Part of what makes this post newsworthy is the claim it is an email from an agent, not a person, which is unusual. Your claim that "unsupervised LLM's are commonplace" is not at all obvious to me.
I don't think that I am. I don't think that they want to be treated like they're 5, but I do think they don't want to put thought into it. We're training ourselves to offload critical thinking and I was surprised to see it driving the conversation here.
In this specific situation, it's not really a case of using an LLM to replace real interaction. No real person set out to write to Rob Pike, they just let an LLM do whatever and it had then eventually chosen to send an email to Rob Pike, among other people, based on its existing data. To me, the wrongdoing here is about the spammy pestering, because the email wasn't written by anyone and therefore isn't really expressing anything material, but it's not replacing anyone here.
Half serious. I guess what Iwas saying is that it is that kind of science which is still very useful but more to nginx developers themselves. And most users now dont have to worry about this anymore.
My notable find this year was an author who will serve for me as a successor to le Carré as a reliable source of thoughtful spy fiction and I have a backlog of his work to look forward to, but the first for me was:
It is not about being proud, it is about being sincere.
If you send me a photo of the moon supposedly taken with your smartphone but enhanced by the photo app to show all the details of the moon, I know you aren't sincere and sending me random slop. Same if you are sending me words you cannot articulate.
I finally got around to reading Wheel of Time. It didn't quite take the whole year but a few solid months. If I had tried spreading it out over a longer period I wouldn't have been able to remember the overall plot or characters, I think.
Number 1 Billionaires wont leave lol and number 2 it doesnt matter because the companies they run still do business here and we can tax the fudge out of them.
In ascending order of functionality and how much complexity you need:
- Docker Compose running on a single server
- Docker Swarm cluster (typically multiple nodes, can be one)
- Hashicorp Nomad or K3s or other light Kubernetes distros
>The concept of intellectual property on its own (independently of its legal implementation details) is at most as evil as property ownership, and probably less so as unlike the latter it promotes innovation and creativity.
This is a strange inversion. Property ownership is morally just in that the piece of land my home is can only be exclusive, not to mention necessary to a decent life. Meanwhile, intellectual property is a contrivance that was invented to promote creativity, but is subverted in ways that we're only now beginning to discover. Abolish copyright.
I used to believe that a constitution, as a statement of principles, was sufficient for a civilized, democratic, and pluralist society. I no longer believe that. I believe that only settled law - i.e. a bunch of adjudicated precedents over many years, perhaps hundreds, is the best course. It provides a better basis for what is and what is not allowed. An AI constitution is close to garbage. The 'company' will formulate it as it wills. It won't be democratic, or even friendly to the demos. We have existing constitutions, laws, precedents; why would we allow anyone to shortcut them all in the interest of simply painting a nice picture of progress?
I know the article mentions increasing industrial demand without any other details, but I was under the impression precious metals were going up as investors were trying to hedge against uncertainty with the current market
What's their basis for sending the emails then? If not one of legal standing in copyright/contract law?
Edit: My point is this is just another one of many annoying people you have to deal with who will email you alleging all sorts of legal violations, who don't themselves understand anything about the claims they are making.
That may be true of modern farms elsewhere but is not the case for historical groves here. They are sometimes spaced appropriately but that's about it. Usually on vehicular-inaccessible mountainside terraces.
I've seen speculative claims that it will be essential for battery anodes. But I have no idea what quantities are involved, and whether it reflects real industrial demand or is wishcasting by rock aficionados.
Heya, author of the post here. That's a good call out because it's probably a lot!
And now that you mention it, that's also one failure case for why some people look at AI and go "this just isn't very good at coding". I'm not saying it has to be that way nor will it be that way forever, but there are absolutely a lot of people who just download Claude Code or Cursor or Codex and dive right in without any additional set up.
That's partially why I suggest people use Codex for the workshops I offer, because it provides the best results with no set up. All of these tools have a nearly unending amount of progressive disclosure because there's so much invisible configuration and best practices are changing so fast. I'm still trying not to imply that one tool is "better" than another (even if I have my preference), but more so hit on the fact that which AI tools people like is mostly about your preferred set of tradeoffs.
