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babyshake··on The Age of Agent Experience
How does computer use APIs affect this? Isn't the whole idea that a UI that a human can use should also be usable by an agent without a lot of special accommodation made? For high volume automation and API is a lot more efficient, but for lots of typical automation (automating what would take a human 20-30 minutes of work to do themselves) this doesn't matter too much.
babyshake··on DoppelBot: Replace Your CEO with an LLM
This effect will probably be more pronounced in coming years. Being able to speak and act in ways that are obviously not AI.
babyshake··on What's Going on at the FBI?
If you are elected on a platform of a coup (illegal reform), it doesn't make what you do any more legal. Some of what Trump is doing is not illegal, but some of it appears to be illegal.
babyshake··on Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free, but raising the price of Workspace
If you don't have the original input, how would you determine the prompt that was used to generate the output?
babyshake··on Why Senior Engineers Should Stay ICs
That's my feeling also. The role of IC and EM is collapsing into a single hybrid role.
babyshake··on The Origins of Wokeness
My original understanding of "woke" was similar to what in the 60s they might have called being "turned on". Being awake and seeing the actual reality of things for what they are.
babyshake··on Stop Trying to Schedule a Call with Me
Also, it's pretty easy at this point to setup an AI support agent that can reference your docs, and it is a helpful exercise for organizing your own thoughts and being able to communicate them back to yourself. There's not really a good reason to not have good docs.

I just assume that if a product is gated behind "let's hope on a call!" it's still vaporware and there's a 50/50 chance that they'll pivot within a few months.

babyshake··on I Run LLMs Locally
Can you elaborate on the not cost effective part? That seems surprising unless the API providers are running at a loss.
babyshake··on Reflections on building with Model Context Protocol
It seems that maybe the direction things are heading in is having desktop apps that can take over the computer, and prompt you to sign in yourself when auth is needed. Which would limit the usefulness of something like MCP as the interface becomes the UI, not APIs. But I'd be curious what other approaches to auth seem to be promising.
babyshake··on React 19
When I go to Jotai npm docs page (https://www.npmjs.com/package/jotai) I don't really get the impression of how this helps get away from using a lot of different context providers or Redux. The nice thing about context hooks is they are composable, combined with cached queries you can have a decently maintainable pattern. How does Jotai provide a tangible improvement on this?
babyshake··on A.I. Chatbots Defeated Doctors at Diagnosing Illness
The one time in my life I had a life-threatening illness, multiple doctors told me I had nothing to worry about it and the symptoms would go away on their own before I was able to meet with a doctor who took my concerns seriously, and an MRI then found the issue. That experience has really stuck with me and I suspect it is very common.
babyshake··on OpenAI Announces Realtime Voice API
Is this currently only in the playground for DevDay attendees? Not seeing it on my end.
babyshake··on AGI is far from inevitable
It's possible we see some ways in which AI becomes increasingly AGI like in some ways but not in others. For example, AI that can create novel scientific discoveries but can't make a song as good as your favorite musician who creates a strong emotional effect with their music.
babyshake··on DoNotPay has to pay $193K for falsely touting untested AI lawyer, FTC says
Natural selection results in species succeeding that do some pretty brutal things. Natural selection also applies to religions, governments, and startups.
babyshake··on Sanding UI
It has also become quite easy when sanding a UI to provide code to an LLM and describe something like a click deadzone and it can usually fix it immediately without you needing to investigate it. The missing piece is really just the glue between the browser, coding environment and LLM. I know a bunch of YC startups are working on this but nothing has really worked well for me. Please recommend anything you are using that does in fact provide this type of glue...
babyshake··on Indiana police are seizing FedEx packages containing cash
By the way, there is an excellent film called Rebel Ridge now on Netflix where the basic premise is about small town police abusing the practice of civil asset forfeiture.
babyshake··on Code Review Anxiety Workbook
Setting aside the addressing of anxiety and avoidance, a lot of good code review practice boils down to "could/should/must" and that it's good to call out these when you see them and label them appropriately, and when receiving a code review understand the difference between them.
babyshake··on OpenAI Pleads It Can't Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free
"I drink your milkshake" is the best four word summary of the situation I can imagine.
babyshake··on San Francisco officials weigh in on departure of X headquarters: 'Good riddance'
> “the addicts on the street have done this to themselves”

In many/most of these cases, whether it is because of nurture or nature, the situation is more complex than simply "you did this to yourself".

babyshake··on Four co's are hoarding billions worth of Nvidia GPU chips. Meta has 350K of them
> Buying GPUs now when they're highly-available is a hedged-bet against a worse GPU shortage than ever seen before in the face of unprecedented territorial aggression.

This actually makes it occur to me that if you've been hoarding a huge amount of GPUs, it may actually be in your interest to then encourage the events that would lead to a subsequent GPU shortage.

babyshake··on Scientists discover a cause of lupus, possible way to reverse it
Alignment? I suppose the type of alignment needed for superintelligence is to plead with it for mercy, on some level.
babyshake··on AI's $600B Question
> once the big regulatory hammers start dropping to protect American workers.

The US Supreme Court seems determined to make sure that big regulatory hammers are not going to be dropping, from what I can tell.

babyshake··on Supreme Court overturns 40-year-old "Chevron deference" doctrine
Isn't the only reason the Supreme Court would not sustain a law is because it is unconstitutional? And otherwise their only role is to interpret laws? At least that's the way it is supposed to be AFAIK.
babyshake··on Fearing losses, banks are quietly dumping real estate loans
A not very degen version of this is taking money that you might spend on your mortgage at a rate under 3%, and putting it somewhere safe that earns more than 5% (not hard to find).
babyshake··on Self-driving Waymos secure final clearance for expansion beyond S.F
Not just humans, but Uber/Lyft drivers. It is very common for an Uber driver to perform unsafe and illegal maneuvers while driving me. I don't report them because I don't want to get them fired. Usually I don't even remark on it, unless I think they did it in a way that was especially unsafe.
babyshake··on Start presentations on the second slide
An alternative is to do the first couple minutes of your talk at 2x speed and then suddenly slow down to a normal pace when you reach the interesting part. That should get their attention.
babyshake··on Ask HN: Are you still using your Vision Pro?
This reminds me of how in the WWDC keynote, the example used for the new hidden apps feature was an app involving hair styles. Yup, I'm sure that is exactly the kind of app people would want to be hiding on their phone...
babyshake··on Ask HN: People who make $10k+/month working on AI tools, what do you do?
I think what you mean is OP is going to answer their own question with something selling resources to help others "make $10k/month with AI apps"? Whether or not that's the intention this type of question does attract the snake oil sales pitches.
babyshake··on Mindfulness interventions for teens decrease mindfulness, study finds
A 30 minute walk around most parts of downtown San Francisco is not exactly the kind of 30 minute walk OP likely has in mind.
babyshake··on Mindfulness interventions for teens decrease mindfulness, study finds
I think it's likely that what is happening is the process of mindfulness (noticing your anxiety without judgement, and allowing it to exist and gently float away) is no match for that daily onslaught of culture, largely propagated via social media, that what we must do is focus and obsess on what makes us anxious. And if you don't focus on what makes you anxious, you are a fool at best and an enemy combatant at worst.
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