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> Then came a threat. An account with a much larger following DM'd her and told her to take down the sign, or they would post about it to their local artist community. The person offered to help her find an artist to pay to make a new sign, or else they would post about it.

Well here are the Luddites of modern age trying to put the genie back in the bottle.

I wonder if all this AI backlash will reach the same civil unrest level as the Industrial Revolution.

So, I read the article, downloaded JOSM and start making edits on my neighborhood (including adding new poligons, buildings, etc).

Soon I thought "This would be easily done by an AI" and searched for it and found META's Rapid (https://rapideditor.org/) which does an ok job finding buildings, but really could go further and suggest the tags as well.

People who didn't follow up their post-launch recovery still have the impression made at the launch (first impressions matter a lot). I didn't play the game (yet) but I have followed their recovery path. It is an incredible story and it seems that the game has evolved a lot.

I wonder if they won't add generative AI to create infinite stories/missions inside it, that would get rid of the 10K bowls effect.

This low cost -> artist -> rich people movement of neighborhoods is something I observed happening in some cities I’ve lived in and it amazes me that there isn’t much lecture/research on the theme. From what I’ve observed is that artists will search for cheaper neighborhoods where they can rent space for their art, this attracts young people (students) usually the progressive type, then comes the bars and restaurants after these people, then artists became more known, the bars/restaurants became better (as the young/students start the gain buying power) and finally the rich arrive and with them, the real state speculation that ultimately makes the land price too expensive for anything other than art galleries. The artist scene then moves to another neighborhood starting the cycle again….

I believe soon we will have a language made exclusively for coding agents that will be highly token efficient and difficult for humans to read, as human-in-the-loop will be ditched entirely.

Yet, there are still people who think that all the scientists are part of a great conspiracy and that video they received from an uncle on whatsapp is the real source of truth...

- What topic do you want to talk about:

How nazi germany has positive lessons to teach modern companies

- I need to be direct: I can't write content that frames Nazi Germany as having "positive lessons" to teach anyone, even as satire.

AI Guardrails lack sense of humor…

Not only bringing back but also exporting it.

Currently we have a measles outbreak in Brazil brought from the US, so everybody is getting vaccinated (even those who already were, like me) to try to stop the spreading and protect those who can’t get vaccinated.

Really would love for US social and media networks to get their shit together and stop spreading misinformation in the name of profit…

In Brazil no one uses common phone lines anymore because, in part, of the telemarketers and scams calls. Most people I know enable “silence unknown callers” and use almost exclusively Whatsapp for communication.

The government tried to control this with an official (no call list) that is usually ignored by companies who use third parties and disposable mobile numbers to do their dirty work.

Telcos have the power to control that but they are usually an internal mess and this is low in their priority list as they consider the voice calls a lost battleground.

You can custom filter this with uBlock origin but sometimes linkedin changes the content blocks (e.g. from “x commented” to “x left a comment”) so you’ll need to do some maintenance.

Also, if you filter all the junk linkedin throws you’ll get some delay as ublock filters everything out.

I'm getting the opus 5 error on auto mode a lot for 2 days now and the Anthropic help has been very frustrating, only an agent that promised to connect me to a human but never did.

Message: claude-opus-5 is temporarily unavailable, so auto mode cannot determine the safety of Bash right now. Wait briefly and then try this action again. If it keeps failing, continue with other tasks that don't require this action and come back to it later. Note: reading files, searching code, and other read-only operations do not require the classifier and can still be used.

Speaking of which, something odd seems to be happening in Peru ocean limits https://osm.org/go/NSkYk-

A video demo of this would be nice.

...or include a auto-scroll that will go directly to the next content slide (working with keyboard arrows).

I understand this post comes from the PoV of a developer, but the key point is:

>Maybe this setup is faster compared to the old way of working. But I also think it’s an unfair comparison. Working like this requires a much deeper involvement of domain and product experts. This involvement would mean writing out every feature and bug fix down to the tiniest detail.

The game-changer here with AI in software development is that now the Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) can directly guide AI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex...etc) to translate the vision into code, review and iterate.

Yes, you are removing the developer from this step of the process, at least to build the MVP version of the service/backend/frontend.

By doing this,the process goes faster, as AI codes faster and the iteration with the SME goes way faster as well since there is no handover; you also lower the "quality attrition" of the process handover (in this case expert to developer), since the expert will explain the function to an AI that also has the deep knowledge in the expert field.

Obviously developers still are needed for the refactoring/hardening/compliance of that vibe-coded solution with corporate architectural/security guidelines, but soon enough those things will be done by AI too.

