The point of a graduation speech like this is to get students hyped up about themselves and their future. Surely you see the merit in, amongst a backdrop of a horrible job market, telling students that they have, inherent in them, the stuff of greatness, just as people did (checks watch) 3 years ago before vibe coding?
If you want more on this, I recommend Steve Jobs and the Next Big Thing by Stross. I’m not sure, but it might be the only extensive book about Next other than this new one.
Though it’s essentially a long hit piece. The author really had it out for Jobs.
In fact it’s a completely uncharitable book now that I think about it. Hopefully this new book will be a lot less biased.
I got sick of the inconsistency caused by Anthropic tinkering with Claude Code and had canceled my 20x. My plan was to switch to Codex so I could use it in Pi.
I am specifically talking about switching because of the harness, not model quality. Anyone else match my experience?
I wonder how many other people recently did the same. It would be prudent of Anthropic to let people use Pro/Max OAuth tokens with other harnesses I think. Even though I get why they want to own the eyeballs.
I didn’t even have a strong interest in space before the dude started writing about it. Maciej could write about literal rocks and make it worthwhile to read.
Instead, the "wild" thing here is that someone let an agent speak on their behalf with no review. The agent posted inaccurate instructions which someone else followed.
Those instructions lead to a brief gap in internal ACL controls, sounds like. I'm sorry, but given that the US government gave 14 year olds off incel Discords full access to Social Security data, this is not shocking by comparison.
To be clear, it is dumb and rude to let an agent speak on your behalf _without even reviewing it_.
This will eventually lead to a bigger snafu, of course. Security teams should control or at least review the agent permissions of every installation. Everyone is adopting this stuff, and a whole lot of people are going to set it up lazily/wrong (yolo mode at work).
Me: “I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?”
Opus 4.6, without searching the web: “Drive. You’re going to a car wash. ”
If you can get your hands on it, I recommend Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook by the same author. She covers barbed wire as well as many other ways to communicate. The book itself is gorgeous.
While NYT etc mostly stand back as the U.S. crosses the rubicon, what started as a freaking gadget review site seems to employ nearly all the journalists with actual gusto left in America.
Currently, I am a "Linux engineer" at a trading company.
You may enjoy my blog (mostly about operating system stuff): https://www.cyberdemon.org.