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Grammarly is offering ‘expert’ AI reviews from top authors, dead or alive (wired.com)
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This feels like a desperate attempt to stay relevant in a post-LLM world. They’re basically wrapping an LLM in a "professional" skin and calling it an expert review. The problem is that once you start letting an AI "expert" dictate tone and logic, you effectively lobotomize the writer’s original intent. We’re reaching a point where AI is just reviewing other AI-generated text, creating a feedback loop of pure mediocrity. Copium for middle management, if you ask me.
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Frankly, I am surprised this was not shut down by their legal counsel (assuming they have one and they actually asked). The legal exposure here is significant. This could be defamation, there are publicity rights issues, and maybe even criminal liability.
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that's so scummy. why they even needs "names"? it's a rhetorical question...
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Moreover, they don't even apologize: "The work is public, hence the name. It's well known, it's in the data. Who cares". What will they do next? Create similar publications with domainsquatting and write all-AI articles with the "public" names? Is it still fair use, then?
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yes i hate that. they still have the chutzpah of keeping doing it. and i am sure it's illegal in multiple legislation. because they are not writing articles where you can cite people, they are selling a product.
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I think we can thank the current times and developments as a whole for unearthing the greediest of the greedy among us. It's very enlightening, if you ask me.
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The most interesting is the realization that if the LLM's input is only the output of a professional (human), then by definition the LLM cannot mimic the process the (human) professional applied to get from whatever input they had to produce the output. In other words an LLM can spit out a plausible "output of X", however it cannot encode the process that lead X to transform their inputs into their output.
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Replace "LLM" with "student" and read that again. You don't just blindly give students output, you teach them, like what you are supposed to do with an LLM.
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You can't "teach" an LLM. It can't think. It's a simple pattern-matching algorithm, basically just an Eliza bot with a huge table of phrases.
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Enough with this analgoy. It's flawed on so many levels. First and foremost, stop devaluing humanitiy and hyping up AI companies by parroting their party line. Second, LLMs don't learn. They can hold a very limited amount of context, as you know. And every time you need to start over. So fuck no, "teaching" and LLM is nothing like teaching an actual human.
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Is it not possible for the process of input to output be inferred by the llm and therefore applied to new inputs to create appropriate outputs.
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Only if the LLM knows the inputs connected to particular outputs, pre-digital era or classified material might not be available, neither informal discussions with other experts. Most importantly, negative but unused signals might not be available if the text does not mention it.
Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran's oil depots bombed (theguardian.com)
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Crude oil is over $100/barrel now, affecting almost everyone everywhere.
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There's no off ramp whatsoever for both Iran, and Israel and the USA. This will trigger a global recession, everything is about to get much more expensive. Absolute disaster, all to fill up the coffers of American oil companies...
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This whole situation made me realize that the mechanism for holding presidents accountable for campaign promises really doesn’t exist. None of this is what people voted for, and is almost directly the opposite. That isn’t a new thing, of course, but this seems like a pretty huge turnaround from what the campaign was about. This seems like a fundamental problem with the system to me. If you can’t count on the candidate to at least attempt sticking to campaign promises, then the entire process is irrational. Presumably the mechanism is supposed to be Congress and impeachment, but that doesn’t work if the president is directly influencing their election campaigns. I do wonder if / how something could be implemented that addresses this, beyond just losing at the next election.
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The US needs a parliamentary system. Trump would have been dumped already. Instead we have to wait 3 more years to end this insanity.
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Pretty big assumption you're making, that you know what people voted for.
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I’d be glad to see evidence that people voted for interventions in the Middle East, if you have any. My impression is that a key part of Trump’s campaign was ending excessive foreign wars. There are lots of clips going around with him saying this.
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This used to be the job of the third estate, but traditional media has all been captured and the algorithms have done the rest, drowning us in a sea of content.
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"Help is coming" they said. This certainly excludes that the Iranian protesters will ever side with the west again. Terrible strategic move.
