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by nostrebored 5mo ago
I've lived in a low information trust society and this was not the outcome at all. People trusted their local cliques much more, and there were local minima (e.g. a mainstreamish political party with leaders that are actively and dange
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by nostrebored 5mo ago
I've lived in low information trust societies, and they were much intellectually healthier than high trust societies, at least in the white collar communities I was in. Moving there, I was shocked at how "conspiratorial" ever
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by nostrebored 5mo ago
But this is exactly my point -- in a low information trust society things like this our noise. They work in high information trust societies because who would sell medical products that don't work? A doctor is leading Wamp®, surely a d
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by nostrebored 5mo ago
I am pretty excited. The factuality of important events has been distorted for most of history. Moving to a low information trust society is something that I think will be positive.
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by nostrebored 5mo ago
Read some of your other stuff. I think we're on the same track, which is interesting! Everyone in our (admittedly SF centric) circles is trying to chase this down from the model path rather than building the consistent execution layer
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by nostrebored 5mo ago
I think this is kinda wrong. Declarative approaches require validation to live at a synthesis layer, while an imperative approach that compiles down to declarative configs at runtime gives you the best of both worlds -- this is why anyone w
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by nostrebored 5mo ago
this is bad. Anyone doing any cursory work with agents will realize how brittle <<just managing your own prompts>> can be. Adding an extra layer of indirection isn’t helpful, it’s a gigantic hindrance that gives you a moving eva
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by nostrebored 5mo ago
no, there are already runoff places that will brain drain the rest. there will be no "great repatriation". it's not just "The US" and "Home", there is an ease of immigration, quality of life, and success p
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by nostrebored 5mo ago
It’s completely the opposite. LLMs write awful python. Horrendous. They write pretty reasonable go and do it quite quickly. We started in Python because of “the ecosystem”. It was a mistake. The amount of time we spend ripping out each depe
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by nostrebored 5mo ago
$6500 AUD can get you a good chunk of B200 time on any of the GPU neoclouds :)
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by nostrebored 5mo ago
Right, but humans are terrible at the happy path. I’d take 20% safer on the happy path over 40% less safe in unforeseen circumstances. The failure mode being “stopped car” is also not that bad.
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by nostrebored 5mo ago
Hypothetical future callers, "for extensibility" abstractions, single-use helpers, ceremonial try/except blocks, and options dicts with one key all get culled. — But this is never the problem. Claude WILL NOT abstract and WIL
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by nostrebored 5mo ago
GCP has similar offerings to Lightsail, Fargate, EC2, Lambda, or other compute substrates. Nobody is forcing you to use more than “basic” offerings. AWS core services are often architected that way!
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by nostrebored 5mo ago
Egress costs have substantially reduced (thankfully)
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by nostrebored 5mo ago
How many real applications actually want this behavior? AWS is not built around hobbyist needs. It’s built around being a platform to run most shapes of production use cases.
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by nostrebored 5mo ago
Noted, doesn’t seem like I’m able to edit anymore though
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by nostrebored 5mo ago
No, the anthropic releases have felt marginally negative
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by nostrebored 5mo ago
2024-2025 was filled with huge improvements. 2025-2026 has not been, outside of open source. The idea that we’re at the point where it’s superseded our ability to tell just makes no sense. I’ll be happy if we can get to a point where I don’
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by nostrebored 5mo ago
Hmm, I don’t know, maybe the fact that 4.6, 4.7, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 3.0, 3.1 are all marginal improvements?
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by nostrebored 6mo ago
I don’t know if you’ve just never had bad healthcare, but this story does not seem unbelievable to me. I’ve had doctors try to convince me not to pursue medical care, that problems of people close to me were not real and purely psychologica
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by nostrebored 6mo ago
wouldn't it be great if we hadn't actively sabotaged grid capacity and development at every turn
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by nostrebored 6mo ago
I think most hardcore people I know are still sticking with 4.5 for coding workflows
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by nostrebored 6mo ago
This is an obviously farcical belief. If everywhere built more housing do you think the price of housing would go up? Where are these people bringing up housing prices coming from?
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by nostrebored 6mo ago
This is empirically not supported. Relaxing zoning rules works extremely well. Look at Japan, look at any metropolitan U.S. city that has actually leaned into it. Europe has had mixed use zones for effectively centuries and is not the dysto
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by nostrebored 6mo ago
It is in SF. My son’s school would not let him walk 3 minutes to an aftercare program. They were actually willing to break federal law to stop him from walking a single block away. I also let him play at the park on his own occasionally. I
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by nostrebored 6mo ago
This is obviously not what it is. If I give you APIGW would you be able to implement an MCP server with full functionality without a large amount of middleware?
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by nostrebored 6mo ago
But if you have customer facing APIs then all of these problems were already solved in an enterprise context. You can force an oauth flow from skills if you want. I don’t think that CLIs are the path forward either, but you certainly don’t
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by nostrebored 6mo ago
Skills can bundle scripts. Skills can express how to use curl. Skills can integrate with your fips keys if you want them to.
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by nostrebored 6mo ago
> Also, MCP is better for restricted environments because you know exactly what it can or cannot do. The continuous exploits of MCP despite limited adoption really makes this seem wrong.
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by nostrebored 6mo ago
What about remote MCPs lend themselves to security? For instance, do you think that it is more secure than a traditional endpoint?

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