This applies to both physical and digital goods. I've tried to think hard about how to keep my digital life in order in a way that my kids will be understand to make some sense of. I'm not there yet but I am mindful of it.
Trying to explain the sentimental value of your belongings to others is like trying to explain a dream.
I have a couple of items from my dead grandparents, and it's a connection.
It's a tangible connection that feels more real than something intangible like memories.
As for my dad though, I have no idea. He recognizes that it's a problem, but can't stop. It's stuff like plastic ship models, or stuff he wants to buy on eBay - postcards from defunct airlines that he used to fly on.
There is nothing that he has hoarded that I want to keep. I have told him that.
I have told him that he has so much stuff, that it would be impossible for me to recognize the $1,000 model boxes from the worthless model boxes, and that when he dies, I'm just going to have to wholesale the lot for probably a penny on the dollar.
I told him him that the people who will pay money for plastic model kits are the same age as him, and if they all die around the same time or before him, there will be no one to buy the model kits.
I've had the same discussion with my parents. They wanted me to go through their home and mark down everything I want. I don't want any of it and frankly dealing with a full house of stuff after they die is something I dread. I wouldn't even know where to start. Are there companies you can hire that will take care of everything?
Australian here. I paid a garbage removal company to basically empty a house. Their qebsite called it "estate cleanup". It took a whole day for a team with crowbars to smash up every piece of furniture and load it in a truck and take it.
People take this offensively and insist someone must have wanted an old chest of drawers or something if only put it on facebook marketplace and work with interested parties and assist with them obtaining it - but those people dont realise how much they are asking of someone who is dealing with loss.
Yes, they’re called clean out companies. They’ll swoop in and put everything in a dumpster. You can engage an auction house-+cleanout company if you think they have anything worth selling.
If you're remotely interested in this type of stuff then scan papers arxiv[0] and you'll start to see patterns emerge. This article is awful from a readability standpoint and from an "does this author give me the impression they know what they're talking about" impression.
But scrap that, it's better just thinking about agent patterns from scratch. It's a green field and, unless you consider yourself profoundly uncreative, the process of thinking through agent coordination is going to yield much greater benefit than eating ideas about patterns through a tube.
As someone who has found skills useful, seeing skills like this[0] raises the same question about (a subset of) skills as did MCP: why not just have the agent run ‘tool --help’?
I totally agree with you. Running a cheapo mac mini with full permissions with fully tracked code and no other files of importance is so liberating. Pair that with tailscale, and being able to ssh/screen control at any time, as well as access my dev deployments remotely. :chefs kiss:
I use a new Ryzen based mini PC instead of Mac mini, but the reasoning is the same. For the amount of compute/memory it pays for itself in less than a year, and the lower latency for ssh/dev servers is nice too.
This is a nice technical account that we're used to seeing from Simon.
I get a kick out of the fact that Microsoft has been preciously clinging to the "Copilot" branding and here comes Claude coming saying "Cowork? Good enough for us!".
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Taking a step back, I really would love to see a broader perspective -- an account of someone who is not tech savvy at all. Someone who works a basic desk job that requires basic competency of microsoft word. I'm so deep into the bubble of AI-adjacent people that I haven't taken stock of how this would or could empower those who are under-skilled.
We've taken it as truth that those who benefit most from AI are high-skilled augmenters, but do others see some lift from it? I'd love if anthropic tried to strap some barely-performing administrative assistants into these harnesses and see if there's a net benefit. For all I know, it's not inconceivable that there be a `rm -rf` catastrophe every other hour.
This predates Cowork, but I have started to see "non-technical" journalists start taking Claude Code seriously recently. For instance, Joe Weisenthal has been writing about this, eg.: https://nitter.net/thestalwart/status/2010512842705735948.
New York Magazine, not a technical publication by any means, also had an article about Claude Code/Cowork yesterday: [0]. Kinda punches a hole in the argument you sometimes see around here that "ChatGPT is the only brand consumers know, so OpenAI will definitely win."
>Someone who works a basic desk job that requires basic competency of microsoft word.
I dont actually think there many of those people out there. And those that are, are on their way out. There are basically none of those people entering the work force. There are tons of people with that sort of computer literacy but they aren't working on computers.
Eh, I can think of some examples for sure, I think there are still a lot of people like this.
* Bookkeeper & planning approval within city government
* Doctor/dentist/optometry receptionist & scheduler (both at independent offices and at major hospitals)
* Front desk staff at almost every company with a physical front desk
* University administrative staff (there can be a lot more of these people than you'd think)
* DMV workers
* Probably lots of teachers
Those jobs all will use other software as well, but a lot of their job is making and filling forms on a computer, where they are likely needing to use MS Word fairly often to write things up.
It's not any practical problem if it's not used for training and product improvement. It's also not a legal problem if contracts have such provisions and are compatible with laws in relevant jurisdictions.
How about young people entering the workforce who primarily work on computers but are mostly computer illiterate?
It definitely exists. But it's shrinking. There are tons of computer illiterate people, less so but even amongst young people, but they arent primarily working on computers. There is still a sizable chunk over 40 but those days are numbered.
Meanwhile, claude CLI has so many huge bugs that break the experience. Memory leaks, major cpu usage, tool call errors that require you to abandon a conversation, infinite loops, context leaks, flashing screens.. so many to list.
