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Earlier this year we had prospective customers do comparisons against our competitors but also against prompting their own. All of them, without exception, found that to be a bad idea.

If it were just about the ability to edit images, Gimp would have obsoleted Photoshop decades back. Photoshop excels because of its capabilities but even more because of its ease of use and the stickiness of the skillset its users have spent developing.

If you found Schopenhauer's thoughts on it interesting, I'd recommend giving The Birth of Tragedy a read to see where a young Nietzsche took it, relating it to poetry.

It's crazy how bad Dot has been with stuff like this. You'd think it would be able to (and need to be able to) edit a lot of environment settings, tunnels, plugins, etc., but I keep running into issues. For example, I wanted to make a Codex plugin to give it the ability to steer Codex agents running within my own infrastructure, tunneling in via Tailscale. Ended up just giving up and going with a different approach. Because, for example, every time I'd add a new tool to the plugin, I'd have to manually restart Dot (something that wasn't even obvious that it was possible until you fumble around menu dropdowns) and wait because it can't just refresh tools.

Everything I'm describing is more power user stuff than its most basic use cases ("Do this thing for me with your browser") but all the roadblocks I've run into involve one part of OpenAI's product not being able to talk to the other. I'd imagine Claude Duet is the same.

Interesting because afaik young people have no interest in Facebook at all. My expectation was that old people, Meta's primary victims, would be the main users. They love mascots like that (see: Minions). They're also likely to be more willing to pay a small subscription fee, which Meta has mentioned they plan on adding.

Yeah my problem is that I need to toggle it between "really active constantly writing" sessions and "running a bunch of long tests and periodically pinging me about it" ones. The former are best with 5m, the latter with 1h.

Ultimately, Codex doesn't suffer from ANY of this so I'm starting to think about just using it for work subscription use as well.

Muse is the most obviously doomed claw-style bot because you already need to segment those things from ANY personal info, and Meta rolls into the room as the journal that will tell everyone what you write in it and says "trust me"

Part of a huge problem with FAANG companies. You can't be Meta and just ratfuck your users for decades and then ask them to trust you, just like you can't be Amazon and turn your storefront into Temu-lite and expect people to want to order products sight unseen with your Echo shit.

>Steal Everything

>Leave Nothing

Cringe larping skiddie nonsense

I guess this website should get its own entry in its list then. I don't need to read unreviewed slopcopy.

Cache TTL will get you anyway. For Claude subscriptions, subagents still have a 5m TTL and before I discovered that, their constant waits for ~10 min tests or similar tasks would destroy my 5h usage. And for my API subscription at work, Claude has a 5m TTL for all stuff, and that's nowhere near long enough. You have to be monitoring this unless you want to absolutely torch your company's budget.

That makes it even more concerning.

>I never generate any writing end-to-end with AI.

Absolutely not true. Take the blurb I referenced:

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Why Approved

Owns factories in a category where almost nobody does, and put $65M into expanding them in 2024. Asterisks stated plainly: US-made is a minority of output; the Made-in-USA claim runs on 70% domestic value against the FTC's all-or-virtually-all standard; and Cristostomo v. New Balance (D. Mass 1:21-cv-12095, Made-in-USA labeling class action) was dismissed with prejudice by joint stipulation on 2024-05-10 — no class certified, terms undisclosed.

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Pangram gives it a 100%, and it's pretty obvious to a reader that this is AI (specifically Anthropic) generated. "stated plainly", etc.

This is more than just having it smooth out some writing.

I like this site, but looking at it right now, I'm seeing some obvious Opus 5 era Claudese in here [1]. I'm not sure how much I can trust something written lazily by an LLM, as it means there's no way to know if there's a human in the loop or if someone just has a Hermes agent out there doing automated research and writing it up automatically.

1: https://ledger.worseonpurpose.com/brands/new-balance "Why Approved" section

Legitimately unsure if you're doing a bit here.

In case you aren't, her Twitter account isn't run by her. She doesn't post of it; it's another person impersonating her. This movie touches on this fact very significantly partway through. The person impersonating her is a MAGA guy and was given access to her account by reaching out to "people pretty high up with X"

>only to discover that you’re also watching a demonstration of how easy it is to deceive you

Is this your first time encountering a Nathan joint?

>Nashville number system is just music theory for dumb people

It's not for dumb people, it's only for people who insist on reinventing music theory from 300 years ago from first principles without actually adding to it.

Ok, that's not Nashville. That's Bach era harmony terminology. Welcome to the 17th/18th century.

Yeah and so did all the musicians in 18th century Germany, much before "Nashville" was a major city

No, you misused a word and are pretending that you are using it jokingly. Be honest for once in your life.

Wake me up when it stops going blank when I have two monitors with different scaling factors. [1]

1: https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/4299321840544...

>I wanted to talk to one of the mourners to understand their technological grief. I wanted to know if theirs was a familiar case of bruised ego or disappointment—akin to, say, a boy who spends an hour building a tower out of blocks and watches his big brother smash the thing to smithereens—or something stranger and more profound.

I'll be honest. The response to mathematicians, even this one, makes me concerned about the lack of empathy and honestly just theory of mind of many people in tech. It's not a mystery why people are upset that their field, for many the singular passion to which they've devoted their entire lives, is being annihilated so that a massive company can boost its IPO valuation. It's not "bruised ego" ffs.

The user in the commercial never asked for incorrect information.

Ok and at no point did the person in it ask for inaccurate information.

>asking for factoids

Define "factoid"

Cookie Whack A Mole

Go to fucking college for music theory or leave it alone. Dilettante shit at correcting all those snobby college boys about their passion has always been fated to fail. Congrats you really showed those first year conservatory students what's what. Thank god they are the real elite of the US or else this would come across as pointless bullying

>Nashville system

Is there anyone still using this who hasn't realized they remade grade school intro to music theory? Or has no one told them?

Just learn to read music dude. It's not "your own instrument" right now if you can't fucking sightread the first mvmt of the Moonlight Sonata. Detach yourself from AI horseshit and woodshed a bit.

I agree they can get bad but it's so nice to be able to take event driven workflows, like "pick up this file just written to S3, do some stuff to it, and write results out somewhere", and just have it work with basic features like autoretry, DLQs, built-in logging, etc.

Stringing together a bunch is an anti-pattern IMO but when it's not being abused, it's wonderful tech.

Maybe he just sees the legions of armchair experts weighing in on his (extremely notable expert) opinions on mathematics and thought that maybe they'd like a taste of their own medicine?

"Oh no! Not like that!"

- everyone with Very Strong opinions on mathematics academia when he talks about the thing they are (or consider themselves to be) experts in

Yeah I was hoping to figure out what this thing's main distinction or value add was in these comments and it's almost nothing but people trying to be the smartest guy in the room by correcting the title's claim. I would never name it specifically lest I break the rules, but that's a pattern that drove me here from another site years ago, and it's sad to see it more common here.

Damn I didn't even have to Press Start to begin