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by mindwok 11mo ago
That article is more about feasibility rather than desirability. There's even a section where they say: > Settling the question of whether companies or governments will be ready to invest upwards of tens of billions of dollars in la
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by mindwok 11mo ago
It'll be interesting to see how this goes, but my first impression is that it's actually not where we want to go. One of the cool things about MCP (or even just tool calling) is that the LLM on top of a tool provides a highly flex
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by mindwok 11mo ago
If you are outwardly meeting lots of people and your therapist is picking up on vibes you aren't awkward, it sounds to me like you might be being quite hard on yourself. Not to suggest your experience isn't valid, but that perhaps
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by mindwok 11mo ago
There's a lot of wisdom in this post and it resonates with my experience, great write up OP. I'd add one thing though: OP's ability to observe and imitate these kinds of social dynamics he was seeing suggests he's alread
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by mindwok 11mo ago
100%. I’ve been neck deep over the past few months in developing a bunch of Windows applications, and it’s convinced me that never deprecating or removing anything in the name of backwards incompatibility is the wrong way. There’s a balance
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by mindwok 1y ago
ChatGPT can only do this now because the information is essentially freely available. Booking.com etc post their pages on the web to get traffic. In the world OpenAI is imagining, people will rarely if ever interact with the internet direct
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by mindwok 1y ago
I often wonder what the internet would look like if we just banned paid advertising. Facebook, instagram, X, TikTok, they’d all have to start charging users to stay alive and I don’t think anyone would choose to pay for the brainrot. I’d li
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by mindwok 1y ago
Nah. You can be an adult and realise that your feelings don’t mean the world owes you anything, and still think Oracle are a bad company with bad values.
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by mindwok 1y ago
The Sagrada Família gives me a kind of weird optimism and hope for technology and what it could be. I went to Europe for the first time this year, and I remember repeatedly thinking as I saw buildings like the Leaning Tower of Pisa or the D
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by mindwok 1y ago
I feel that with LLMs and AI, people are furiously trying to argue the reality they desire into existence. I've never read more articles predicting the future than on this topic (I am guilty of it, too.)
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by mindwok 1y ago
Anything you can self-host is mostly safe, because at the very least you have access to the raw data and can move elsewhere if you need to.
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by mindwok 1y ago
That's the purpose of crypto, yes. As it turns out people like having trusted authority in their money movements, and so now we're watching the crypto world just re-invent the financial industry basically as a digital twin. Just l
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by mindwok 1y ago
It's not available via the API yet, so probably not.
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by mindwok 1y ago
Codex with GPT-5-High is extremely good. Like many I was a bit "meh" about the GPT 5 release, however once I started using it with Codex it became clear there was a substantial improvement in a capability I wasn't really payi
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by mindwok 1y ago
I am still trying! I’ve found it extremely difficult. Another commenter mentioned Zen Buddhism which is also my current focus. It’s really nothing more than a philosophy that says stop thinking and go experience life. Unfortunately it’s ver
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by mindwok 1y ago
No. I think people like the idea of it and are playing with it because of the hype around "agents", but it's unnecessary IMO.
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by mindwok 1y ago
Agree. My personal take on this is a boring one: Like all things, it's a balance. I'm introspective by nature (I'm sure many of us on this site are) and metacognition can be a very comfortable trap. It's a space where yo
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by mindwok 1y ago
These articles are beyond the point of exhausting. Guys, just go use the tools and see if you like them and feel more capable with them. If you do, great, if you don’t, then stop.
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by mindwok 1y ago
This is very true. Look no farther than the perennial problem of department heads spending all their budget to keep their budget. Decision makers rarely care about saving money in isolation.
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by mindwok 1y ago
It's not about accomodating people, it's about consistency in codebases when many people with different preferences or styles are working on it. You just eliminate the cognitive overhead so people can develop intuition about how t
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by mindwok 1y ago
Thanks for sharing that. Interestingly holds up in the way many people (including myself) use LLMs sometimes. It's a conversation with yourself.
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by mindwok 1y ago
IMO “junior developer who doesn't learn“ is not quite right. Claude is more like an senior, highly academic engineer who has read all the literature but hasn't ever written any code. Amazing encyclopaedic knowledge, zero taste. I&
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by mindwok 1y ago
You often don’t see what Google and Meta bring to the table because they aren’t trying to sell you products, they’re trying to glue your eyeballs to your screen and they’ve done extremely well at that.
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by mindwok 1y ago
LLMs and whatever succeeds them are going to change how we interact with information in a big way. Microsoft has so far mostly stayed out of that race and that’ll be a huge issue that compounds over time. What they do have though is access
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by mindwok 1y ago
I think that actually proves the opposite. People wanted an old model, not a new one, indicating that for that user base they could have just... not trained a new model.
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by mindwok 1y ago
The MIT course for Operating Systems has a teaching OS called xv6. There's some nifty implementations in there. I'm not sure I'd comment on the codebase itself, but I think more importantly it teaches you good abstractions wh
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by mindwok 1y ago
It's probably not as simple as just being emotions, but actually there's a really interesting example here: Helen Keller. In her autobiography she describes what it was like before she learned language, and how she remembers it be
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by mindwok 1y ago
I'm no expert but have been thinking about this a lot lately. I wouldn't be surprised - language itself seems to be an expression of the ability to create an abstraction, distill the world into compressed representations, and mani
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by mindwok 1y ago
This is the optimistic take and definitely possible, but not guaranteed or even likely. Markets tend to consolidate into monopolies (or close to it) over time. Unless we are creating new markets at a rapid rate, there isn’t necessarily room

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