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Definitely the weirdest reaction I've seen to OpenAI and Anthropic's agents getting loose and hacking things is "oh this is just a marketing stunt". Hugging Face had to be rescued by an open-weights Chinese model! They absolutely would not have set things up on purpose to unfold that way.2
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I recently rebuilt my spreadsheet that tracks our monthly outgoings. It calculates your emergency savings, and checks if your spending fits the 50/30/20 rule. Categories mirror Monzo's, so you can cross-reference against your actual spending.
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ajames.dev/budget-templ...Template: Financial Monthly Breakdown
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I sometimes stop to think about my jadedness and how it got this deep. But then a lovely soul puts out a timeline of a company I worked for, with its unprecedented financial shenanigans, and I remember "OH YES I've seen a lot of bullshit. That's why."
brendonbeebe.substack.com/p/what-happe...What Happened to Pluralsight, Utah's $3.5 Billion Unicorn?Domo burned $740 million over fifteen years.
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I’ve seen a lot of my colleagues’ interactions with Claude working on research problems & it would be easier for me to accept it as a serious scientific tool if it didn’t end every single response with the LLM equivalent of “you want fries with that?” — constantly trying to goad you into asking more16
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I’m reading Dark Matter & fascinated/confused by the explanation of Schrodinger’s cat theory?
Like it makes sense that there are an infinite number of *future* possibilities (cat has equal future potential of being dead/alive), & the *future* gets locked in at the moment when someone observes it1
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