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by otterley 8mo ago
The whole point of an agent, though, is to overcome obstacles to accomplish tasks on your behalf. And since an agent is a computer program, the most efficient way to accomplish tasks using computer services is though APIs. Websites are firs
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by otterley 8mo ago
We’re talking about agents here. (These are, after all, what MCP servers are meant to serve to.) Thus we’re talking about the need for services to be efficiently agent (computer) accessible, not efficiently end-user accessible.
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by otterley 8mo ago
Also, vendors in a highly competitive market tend not to want to commoditize themselves by making it too easy for buyers to compare their offerings directly.
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by otterley 8mo ago
Explain.
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by otterley 8mo ago
I’m all for making data more machine accessible, but it’s not like there was a shortage of ways to implement that. Hell, if most sites implemented OpenAPI, there’d be no problem to solve. The choice of whether to make one’s service open to
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by otterley 8mo ago
> Amodei refused to budge on relinquishing final say over Claude usage. So did Altman. The terms of each company’s agreement with the DoW are roughly the same when they come out of the wash. “Mr. Altman negotiated with the Department of
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by otterley 8mo ago
The article explains that.
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by otterley 8mo ago
It also helps greatly if you can leverage the opportunity window of a temper tantrum being thrown by an incompetent, petulant, volatile, and impulsive President.
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by otterley 8mo ago
> a company acting in a way that the Department of War perceives as benefiting enemy states could certainly be a justification for declaring a supply chain risk. What’s the difference between a company not building something that’s fit f
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by otterley 8mo ago
This is not true. A different deal was offered to Anthropic, and they refused. Then the DoW turned around and went with OpenAI even though their terms weren’t materially different from the terms of their agreement with Anthropic.
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by otterley 8mo ago
The stories I’ve been reading say that the DoW’s agreement with OpenAI contain the very same limitations as the agreement with Anthropic did. In other words, they pressured Anthropic to eliminate those restrictions, Anthropic declined, then
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by otterley 8mo ago
The stories I’ve been reading say that the DoW’s agreement with OpenAI contain the very same limitations as the agreement with Anthropic did. In other words, they pressured Anthropic to eliminate those restrictions, Anthropic declined, then
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by otterley 8mo ago
The stories I’ve been reading say that the DoW’s agreement with OpenAI contain the very same limitations as the agreement with Anthropic did. In other words, they pressured Anthropic to eliminate those restrictions, Anthropic declined, then
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by otterley 8mo ago
What features are you referring to?
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by otterley 8mo ago
Taxes aren't forced labor or indentured servitude, and aren't prohibited in any democracies. They're imposed by law through the actions of our duly elected representatives.
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by otterley 8mo ago
As an attorney (and this is not legal advice), I would argue--and the U.S. Copyright Office has already stated--that machine-generated content is not copyrightable, because it's not a form of human creative expression. https:/&#x
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by otterley 8mo ago
How did you get it back online?
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by otterley 8mo ago
Respectfully, I think you’re only considering upsides and not considering downsides, opportunity costs, and ongoing maintenance costs. This is not what smart managers do. Plus, just because you can build something cheaper with an LLM doesn’
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by otterley 8mo ago
That’s where the “free as in puppy” comes in. It’s still a classic case of build vs buy, except building is now quicker than it used to be. You still have to ask, “suppose I did build it myself. Then what?”
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by otterley 8mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47176049
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by otterley 8mo ago
It doesn’t cost much to keep the lights on. As far as I know, X post-acquisition is not investing in innovation anymore. Musk might have been right that shifting to KTLO mode was a good idea, but the company would still be better off if som
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by otterley 8mo ago
The (hypothetical) contract is clear, though. The condition is stated in objective terms: “in areas you felt safe.” If the Government agrees to this, then they should be bound just like any private counterparty would. If the Government didn
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by otterley 8mo ago
What’s your angle here? I’m genuinely curious. If the government told you that you had to muck out portable bathrooms with your bare hands even if you didn’t want to, wouldn’t you find that objectionable?
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by otterley 8mo ago
I'm afraid that's not how it works in modern law in the U.S.: "In addition to establishing that the defendant was aware of his statement's defamatory meaning, the plaintiff also must show that the defamatory statement is
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by otterley 8mo ago
Securing physical evidence subject to a warrant is not punishment under the law. But I take your point that this seems like a pretty heavy-handed reaction.
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by otterley 8mo ago
Happy to send you my bona fides. Email me at otterley at otterley dot org. Please include your firm's phone number.
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by otterley 8mo ago
What, exactly, is "safe" about TypeScript other than type safety? TypeScript is just a language anyway. It's the runtime that needs to be contained. In that sense it's no different from any other interpreter or runtime,
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by otterley 8mo ago
> I added the quotes, it clearly was not taken directly word for word and it was written in plain English for clarity. You mean you had an LLM write it. This is the second time you’ve done that in this conversation. Please stop. It’s giv
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by otterley 8mo ago
The article headline says “investigated,” not “punished.”
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by otterley 8mo ago
“Ruined your life” sounds a little overdramatic when there are people being falsely accused and convicted of crimes and being thrown in jail for life (or worse). I don’t mean to say your experience isn’t real and that you didn’t suffer some

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