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babyshake··on ChatGPT Chats Were Indexed Then Removed from Search but Still Remain Online
Is the only/main use-case for this being that you are trying to do some type of SEO or marketing? Why else would you intentionally want your chats to shown in web searches?

It does seem like this UI should be updated with an extra confirmation step warning you that your chat will be public and this should be thought of as a permanent decision as anything made public on the web long enough to be indexed is public forever.

babyshake··on If you're remote, ramble
One of these is not like the others:

ideas related to current projects musings about blog posts, articles, user feedback “what if” suggestions photos from recent trips or hobbies rubber ducking a problem

it seems like the goal is to split #random into #work-random and #not-work-random. but #ramblings seems like a weird naming convention. Why is an idea related to a current project a "rambling"?

babyshake··on Building MCP servers for ChatGPT and API integrations
Is it safe to say that MCP has "won" vs. A2A? Or is this a misreading of the situation?
babyshake··on AI is killing the web – can anything save it?
When something is constantly happening everywhere, it becomes more of a question of whether the law is enforceable whether than if it is "allowed".
babyshake··on Ex-Waymo engineers launch Bedrock Robotics to automate construction
I'm a layperson and this touches on my greatest fear about hiring contractors, that I'm not able to quickly enough determine who does meet the quality standard or even what the quality standard should be for a given job. How are average people supposed to navigate these things? I suppose I would just ask Claude/ChatGPT these days but there is surely a lot of tribal knowledge that they don't have.
babyshake··on Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf
The big question is to what extent they hit a plateau and are commoditized. What happens when there is a fully open stack that gets Claude Code level results but at a fraction of the cost? Not saying that will happen, but that seems to be the scenario for a bubble bursting.
babyshake··on US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel
You can use privacy.com as another commenter has written. But one catch is I believe you can be on the hook for subscriptions where your card no longer works but you haven't cancelled your subscription. So they can send you invoices and even send it to collections. Although I strongly feel that at least for transactions of a sufficiently small size (normal retail subscriptions) cancelling your card should be legally considered sufficient enough for voiding your future subscription. I'm open to hearing counter arguments but I think the consumer shouldn't have to jump through even the smallest of hoops setup by vendors in order to indicate that they are no longer interested in future transactions.
babyshake··on Indian police trying to 'read minds' of suspects, neuroscientists' objections
"We will get to a point where there will be an unbeatable lie detector test." Is this for certain? As with polygraphs, you can detect patterns that may be useful but I'm skeptical there will be a method for determining with full reliability that someone is lying. An analogy that could be made is LLMs and hallucinations.
babyshake··on Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents Against Prompt Injections
One of the tricky things is untrusted input somehow making its way into what is otherwise considered trusted input. There are obviously untrusted inputs like a customer support chatbot. And there are maybe trusted inputs, like a codebase that probably doesn't contain harmful instructions, but there's always a chance that harmful instructions might be able to make their way into it.
babyshake··on Apple Announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc.
Does the privacy preserving aspect of this mean that Apple Intelligence can be invoked within an app, but the results provided by Apple Intelligence are not accessible to the app to be transmitted to their server or utilized in other ways? Or is the privacy preservation handled in a different way?
babyshake··on What “working” means in the era of AI apps
Anyone else a bit confused by the use of the word "working" used, given the content of the post? I thought this was going to be about how white collar work is changing, not about fundraising and growth strategies.
babyshake··on Is “The Phoenician Scheme” Wes Anderson's Most Emotional Film?
This is clearly intentional, whether you like it or not. My mileage varies depending on my mood. Fiennes is indeed grand in Budapest.
babyshake··on Cinematography of “Andor”
The prequels are trying to do what Andor does well, including a more political focus. But Andor just blows it out of the Naboo water.
babyshake··on LLM codegen go brrr – Parallelization with Git worktrees and tmux
I guess one way it might be able to work is with a manager agent, who delegates to IC agents to try different attempts. The manager reviews their work and understands the differences in what they are doing, and can communicate with you about it and then to the ICs doing the work. So you are like a client who has a point of contact at an engineering org who internally is managing how the project is being completed.
babyshake··on GitHub MCP exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP
It's just that agentic AI introduces the possibility of old school social engineering.
babyshake··on Jules: An asynchronous coding agent
VCs absolutely want to replace their job. Except for the part where they get paid. The actual work part they are happy to outsource.
babyshake··on Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data, demanding $20M ransom
A few weeks ago I got this email:

Update to the Coinbase User Agreement

We are emailing you about an important upcoming update to the Coinbase User Agreement. This update will revise our Arbitration Agreement with you. We made these updates to streamline the process for resolving disputes.

