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More like ensuring culture and art isn’t captured by the big conglomerate.

My wife calls it sim sickness, because she can’t do any POV type games like racing or fps, too. She can play WoW or third person games if they’re zoomed out enough.

She also got motion sickness until she turned on the Apple dots.

Different strokes for different folks, but unfortunately they take their opinions and preferences as a sign that others are inferior.

I only use composer 2.5 day to day and it works fine with human review.

The company isn’t using the travel miles. You’re basically saying, “I’ll take away a small perk from people who are forced to travel.” It’s not like they’re stealing from the company, the company sent them somewhere else and they just got a tiny bonus for it.

The proper thing to so is stop those managers who travel too much.

Would you say, “Automobile run amok in crowd, killing 22”? I think you’d say, “Person drives car into crowd, killing 12” instead. This is a similar case. Also, you don’t blame a gun for killing, but the person who pulled the trigger. The question is still out as to whether we as humans should wield any of those three things.

Edit: let’s not get into ideological arguments about gun control, automobiles, etc here; I meant that you can’t blame an object when a human has to take an action, not get into a political battle.

Don’t sweat the small stuff

Young people thought M$ was changing, the old folks knew it was just another cycle of embrace, extend, extinguish.

That’s not your data, why do you think you have the right to prevent the user from doing what they want? Other users shared that chat data with each other, you have no right to that data, so as an app developer I’d say you should not care about the API.

My number one question is can I turn this shit off? I don’t want AI infecting and having access to my whole fucking life. They don’t say anything on this marketing page.

At least when I write an autistic info dump people know I wrote it. Why give your voice over to a corpo slop factory?

Heck, I use LLM assistance for coding and I’ve even coded up whole features with the clankers, but giving it the right to speak for me is too much.

I should also add that I read and understand every line of clanker output that I publish for others, so I’m not a vibe coder either, just adhd.

This isn’t a job risk, those doctors will be imprisoned for a very long time, or worse, if they perform anything resembling an abortion. The voters of Alabama wanted that, apparently.

The LLM is also training on or reading your emails; my wife was emailing a client and it produced absolute garbage and in that garbage was information the clanker shouldn’t have known unless it read the other emails. That’s probably not a surprise but the implications are staggering.

That’s a good idea too, I might steal it.

The opposite end of that spectrum is everyone here who thinks we should just ignore nature and where we came from since we’ve conquered it, or something. I’m not sure what you all are arguing here. We’re still a part of nature, we’ll discover that quickly if society collapses.

Yea so your answer is to build something that’s like MCP basically. You’d standardize conventions around json, great, now standardize auth. Oauth is nice right? That’s MCP. MCP is literally a restful API using JSON with OAuth.

You’re arguing against MCP but have nothing to offer that isn’t nearly the same thing.

> Engineering should not be subjective.

I think there’s a lot of ways to do engineering right. It’s very subjective in many ways. Every project has multiple possible paths to success.

You can build an MCP client really really easy today with libraries and it integrates with inference calls very well. If you want to give a cloud agent access to another api, you need to bills a connector or give it shell access or some sort of sandbox with tools to access that stuff. That’s fine, but how do you then give it auth access? How do you ensure security boundaries? MCP builds those in and the shape (prompts, resources, tools, etc) are good for agentic work.

It’s like asking why we needed browsers when we had BBSes; they serve a different but similar purpose and are build on different abstraction levels.

I like MCP, but most servers and harnesses just dump all of the tools into context each message. Also the default tutorials for everything around MCP say to dump tools this way.

It’s really hard to determine which tools an agent will need on the fly. The best idea I’ve seen was to do a “search tools” tool which an agent would use to find relevant tools, then have an “execute tool” tool which did what it says.

Alternatively, if you’re using an agent that’s good with code, give it something like “port of context” (pctx) which translates MCP tools into a JavaScript package so the agent can chain MCP tools together with code, and they can filter the data down to just what they need. I haven’t used this method much yet but soon I need to improve the MCP gateway in our cloud agent builder product so I’m going to try this one out soon myself.

You realize that not every user of agents uses them like Claude or Codex on your local CLI right? MCP is the standard for cloud agents. How do you get a cloud agent working in an ephemeral container access to skills? The answer is MCP.

Don’t worry he probably got an agent to do it. Maybe ten.

That isn’t real opponents, it’s useful for training but you don’t need actual drones to red team. I don’t know how many times I had to use my imagination in the military when we were fighting paper opponents that were non existent but we had to maneuver and walk through processes as if we had a missile inbound. Or those situations where we had a real target but we weren’t allowed to actually shoot at it because it was reserved for another unit to actually shoot at.

Very relevant thank you

We can defend from drones without building our own autonomous drone killing machines. The real danger here is that we have bad guys at home who will use this tech on us if we give them the chance, so personally I’m opposed to building it. Not like I can do anything other than comment here and vote.

I’m really not judging anyone who does, there’s a lot of nuance here that honestly makes it hard to argue you’re wrong or I’m right in this discussion.

The only reason we’re in this mess with Iran is a dumbass president; as for Russia, same thing. I’m not gonna reward the military industrial complex just because they backed a moron.

On topic: I would prefer we research defenses for drones instead of drones themselves.

If you participate in this competition you’re effectively giving free research to a weapons company who will use it to improve their killer drones. I’m not judging but that’s what this is. Please correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think I am.

I only say this because technologists sometimes don’t think about the reasons behind things, they just see a fun problem to solve.

So does my brain, but no one complains. If I’ve read and understand all of the code it’s effectively the same thing. I’m washing the LLM output so it’s clean. My brain parses the LLMs code and deems it safe.

He never gave us a fucking manual in the first place, so who knows what He is thinking.

That’s why I don’t add it because I take the fucking time to read the clankers output and fix that shit.

I use the ai as a tool, it helps me as an adhd autistic person to get things done. I still care about quality as much as before!!!

I’m so tired of bad actors fucking things up for the rest of us who do things right.

A clanker isn’t a human it’s a tool. I don’t write “Coauthored by VSCode” when I use find and replace.