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This is madness. The whole region is dependent on very fragile technological infrastructure, that once it is gone, will start a countdown to the death of millions. If things like oil depots and water desalination plants are no longer off limits, this will turn into a huge humanitarian catastrophe.
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usa + israel = imperialism + genocide this should seriously stop. and i am very sad Europeans are spineless and following the US in another insane middle-east war. wasn't afghanistan and iraq enough?
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"Europe" is not following the US in this.
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in what Europe are you living sorry? The only one outspoken against the war have been the Spanish. UK, Italy and Germany are on it - offering logistical support and everything the US needs.
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[delayed]
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But silently watching on the sides. The moral lectures will come out with Ukraine though on what other countries should and should not do.
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Surely: This will make the US safer. This will make stuff cheaper. This is a well thought out war. It will improve the US economoy. It will not destabilise the region. This will make life better for Americans. It will in no way make people hate the USA.
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Great use of tax dollars while the American people face all time cost of living highs among a plethora of many other problems. It’s sickening.
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Problem is, it's not being paid with tax dollars. The USA spent 10 trillion on wars over the last decades and none of it was paid with tax dollars. It is all borrowed or printed. And the wars wouldn't have happened without them having those options, because Americans don't even want this.
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And that borrow/print in the end is either future tax dollars/inflation/US pays, stealing from other nations, or default on debt.
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Personally I do have serious concerns about the direction 'the west' is going with the current issues of immigration, violence, and general migration to a lower trust environment...however trying to burn a capital to the ground definitely seems like the wrong approach making it any better.
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Did you, after all you've seen, think the people currently in power in the USA are capable of making reasonable decisions? Vote these people out please.
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I fera that with this people in power we are past that already. We'll see soon, I suppose. Trump and his goons will not leave power through elections.
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I think in reality they don't want to make it better...
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I was wondering today how many people will develop cancer in a few years because of this. Why must Israel be so duplicitous? It is exhausting.
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It all started with the war in Gaza. We, the West collectively, with the exception of only a few European states like Spain and Ireland, allowed them to perpetrate war crimes, which were rarely met with criticism, let alone consequences.
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It cares not that the world suffers for it's selfish aims.
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It's not even duplicitous because that implies some sort of benevolent facade. It's outright evil.
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Israel does employ a facade of a liberal democracy that aligns itself to some extent with Western culture. Though this is very much in decline and I think, generally, sentiment on Israel has shifted quite dramatically in the West in recent years.
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Price of a nation disagreeing from turning its people into lowly peasants of the Global Liberal Borg (TM)'s and not accepting its "assigned" role of satrap-y. In contrast, look at the ignominious history in India (-n subcontinent) over the past millennia - whose moron elites are so deluded that they end up selling even more Anglo-American colonization in the name of decolonization. Fascinating evolution of these two cousin nations.
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Tell me: is the US supposed to stand idly by while the Iranian regime develops nuclear weapons? They pursue nuclear weapons of their own volition, by the way. There are paranuclear states and nuclear threshold states which have not pursued nuclear weapons and have delivered on providing for their people in every manner in which a human society needs. So what does Iran hope to achieve that diplomacy cannot? At what point does it turn from a "disagreement" to a credible existential threat that an adversary cannot ignore?
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It was trump who killed off the original agreement. The IAEA was content with the way the inspections went, Trump just once again talked out of his ass.
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There was a deal, Trump cancelled. There were negotiations where the Iranian regime actually made big concessions. But, Trump administration was not interested in concessions and started a war with no real reason. > At what point does it turn from a "disagreement" to a credible existential threat that an adversary cannot ignore? It was not nearly this point. This was a point where USA, Israel and Saudi perceived Iran as weak and easier target. That is why the war started.
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USA and Israel have brought this upon themselves. After decades of regime change operations in the region (usually for the worse), it is clear that any state that doesn't pursue nuclear weapons isn't really an independent state. Do you know who doesn't get regime-changed? North Korea.