You can read the entire agreement here. The revised terms are in sections 9.9, 9.10 and Appendix 6.

These terms apply only to disputes that you or we initiate after May 15, 2025. The current terms will continue to apply until May 15.

---

What date did this news come out? I see it just happens to be the same date as mentioned in this email, May 15. Coinbase sneakily is trying to prevent their customers from exercising their legal rights. If you work for Coinbase, you ought to be ashamed and quit. If you use Coinbase, remove all your assets immediately.

I'm open to hearing reasons why this is just a coincidence or I'm misinterpreting the situation. Please, go ahead.

babyshake··on Uber to introduce fixed-route shuttles in major US cities
If it is busses that show their live position and ETA until your pickup location, that would be a significant improvement on the status quo. Bus schedules tend to be pretty unreliable in areas with traffic.
babyshake··on Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview
Automation allows one worker to do more things in less time, and allows an organization to have fewer workers doing those things. The result, it would seem, is more people out of work and those who do have work having reduced wages, while the owner class accrues all the benefits.
babyshake··on Evolving OpenAI's Structure
AGI can be winner take all. But winner take all AGI is not aligned with the larger interests of humanity.
babyshake··on Show HN: My AI Native Resume
Once there is a "one click connect to an MCP server" workflow this type of thing will make more sense for this type of use case, but right now how would you say this improves on the status quo of a resume PDF you can upload to your AI chatbot and ask questions about? Aside from demonstrating your own proficiency with MCP tech, that is. I ask because the current amount of work and tech knowledge required is greater than it would be for the PDF-based workflow, but I might be missing something.

Edit: there was an example in another answer, "I offer a contact tool when you use the hosted server because I can hide away my email credentials and expose a way for the LLM to send me an email."

babyshake··on Trust Me, I'm Local: Chrome Extensions, MCP, and the Sandbox Escape
Is it correct that this exploit would not be possible with streamable HTTP MCP servers? I'd imagine that fairly soon every MCP server that does not need filesystem access will use this transport method unless there is some reason why STDIO/SSE would be needed instead. Can anyone confirm if this is the case and if they agree or disagree with this assessment?
babyshake··on Open guide to equity compensation
One other trick I learned about and should warn others about - getting an offer for shares (an employee level %) where there is in fact no options pool and existing shares will be diluted for every new employee who joins the team. I got such an offer, and not only was this information not given to me until I asked about any events aside from funding rounds that would be dilutive, but it was presented as standard operating procedure.
babyshake··on Show HN: Time travel debugging AI for more reliable vibe coding
It does seem like the same type of UI as v0.dev ("What do you want to do?") is a strange UI/UX for fixing a bug, although I see there is a way to import code. The ideal UI/UX seems to be a CLI tool or VS code extension where I give it access to the directory and describe the bug and it just figures out what to do
babyshake··on Federal spending is stable over time
This is absolutely true. I know people who have worked for the government for 10+ years, and they specifically highlight the stability as the one reason they haven't moved to the private sector where you may need to be looking for a new job every few years. Of course Musk etc. see this as a bug, not a feature, and think that every worker needs to constantly justify their employment.
babyshake··on Copilot for Everything: Training your AI replacement one keystroke at a time
Incidentally, with the rise of OpenAI as a unicorn Sam Altman has seemed to get a lot less verbal about advocating UBI. Although I may be wrong about that.
babyshake··on Show HN: Superglue – open source API connector that writes its own code
Because of the GNU General Public License, any project/startup that makes use of Superglue is required to open source all their code under the same license? I'm not a license/copyright expert, so I'm a bit fuzzy about how this is supposed to work.
babyshake··on Show HN: Superglue – open source API connector that writes its own code
And with MCP, the idea is that the agent can translate a natural language instruction into the specific API request and then translate the schema into whatever structured output format you want? Is there anything that Superglue does that you wouldn't get somewhat out of the box using agents and MCP? I'm not too familiar with MCP so still trying to understand how it compares to this sort of thing.
babyshake··on Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code
One thing I would love to have fixed - I type in a prompt, the model produces 90% or even 100% of the answer, and then shows an error that the system is at capacity and can't produce an answer. And then the response that has already been provided is removed! Please just make it where I can still have access to the response that has been provided, even if it is incomplete.
babyshake··on Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since the 1960s? (2009)
I had the experience once of TSA finding numerous "things" in my luggage, looking at them and clearly knowing what they were, giving me a "you shouldn't have done that" look, putting them back, and letting me go.
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