I really loved the Quartz chat app. I loved how carefully curated it was, how it didn't waste my time, how it gave me an outlay of just the things I care about. It felt a little like a friend was texting me about the news rather than just a dump of news itself.

And I was a little sad when my friend stopped texting me.

You may want to review the article linked from within the story. The original motivation here is not just to defeat the typechecker.

It begins:

> Let's say you want to have a wrapper around a boxed any that you can debug.

As a Depot customer, I'd say if you can afford to pay for GitHub's runners, you should pay for Depot's instead. They boot faster, run faster, are a fraction of the price. And they are lovely people who provide amazing support.

You add some additional instructions to the Cursor rules here: https://github.com/getzep/graphiti/tree/main/mcp_server#inte...

I think the difference is that Cursor doesn't update its rules automatically as you work, while this might?

.cursorrules and other files that are added as system instructions in Cursor are just files, meaning the agent can edit them easely - you can tell it from the chat to add something to a rule and it will do it.

You are also wrong that it cannot do this automatically: if you add to the system instruction to record all important decisions in .cursorrules, it will record them there. automatically

Correct. The Graphiti MCP server, with the help of the agent, stores and retrieves preferences and requirements automatically without requiring rule changes.

is this cursor specific or can i integrate with other things if im insane?

Totally not Cursor-specific. Any MCP Client can be used. You may want to use different entity types that make more sense for your use case: https://github.com/getzep/graphiti/blob/dbe21a1975b0747cd450...

But you could tell cursor to update its rules automatically, no?

The actual MCP server is linked in the blog, I'll save you some scrolling by pasting it here: https://github.com/getzep/graphiti/tree/main/mcp_server

You should take a look at how Claude Code does its permissioning. It's totally fine to connect it right up to your GitHub MCP server because it'll ask each time it wants to take an action (and you can choose "don't ask again for this tool" if it's an obviously safe operation like searching your PRs).

First, I don't want to pay Claude Code at all...

Second, isn't that doable with API calling :)

Just be warned. You might find you can't get her out of your head.

You should be so lucky.

I know you'll get to like it if you give it a chance now.

You can confide in me.

Both are:

- Can't Get You Out of My Head: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can%27t_Get_You_Out_of_My_He...

- I Should Be So Lucky: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Should_Be_So_Lucky

Oh damn. Haha.

AKA The stalking song

Gut ja

Yeah, but at least buses and trains are accountable to the voter in one way or another... and I can still wear headphones.

You can vote with your wallet and buy a car that doesn't have ads. The best you can do with ads on buses and trains is show up in your next city council meeting and raise a stink, only to be told that the transit agency signed a 10 year contract and can't pull out.

This assumes that no other manufacturer will put ads in their cars. Hopefully that's the case!

I think the concern is that once/if a critical mass of manufacturers include in-car ads, the rest can follow (because people still need vehicles in most areas), and the consumer has no more choice.

Is there any reason to believe they won't have a higher ad-free tier instead? If they get $500 LTV from showing ads, why wouldn't they offer a $1000 ad-free subscription? Seems to work fine with streaming platforms, for instance.

>Is there any reason to believe they won't have a higher ad-free tier instead?

I mean, this is still awful, right? Subscriptions for the car I spent tens of thousands of dollars on?

>Seems to work fine with streaming platforms, for instance.

It's awful here, too, in my opinion. But tolerable because I didn't spend multiple years paying to own the product.

>I mean, this is still awful, right? Subscriptions for the car I spent tens of thousands of dollars on?

Alternatively framed: $1000/year discount for opting into ads.

The difference being that my previous car lasted near 15 years, and it was paid off in 7. Why would you want to pay a yearly fee after you're supposed to own the car, free and clear?

I'll save us the back and forth: there is no model you can present (or reframing of a model) that will make me think advertisements (or an everlasting subscription to remove advertisements) in the car that I own is okay. It's profoundly depressing that I have to write it out that explicitly.

Did the owners know they would be served ads when they purchased the car? That’s not clear to me.

Unless you go to every transit board meeting, you probably won't know that your local bus is going to have digital ad displays plastered on them either. Even then, such issues rarely come up as a ballot initiative so the most you can do is make an impassioned speech and hope they reverse course. So both cases are pretty similar, actually. You're choosing something (car brand/politician), vaguely hoping they serve your interests, and hope that the threat if you switching to competitors is enough to keep them in line.

Uh, buses have had ads on the sides forever, at least in the US.

Buying a car, which haven’t had ads previously, only to discover after the fact that it serves ads is a change to the status quo. Even more so if the ads were pushed via firmware update and not something that was originally spec’ed (no clue if this is what happened, but sounds plausible, given lack of details).

>Uh, buses have had ads on the sides forever, at least in the US.

That's why I mentioned "digital ad displays" specifically, because as other commenters have noted, are starting to pop up in some places.

> You can vote with your wallet and buy a car that doesn't have ads.

For now.

I've yet to see an advertisement on a bus or train that wasn't easily ignorable. It's a lot harder to ignore things when you're driving

I actually don't think I'll be going back to a staggered keyboard. Ortholinear layouts make setting up layers a lot easier, which gives you the ability to set up momentary arrow key or cursor movement blocks.

ZMK supports N-key rollover and layers.

Tools that are too efficient in improving efficiency make it very easy to bring about inhumane environments. I have found this to be a pretty generally applicable line of reasoning.