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North Korea has the backing of the US' two most powerful adversaries, it was not a free pass. The US can deploy a carrier strike group faster than any nation can build a nuclear weapon. And after seeing the hellfire unleashed on Iran, it is clear that pursuing nuclear weapons may not be the answer it once appeared to be. Meanwhile, the so-called vassal states of the US - some of the richest countries on Earth mind you - haven't bothered to deploy nuclear weapons because we have no use for them.
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Well. After you've misled the world into supporting the USA in Iraq: "WHERE IS THE PROOF?" This time, you didn't even try to submit proof. The "feeling" of your delusional president should be enough. Or not even that, since the reasoning changes daily. Try harder.
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https://archive.is/VUzow
If you want to get the Iranian side of the story, look at presstv.ir.
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> Iranian side of the story Islamic regime 's side. Rather key distinctions v. Iranian people.
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I am afraid that this will bring them closer together. That the people who would welcome outside world to do a magical thing that reforms Iran wont like the practical thing the world actually did. By afraid I am not saying it will happen, it is not a prediction. I think that it is a risk.
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After they killed 40k+ in Jan? Perhaps.
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What do you think the New York Times or CNN is (or rather, were).
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Varies. Not all of them are equal. At least not in the same way. Distinctions are important. NYT, for example, employs Farnaz Fassihi who's a known regime shill. CNN recently sent a reporter live to the region who has to operate under the regime's restrictions to be let in and cannot accurately report everything even if they wanted to. Same with Reuters who has an office inside. They basically had a choice to bite the bullet and agree to the terms and be one of the few foreign reporters with access, or not have access at all and freely report. That said, PressTV is different from the above a it's an officially a state-operated entity, so it is not a question of mere bias.
Thanks, but it seems down?
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probably your provider is censoring it. it's working here.
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Reachable and up WRT W.Australia - perhaps DNS / otherwise blocked in your location.
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rumble.com/presstv
US Court of Appeals: TOS may be updated by email, use can imply consent [pdf] (cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov)
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I had the somehow the same problem with a mobile operator here in EU. They said just by sending an email I agree with their new terms and subscriptions. It's a gray area, IMO. They could simply terminate the service but who wants that?
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I have altered the deal. Pray I do not alter it again.
How many people here complaining about consent, would defend dog owners who do not respect it? By walking on streets, parks or any other public place, you give implicit consent to: * having your face licked by poop eating animal * having your clothes ripped, your skin scratched by dirty nails * not resisting while animal tries to rape your leg * having any body part including genitals sniffed * not to be scared or else * pretend you like it, or else * not to run away or else and of course, we are not responsible for any damages, including hospital bills, or plastic surgery.
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Sir this is Wendy's
Hm. It seems that use actually goes two ways. They continue to use my information even when I leave their platform. Does this mean I can email info@google.com updated TOS, since I am a party to it I guess, and if they keep selling my info they accept it?
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No, because of the legal principle of habeas pecuniam (you can't afford as many lawyers as Google)
Exactly. I don't understand how a community such as this, as connected as it is, can't back channel a message to Google brass to do something about these lockouts, which occur frequently and are unnecessary. There is no way Google doesn't know about them. Gmail is an essential piece of pervasive personal infrastructure, upon which hundreds of millions of people rely. People are losing irreplaceable data for lack of care on the part of Google. The cost of providing a way to prove identity while maintaining security ought to be part of the cost of doing business for Google as it provides Gmail. Surely there are some Google employees lurking who can chime in on this frustrating neglect.
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The cost of adding a support desk outweighs any potential profit, I would imagine by a huge amount given accounts are ‘free’. It’s not that the executive don’t know, it’s that they don’t care.
By both sides?
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Of course not
Show HN: Mcp2cli – One CLI for every API, 96-99% fewer tokens than native MCP (github.com/knowsuchagency)
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I may be showing my ignorance here, but wouldn't the ideal situation be for the service to use the same number of tokens no matter what client sent the query? If the service is using more tokens to produce the same output from the same query, but over a different protocol, than the service is a scam.
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When you're using an agent, the "query" isn't just each bit of text you enter into the agent prompt. It's the whole conversation. But I do wonder about these tools whether they have tested that the quality of subsequent responses is the same.
