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Reliance in India basically ran a severe loss for Jio (their new mobile network where they essentially gave the country free mobile internet), but paid for by the profits of their fossil fuel business.

For a while, didn't Amazon do the same? They basically ran a loss with Amazon retail but profits on AWS, until they spun off?

So yes, this is fairly common with conglomerates, (Amazon sold diapers at a loss to put diapers.com out of business). And in fact, this tactic is a target for anti-trust laws where they exist.

Have you heard of the concept of Conglomerates?

In the US, GE makes your microwave, aircraft engines, and also the gas turbine your power plant uses.

Siemens makes appliances, MRI machines, and even nuclear reactors I believe.

Or in Korea: Samsung, Hyundai, LG. Samsung makes chips, TVs, washing machines.

Japan: Mistubishi makes washing machines and excavators and mining equipment.

India: Reliance has cell phone service, grocery stores, and oil rigs. Tata makes cars, has tier 1 datacenters, and runs hotels too.

This is hardly a novel idea.

Yeah, they literally said they had a live audience to address the criticism that these videos would've been AI generated.

I find this to be incredibly short-sighted. However, it does say it was a part of a union contract, so that explains some of it (the part where it seems to come entirely from a fear of job security).

Even if you want to keep AI out of the content-writing part, or the image generation part of your product, there are still areas where a newsroom can do much more ambitious work with the same people:

- AI can do research to assist in fact checking of articles

- AI can help suggest story ideas based on patterns it found in your own articles over time (an editor would still curate them)

- AI can help the newsroom pore over more first-hand sources/raw sources. Think of how many times you've had to process a stack of hard to OCR PDFs that come out of a FOIA, for example, or poring over government datasets when trying to make sense of something. Or a person's historical tweets, etc.

So it's clear that whoever won in this debate (hopefully there was at least a proper debate) wasn't interested in talking about all these additional areas where AI can help the existing people do more _without risking their jobs_.

I couldn't build this even with Claude Mythos, I have no freaking clue what this stuff is, and I'm a full time software developer that understands performance optimization and even has used SketchUp a lot.

I'm telling you, I simply couldn't do it. Unless the prompt is "copy every single feature in AutoDesk Fusion 360" and sit back, and even then, I wouldn't even know where to start with testing it, knowing whether it works properly, and whether the various tools are useful, performant, etc.

Let's not assume that the code is the most important part, it's important, but domain knowledge is still very important.

This works alright.

In fact, my pet peeve is why can't 1Password build in the ability to "remotely" approve something via the 1Password app? I'd get a push message, hit allow, and it does the negotiation in an e2e encrypted way.

Then I could approve something my agent needs when I'm not at the computer. Service Accounts are a crappy solution to be honest.

Right, and over time the number of HW4+ cars will increase, right?

I can't speak to FSD's quality on HW3, I never had FSD on my Model 3. I did have EAP and it worked really well on highways.

But what is your argument? newer tech will bring improved outcomes? I'm sure HW5 will be even better. But that doesn't change the fact that FSD (on HW4 vehicles of which there are tons), is really good.

This is a really good first step that's citizen facing, what I would love eventually is embracing the whole agentic workflows and actually exposing MCP to tools for gov services - then, say, a law firm's AI could file court documents with MCP tools.

Basically yes, APIs just as good, but that general idea of API-first would eventually also be quite powerful.

It's not new... most people E-file (sure that is a very old service but still an "API" of some form).

So a lot of what this site does is help with the discovery of those disparate sources.

Random people on twitter, sorry, that is the best source I have, not having any visibility inside these companies :)

So I'm happy to accept your view just as easily, stranger on the internet, since it logically makes more sense.

People said Astra was a gut punch and that Anthropic was reeling. (Opus 5 was almost universally panned)

The best thing is that we benefit from these constant back and forth gut punches :)

Also getting to "orbit" is a huge feat, because you need to be going over 17,500 mph (28,000 km/h), get into a designated orbit, and in this case, they're also deploying starlink satellites.

This rocket is the largest rocket ever made by humans, and the largest to even reach orbit, which is insane considering it's by a private company and not a national space program.

Ahhh good point. here are the details I found after reading your reply: https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-matter/en/latest/esp...

It sounds like you might not own an EV.

The #1 thing (in my opinion) that makes a difference in how easy it is to own an EV is whether you have a driveway or predictable parking spot overnight. Then you just stop thinking about this sort of stuff, ever.

In fact, since I got an EV (I have a two-car garage), I have forgotten to even check my gas car's fuel levels and have driven it near empty a handful of times, I simply forget to even check.

