Stack based task manager with integrations with GitHub, Linear, and some others to manage and automatically update your immediate todo list, free while in beta (still very early beta)

Short term intense disease courses tend to only work for a short period of evolution for new infection mechanisms, the intensity makes them sensitive to any increased immunity which ends up halting the spread for more mild versions. Infectious diseases tend to lower in intensity over the long term.

When it took years and years of training to learn how to master something enough to use it with great impact, that effort was strongly correlated with the discipline and lifestyle to not misuse those abilities.

Completely gate-free LLMs would have very "useful" answers to a nutjob prompting "How do I cause as much destruction as possible with only what I can find at the hardware store" or similar. Sophisticated guards are still very hard to do to avoid giving a whole lot of power to someone not very friendly and not very disciplined.

I was using gpt-5.5 high. Writing terraform code for GCP, debugging app launch and Dockerfile issues, that sort of thing. It was going in loops hallucinating features of GCP, looking things up in strange ways, running terraform apply after being explicitly told in the last interaction not to, and overall not solving problems. These were very straightforward tasks and it couldn't be trusted for five minutes. It's the difference in what I would trust an early senior engineer to do vs what I would trust an unreliable high school intern to do.

Building a CAD kernel one of the essential pieces in getting from vaguely working to closing an extremely large number of gaps was some rather strict separation of concerns – without it we were just stuck on perpetual rearchitecting switching from methodology to methodology opening new gaps with each attempt to close others.

Longer running tasks require better setups and several ways of pinning the progress to reality. When you have that though things are quite all right.

A good long running task will run inside a framework that it's not trying to modify.

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Can you make plug and play possible? Sure but you're just shifting the verification to a different layer and then you have to make it illegal to posses or sell any thing but the safe engineered products and you have to spend a bunch on enforcement to make sure only the safe stuff gets put in practice (not to mention replacing all the existing hardware and making it illegal to maintain)...

Modern consumer products and safety rules insulate people so much from the dangerous parts of existence that people get bothered when everything isn't like that and then want to go pet the big stripey orange and black kitty... not realizing that guardrails and safety nets aren't everywhere in existence.

And putting up those guardrails is EXPENSIVE. You want those instead of professional installation costs? Sure but the solar system you bought just got 10x as expensive as a result saving you nothing.

A house costs what... $250-500k to build these days? $10k for a major update to the build is nothing. Requiring expertise to verify dangerous things are done correctly is appropriate.

Outside of cities, outside of grid tie, setting up your own micro-grid often can be done without any external intervention. You have to know things to do it though, I don't think it is a desirable state of things for just blind plug and play.

We don't need a more plug and play system. A zero agreement interconnection for whatever UL certified 300W-ish scale is fine and should be widely deployed.

There needing to be interconnection agreements with your utility and an inspection is not a blocker that needs to be removed. Most places require a licensed electrician for complex work, having the electrician fill out a form and having a utility inspection is how things should be.