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Cool, adding this to my list of MCP CLIs: - https://github.com/apify/mcpc - https://github.com/chrishayuk/mcp-cli - https://github.com/wong2/mcp-cli - https://github.com/f/mcptools - https://github.com/adhikasp/mcp-client-cli - https://github.com/thellimist/clihub - https://github.com/EstebanForge/mcp-cli-ent - https://github.com/knowsuchagency/mcp2cli - https://github.com/philschmid/mcp-cli - https://github.com/steipete/mcporter - https://github.com/mattzcarey/cloudflare-mcp - https://github.com/assimelha/cmcp
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There are a handful of these. I've been using this one: https://github.com/smart-mcp-proxy/mcpproxy-go
Tokens saved should not be your north star metric. You should be able to show that tool call performance is maintained while consuming fewer tokens. I have no idea whether that is the case here. As an aside: this is a cool idea but the prose in the readme and the above post seem to be fully generated, so who knows whether it is actually true.
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Token counts alone tell you nothing about correctness, latency, or developer ergonomics. Run a deterministic test suite that exercises representative MCP calls against both native MCP and mcp2cli while recording token usage, wall time, error rate, and output fidelity. Measure fidelity with exact diffs and embedding similarity, and include streaming behavior, schema-change resilience, and rate-limit fallbacks in the cases you care about. Check the repo for a runnable benchmark, archived fixtures captured with vcrpy or WireMock, and a clear test harness that reproduces the claimed 96 to 99 percent savings.
The death of social media is the renaissance of RSS (2025) (smartlab.at)
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recently I had a thought that the AI revolution will actually be a good thing for the web. it kills SEO advertising. someone writing an article for the purpose of ranking high and making money off of clicks doesnt get clicks anymore because of AI summaries. direct content-to-ad-revenue is dead. Either you're a hobbyist and write for the heck of it - so your writing will be honest and better quality. Or, you're a product vendor and your writing is documentation meant to be found by AI summaries, again - that's honest. Once profit is gone, love is all left.
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How can a human communication needs be replaced with something that is read-only?
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RSS brought me here. RSS is a component, not the whole system.
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the obvious problem with replacing the algorithm is that people actually crave that shit, after all there have been tens of thousands of highly trained engineers making it as addictive as possible. So, no chance.
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Just like other addictions, people can choose to quit them. I feel tiktok is slightly more difficult to drop than cigarettes.
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Sick and tired to be forced to see content from creators that I did't choose to follow, I switched to RSS as an aggregator and doom scrolling is suddenly interesting again.
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I’ve left social networks behind and returned to RSS, and I couldn't be happier. I’m using Delta Chat as an interface with FeedsBot, so the whole setup feels just like Telegram channels, but without Pavel Durov reading everything. It’s been a great experience so far.
> If RSS becomes popular, there will be discovery platforms with “algorithm”s. So? If plain RSS exists, then you can still consume it the way you want. I'd like to remind that when RSS was really popular we had "planet" aggregators everywhere, where someone interested in particular topic bundled posts from multiple people.
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RSS exists but those authors who don't publish through it probably wouldn't care about it either. Like, if by magic, RSS became popular as a technology, they would publish through it, but then there would be demand for discoverability and algo feeds would win the engagement race and then RSS is in the background and th platform would naturally decide to just focus on the algo and drop RSS and the regular users wouldn't care and authors would only care what regular users care about. Except for the tiny techie bubble. It's not a technical problem. Less effort will always be more popular and drown out more effort in the mainstream. Imagine if you could order completely free McDonald's food to your doorstep anytime and could also choose to cook your meals at home. Guess what portion of people would choose which option.
Every article that I’ve read in the last 5 years about the RSS revival has a big section explaining what is RSS. And that’s the answer about RSS renaissance. If you have to explain it, there is zero chance of massive adoption.
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I'm happily using RSS despite you needing an explanation. Funny how that works.
