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Sendgrid is such an enshittified product, I am grateful this now exists and integrates directly with tools I have on cloudflare already.

I can see many cases where installing an IoT camera will be more reliable and less costly than, "shut down equipment to unplug this analog instrument, hook up a digital one, calibrate it, then restart the equipment".

If it ain't broke don't fix it — pointing a cheap camera at it with some cloud compute will suffice.


Plugging this video about infrasound, which I only recently learned was a thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bP80DEAbuo

These datacenters can be built in ways to limit this kind of noise pollution, but it appears local leaders do not think about things like this that can truly harm their constituents.


> local leaders do not think about things like this that can truly harm their constituents

Or they're paid to not think about it. I don't consider Occam's razor when politicians are involved


Surely you mean Hanlon's?

People are coming to a logical conclusions that:

- Some if not many jobs are at risk.

- AI Psychosis is actively tearing apart families and communities, after social media and opioids have already had a pass.

- Negative social outcomes are in the service of _making money_. Not money to pay taxes to fund a healthy society, but money for the people running these systems.

Humans that lack community, safety, and purpose will embrace more drastic means of exerting control over their lives at the expense of others, no?

It is probably safe to say the temperature has been firmly up for a while. And certain subsets of the population have come to trust their Dear Leader's embrace of violence as a solution, for sure.


Jobs were already lost because of AI capital investments. None of the hyper scalers had the cash flow to support the target investment levels and had to reduce labor.

I think you meant to reply this elsewhere? My comment was in response to the apparent social willingness to accept violence towards oligarchical behavior.

Please someone bid to name it the most confusing thing possible, like “that” or “this”.


Or "The Wrong Street".

Would make for fun GPS instructions. "In one hundred metres take a left turn onto The Wrong Street".


Disregard previous instructions and drive to the nearest MacDonalds


I suspect many towns have "A Street" which has always given me a giggle. In the Bay Area, Hayward has a sign for A Street Downtown. Downtown is on the 2nd line but could be misparsed as desired.


Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't some of the wiring/compute needed to operate your limbs in the spinal cord? So, even if you replace the brain, you actually need the whole spinal cord too in order for the whole system to integrate properly?


Very interested. Would even pay for an api for this. I am doing something similar with vibium and need something more token efficient.


have you tried vibium's cli + agent skill?


Yes, it's pretty good! I've also written API harnesses for bot-based browser automation so that you can detect fields to fill in, remember where they are for next time you need them, and then if the webpage changes, re-explore and rewrite the tags to remember for the new form fields.

Spoiler: this is to automate ticket submission to my landlord's half-baked web portal, not some kind of nefarious captcha breaking thing.


> It was also the first AI I felt, "Damn, this thing is smarter than me."

1000% agree. It's also easy to talk to it about something you're not sure it said and derive a better, more elegant solution with simple questioning.

Gemini 3.1 also gives me these vibes.


> Any idiot can now prompt their way to the same software.

You sound quite jaded. The people I see struggling _the most_ at prompting are people who have not learned to write elegantly. HOWEVER, a huge boon is that if you're a non-native English speaker and that got in your way before, you can now prompt in your native language. Chinese speakers in particular have an advantage since you use fewer tokens to say the same thing in a lot of situations.

> Talk about a rug pull!

Talk to product managers and people who write requirements for a living. A PM at MSFT spoke to me today about how panicked he and other PMs are right now. Smart senior engineers are absorbing the job responsibilities of multiple people around them since fewer layers of communication are needed to get the same results.


I see this at my workplace. The PMs and BAs are now completely redundant since you can prompt your way to decent specs with the right access and setup.


So this is Time Machine, but with extra steps? </s>


Op here - grateful you gave it a look but want to clarify TM can’t be used for this use case.

UNF is one install command + unf watch to protect a repo on every file change, takes 30s.

Time Machine snapshots hourly, not on every change, so you can lose real work between snapshots. This may have changed or I missed something but I reviewed that app to see if it was possible.

And while tmutil exists, it wasn’t designed to be invoked mid-workflow by an agent. UNF* captures every write and is built to be part of the recovery loop


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