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by echelon 8mo ago
The company writing the article this HN thread is about wants this. Lots of companies do. Today there is no option because Slack is scared to death of losing their leverage. Companies want full rights to their data, and Slack is lording ov
902.
by echelon 8mo ago
The company in the very article this thread is about wants this . Lots of companies want this. Companies should have the option. Right now they're completely locked out of taking advantage of AI with their business data locked away in
903.
by echelon 8mo ago
I'm a big fan of James Gurney's dinosaurs. That was my childhood. Some of the most beautifully illustrated books. Had no idea he was still around or had a blog. This is awesome.
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by echelon 8mo ago
> You know, those millions of chats (including private data) by people who didn't give consent to this I'm pretty sure the company you work for owns your work chat, and that what you say on company slack constitutes business in
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by echelon 8mo ago
No. This is a CEO expressing righteous indignation about a company that provides (seemingly) little value and has almost no competition. Slack won't open up their data moat to AI, which is shameful. And Slack costs way too much. If the
906.
by echelon 8mo ago
There isn't enough of a "creepy" push back to these things. Remember all the "Google Glass is creepers spying on girls" posts from ages ago? That was real human behavior, and it's undoubtably going to happen wi
907.
by echelon 8mo ago
It's not hot air garbage. Secondly: this is a temporary vacuum state. We're only needed to bridge the gap. I wouldn't be trying to be a consultant, I would be scurrying to ensure we have access to these tools once they'r
908.
by echelon 8mo ago
It's a slippery slope. This is the next two steps into 1984. Once you start mandating this, there's no going back. The next generation will start associating wrongthink with government IDs. (Wait, we already do that, right?)
909.
by echelon 8mo ago
We've gone the wrong direction on the verbosity scale. Unless I'm reading for pleasure, I want everything in concise summaries. I don't need flowery language. Or even complete sentences. Maybe an LLM verbosity slider that dyn
910.
by echelon 8mo ago
> Don Knuth Please put this in the title! I know it's editorializing, but this is such an important detail. This is such a gem. I almost didn't read it. Edit: I also feel like ~knuth in the URL should render on HN like social m
911.
by echelon 8mo ago
I don't get how private businesses allow these. It's as creepy as Google Glass, yet we don't see the same pushback. Is it because younger people don't care about privacy anymore?
912.
by echelon 8mo ago
Exactly. Show us how Meta is a moral player in society. All I can see are lots of evil behaviors.
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by echelon 8mo ago
Nobody forces dependencies on you. You can control that.
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by echelon 8mo ago
I'm using Claude Code (loving it) and haven't dipped into the agentic parallel worker stuff yet. Where does one get started? How do you manage multiple agents working in parallel on a single project? Surely not the same working di
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by echelon 8mo ago
Rust is the best language for AI: - Rust code generates absolutely perfectly in Claude Code. - Rust code will run without GC. You get that for free. - Rust code has a low defect rate per LOC, at least measured by humans. Google gave a talk
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by echelon 8mo ago
Is it? Isn't there much more money in automating business processes than in answering consumer questions (sans ads)? Automating software development has to be a multi-trillion dollar market. And that doesn't account for future gro
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by echelon 8mo ago
> You've been reliably adamant that AI will demolish this or that entire industry overnight for years at this point We'll see who's right. I never said "overnight". Let's check in at the decade's end. Y
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by echelon 8mo ago
This isn't agentic coding. I haven't even tried that yet. I'm prompting every change set, reviewing the outputs, then reviewing the total changes. I'm sitting at my PC all day doing this - I used to be productive in shor
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by echelon 8mo ago
I'm not doing agentic coding yet! I'm asking it change by change. I'm just sitting at the PC all day doing this.
920.
by echelon 8mo ago
If your LLM can output 10-100x the LOC output, and it's equally good at all languages, and you're not bound to an existing language choice or ecosystem, why not choose Rust? Rust code will be faster, safer, and easier to ameliorat
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by echelon 8mo ago
> Zed is a heroic effort, but look at the code and you'll see that we still haven't figured out how to do Rust UIs. Only a handful of apps and frameworks have figured this out. Most of the world moved onto HTML+Javascript plus
922.
by echelon 8mo ago
Just try it.
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by echelon 8mo ago
> You only get to land on the moon once before people stop giving a shit. If America (or China) says the best spots on the moon belong to America (or China), suddenly it's Space Race 2.0 and everyone cares. This is what will happen
924.
by echelon 8mo ago
This piddly open source effort pales in comparison to what we should really be doing: Horizontally splitting Google into multiple companies. Not division via department splits, but equal partitioning across the company into multiple horizon
925.
by echelon 8mo ago
> Maybe I am underestimating Advertising is one of the biggest markets on the planet. Meta is nearly a $2T company and is making record profits.
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by echelon 8mo ago
Those people pay for our web.
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by echelon 8mo ago
> You mean, money sucking companies, right? Is that what you (and all people) are in your job function? A money suck? Do you ever buy anything for food, shelter, and clothing? Do you have hobbies? Capitalism means we don't have to a
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by echelon 8mo ago
The real money is in using the models to build utility and money-making companies. You're removed from orders of magnitude in upside potential if you have to wait for the public markets.
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by echelon 8mo ago
Humans are future predictors. Our vision systems, our mental models of our careers. People that predict the future tend to do well financially. Now the machines are getting better than we are. It's exciting and a little bit terrifying.
930.
by echelon 8mo ago
I'm glad we're starting to use the term "slop" for human outputs as well. Especially corporate slop.

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