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I've been calling it 'Really Social Sites' for a long time. ;)
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My take on the RSS-renaissance chestnut: The original sin is the name. Only clueless nerds could come up with such a soporific, opaque, geeky moniker as "RSS". It should have been called "Webfeed". Then there would be no explaining to do.
I still mourn the loss of Google Reader. There are plenty of RSS reader apps, but there are very few with good cross-device sync - let alone self-hosted cross-device sync.
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I've been using one of the numerous "RSS to Email" programs for the past 20 years. To me that's peak usability, I can use my mail workflow to have cross-device state, I can use my mail clients tagging and spam support to filter, and I have a reasonably good searching facility too. Some sites only include "teasers" rather than full posts, but they're a minority.
How the Sriracha guys screwed over their supplier (old.reddit.com)
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I remember when Sriracha disappeared from the market for a while (2022?). The story I heard at the time was heavily positive, talking up the handshakes and relationship angle - suggesting the supplier had a bad harvest (drought) so the manufacturer had decided not to produce sauce rather than produce an inferior product. Either rumours or more lies - and a good way to help the market forget the earlier flavour and be grateful for a sloppier solution to 'return'?
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I don't know what tariffs you guys have put on foreign sauces these days but the Flying Goose brand made in Thailand is the only brand that tastes right to me.
Yep this was a very controversial thing when it happened. They tried to squeeze the farmer who supplied all their peppers from their earliest days - why would you do that unless you have no morality? And now the Huy Fong Sriracha tastes different, and Underwood’s own Sriracha is actually what tastes best. I’m glad to hear there was a happy ending to the epic greediness and underhanded tactics of Huy Fong: > Later, obviously, there's a lawsuit. Funnily enough, it wasn't actually Underwood who sued Huy Fong. It was Huy Fong who sued Underwood, seeking refunds for payments it had made earlier under their contracts. Underwood turned around and counterclaimed for breach of contract and fraud and a bunch of other shit. Underwood succeeded - there was a unanimous jury verdict in their favor - and got awarded about $13 million in compensatory damages, and another $10 million in punitive damages (these are only awarded where you've done something so outrageous that it's quasi-criminal; it's to deter other people from doing similar things).
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> why would you do that unless you have no morality? Since company leadership has a fiduciary duty to shareholders, profit-maxxing for shareholders is the only moral thing to do /s.
> $12 dollars per bottle is crazy Hot sauce is pretty easy to make if you're inclined to go that route. You only need a scale and a blender, and some basic kitchen skills. You get to explore a lot and control for flavour / heat with adding stuff to the mix. Plenty of good content on yt you can get inspiration from. It's also something you can make into a hobby. You can go as low effort as buying fresh peppers from a market when in season, or start growing yourself. Growing can be anywhere from extremely low maintenance (i.e. just water them from time to time and leave them on a window sill) or get into advanced stuff like pruning, soil ph, cross pollination and all that stuff. Some peppers are prolific growers, and you get fresh peppers, pepper paste, chili flakes and sauce from a potentially low effort hobby. And they make some nice gifts as well.
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Counter-argument: we're talking about saving a handful of bucks for something that lasts months. Do it if you find it fun - I tried it and didn't like the work nor spice under my fingernails, at all. My preferences in cooking are like software: high level is fun (cooking dishes), low level is annoying (growing or producing ingredients). I also like making cocktails. A brief try with homemade coffee licqueurs was disappointing - knowing a couple of good brands, I can buy and enjoy them, no hassle. Closest to preparing ingredients I do is occasionally doing batches of "super juice", where you squeeze a bunch of limes and add some conservatives and enhancers (and water), that increase the yield, flavor and shelf life by a lot. Then it's really practical to just use the juice like a normal ingredient, versus having the cytrus available having to squeeze them and having more stuff to clean.