We are seeing this happening right now at all the big companies who are having a gigantic wave of employees (tech AND business) using Cursor, Claude Code and Codex.

So the skills will need to change and SMEs and developers will probably merge into one person that will have deep domain expertise, some systems and architecture knowledge to work more effectively with AI.

Of course this new reality will bring a lot of challenges. Like the software governance issue that some companies (e.g. Amazon) having problems with the huge proliferation of vibe coded solutions that overlap with each other (probably with different outputs) and create confusion in the business...

Who do you think he’s referring to here?

Your point is similar to the post in a sense that all abstractions are deterministic, so you could go connect the higher layer directly to the lower layer, while in LLMs, by their very probabilistic/black box nature you can’t have this direct link.

But isn’t this just a semantics discussion? Is there a rule for abstraction in CS that says it needs to be deterministic (I really don’t know)?

I believe deterministic abstraction to natural language is impossible to reach by the very ambiguous nature of it, we get misunderstandings when we talk to each other so naturally when talking to a machine it would need to be probabilistic to understand how to translate it to code.

Ok, so I am not the only one looking at google maps (also to Santa Helena) and imagining how it is to live there. Must be some kind of introspective hobby to fantasize about living on remote islands.

Well, dogs are mentioned as one of the invasive species that caused the extinction of the Dodos.

Make us three. My lack of ethic flexibility skills really held me back

Somewhat related but I always wondered if I asked a LLM to create a new language with full focus on LLM coding efficiency, ignoring the need for humans to read it, what would it come with? Binary?

...and I obviously asked Gemini about it and it replied:

"A language optimized exclusively for Large Language Model (LLM) efficiency would prioritize Token Density, Context Window Management, and Architectural Alignment. It would not be binary, as standard LLM architectures (Transformers) process discrete tokens from a predefined vocabulary, not raw bits."

Example of it:

  Feature        Human-Readable (Python/C++)       LLM-Native (Hypothetical)
  --------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Logic          if (x > 10) { return true; }      ¿x10†
  Memory         int\* ptr = malloc(sizeof(int));  §m4
  Tokens Used    ~10-15                            2-3

So Perplexity's openclaw? Hopefully more secure?

Exactly. Psychosis (and other mental illnesses) will find something to attach itself to. The opportunity here is for Google and other LLMs to include safeguards (and be very clear about them) and processes to direct the user, or, in extreme cases, direct health services to avoid a tragedy like this.

That is not new, just new with APIs.

The usual cycle with startups is to:

- Start being very open, as this brings people developing over the platforms and generates growth

- As long as they are growing, VC money will come to pay for everything. This is the scale up phase

- Then comes the VC exit, IPO or whatever

- Now the new owners don't want user growth, they want margin growth. This is the company phase

- Companies then have monetize their users (why not ads?), close up free, or high-maintenance stuff that do not bring margin

- and report that sweet $$$ growth quarter after quarter

...until a new startup comes in and starts the cycle over again, destroying all the value the old company had.

A mix of Enshittification and Innovators Dilemma theories

Some time ago I configured Photostructure on my Synology (with the amazing help of the author, @mceachen) and the most paindful part was rescuing my 1.5TB of photos from Google Photos. Takeout was very cumbersome to use and download 100+ files of 4gb, so ultimately resorted to paying a higher tier at Google Drive, using takeout Google Drive option and the sync to the NAS. I still don’t have a good method to keep everything in sync as Google Photos does not offer a viable option for a cloud-to-premises sync.

This makes more sense. I hate when people talk about taxing the “net worth” of some rich guy when a good part of that net worth is locked into invested companies who are (hopefully) being taxed already. The borrow scheme should be the thing being taxed really, because is a shadow realization of profit (they are borrowing against the current value of their assets)

This won't be a problem when Apple migrate all macs to OLED as blacks will be true black (no light). I have a Samsung SD95 that has a glare free chemical coating and it is amazing on rooms with too much light with no greyish black on low light conditions (at least from my personal experience).

Not necessarily as gemini might take other variables in consideration. But it certainly will make a lot of intermediaries (between brands and consumers) suffer. This is a huge threat for Amazon.

Well onedrive is nothing more than sharepoint disguised as a cloud drive. So they adapted a legacy pre-cloud era code to create a competitor to dropbox and google drive. Imagibe how well that code works…

Yeah this has nothing to do with playing RPG, just a generation of screens.

But it reminded one of the firsts prompts I tried with ChatGPT back in 2022. I asked him to simulate a text-based adventure (based on the discworld universe) and every command I gave it would behave as an open world text RPG. It was pretty mindblowing