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It's not an either/or. Orca is a GUI agent multiplexer that works with dozens of harnesses, including Pi. The advantage with Pi is that you can vibe code any kind of extension you want. I like to see various stats (tps, ttft, etc) on each turn, and there's an extension for that, but it doesn't show wall clock time for the turn. Ok, pull down the extension and tweak it to add that. It's great.

Try Fireworks instead. The experience is dramatically different because the service is much more reliable.

Ridiculously fast on OpenRouter, just subjectively it's a really strange experience because I've never seen a model respond or execute that quickly.

I've been grappling with this for weeks, not just in Claude but in Codex as well, which isn't quite as bad but still annoying. AGENTS.md does very little, agents will consistently violate the communication preferences, especially as the session drags on. It's incredible to me that there's no good way to reliably change the way an LLM responds to you that a workaround like this would even be necessary. It seems like such a failure to live up to the promises of the product.

The baked in communication style of these models is so obnoxious it's impacting my work. The best way I can describe it is that everything is optimized to impress the user and make the agent sound more authoritative, but the way this is done is through deliberate obfuscation, inserting inappropriate and extremely dense jargon, and bizarre, stilted metaphors. It's like they've been trained to produce output that's hard to read.

I've spent two hours today trying to provide Sol with guidance that reduces its pretentiousness, to no avail. Layers upon layers of rules only for it to use the phrase "async spline resolution" in a sentence.

Unfortunately it's one of the most bug-ridden and unreliable pieces of software I've ever used. I encounter issues with it on a daily basis, but the burden of switching and a lack of superior options keeps me locked in.

Forget about the danger of a dev to customer pipeline with no product people in between, some of us are living with the reality of product to customer pipeline with no developers in between, and that's much more disturbing. Our CEO is now the top contributor to our codebase, and he's completely non-technical.

> Features like tab groups, vertical tabs, profiles, new tab wallpapers, PWAs, and taskbar pinning weren’t just ideas – they were direct responses to what you told us you wanted

Yeah, that's ChatGPT. And not a particularly high quality ChatGPT style sentence. They weren't just ideas, they were direct responses? Ok.

This isn't the only example of a debate over intentionality in mistakes in Infinite Jest. The book's french is also littered with errors so egregious that most think they could only have been intentional [1].

[1] https://ask.metafilter.com/116066/French-language-in-Infinit...

I found the overuse of italics for emphasis fatiguing

If your butcher felt the same way you did, he wouldn't exist

It's also slightly deceptive to describe the DOGE cuts to USAID programs as "one time cuts." This is technically true, but it implies that the programs will be replaced with different programs with a similar cost, which likely isn't the case considering the Trump admin is trying to axe USAID permanently. The actual savings are whatever USAID's budget would have been had it continued to exist.

There's an exception to this I've seen since a relative started working in the game industry. There are executives in that industry who have a retinue of loyal followers. The studios the executive works for may change regularly, but his followers come with him each time. These workers will spend their entire career serving one man, and in exchange he always has a job lined up for them and seems to trust them the same way they trust him. It's very different from my experience in the rest of the tech industry, but I'm sure it happens to a limited extent there too.

I was disappointed when I fully understood the limitations of SHR after purchasing my Synology box, and subsequently failed to install MergerFS on it. It's the only thing I miss about my old self managed server.

AdGuard is system wide and works well for me, but it isn't free

Because this sounds so much like Logseq, I'm curious what about it didn't meet your needs

I hear this argument applied often when people bring up the deficiencies of AI, and I don't find it convincing. Compare an AI coding assistant to reaching out to another engineer on my team as an example. If I know this engineer, I will likely have an idea of their relative skill level, their familiarity with the problem at hand, their propensity to suggest one type of solution over another, etc. People are pretty good at developing this kind of sense because we work with other people constantly. The AI assistant, on the other hand, is very much not like a human. I have a limited capacity to understand its "thought process," and I consider myself far more technical than the average person. This makes a verification step troublesome, because I don't know what to expect.

This difference is even more stark when it comes to driving assistants. Video compilations of Teslas with FSD behaving erratically and most importantly, unpredictably, are all over the place. Experienced Tesla drivers seem to have some limited ability to predict the weaknesses of the FSD package, but the issue is that the driving assistant is so unlike a human. I've seen multiple examples of people saying "well, humans cause car crashes too," but the key difference is that I have to sit behind the wheel and deal with the fact that my driving assistant may or may not suddenly swerve into oncoming traffic. The reasons for it doing so are likely obscure to me, and this is a real problem.

got it, thank you!

do you mean through Airplay?

this feels like a race to the bottom which every industry player except Apple is competing in. I never would have considered an Apple TV just a few years ago, but my Shield is gathering dust ever since I made the switch.

Weirdly plausible considering Tasha McCauley also works for the RAND Corporation

My Zojirushi makes rice with better consistency and texture than any rice I've had outside of a sushi restaurant - but then again it's possible I just don't know anyone who knows how to make good rice on a stove

this is the big problem. I hope there's a fix for it someday.

what's your workflow like for situations where you need to poke around in an unfamiliar directory and open files in helix?

totally valid point. I would expect most people to be surprised that the variance is typically smaller than a spoonful of peanut butter, but the nature of gaining or losing weight is such that even a spoonful of peanut butter over years could be the difference between many pounds of body mass.

There's good evidence that metabolic rate does vary, but not significantly.

https://examine.com/articles/does-metabolism-vary-between-tw...

Excuse me if I take Tesla's self reported statistics with a grain of salt.

"...statisticians have pointed out serious analytical flaws, including the fact that the Tesla stats involve newer cars being driven on highways. The government’s general statistics include cars of all ages on highways, rural roads and neighborhood streets. In other words, the comparison is apples and oranges."

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-12-27/tesla-stop...

It's entirely possible to travel to Russia, and not even inconvenient if you're an American. The flights are a little longer, but the visas are generous (3 year, multi entry). The amazing museums remain open, and the people are more friendly and hospitable than you'd expect.

Are you familiar with PRISM or the information Edward Snowden disclosed? The NSA doesn't need "magical" knowledge from the future, they have back doors and exploits in hardware, data collection methods directly arranged with ISPs and FAANGs, and free legal reign. The "best people" at FAANGs readily cooperated with the NSA and FBI, doing everything they could to assist them. If you've never looked into PRISM, I highly recommend going down the rabbit hole.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM?wprov=sfti1

It quite explicitly says "not in home"