simianwords

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by simianwords 4d ago
Shopify seems to have no issues partnering with Muse >We are excited to announce we are partnering deeply with Muse to enable agentic checkout with Shop Pay on all Shopify stores, offering people an easy and delightful way to shop and ch
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by simianwords 5d ago
its clear that this is getting to you, maybe sit this one out?
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by simianwords 5d ago
i think you are having a hard time coping
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by simianwords 5d ago
I made appointment with my doctor and haircut all using chatgpt. Also bought some stuff on a local website. I hate having to work through random UI. I just wanna get stuff done.
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by simianwords 5d ago
its not going anywhere. Agents are the future.
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by simianwords 5d ago
I would hate it if every company comes up with their own agent and only their agent is allowed to access the API. EU do your thing instead of cookie banners plz.
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by simianwords 5d ago
OK according to game theory, if this is correct, why even put up a fight? You have nothing to gain by fighting. Just accept it and play along. Make your damn MCP. You have 100,000 engineers. Why can't connect Amazon to ChatGPT today? I
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by simianwords 5d ago
Its a very good point. There are lots of orgs in company's whose whole job is to push shit from all possible points in the website - its probably called "real estate" internally. These orgs have a lot to lose. But the company
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by simianwords 5d ago
There's a lot to discuss here - agentic commerce, IMO, is where things are heading. I'm completely convinced that people _want_ to shop using agents. But I want to understand the dynamics at play here: will underlying inventory pr
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by simianwords 5d ago
Cory Doctorow is in the business of anti-capitalism more than truth seeking of any sorts. He just hates it when private companies * do things *. Long winding essays that don't mean much are written for a type of person who already beli
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Amazon blocks Meta’s new Muse AI agent from shopping on amazon.com(forbes.com)
118 points by simianwords 5d ago|113 comments
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by simianwords 5d ago
I guess it’s only my opinion but having used grok for personal chat: it’s by far the worst one amongst Claude, ChatGPT and even Deepseek, Gemini etc. The personality is bland and it doesn’t work nearly as hard or even tries to help.
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by simianwords 5d ago
No issues, glad that we agree. I personally do use it for generative and I fully see the value for my CRUD engineer type of use. I think kernel development requires more scrutiny and we are not there yet where we can blindly use LLMs for Li
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by simianwords 5d ago
I think using AI for kernel dev vs AI for CRUD dev is an important distinction. In my company of mostly CRUD development, we are not pressured to use AI but we all use it willingly. There are a few who complain but they are a loud minority
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by simianwords 5d ago
Do you or your team contribute to the Kernel or you just happen to work in a company that contributes?
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by simianwords 5d ago
Or maybe.. people like the tech and use them? Instead of all these theories?
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by simianwords 5d ago
Its not just that, you are implying that they are pressured to use AI and not using it out of their own will
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by simianwords 5d ago
in your version of the conspiracy theory, the developers are pressured to use AI for their patches in Linux from the company. not that they want to use it because they want to? Like everyone else?
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by simianwords 5d ago
This is different from langchain etc because lanchain works at the app layer but this one works at the infra layer with tool calls etc?
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by simianwords 5d ago
> Claude Code has /btw which I think is the equivalent of /side in Codex. it tries but /btw can't be invoked at any time. it is blocked until the reasoning is done. you also can't continue the chat with it you al
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by simianwords 5d ago
These models do pretty well in benchmarks and real world so I'm highly suspicious of this article. Further more, in the original report, the examples of bad answers are from Haiku - at least 7 out of 10. Anyone who knows anything about
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by simianwords 5d ago
I'm surprised you think Claude Code is good software. I find it so hard to use because it is fundamentally constrained as a TUI. It is buggy, clunky and slow. It is sooo slow. One example of what is particularly bad with it: tool calls
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by simianwords 5d ago
> but the bottom line is that these are complex algorithms following rules shallow article with some misconceptions like these. as if our brain is any different.
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by simianwords 6d ago
> Furthermore, I always have this underlying question: why are we building software factories in the first place? Where are we manufacturing the people who will actually buy all this? You say this but then > Now, AI handles most of th
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by simianwords 6d ago
I find it a bit suspicious that they don't talk about the amount of human intervention required (apart from writing the RFC, which itself can be done by the agent). I think this can work if you've set up your codebase with proper
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by simianwords 6d ago
Its clear you have no understanding of the rationalists or EA circle. They have been speaking about ASI for ages - since early 1990s. To think that the same people who then chose to work at OpenAI or Anthropic and then realised "oh wai
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by simianwords 6d ago
yes someone accidentally scammed their way into solving Navier Stokes problem haha yeah. I find these comments boring because they lack the theory of mind into EAs and rationalists.
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by simianwords 6d ago
> All of the latest big proofs were driven by professional human mathematicians steering and priming the models, yes. False, navier stokes was solved in one shot without steering
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by simianwords 6d ago
> I heard it was human mathematicians using a sophisticated machine as a tool. where did you "hear" this? OpenAI said they only prompted it and it solved the problem in one shot without any help
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by simianwords 6d ago
Sometimes I think this amount of skepticism is not necessary. Leaving the pedantic (its not AI its humans who solved) arguments, its pretty clear that LLMs are able to help solve things. A lot of erdos problems were solved. Millenium proble

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