And as others have said, unless you're driving 250mi a day, a regular commute, you can recharge your car on a wall outlet. It does about 12 miles of range per hour, you can easily get about 100 miles of range every night.

BTW, I was just researching this last week (the christmas display) and ESP32 has a matter compatible chip now... so you an control all this from Apple Home and the other Smart Home platforms.

Absolutely mind blowing. What a fun time to do side projects.

You added "totally" - as others have said, I don't know if anyone will claim a perfect system with no fatalities, enough stats show that it is already much safer than human drivers.

And the true third party validation is that insurance companies are starting to offer lower premiums the more you use FSD. So their risk models are showing enough improvement that they're putting their money where their mouths are.

The idea that Tesla's FSD is not ready for the mainstream is quite outdated, given that tons of Tesla owners are already using it daily, not just your early adopter types.

This is from ten years ago. Tesla's vision only FSD is extremely good now. It has been for at least 18 months or longer.

Mostly custom. Full data model and full web and mobile app to help run day to day operations.

The agent has switched a few times, initially NanoClaw, then Hermes, and now Vercel's Eve (maximum customizability).

NextJS/Shadcn web app, postgres db, eve agent layer, MCP tools (over 100 so every single thing can be done by an agent), SwiftUI mobile app, etc.

Integrations with gmail, gcal, gdrive, quickbooks, using mdx for the wiki displays (so we have rich diagrams, 3d models, etc).

We write about it here: https://kznconsulting.com/work/how-we-run-kaizen

Tesla's already solved this - their vision model does this phenomenally well.

And they've demonstrated adding a sidecar LLM to it as well, mostly for these kinds of "read these 3 street signs, what should i do next?" sort of situations.

Ahhh I built an internal set of agents to run our company (finances, all info in the karpathy-style LLMWiki and a database of clients, contracts, billing, time tracking, all managed by MCPs, etc) and it's also called Kai (company name is Kaizen)

Happy to be in such good company!

Yes this is a big part of what has turned me off Opus 5 completely. The other (more dangerous) one is how often it gets assumptions wrong. These both (along with Astra) caused me to split my time 50/50 now between the two models.

Not a day goes by when I push back on something, to which Opus 5 very unambiguously say "You were right, I was wrong" - this never happened so often with past models, nor with Fable.

We'll have to see how much Opus's ability to communicate has improved. It's already giving me better summaries of where we are in the conversation.

I don't quite understand this sort of thing happening. Wasn't the whole point of the internet to be a self-healing network where we route around severed cables, etc?

Or is it that these ATC networks are their own air-gapped network with less redundancy? That just doesn't add up. Or maybe there was only one line going to the ATC, with no multiple "ISPs" like a datacenter would have?

Yeah but are models good enough to review these files and say “i would work better if you worded it this way?”

I am not averse to learning (I spent hours learning Sketchup many years ago when redesigning my garage).

But the time freed up not learning Fusion360 freed up time to learn about different kinds of fasteners, clasps, how to arrange magnets, etc, so I moved the learning to a different place.

Plus avoiding the "wife is angry cuz this project I over-engineered has gone on for weeks unsolved" factor is always a nice bonus.

Wow, at first, I thought "this is wonderfully silly" but within about 45 seconds of playing with it, I instantly wanted the window seat and thought, wow... I could see what it's like to fly over so many cities from above, just like with a window seat.

Nice idea!

I'm so excited about this sort of stuff. ForgeCAD [1] for me was the first mind-blowing application of this a few months ago, where I'm able to just have claude (or codex) write JS that creates 3D Models that I can then print in my 3D printer.

- Built a ring for my compost bin that can properly hold down the plastic bag. This was originally a multi week project because I was also learning Fusion 360 in small 2 hour chunks over many weekends, then with ForgeCAD I had a good prototype in 60 mins with multiple iterations.

- I also built a cover for my overheating Logitech Circle doorbell, snapped a photo, gave it to claude, and claude found all the dimensions on Logitech's website, and then we iterated with 3-4 prints until we had it just right.

This is a whole new set of workflows that are unleashed with agents, even for hobbyists.

1: https://forgecad.io

you’re right, thanks for clarifying!

I keep getting so many warnings about this though - maybe I'm misreading it? is 27 the LAST version with Rosetta maybe?

I feel pretty good about the 27 series in a way I haven't in the past (I've been running iOS 27 and it's working well), except for one thing, they remove x86 support (no more Rosetta), so just keep that in mind in case that might disrupt anything for you.

I actually think this is what they ended up doing - just regular conversations with tool calling into your various apps, behind a Siri AI API. not HTTP based mcps (for now) but rather local ones.