skybrian

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by skybrian 7mo ago
I mean sure, they could be lying. It seems like a rather elaborate lie, though, considering that they got several other major companies to go along with it.
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by skybrian 7mo ago
Your cynicism doesn't prove that it's fake, though.
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by skybrian 7mo ago
A year ago the LLM's weren't good enough to find these security issues. They could have done other stuff. But then again, the big tech companies were already doing other stuff, with bug bounties, fuzzing, rewriting key libraries,
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by skybrian 7mo ago
Your cynicism doesn't prove that it's fake, though.
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by skybrian 7mo ago
Didn’t Jobs have nutty beliefs about food and healthcare?
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by skybrian 7mo ago
Which shareholders do you mean? Mark Zuckerberg holds >50% of voting rights for Facebook. Sergey Brin and Larry Page hold >50% of voting rights for Google. That means management gets to do what it wants, within very broad legal limits
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by skybrian 7mo ago
It looks like nobody is collapsing, but OpenAI might be behind Anthropic now: https://www.axios.com/2026/03/18/ai-enterprise-revenue-anthr... https://x.com/albrgr/status/204128832446
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by skybrian 7mo ago
Suppose they do somehow collapse. How does that cause wider problems? Their competitors will pick up customers.
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by skybrian 7mo ago
If you want to show that that there's a risk of disaster you need to do better than making a silly analogy. Companies will often start expensive projects that fail and then they pick themselves up and move on. Big, profitable companies
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by skybrian 7mo ago
First I heard of it. Apparently they are private Ipv6 addresses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_local_address If your intranet has no IPv4 addresses, this is better than a NAT somehow?
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by skybrian 7mo ago
Looks like Earendil has a product called Lefos, which is an email-based agent: https://lefos.com/about Apparently it’s possible to give it access to much of your Google account: https://lefos.com/terms I di
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by skybrian 7mo ago
I don't think it's all that hard to avoid working on anything shady. It's not as easy to avoid being associated with anything shady due to widespread cynicism and a tendency to treat tech companies with thousands of project
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by skybrian 7mo ago
Why should we have strong priors in either direction? Maybe it will keep scaling for decades like Moore's law. Maybe not.
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by skybrian 7mo ago
I guess gigawatts is how we roughly measure computing capacity at the datacenter scale? Also saw something similar here: > Costs and pricing are expressed per “token”, but the published data immediately seems to admit that this is a bad
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by skybrian 7mo ago
Any ideas for locking down remote access from an untrusted VM? Cloudflare has object-based capabilities and some similar thing might be useful to let a VM make remote requests without giving it API keys. (Keys could be exfiltrated via promp
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by skybrian 7mo ago
Can you start up multiple VM's easily on a Hetzner box?
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by skybrian 7mo ago
Functional languages have some good and some bad features and there's no reason to copy them all. For example, you don't need to have a Hindley-Milner type system (bidirectional is better) or currying just because it's a func
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by skybrian 7mo ago
Having signed up for the New York Times recently, they're surprisingly hostile towards new customers: - Autoplaying videos on the front page with no pause button. I expect video from CNN, but not a newspaper. That's not what I&#x2
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by skybrian 7mo ago
It doesn't seem very easy to calculate how much it would cost per month to keep a mostly-idle VM running (for example, with a personal web app). The $20/month plan from exe.dev seems more hobbyist-friendly for that. Maybe that&#x2
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by skybrian 7mo ago
The reason it matters is that if they are making a profit on inference, then when people use their services more, it cuts their losses. They might even break even eventually and start making a profit without raising the price. But if they&#
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by skybrian 7mo ago
It's great for them, but I'm not really into reaction videos. Pictures taken by space probes are just as good as far as I'm concerned.
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by skybrian 7mo ago
This essay is asking a personal question: what do you care about? But when you're on the job, you're getting paid to do some work by other people. So if you care about something, you have to communicate why it's important t
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by skybrian 7mo ago
Yes, getting out of college already having some experience using coding agents seems good.
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by skybrian 7mo ago
It used to be that most college graduates had little or no experience working on large-scale projects. Now they’ll get to speed-run the issues involved in maintaining a large project.
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by skybrian 7mo ago
Software developers working on their own have built monstrosities before (not as quickly) but it seems likely that this is a skill issue and we will learn how to use these tools better. You can tell coding agents to work on cleaning up code
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by skybrian 7mo ago
I think the question is why integrating with, say, Google Calendar is different for each customer? How much is custom versus potentially reusable code?
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by skybrian 7mo ago
Coding agents make this much less important.
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by skybrian 7mo ago
One thing that makes it different this time is that coding agents will probably make it easy to port the most important plugins to the new system. Also, there are successful alternatives to Wordpress too, so the most likely outcome is that
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by skybrian 7mo ago
This will largely be based on the maintainers’ priorities. Coding agents can audit and clean up code too, provided that you set the right goals.
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by skybrian 7mo ago
Do you really want to see votes on "exactly what and how much we want to produce" at each factory? Or what farmers plant?

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