There’s a loop of everyone is saying stuff because everyone else is saying stuff that turns into a sort of reality inspired fan fiction.

It’s not just that it’s wrong or imprecise, that I expect, it’s that the folklore takes on a life of its own.

You can justify manifest v3 for security reasons, or you can can do this. You cannot do both without severe cognitive dissonance.

But I'm starting to wonder about something.

I've noticed a lot of people claiming the models—all the models from all the big providers—are deteriorating, and then go on to describe the problems that skeptics picked up on during their first few days of usage.

The models really could be getting worse. I haven't noticed anything but I don't know.

But do you think its possible that this is more akin to a honeymoon period? Depending on how you use the system and a fair bit of luck, the problems may show up for you pretty early, or may take a while to become obvious.

There’s just not enough there to make into a blog post.

But that doesn’t make them go away, it just makes them less glaring.

But if this party is sustainable, what’s the deal with the rate limits that everyone is going on about?

Set parental controls on set up, pass a single flag to websites and apps, similar to the Global Privacy Control.

No privacy is lost. Control is handed to the device owner, and implementation is technically trivial.

The economics and security model on full agents running in loops all day may come home to roost faster than expertise rot.

But it needs a better headless capability. Most separate front ends appear to be grafted on relying on plugins. Which doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.

Pulling the plug on K-12 on the other hand, seriously, can’t happen fast enough.

I don’t care what kind of steel you used to design my car, but I care a great deal that it was designed well, is safe, and doesn’t break down all the time.

Craft isn’t a fussy thing.

It also seems to me that some people are leaning on them for things they should not be. It can help you research psychology; it cannot be your therapist.

In these strange times, apparently that makes me “resisting” or “a Luddite.”

And it’s all downhill from there…

I can already build a ticket tracker in a weekend. I’ve been on many teams that used Jira, nobody loves Jira, none of us ever bothered to DIY something good enough.

Why?

Because it’s a massive distraction. It’s really fun to build all these side apps, but then you have to maintain them.

I’m guessing a lot of vibeware will be abandoned rather than maintained.

Books encode skill.

I’m not a hater. LLMs on search is the best research tool I’ve ever used because it’s read everything and can find minutia buried in places it would take me a long time to find.

But there’s a huge difference between using it to assist focus, or as a study aide, and offloading the whole act of thinking itself.