they decided to go "online only", which immediately reduced my interest in this game to zero.
Your whole post is making up something that's not true, and then bitching about it. You must be a politician.
This wreaks of clickbait and smells a lot like bullshit.
Sooner the better.
That should be the only way to access flock.
Someone needs to vibe code a python replacement for it and free the world from this guy.
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Looking online you can find plenty of people bitching about Apple C2 modems.
Who is going to bitch about a C2 modem when Apple has never shipped one? Weird claim to make.
In one month we'll be reading about all these $2000.00 phones that developed a cracked screen right on the hinge (how did I know?)...
Apparently, solving this problem is why Apple is 3 years late to this game.
The guy admits he saw the price on the screen and charged anyway.
It want's its Tivo back.
Who still uses a Tivo? Who even still has a cable service to hook it to?
You can build a plain english (markdown file) describing exactly what the agent's role and purpose is.
with new instructions to help them complete their tasks.
Yeah, the enthusiasts changed the name "prompting" to other things so they could have something new to talk about. The models still provide output in response to input even if someone has added some additional software layers and buzz words to impede your understanding.
Tell me you don't know without telling me you don't know. You just did.
Of course it's input and output. So is an operating system, and that doesn't make it a rebranded transistor.
A prompt is one call and a human reads the result.
An agent runs a loop: the model calls a tool, something actually executes, the result comes back as the next input, and the model decides what to do next and when it's done. Nobody types between those steps. Yes, there are still prompts in there. The model itself is writing most of them.
cool story bro, AI doesn't do anything without a human prompting it
I am amazed at how many people on Slashdot are completely out of touch with the progress AI models have made in the last 6 months. This is supposed to be a tech site, where you guys actually use the tech and understand it. But I digress.
Current models do not need any prompting. You can build a plain english (markdown file) describing exactly what the agent's role and purpose is. It will continue to operate agains those instructions autonomously until it is shut down. Other agents can create and spin up new agents, with new instructions to help them complete their tasks.
We are long past the days of type a sentence, get an answer type agents.
The next time we'd need to mobilize like we did in WW2, we wouldn't have the industrial capacity of Ford or GM to build tanks and jeeps. We and every other country would be at the mercy of the CCP.
It's already way to late bruh. We don't have the mines anymore, or any of the other infrastructure. Those factories would just sit empty.
I could happily leave to run overnight
The thing I have found is this is where the models all fall short. I have created some amazing results that 500X my productivity by limiting the scope of each session. If I I play the role of "project manager", break the work into phases, and then test and refine each phase before letting it move on to the next, I get incredibly good results.
If I write a 30 page requirements document and just let it build the entire app, the output is always subpar because it builds with mistakes, then builds on top of those mistakes with more mistakes. Then it takes me significantly more time to get it to the end state I wanted in the first place.
Grok Build is much better
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Would you also have me believe that a crate pickup from Temu is better than an F-150? Grok is hot garbage.
I have teams of developers and we use and test all of these daily. Grok is pathetic. Gemini is good if you need something to update a spreadsheet. Claude code is still the clear winner for heavy lifting, with codex being a close second.
Could you explain that first one, "Stock rose 2,279%" further?
Sure. I'll be your Google or ChatGPT for you today!
Apple stock was $13.74 (split adjusted) on Tim's first day. Today's closing price was $316.85. That's a 2,206.04% increase in value.
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