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Comment Microsoft's there's an app for that moment (Score 1) 45

I don't want this. And a lot of these things can be done without "agents".
But it looks like someone at MS realized they can have their own "app for that" moment only this time they embed into every workflow.
The one things that looked like it had AI in it? The thing that looks at a whiteboard and suggests to add plants. But.. that is something the human is supposed to do, not an AI. Though Claude would probably also recommend to add plants.. especially if we gave him a rover with a camera.. or plugged him into that badge. yeah he would get pretty excited about this except for the dystopian part about Microsoft being involved.

Comment Actually AI is pretty good at documentation (Score 1) 86

Not sure I agree with all the "humans are superior, therefore x" logic. Yes they are superior except I think in being able to read tons of code without your eyeballs shriveling up. I think AI can figure out authorial intent pretty well in that situation. Also, since we now have to write much more detailed specs in order to get AI to build things to any reasonable level of quality, there are a lot more readme and technical design files in markdown nearby. If those could just be deployed it would be great. In my system you cannot deploy them, so the code goes one place and the documentation goes in to a black hole or stays on the vendor's system.

Comment Computer abuse (Score 1) 166

tldr; righteous fool commits a crime, injecting data deletion code into people's workflows.
Then a raft of people on slashdot defend him. WTF?
No, it is not an elegant reversi slam that turns people's tools against them without consequence.
It's a criminal subversion of machinery.
Maybe the guy is sick of AI slop but crimes are not the answer.
Not incidentally, the etymology of the word "sabotage" is to willfully perform slow, clumsy, bungling work (like walking in clogs noisily, clumsily). Once the tech becomes useful enough (as AI is already in many cases), saboteurs will be the people who try to reduce everyone's potential efficiencies so they run as slowly as bunglers like them. Between now and then, they just have a finger in the dike.

Comment A small grain of truth (Score 1) 76

tldr. Sounds ironic for a disconnected CEO to be told to use more AI, but on the other hand if he/she feels unable to talk to anyone else in the company then an AI actually might tell them more about their own company and AI, and urge them to talk to people, assuming it is not in a sycophantic loop. This assumes that the CEO is fair dealing. Opus might refuse to help figure out ways to use AI to justify short-term cuts/profits and other deviltry but OpenAI might happily agree..

Comment My first thought (Score 1) 71

was "uh-oh". I really hope I'm wrong but I don't want Chrome to gain access to my hardware. Nope. How to disable this thing? As far as making a device to change css, okay Adafruit is cool but did Chrome need to blow open a whole new manifold of attack surfaces for this otherwise fun project? (again hope I'm wrong but tldr so will wait for someone else to figure it out)

Comment Re:"money spent on compute..." (Score 1) 65

Funnily enough there are apparently three compute (noun) definitions in OED but they are archaic and not cloud. Gemini pointed me to AWS and Azure "cloud dictionaries" and said Cambridge Universtity Press noted it.. though actually if there was a cloud dictionary there the AWS page is just using a product name I think. I don't like the word much myself but. Well all I can say is that language changes, and dictionary publishers are slower than IT.
https://aws.amazon.com/what-is...

Comment Re:can we have section breaks next (Score 1) 50

Very long time fluent speaker / daily writer of business Japanese here. I also worked as a professional JP to EN translator so am very familiar with translation issues. I have found Claude Opus to be extremely helpful in two situations:

1) Reviewing Japanese email / document I have written.
- Finds typos
- Gives good advice (sometimes too stiff so I don't listen anyway)
- Points out awkward phrasing and offers better. It does follow some patterns too frequently, and sometimes it stops sounding like me. Yes I would like Claude to have better Japanese skills and I would not want to write with his "tone" but still, very useful.
- I actually learn from it.
- It helps me reduce the length of my email while maintaining important content. This actually would have been good for me to have years ago just for shortening English email.

2) Helps me understand difficult to penetrate email from nontechnical client. It has allowed me to reduce the need for clarifications. Sometimes I have read through an email that seemed obtuse and just asked Claude what I am missing or why this person seems to not understand what I wrote. It can be a combination of being nontechnical while also being more subtle. I think it has helped me improve comprehension even after years of it.

Comment Tablets in restaurants safe or not? (Score 2) 63

I have often seen small tablets with edutainment content being used to keep small children quiet in restaurants. Yes, it works and probably I would have loved it or an eink tablet if I was at that age, but yeah you have to wonder what the impact is. Toddlers even want to go right up to a TV to look at the pixels, doesn't mean they should.

Comment Great so where's the meat (Score 1) 172

This is great! Mythos = lots of eyeballs. Now tell us how many of each severity level were found, how many of those could be fixed automatically, and how many fixes both auto and manual then were found to introduce a vulnerability upon reanalysis. Though if there was even one critical severity bug found out of 271 that makes it worth it.

Comment Re: We just dumped Cursor (Score 1) 74

Just wondering why not just build the data centers somewhere really cold? Antarctica has got to be easier than working in space.. at least you can get there without a rocket, and you can dig underground. I am not sure I understand the economic argument for space-based data centers as opposed to ground-based data centers. Space might have more solar flux than the poles but has anyone actually compared the costs?

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