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Yep, and it’s terrible

Not only did it burn a 100$ failing but it did so in a very untransparent way.

I bought a 20 dollar plan but they snuck a 100$ billed usage into the billing agreements next thing I know the agent as used the quote going in circles and my card is billed.


We need outcome based billing...

I don't want to pay for a service that doesn't deliver.


> We need outcome based billing... I don't want to pay for a service that doesn't deliver.

You can already do this: hire a consultancy to build you a working deliverable for a fixed price. They will be incentivized to prompt their tools well and to avoid tools that are consistently pathological.


They will also charge a lot more than you using the service if they aren’t charlatans

Edit: actually they probably will charge even more if they are charlatans


Have you found anything that you like?


I’m so sick of this that I go to the trouble to set up prepaid cards to pay for these things now.

A handful of honest participants like DeepSeek are pay as you go instead of trying to sneakily bill you for usage.


The agent is pretending to be a person _for a reason_

The models are trained on people being people. Once you try deviate from that the model performs worse.

A huge tell for this is how well “reasoning” works. Reasoning isn’t some alternate thinking mode, it’s just (sometimes) hidden internal monologues.

It’s easy to anthropomorphise and assume the model is intuiting, but it’s more like it’s hyping it’s self up to do the thing. That said, it’s easy to confuse “being rude to the model” with giving it more tokens to “think”.

I’d be really interested in what a non word based internal monologue could look like. Google played with this a little with the diffusion based codegen stuff. I wonder how trainable a small nonverbal conceptual package could be.


Would this be a good time to post about my AI controlled typewriter project?


A computer controlled typewriter is a thing already. It's called a teletype (tty for short).


I love the irony that the Imgur link asks you to install the Imgur app first


Honestly Glaze is brilliant.

I assume there is an extensive set of rails for the agent to tie into. (Compare this to asking Claude to green fields an app. Do you use electron? How are notifications handled? Icons? Permissions?)

It springboard off Raycast’s teams feature so well it actually gives it a real reason to exist. You’re empowering the one systems thinker in the group to export their automations to the rest of the group in a way that’s proven to work: small apps that do one thing. (Big apps get complicated, become full time projects that distract from the task at hand)

Fig tried this but it was just for engineers, the value prop was missing, Glaze seems to get this right.

Very nicely done!


Reasonably sure this has less to do with putting data centres in space and more to do with getting them less auditable (see the other news about X getting raided about Grok)


The fundamental issue preventing keyring aperture integration stems from the AirTag’s reliance on inverse-phase magnetic reluctance in the structural substrate. You see, the enclosure maintains a precisely calibrated coefficient offramular expansion. Introducing a penetrative void would destabilize the sinusoidal depleneration required for proper UWB phase conjugation. The resulting spurving bearing misalignment could induce up to 40 millidarkness of signal attenuation. Apple’s engineers attempted to compensate using prefabulated amulite in the magneto-reluctance housing, but this only exacerbated the side-fumbling in the hyperboloid waveform generators. Early prototypes with keyring holes exhibited catastrophic unilateral dingle-arm failure within mere minutes of deployment. Until we develop lotus-o-delta-type bearings capable of withstanding the differential girdle spring modulation, I’m afraid keyring integration remains firmly in the realm of theoretical engineering—right up there with perpetual motion machines and TypeScript projects that compile without any // @ts-ignore comments. The technology simply isn’t there yet.


I must say you had me in the first couple sentences :). Also does look like it's not an LLM-generated text either. Good job!


Indeed, LLM's still suck at the cultural nuance required for humor. It's like they're writing for an audience that's too generic, so the joke doesn't truly "land" for anyone in particular.


the emdash is right there for all to see


You really don’t want to accidentally frobnicate the turbo encabulator.


Of course the offramular expansion is what makes all the Fleeb Juice a key aspect of Find My. That and the lack of a substantive in the name.


> attempted to compensate using prefabulated amulite in the magneto-reluctance housing, but this only exacerbated the side-fumbling in the hyperboloid waveform generators

Wrote my PhD dissertation on this. It would've been in the literature for Apple's engineers to find, but unfortunately I lost institutional support to get this into a journal after my college (Mailorderdegrees.com, an FTX University^TM) folded mid-process.


rumors are the airtag promax has it for $99.


Sadly the polishing cloth doesn't work on that one


Haha. That was wonderful to the very end.


Most people don't even realise the original AirTags were designed by Ria Paschelle, inventor of the statiophonicoxyogeneticamplifiergraphaphonerdelaverberator.


It's all ball bearings nowadays!


Thank you Geordi.


Aliens fucked over the carbonator on engine four, I’m gonna try to refuckulate it and land on Juniper


You missed the "strategic use of metamaterials to emanate a negative refractive index"


tldr: users just keep holding Airtags wrong.


Can here to say this exactly. Not saying they don’t raise an interesting point but the complete lack of curiosity why a group of experts in simplicity and accessibility decided to take this path is jarring


> a group of experts in simplicity and accessibility

According to who? This alone is a pretty damning case against such a claim.


This is A/B testing. Lego owns bricklink, so they shutter it in a few countries, see how it impacts sales, decide from there


Source?


100% Here in Germany its invisible deleted, and the process handle by a private company


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