I love the feature set of Claude Code and my entire workflow has been fine tuned around it, but i had to to codex this month. Hopefully the Claude Code team spends some time to slow down and focus on bugs.
I doubt it. A large part of the performance problem with CC is constantly writing to a single shared JSON file across all instances, with no sharding or other mechanisms to keep it performant. It's spinning a shitload of CPU and blocking due to constant serialization/deserialization cycles and IO. When I was using CC a lot, my JSON file would hit >20mb quite quickly, and every instance would grind to a halt, sometimes taking >15s to respond to keyboard input. Seriously bullshit.
Everything Anthropic does from an engineering standpoint is bad, they're a decent research lab and that's it.
> Everything Anthropic does from an engineering standpoint is bad, they're a decent research lab and that's it.
This may be true, but then I wonder why it is still the case that no other agentic coding tool comes close to Claude Code.
Take Gemini Pro: excellent model let down by a horrible Gemini CLI. Why are the major AI companies not investing heavily in tooling? So far all the efforts I've seen from them are laughable. Every few weeks there is an announcement of a new tool, I go to try it, and soon drop it.
It seems to me that the current models are as good as they are goingto be for a long time, and a lot of the value to be had from LLMs going forward lies in the tooling
Gemini is a very powerful model, but it's tuned to be "oracular" rather than "agentic." The CLI isn't great but it's not the primary source of woe there. If you use Gemini with Aider in a more oracular fashion, it's still competitive with Claude using CC.
Claude is a very good model for "vibe coding" and content creation. It's got a highly collapsed distribution that causes it to produce good output with poor prompts. The problem is that collapsed distribution means it also tends to disobey more detailed prompts, and it also has a hard time with stuff that's slightly off manifold. Think of it like the car that test drives great but has no end of problems under atypical circumstances. It's also a naturally very agentic, autonomous model, so it does well in low information scenarios where it has to discover task details.
It is still slower than I'd like, at least with regards to UI input responsiveness, but I've never had it hard lock on me like CC. I can run 5-10 codex sessions and my system holds up fine (128GB RAM) but 8 CC instances would grind things to a halt after a few days of heavy usage.
The horrible thumping is purely a fit issue. The solution to the thumping when running is to either size down the tips or to slightly dislodge the tips from your ear.
It’s not ideal, I’ll grant you that.
While we may have some overlap in issues, I would say that the Airpods Pro 3 are incredible. I’ve ditched my Airpods Max entirely. The noise cancellation works too well, the sleep detection is a godsend, and the battery life is so good. I use my airpods to sleep. before, i’d always wake up to dead airpods. now, they have like 70% batteries when i wake up, because the sleep detection kicks in.
Seems odd to call it a fit issue when the solution is to make the fit worse by dislodging them from your ear. If it's a fit issue then improving the fit should make it go away!
I’ve tried with every set of tips except for the xs, same thumping with all of them. Zero issues running almost daily with the second gens for several years. I think it’s more than fit—either oversensitive ANC or something with the composition of the tips themselves. Oddly enough, it’s not present in both ears every time. Sometimes both, sometimes just one, rarely neither. I’ve stopped gathering data because I switched to a different set of headphones.
I’ll grant you that the ANC in the third gen is fantastic. I just felt like the second gen fit themselves into my routine, whereas I have to fiddle and futz with the third gen to get them just-so so that they don’t inhibit my routine.
What you mean? How people are manage to run with noise cancelation? Or how it works that they don’t loose them?
I run with my AirPods Pro 2 and have no issues. I have some other in-ear buds where fit is also no issue but thumping sounds while running make them unusable.
Years ago I was a convert to open ear bone conduction by Shokz (then Aftershokz) but the band was a little annoying and now I use the Huawei Freeclips which I am very happy with. Bose also have an open ear product.
My priority with exercise is peripheral awareness so I would never compromise that with in-ears anymore
I understand. I think it very much depends on the environment. I usually run in parks not on the street. I also trust my eyes more than my ears when doing runs on more trafficked routes. The Apple AirPods have a great transparent mode. I tried bone conducting headphone and it wasn’t for me. I know that the new models are kind of hybrids now. But I also love the fact that I can listen to myself. I had tons of headphones over the years. And I think for me the AirPods Pro 2 are just the most versatile.
Well in a big city sounds can be deceiving. Also depends how trained your hearing is. I guess I would have a hard time in case I end up going blind. In any case, what I meant is, that I use my eyes, and by that also turn my head, to look over my shoulder to check for cars etc. In most cases it’s best to have eye contact with a car driver who currently takes a turn to make sure their actually seeing you.
I am blind. So no eye contact with drivers. And I am still alive, despite usually going alone as pedestrian. However, I guess I benefit a lot from the austrian "Vertrauensgrundsatz", which basically translates as "principle of trust". When acquiring a drivers license, you are drilled to take extra care of disabled or obviously incapacitated pedestrians. That basically means, if you hit a blind person, or even an obviously drunk person, you are at fault, no matter what.
It’s hard to argue with you about that. I think you’re right about the tip composition being the issue. Also, there’s definitely an alien feel to APP3.
Trying to explain the sentimental value of your belongings to others is like trying to explain a dream.
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