JambalayaJimbo

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by JambalayaJimbo 5d ago
What do you mean by sandboxing bash? Isn’t this about just having a tool like curl or Postman? Implanting an MCP client in your agent code isn’t all that different from calling requests or whatever
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by JambalayaJimbo 14d ago
Measuring area is a different use case to looking at the world map to get a sense of relative sizes - of continents, countries, regions, etc. This in turns influences how you think about history, population density, travel times, etc.
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by JambalayaJimbo 2mo ago
Re write the assistant message and see how easy it is to bypass a system prompt. How far do you have to stretch to get a human analogue? Short term amnesia?
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by JambalayaJimbo 2mo ago
Your example actually demonstrates why anthropomorphism is a bad idea. LLMs are vulnerable to classes of attacks that humans just aren’t. In your framework, the way to prevent attacks is to… invent human consciousness?? It’s an impossible g
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by JambalayaJimbo 2mo ago
The fact that mathematicians cannot devise a method to factor that large product, despite large amounts of money and research time, is what’s valuable! But even then your argument breaks down when you consider more complicated cryptographic
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by JambalayaJimbo 4mo ago
In cities the benefits don’t necessarily outweigh the risks yet cities are designed entirely around cars in many places to their detriment.
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by JambalayaJimbo 4mo ago
Yep. I was timed when working at the drive through at a fast food restaurant.
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by JambalayaJimbo 4mo ago
What I found comfort it in was turning the crank and then using extra time to upskill in various other things (including non software dev domains). Things that weren’t immediately useful to my employer and I never would have been directly a
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by JambalayaJimbo 4mo ago
As a car driver, you should understand a little about how your car works. What if you get a flat tire? At the very least, you should know not to drive on that flat tire. Software is full of leaky abstractions
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by JambalayaJimbo 5mo ago
So first of all, usability features are security features. There is the classic example of an uncrackable 18 character random password string that only results in frequent password reset attempts and the bank’s support staff getting totally
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by JambalayaJimbo 5mo ago
All the senior developers I have worked with are absolutely allergic to coming into the office, working closely with junior developers, and in general talking to people. Whereas juniors are eager to chat, have lunch with you , and share wha
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by JambalayaJimbo 5mo ago
This just sounds like a bug. Haven’t delved too deep into it technically though. Anyway flawed implementation doesn’t mean that hardware attestation is a fundamentally useless primitive. Apple Wallet is responsible for millions of transacti
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by JambalayaJimbo 5mo ago
My banking app already trusts Face ID right now!
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by JambalayaJimbo 5mo ago
I mean it’s a free country either way then. Elastic can change the licensing and Amazon is then free to compete with a fork of the software pre-licensing change. Amazon doesn’t really have a leg to stand on in objection here. Building a pla
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by JambalayaJimbo 5mo ago
What about Apple Wallet? The reality is that there is software dependent on the user being unable to modify it. This safeguards the server against fraudulent users.
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by JambalayaJimbo 5mo ago
The whole point of UUIDv4 is that you don't need to check if it's conflicting and can just use them right away. This falls apart if you let untrusted sources of UUIDv4's enter your system IMO
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by JambalayaJimbo 5mo ago
>Competition. If I ask my OS-level AI assistant to find a social media reel about a elephant dancing, the social media app that exposes a set of APIs for an AI agent might get used more. This is the exact opposite of what will happen (an
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by JambalayaJimbo 5mo ago
If you’re a manager you have people under you that care about the code they write and the direction of the company, not typewriter monkeys.
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by JambalayaJimbo 5mo ago
"Miserable" is subjective obviously. If you're regularly working evenings and weekends at your high paying law firm, I'd characterize that as miserable. If you're living cheaply in some exurban place but can only se
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by JambalayaJimbo 5mo ago
This is cool! I'd love if you could explain the issues you had with CSP and serving content. I was just tinkering around with MCP Apps the other day, and I had a really hard time serving images (this is for rendering in VSCode Copilot)
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by JambalayaJimbo 5mo ago
Pricing is way too good to be true? If they’re claiming a 4 month engagement, this would be much more believable if they actually charged a reasonable price for those 4 months.
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by JambalayaJimbo 5mo ago
Didn’t got 5.5 just come out lol. Am I just reading slop on this website?
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by JambalayaJimbo 5mo ago
If the business doesn’t grow then you shed costs like employees
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by JambalayaJimbo 6mo ago
I absolutely feel like there has been an explosion of software since the release of AI tools. This is a subjective assessment anyway… My company for example has gotten 500% better at creating productivity tools.
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by JambalayaJimbo 6mo ago
Claude Code allows subsidized access to Anthropic's models! The product quality doesn't really matter, which is an argument FOR vibe coding sure, but only in cases where software quality does not matter. You cannot extrapolate fro
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by JambalayaJimbo 6mo ago
I guess they weren't expecting a leak of the source code? It's very handy to have as much as possible available in the codebase itself.
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by JambalayaJimbo 6mo ago
You need both to be a great software engineer. The "means to an end" people will happily slop out PRs and let the "craft" people worry about it.
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by JambalayaJimbo 6mo ago
How do you even converge on the right data model without refining code? Elegant code and elegant data model are the exact same thing!
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by JambalayaJimbo 6mo ago
The banking industry absolutely does care about privacy of their business data btw. We do use tools like Confluence but they're all hosted in our own data centers.
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by JambalayaJimbo 6mo ago
Once you get used to using claude as an abstraction layer you start getting pretty reckless with it. My organization has the concept of "premium models" where our limits reset every month. I hit my limit pretty quickly last month

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