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by ed_mercer 2mo ago
Elevators drive me crazy. One of the worst sins I've seen is an elevator that says, “Sorry to keep you waiting,” while continuing to hold the doors open for the entire sentence. Just be quiet and close the doors already.
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by ed_mercer 2mo ago
https://archive.md/8FZkq
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by ed_mercer 2mo ago
AI meaning Claude or Codex, because Gemini is a laughingstock for coding. Also Gemini was mentioned only once in the article.
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by ed_mercer 2mo ago
> the dark ages of 2025 This made me chuckle. I do think we are seeing exponential improvements over the years and that we don't always notice it happening because we're right in it.
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by ed_mercer 2mo ago
if DeepMind is such a great place to work, why have several leading researchers recently left for Anthropic and OpenAI? Are the problems limited to certain teams, or are the reports misleading?
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by ed_mercer 2mo ago
I guess they could add a parameter cursorIndex defaulting to 0!
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by ed_mercer 2mo ago
renders fine here on firefox android, black text on slightly yellow tinted light background
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by ed_mercer 2mo ago
>LLMs are expensive and are only going to become more expensive Prices per token are dropping roughly 10x per year for the same quality of model. Bills are going up because AI agents use way more tokens per task, not because the models c
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by ed_mercer 2mo ago
I cannot recall the last time I committed manually, let alone rebase manually. An agent can do it for you faster and without making mistakes.
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by ed_mercer 2mo ago
No, Pichai is just once again sitting with his thumb up his ass while Gemini is getting owned by better models. https://www.reuters.com/business/google-gemini-launch-delaye...
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by ed_mercer 2mo ago
AFAIKI Fable = Mythos but with more guardrails
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by ed_mercer 2mo ago
This is awesome. I think the much bigger use case here is building web equivalents of apps that are only available on iOS/Android.
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by ed_mercer 3mo ago
what is Anthropic going to do on July 19 though? Drop Fable and watch their users flock over to gpt5.6? I don't see it happening.
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by ed_mercer 3mo ago
> At Apple, our teams are constantly developing breakthrough technologies I sure hope they weren't referring to Siri here
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Show HN: Debloat Slack – Get rid of Slackbot, AI upsells and other annoyances(github.com)
2 points by ed_mercer 3mo ago|0 comments
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by ed_mercer 3mo ago
>Delegation for deeper work Except that you can't actually delegate since connectors and tools are not supported.
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by ed_mercer 3mo ago
Cool, just 20 years too late.
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by ed_mercer 3mo ago
So then, why have the junior engineer in the first place?
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by ed_mercer 3mo ago
> It's also good to act as an agent orchestrator. Any chance you would elaborate?
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by ed_mercer 3mo ago
Seems rather random though that it's #1. Fable had way more upvotes.
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by ed_mercer 3mo ago
I feel like OP is still in the year 2025. > The AI will have gone off the rails multiple times and you will only notice it later when you actually try to use the software. Except that said AI can now themselves use your software and find
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by ed_mercer 3mo ago
so I don't bloat my system with random software that require maintenance and are a potential attack vector?
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by ed_mercer 3mo ago
Why do I need this when I can use a coding agent to do it for me?
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by ed_mercer 3mo ago
So basically... openrouter?
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by ed_mercer 3mo ago
Aside from entertainment/marketing purposes, I think UI will become useless. Why should I interact with UI when an agent can (and will) interact with it?
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by ed_mercer 3mo ago
Why is this a PDF? What if I want to read this on a phone?
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by ed_mercer 3mo ago
https://archive.md/Ouq7C
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IT Wage Slave Simulator(knowledgeworker.alexmeub.com)
6 points by ed_mercer 3mo ago|0 comments
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by ed_mercer 3mo ago
https://archive.md/KJK8v
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by ed_mercer 3mo ago
I wonder if every future announcement will be met with this criticism. Like, what's the point if they'll ban it in a few days.

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