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by brookst 5mo ago
This is like saying you gave a Taylor Swift fan sheet music from 1984 and from Michael Jackson’s thriller and they couldn’t tell the difference. I have a strong affinity for Claude Code because of the interaction experience and overall to
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by brookst 5mo ago
Different levels. Yes, MCP is a hack that could have been carefully built on prior art, and it would have been better for it. Yes, MCP is capable of expressing that prior art, and you can do semantic web concepts even if the wire protocol
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by brookst 5mo ago
Have you used MCP, at the protocol level? WAP was dumb and failed because it oversimplified the web, and phones evolved to be real computers. MCP is more sophisticated than typical APIs. It adds organization, policy, and code vs data (promp
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by brookst 5mo ago
MCP is a higher layer than your existing API. It’s like saying APIs are dead because you can just use HTTP. They’re not the same thing, though of course you can hand-roll the higher layer in the lower one. It’s just more work, less standard
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by brookst 5mo ago
Sure. It’s not easy to do. I think odds favor China right now, but it’s far from a done deal. Anything from geopolitics to internal politics to technical hurdles could interfere (ditto with the US and everyone else of course).
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by brookst 5mo ago
Some of that, and also because it’s a benchmark of program maturity. Think of it as not wanting China to be able to do things the US can’t, with some overtones of military capability, American exceptionalism, the symbolism of China not even
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by brookst 5mo ago
Always hope for the stupid mistake. It’s embarrassing but so much better than having the same problem caused by a complex and difficult-to-root-cause issue. After a long day of working on a car I would much rather have it fail to start beca
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by brookst 5mo ago
Risk aversion is very risky.
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by brookst 5mo ago
I didn’t see that assumption. And I agree “leap to sabotage” sounds a lot like ~~Galt~~ Elon.
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by brookst 5mo ago
I’m wary of “has not been leaked in a way that was picked up in public news” as proof or disproof of anything.
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by brookst 5mo ago
What other companies brag about lowered costs? Isn’t that just a complicated way of asking customers to demand lower prices?
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by brookst 5mo ago
Perhaps to some degree, but there is intrinsic value to a Ferrari if you enjoy driving. That doesn’t change with scarcity. But I agree, and even celebrate, that a hypothetical future with abundance will be bad for speculators and the luxury
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by brookst 5mo ago
You’re still getting at motives rather than facts, which means it’s unfalsibisble. If you’re going to say that fact X is not a counter/example because [subjective, speculative reasons] then I’m confident you’ll never find a fact that c
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by brookst 5mo ago
Also not if you’re the president. But generally we’re talking about the life experience of the 330m people who are not outliers in our society.
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by brookst 5mo ago
Flock
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by brookst 5mo ago
I would hope so. It would be very odd if they shared every detail of the suspect’s life, the investigation, the evidence, and all tangential but interesting facts as part of the arrest.
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by brookst 5mo ago
You’ve conflated two things: 1. Saying that an answer may be too simplistic and a more nuanced view is warranted. 2. Saying that an answer is both reductive and self-absorbed One opens the door to many possibilities, and invites deeper
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by brookst 5mo ago
You’re my kind of people. Don’t be a jerk, even if some research says there’s some upside to it.
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by brookst 5mo ago
Yeah. Being a jerk is its own punishment. Same way I could never run a business where I had to yell at the employees to get results. Screw that, my psyche is worth more than a few percent efficiency.
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by brookst 5mo ago
Space'x IPO docs say that launch + Starlink will be 2% of their revenue opportunity, with enterprise AI being 98%.
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by brookst 5mo ago
I use this same technique as part of https://github.com/brookstalley/prawduct Biggest gap in the Claude Code harness is any sense of durable artifacts. It makes a huge difference to formalize persisting requirements, p
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by brookst 5mo ago
The whole point of AI coding is (partial) decoupling of software from human coding. You might as well ask what the ability is to create arbitrary images to any specification, if not painting? But AI image gen is not painting. It’s painful a
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by brookst 5mo ago
I don’t really find it fruitful to speculate about motives in complex systems. The claim was that average people don’t benefit from medical advances, which seems clearly untrue. Now, if we’re shifting to why advances are often generally a
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by brookst 5mo ago
It’s the shareholders of the purchased company that provide the financing, in the form of debt in the company’s books. Then they exit, and the company lays off people to service the debt, and you and I as taxpayers cover unemployment and ot
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by brookst 5mo ago
How accessible were covid vaccines?
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by brookst 5mo ago
It’s not coding that’s being democratized, it’s the ability to create games, tools, etc, that require coding. Suppose it became possible to buy a Ferrari (not that new hideous one) for $5k. That would be democratizing Ferrari ownership: far
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by brookst 5mo ago
I sincerely doubt Anthropic’s IPO will say that their AI business is only 2% of their future revenue, and they’re bundling in totally unrelated, unprofitable things they expect to account for 98%.
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by brookst 5mo ago
Bingo. MS has so many strengths that should make them relevant — a billion or so Windows installations, ~~Office~~ ~~M365~~ M365 Copilot is still the de facto productivity suite, Azure data centers, the OpenAI deal — and they just can’t get
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by brookst 5mo ago
Does that mean that nothing of value can come from the church, and we should ignore all ideas they put forth out of some kind of spite?
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by brookst 5mo ago
Datacenters in spaaaace!

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