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by brookst 7mo ago
Been thinking about this a lot recently. I think we need a way to verify the specs. A combo of formal logic and adversarial thinking (probably from LLMs) that will produce an exhaustive list of everything the program will do, and everything
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by brookst 7mo ago
I remember when you had to build the hardware before you could run anything. But I’m not sure that’s super relevant to app stores.
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by brookst 7mo ago
Probably none? I certainly didn’t mean to imply there is significant investment.
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by brookst 7mo ago
I’ve been toying with the idea of writing a book about the American shift from “a hard day’s work for fair pay” to what I’m calling the lottery economy. Fewer and fewer people can make a decent living with traditional work. Hence, my theory
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by brookst 7mo ago
Agreed on the free speech versus common carrier aspects. But I lean the other way with app stores. The companies hire reviewers, the listings appear in the App Store trade dress, it feels more like a museum or magazine than an ISP. But I ge
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by brookst 7mo ago
This is false and it weakens your position. https://www.justice.gov/atr/case/us-and-plaintiff-states-v-g... https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-prevails-l... https:/&
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by brookst 7mo ago
I’m generally with you, but I am not prepared to say companies should be forced to host and distribute content they believe reflects badly on them. That and I don’t see how Google and Apple can both be monopolies in mobile. Is this the “For
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by brookst 7mo ago
Sure. The question is whether they have the same level of expertise and prioritization that Anthropic does.
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by brookst 7mo ago
Huh? Did you reply to the wrong comment?
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by brookst 7mo ago
My hypothesis is that people who have continuous sessions that keep the cache valid see the behavior you’re describing: at 95% cache hits (or thereabouts), the max plan goes a long way. But people who go > 5 minutes between prompts and s
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by brookst 7mo ago
To be clear they weren’t banned from Claude usage, they were required to use the API and API rates rather than Claude Max tokens. Claude code uses a bunch if best practices to maximize cache hit rate. Third party harnesses are hit or miss,
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by brookst 7mo ago
*RAED Or maybe RAEND
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by brookst 7mo ago
So like banks requiring you to have a PIN on your ATM card, even if you don’t want one… that’s bad? Seatbelt laws are bad?
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by brookst 7mo ago
I get the pain point, but databases are a much better data model for multi-device, intermittently-connected sync. Filesystems just aren’t designed to be async and conflict-resolving.
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by brookst 7mo ago
I found the story and photos entirely haunting. Those sailers had no chance.
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by brookst 7mo ago
If you’re looking for a place that surfaces only human-written content regardless of whether it’s interesting, rather than interesting content regardless of how it was written, HN is not the place. There might be a market for your alternati
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by brookst 7mo ago
That nuance is lost on the majority of anti-AI folks who’ve learned they get positive social reactions by declaring essentially everything to be AI written and condemnable. “An em dash… they’re a witch!”… “it’s not just X, it’s Y… they’re
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by brookst 7mo ago
I’m so glad the witch hunt has moved on to phrasing so I get less grief for my em dashes.
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by brookst 7mo ago
Strange take, I wasn’t lionizing Anthropic at all, and certainly wasn’t being preachy or moralistic. I shit on OpenAI because they had a completely clear path to being dominant in consumer and enterprise, in chatbot and coding agent, and in
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by brookst 7mo ago
The second and third times through get easier, once you can appreciate the patterns and links that seem extraneous and confusing at first. Totally different kind of book, but I’d put it up with Infinite Jest as far as being convoluted but i
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by brookst 7mo ago
As opposed to Very Serious Lifelong Programmers, who, of course, see nothing but success in every project.
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by brookst 7mo ago
Blindsight is spectacular.
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by brookst 7mo ago
Gnomon by Nick Harkaway has some of the same “unreliable world” aspects with great writing to boot.
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by brookst 7mo ago
way more than that. settings.json and settings.local.json in the project directory's .claude/, and both of files can also be in ~/.claude MCP servers can be set in at least 5 of those places plus .mcp.json
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by brookst 7mo ago
I don’t know how OpenAI screwed this up. They had the best tech, the largest installed base, the best brand recognition. And somehow instead of prosecuting the lead in all areas, they got all hubristic and sloppy and just failed to iterate
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by brookst 7mo ago
s/\sGUI\s/\s/g
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by brookst 7mo ago
If the EU was prepared to give advance permission, that would make sense. It would be slow ("Hey we want to rename 'username' to 'login'" -> "we'll get back to you in a couple of months"), but
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by brookst 7mo ago
I wasn't saying any of the words you seem to be putting in my mouth. I was simply noting that there's a natural range of both abilities and expectations in this area, and it is a little entertaining that even the hint of a suggest
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by brookst 7mo ago
As someone with pretty good prosopagnosia, I am also unsettled and disturbed at all of y’all’s hardware acceleration for facial recognition. I was 30 before I realized that when people recognize each other, it’s not from clothes and hair, o
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by brookst 7mo ago
The EU’s heart is in the right place, which can only rarely be said of the US. But the EU’s approach is often backwards. When product managers have to ask the government if it’s ok to ship a feature, something is wrong. When the government

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