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I mean, this kind of just feels like reasonable criticism of HN worded a bit oddly.

I'm not sure if it's irony or what, but I personally realized how absolutely goofy MCP is when I vibecoded with gemini in like 2 seconds a quite reasonable bash agent (for use with my local llama stuff.)

There's really not much of a point in "MCP" and/or formality here when working with LLMs, nothing bash etc can't do. If you want to use them, fine, but understand that at the other end you're always dealing with a nonzero amount of unpredictable vibes.

Because, and I cannot stress this enough:

Programming languages (and the like) are for humans, not for computers or for creating formal systems.

Understanding this simple fact will save you (and by you I mean me and the type of people who frequent sites like this) a ton of headache.

Great example of "what works for you" I think - I'm in the camp of:

I did multiple monitors for a long time, and probably my best productivity thing was switching to one AND ONLY ONE big enough 4k. Basically allows me to switch between "one focused monitor most of the time" and "the equivalent of 2 or 3, maybe even 4" if I need it.

This plus accountability is the way; and what I think I mean here is "accountability for those who choose to USE (maybe not create) the software in a way that may be harmful."

If you'd like to push that accountability to the developers, that can work, but they should be paid or otherwise compensated accordingly for the risk they take on.

I think generally agree, except it ain't even as deep as "ideology," it's just clicks and algorithms...

Anecdotally, that literally only one of my college age students knew about the Moon mission was wild.

I genuinely now believe that a real barrier to (the terrible idea of) reinstating the draft is that it would actually be difficult to find and inform the public about it, in a believable way.

Is this related to that thing where somehow the entire damn world forgot about the power of boolean (and other precise) searching?

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Do y'all mean backend or the Ollama frontend or both? I find it trivially easy to sub in my local Ollama api thing in virtually all of the interesting frontend things. I'm quite curious about the "why not Ollama" here.

Ollama user with the opposite question -- why not? What am I missing out on? I'm using it as the backend for playing with other frontend stuff and it seems to work just fine.

And as someone running at 16gb card, I'm especially curious as to if I'm missing out on better performance?

Didn't even think about that. Interesting.

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Yeah, it feels like the real lede here may not be "Andressen is a soulless weirdo" but "It's very clear that a lot of our tech 'leaders' are soulless weirdos, which is why this feels like a good explanation of what he's saying."

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Right? Kinda weird; I wonder what tiny pie it is that they think they're fighting over, and what makes any of these individual projects think that they're powerful enough over the others (not saying they might not be)

Good. While I don't condone anything illegal, influential code like this is nearly always better made public.

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I agree; and whatever you think that is good can possibly be used against you. This is why I think ATProto is possibly dangerous, it makes Big Brother's job easier, as opposed to how ActivityPub does it.

Whooo those are some doublespeak phrases if I've ever heard them.

Credible exit? What is that supposed to mean?

This is the best question, because my gut is that "feature" that it touts over AP is much more a dangerous bug.

This is "take it with you."

What "take it with you" does in the ATProto way shores up and makes more robust the permanence of what you post. Sounds good, but also potentially harmful in terms of surveillance et al.

The ActivityPub approach is less robust and theres more room for deletion and non-reliability. Which in some ways is bad, but also helps in terms of "plausible deniability."

In other words, if you're Big Brother, you much prefer ATProto.

This is a great examination, and I think reminds me of why I'm not so panicky about AI art -- there was pretty much the same kind of panic around the invention of photography.

It will change, but craft and "look what I did" won't go away.

Weirdly, I also agree with this.

Which is today, I think we're past the point of "One social media to rule them all."

There's room for multiples, all serving important purposes. Maybe an ideal LinkedIn (work stuff), an ideal Facebook (people you know), Twitter (big public convos) -- and importantly but perhaps nonexistent, a healthy anonymous or pseudonymous space as well.

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"Real" fair use is perhaps one of the most nebulous legal concepts possible. I haven't dived deep into software, but a cursory look at how it "works (I use that term as loosely as possible)" in music with sampling and interpolation etc immediately reveals that there's just about nothing one can rely on in any logical sense.

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No, but as I've said below, this isn't about what will actually strongly happen, but what I think people think. I could be wrong here.

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