I'm still surprised we don't have many physical interventions for this, knowing that it's a physical problem. I'm reminded of the older surgeon style medicine whose reputation seems to be pretty coarse now since we have so much knowledge about chemistry and non-invasive interventions.

Wonder what would happen if we pushed the envelope on physical fixes like endarterectomy like procedures and made them safer/more routine. Like getting your teeth flossed.

Maybe, I always say "let's write a plan and refine it" which ends up being a nice rubber duck session to keep claude and friends from going off the rails implementing things like privacy or encryption or some other rabbit hole when I just need it to do a few features at a time so I can review while it starts the next few things. Maybe this is slower to deliver, but I don't spend a lot of time unwinding commits.

I don't necessarily use plan mode explicitly for this, but I might turn it on if I think something destructive is coming up, like a schema change or some other devops thing where claude may decide "oh we copied it all over so I can delete it from source" "oh I'm sorry I didn't catch that error code and assumed success, your data is now gone" lol. This happens a lot less but I've been bit right on the face by it before.

Are plans the wrong abstraction? You can use a big enough plan to spam tickets into linear and have claude burn them down. I find it increases subagent accuracy.

Tools vs services in my mind. There is no guarantee any provider will continue to do what they are doing for you at the price they are doing it.

The object permanence of not having to reinvent the world every time a model gets sunsetted has value.

> Tools vs services in my mind. There is no guarantee any provider will continue to do what they are doing for you at the price they are doing it.

with open models, there is ecosystem/market of providers, where you can easily switch to provider you like

Until there's an executive order that blocks one model from being served.

such order can target any provider (including closed models) as we know.

Right, but not a model you have already downloaded onto your machine.

the same you can access oversea model providers.

With competition we kind of have guarantee up to what providers can do, they don't have that much control, the most radical thing they can do is to go bankrupt.

Have you already forgotten the Fable drama that happened just two months ago?

Self-hosting won't protect you from getting locked out of a closed weights model, because you can't self-host it even if you have the hardware.

Yes, I remember recurring extensions on plan inclusion then becoming permanent - that's my point.

Looks like you've geniunely forgotten then: https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access

And what’s your point exactly?

Maybe you can re-read the thread? Start here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49482518

Do You have guarante any electricity price?

Maybe not them specifically, but for many people with solar as an option, yes.

Really wish they’d host more models for us normies. My guess is OAI will buy / subsidize them with terms that will close off open models.

Turns out we ended up with paid search, but paid for by who? :D

Seems bad.

I think the catch is there's no money to be made in mirror molecules / life... YET! If that changes, say mirror molecules some how extend life or have a therapeutic use then we're like to see the tune change.

Drives are cheap, data is expensive.

I work in several labs where I have to give this advice, which some labs are smart enough to make an ersatz backup that we store somewhere (PI's house) as a cheap offsite. Even a partial recovery is great in the face of fire/flood/explosion, or the most common error: IT fucks it up and then says "oh well".

Hope someone has some copies and they can rebuild, what a nightmare.

hahah this is all well and good until the 20k+ line a day person is considered the good engineer, based on kpis alone. Your VPs aren't reading any of that.

Bonne chance fired senior!

I have depicted you as the 100 line a day weakling, and myself as the 20k+ line chad.

The systems at bigcos are too ruthless to risk gambling your career on this kind of reasoning which you have no recourse to. Best to start small teams and destroy them from the outside.