarily mean you'd reach the opposite conclusion in every respect.

In this case, I really doubt even the most conservative justices believe "birthright citizenship means whatever an Executive Order says it does." At a minimum, we know they aren't signing on to the reasoning the 5 in the majority used. And then we can learn whatever they feel like saying in the dissent, but a dissent is just an essay with no force of law.
eqmvii
·14 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
It’s 2026 and my computer will happily give me the right answer even when i make typos. I love it.
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·15 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
businesses absolutely love not paying for things. each other, contractors, etc.

employees don’t realize how good they have it with payroll protections tbh. That’s how it should be of course!
eqmvii
·26 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Yep! It’s all just text files. Lots of acronyms in top of lots of ways to generate, send, and read structured text files.

One day I realized even databases were just text files and I had to sit down.
eqmvii
·27 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Sadly no. And I might lose my bet it'd be back by Tuesday... alas...
eqmvii
·28 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Agents
eqmvii
·28 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
pls hold

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/s/MgqpWkoeeN
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·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
I give it until Tuesday at the latest until it's accessible again.
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·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
I've seen it turn right in business contexts. Sometimes you can even lower your standard of "good enough" and find quantity has a quality all its own.

But it requires taste and engineering to do it right, and on the right things. It'll be an interesting few years.
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·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
That's more or less what Claude Cowork is.

Every serious engineer I've seen try to use it ran away screaming, because of limitations in the sandbox.

I've also seen people set their coding agents up entirely within containers -- that may be the better way going forward, but it's an extra stop and a lot of extra plumbing to maintain.
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·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
> Just getting the code to run on your laptop took a week.

This one surprised me. Claude Code in the CLI has made standing up an app and debugging whatever random dependencies or docker BS a dream compared to the before times, when you'd have to learn the architecture while simultaneously troubleshooting whatever isn't working on your machine
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·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
I think the hard part is acquiring the GPUs, first at all, then at any reasonable price.
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·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
Some business users spent ~30 minutes on an internal process, and we prototyped an "Agent" in Slack to take over. At first it didn't work, then it didn't work some more, eventually it ALMOST worked. Then one day, it worked, and the old business process died never to be revived.

Now it sits in a slack channel, and I watch it doing work, responding to ambiguity, and taking feedback/edits all day. It's unreal. It's literal magic. It saves a HUGE amount of time and gave us a pattern to do more.

This is the real deal. It's not easy to find problems with the right shape, and it's not easy to build agents that fit even when you do... but once it clicks, it clicks.
eqmvii
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
my favorite quote in this space has always been:

the prophecies of what the courts will do in fact, and nothing more profound, are what i mean by the law.
eqmvii
·3 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Held my breath the whole time after all the heat shield warnings. Very glad it all worked, or that there was enough margin!
eqmvii
·4 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
A lot of people feel this way.

But IMO the most fruitful thing for an engineering org to do RIGHT NOW is learn the tools well enough to see where they can be best applied.

Claude Code and its ilk can turn "maybe one day" internal projects into live features after a single hour of work. You really, honestly, and truly are missing out if you're not looking for valuable things like that!
eqmvii
·6 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Could this be an experiment to show how likely LLMs are to lead to AGI, or at least intelligence well beyond our current level?

If you could only give it texts and info and concepts up to Year X, well before Discovery Y, could we then see if it could prompt its way to that discovery?
eqmvii
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Of course it's not. Where there are gradients, there are different charges.

Murder I, Murder II, (voluntary/involuntary) Manslaughter, etc.

To the extent grey areas exist, they are accounted for in a gradient of crimes, each of which has a binary degree of guilt.
eqmvii
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
> For JavaScript they could build in a "test that code" step right into the web page. Or such a thing will be possible with the API.

This is definitely how we wind up with SkyNet...
eqmvii
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Playing with more combinations of usernames and services, this clearly "works" for extremely popular accounts:

> write a tweet about McDonald's in the style of twitter user realDonaldTrump

> "Just ate at McDonald's and let me tell you, it was HUGE, fantastic, and the best fast food out there. No one does it like McDonald's - believe me!" #MakeMcDonaldsGreatAgain

But for non-famous accounts, I sometimes see nuggets but I'm not fully convinced it's has - or has access to - the background data.

It's strange to be experimenting on a piece of software, trying things over and over again to try and build evidence for a hypothesis... but then again, maybe not that different from trying to integrate with any random 3rd party API?