I'm beginning to think I should: a) ask my agents to unslop[1] themselves when communicating back to me, and b) decide upon some writing standard and ask my agents to adhere to that.

[1] https://github.com/cursor/plugins/blob/main/pstack/skills/un...

I was trying to upload HDR photos to Instagram and couldn't figure out how to make it preserve the HDR-ness of my photos, and was going back and forth with an agent - step by step we'd slowly iterate on a photo, I'd upload, then I'd download the jpg and give it to the agent and it'd think, change something in the format, and we'd try again.

I got impatient and just said fuck it and gave it chrome-devtools and a blank instagram account and a test photo, and it figured the whole thing out in about a half hour. I built a little browser-based tool from what it discovered, and I use it to run my HDR photos through to format them correctly for instagram and it works a treat.

It's all a bit adhoc - agents still need to pull (or I need to keep the main enlistment up to date on these machines) - I'm thinking of using containers or something else like github actions keep things cleaner, but right now it's "good enough".

Regardless I'm pretty happy with how it's working so far. Previously I'd be letting agents do work in the background and they'd kick off builds in the middle of a meeting or something and I'd start dropping video streams until I killed everything.

Well through an unfortunate sequence of button clicks I wiped my 2FA state and had a hell of a time getting into the apps that I removed my SMS from.

In theory yes SMS is an attack vector but personally the safety and convenience of SMS is more valuable than the odds that someone impersonates me at my mobile provider.

(Also I stopped using that 2FA app and just use a keepass db stored in onedrive).

Ironically if more tech people just rawdogged the internet I think we would have more progress.

Stuff like transitioning between desktop and mobile - it tries to work and most of the time it does, but sometimes I need to manually make my desktop play on my desktop. Not a big deal but sometimes I'd be happier if this feature didn't exist at all.

On my desktop, Spotify can be finicky when I connect/disconnect my bluetooth headphones. Sometimes it refuses to play after I connect my headphones, and I need to restart the app. I think it's trying to do something magically for me after it detects the headphones and gets into a wedged state, but a simpler "play to active speaker, whatever it is" audio app wouldn't have this problem.

https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1w9jsrb/put_toget...

I'm not a pilot but from my understanding there's a lot of failsafes to ensure things that slow the plane down only trigger when the plane is actually on the ground. Considering that the left gear touched down at 0:19 and pilot called for TOGA at 0:15 they didn't stand a chance.

It's built into the meeting software I use and probably in most mainstream ones.

I tried OS transcription but those don't split out who's talking (since it's a single audio stream) so much less useful.

Anyways all that to say that at least in online meetings this problem is solved and addressing this problem in a stack that doesn't have meeting context is going to result in a worse experience.

I think this certainly has some value but this claim in and of itself is stated like your hand-wavy step 3. How do they fact check claims and connect the dots?

Maybe LLMs get there but currently they write in an extremely verbose manner, and things that have gotten into the context window that are no longer relevant continue to stick around (just try having it write some code, then work some of it back to simplify the problem - it will insist on writing comments about code that no longer exists).

Right now using an LLM to write documents is like taking a superhighway to travel 100 meters. Yeah you're doing a lot but is all that really necessary?

I won't deny that LLMs will never have a place in writing. But I personally don't think the current form is "the one that actually lands" (!).

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University graduates are often considered min-bar for white-collar work hiring, so if it takes 4 years to train someone, how are people supposed to decide on a career path when it takes less time than that to completely alter the workplace?

My daughter is entering her first year of nursing, a career path that she is greatly looking towards. Who says in 3 years that robotics companies don't actually deliver on their promises and completely up-end the care industry? While I think that unlikely, it's not like people aren't trying to automate nurses away.

I would always get a chuckle out of seeing some poor soul waiting 3 hours to go down a few floors after work, only because I failed to add stairs to the lobby.