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Because financial instruments like stocks are contracts entitling you to future cash flows from the legal entity that issued the stock, and federal securities laws mandate strict disclosure about that entity.

Yes, their value fluctuates on the market from lots of different factors. But the thing you're buying is very real and very well regulated compared to a prediction bet.

Yeah my 5yo falls in this camp and is resistant to nuanced political discussions about it FOR SOME REASON

But there's a new skill blossoming there, right? That's what I'm noticing. The atrophying skill is one you don't need anymore. The new one - prompting, routing the output, spotting the hallucinations, managing singal/noise etc. - is now where you can add tremendous value.

To say nothing of being bold enough to run systems like that in the first place. I know some of engineers that are still folding their arms and refusing to engage with AI!

Everyone on social media seems to be HUNTING for signs that the powers that be are prepping for the end of the world.

If one or more are AWS, GCP, etc. that would make a lot of sense. Connecting to Claude via API via AWS Bedrock is really nice.

I'm tired, boss

It was fun being here today. Validated a lot of the live frustrations and quirks and discovery.

yeah, not surprising but not great

Yep, all our efforts are now focused on working around that. It's pretty neat!

I eventually got it to write pseudocode for reversing a linked list, but could never get it to output raw code.

Hat tip Claude Opus 5.5 for the jailbreak tips!

In a year or two, articles like this will either be artifacts from peak hype or evidence of the beginning of the singularity. Right?

I think this is key. Lawyers make a lot of money for being experts on the sidelines of disputes with values greatly in excess of their fees. They were never paid for their busy work.

Not to mention CONNECTIONS, of which LLMs will start with 0 and never acquire more.

Debatably the people who were getting 20 years of education will still be just as capable, and the 20 years of education was always a side effect of their capabilities, not the cause of them.

Yeah. I buy that there are some use cases where AI is a trap, or not as good as people.

I'm also chatting with my logs and triaging things like 10x faster in multiple open terminal sessions while I post on HN right now. So I'm also certain there are some use cases where not using AI will soon be professional negligence!

I see it in a slightly opposite way: even the good models are relatively cheap, and so I worry what we might miss by spending too much time playing with the Sonnets of the world when the Opuses are still objectively a bargain for the power they bring.

hell yeah it does, feels nice at the end of a long day

I like computers more than many members of my family, so...

something something machine elves...

There's a huge market right now for "AI product, without much different than Gemini/Claude/GPT do out of the box, but from somebody you actually trust"

It's tricky because dissenting doesn't necessarily mean you'd reach the opposite conclusion in every respect.

In this case, I really doubt even the most conservative justices believe "birthright citizenship means whatever an Executive Order says it does." At a minimum, we know they aren't signing on to the reasoning the 5 in the majority used. And then we can learn whatever they feel like saying in the dissent, but a dissent is just an essay with no force of law.

It’s 2026 and my computer will happily give me the right answer even when i make typos. I love it.

businesses absolutely love not paying for things. each other, contractors, etc.

employees don’t realize how good they have it with payroll protections tbh. That’s how it should be of course!

Yep! It’s all just text files. Lots of acronyms in top of lots of ways to generate, send, and read structured text files.

One day I realized even databases were just text files and I had to sit down.

Sadly no. And I might lose my bet it'd be back by Tuesday... alas...

Agents

pls hold

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/s/MgqpWkoeeN

I give it until Tuesday at the latest until it's accessible again.

I've seen it turn right in business contexts. Sometimes you can even lower your standard of "good enough" and find quantity has a quality all its own.

But it requires taste and engineering to do it right, and on the right things. It'll be an interesting few years.

That's more or less what Claude Cowork is.

Every serious engineer I've seen try to use it ran away screaming, because of limitations in the sandbox.

I've also seen people set their coding agents up entirely within containers -- that may be the better way going forward, but it's an extra stop and a lot of extra plumbing to maintain.