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Claude built a system in 3 rounds, latent bugs from round 1 exploded in round 3 (github.com/mycelium-clj)
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I've used the analogy of a circular saw before ("it's not really sawing, because you can't feel the wood...") It's easy to just slab on a Skil saw, but through the beam and it'll be somewhat straight. But when every manual stroke counts, there's enough time on a human time scale to correct every little mistake. It's definitely possible to become skilled at using the circular saw, but it takes effort that it feels like you don't need at first. This is similar. LLMs are so powerful for writing code that it's easy to become complacent and forget your role as the engineer using the tool: guaranteeing correctness, security, safety and performance of the end result. When you're not invested in every if-statement, forgetting to check edge cases is really easy to do. And as much as I like Claude writing test cases for me, I also have to ensure the coverage is decent, that the implicit assumptions made about external library code is correct, etc. It takes a lot of effort to do it right. I don't know why Mycelium thinks they invented interfaces for module boundaries, but I'm pretty sure they are still as suceptible to that "0" not behaving as you'd expect, or the empty string being interpreted as "missing." Or the CSG algorithm working, except if your hole edges are incident with some boundary edges.
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I have no idea what am I reading > Mycelium structures applications as directed graphs of pure data transformations. Each node (cell) has explicit input/output schemas. Cells are developed and tested in complete isolation, then composed into workflows that are validated at compile time. Routing between cells is determined by dispatch predicates defined at the workflow level — handlers compute data, the graph decides where it goes. No still don't understand > Mycelium uses Maestro state machines and Malli contracts to define "The Law of the Graph," providing a high-integrity environment where humans architect and AI agents implement. Nope, still don't
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Yeah it reads very Time Cube...
How is that different compared to a human dev that would miss bugs?
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Yes, this is simply 'technical debt'. They should try to fix technical debt before going to the next round. Of course Claude can probably also do this.
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The ability to plan long term and anticipate flow on errors.
It's starting to become obvious that if you can't effectively use AI to build systems it is a skill issue. At the moment it is a mysterious, occasionally fickle, tool - but if you provide the correct feedback mechanisms and provide small tweaks and context at idiosyncrasies, it's possible to get agents to reliably build very complex.
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Say i buy into your mysticism based take, is it a useful tool if it blows up in damn well near every professionals face? lets say i accept you and you alone have the deep majiks required to use this tool correctly, when major platform devs could not so far, what makes this tool useful? Billions of dollars and environment ruining levels of worth it? I'd say the only real use for these tools to date has been mass surveillance, and sometimes semi useful boilerplate.
> At the moment it is a mysterious, occasionally fickle, tool - but if you provide the correct feedback mechanisms and provide small tweaks and context at idiosyncrasies, it's possible to get agents to reliably build very complex. This sounds like arguing you can use these models to beat a game of whack-a-mole if you just know all the unknown unknowns and prompt it correctly about them. This is an assertion that is impossible to prove or disprove.
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No it's more like if you knew how to build it before - LLM agents help you build it faster. There's really no useful analogy I can think of, but it fits my current role perfectly because my work is constantly interrupted by prod support, coordination, planning, context switching between issues etc. I rarely have blocks of "flow time" to do focused work. With LLMs I can keep progressing in parallel and then when I get to the block of time where I can actually dive deep it's review and guidance again - focus on high impact stuff instead of the noise. I don't think I'm any faster with this than my theoretical speed (LLMs spend a lot of time rebuilding context between steps, I have a feeling current level of agents is terrible at maintaining context for larger tasks, and also I'm guessing the model context length is white a lie - they might support working with 100k tokens but agents keep reloading stuff to context because old stuff is ignored). In practice I can get more done because I can get into the flow and back onto the task a lot faster. Will see how this pans out long term, but in current role I don't think there are alternatives, my performance would be shit otherwise.
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You could probably replace LLM with "junior engineer" here as it sounds like you're basically a manager now. The big negative that LLMs have in comparison with junior engineers is that they can't learn and internalise new information based on feedback.
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"The big negative that LLMs have in comparison with junior engineers is that they can't learn and internalise new information based on feedback." No, but they can take "notes" and can load those notes into context. That does work, but is of course not so easy as it is with humans. It is all about cleaning up and maintaining a tidy context.
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