It feels like, just like SWEs do with AI, we should treat the claw as an enthusiastic junior: let it do stuff, but always review before you merge (or in this case: send).

The product itself is exciting and solves a very real problem, and we have many customers who want to use it and pay for it. But damn, it hurts my soul knowing what goes on under the hood.

However, I now realize that most of these steps don't require AI at all, let alone agents. I wrote the full algorithm (including the binary search!) in natural language for the LLM. And although it sometimes worked, the model often misunderstood and produced random errors out of the blue.

I now realize that this is not what agents are for. This problem didn't require any agentic behavior. It was just a fixed workflow, with one single AI step (generating a markdown report text).

Oh well, nothing wrong with learning the hard way.

> You should consider what won’t change, and the following is a (non-exhaustive) list of things that I think won’t change: I believe AI is and will continue to gain intelligence

Okay, but that way you can frame every ongoing change as a constant. "Change X will continue, and because it's already ongoing and will simply continue, I consider it a constant and therefore add it to my list of 'things that won't change'". But that's clearly not what Bezos meant.

Heck, even Ikea has successfully been selling ice cream (from self serve machines!) here in the Netherlands for like 20 years now. €0.50 back in the day, €1 now. Can't remember the last time all machines (yes, they do have at least 2 usually) required maintenance.

1. Size. DMA requirement is >=7.5b turnover in the EU, or worldwide market cap >=75b. Not the case for Spotify.

2. Non-provision of core platform services. It's not just "important gateway between business users and consumers", it's "important gateway between businesses and consumers *in relation to core platform services*". Core platform services are e.g. search engines, operating systems, browsers, app stores and so on. This is why Spotify isn't a gatekeeper.

And the exact same reasoning applies to American companies. Video streaming platforms like Netflix are also excluded for example, even though Netflix has a market cap >=75b.

(Not sure if it would qualify as ultra processed though.)

This is very common in the Netherlands, I think that's why it was a rule of his.

In general, the Dutch education system seems to be against pencils (at least this was the case until recent; I'm Dutch and mid 20s). You're tought to write using a fountain pen, not a pencil. In high school, you're allowed to switch to ball point but absolutely not to pencil. In university, write with pretty much anything you want, but... not with a pencil. If you do take your test with a pencil, there's genuinely a chance your teacher will give you a 0, although most of the time they'll probably be forgiving.

I majored in CS in the Netherlands and every test was done with good old pen and paper. Students still make mistakes all the time, which is why everyone uses a scrap sheet.

Might as well just be someone with social anxiety. Many people like that in tech.

Not everything is a scientific paper. Good writing can also be art. There's a reason why Shakespeare wrote his 18th sonnet and not just "I think you're very beautiful".

For reference: I just tried this with iPhone 13 mini + WH-1000XM3 and the connection dropped after ~5 meters.

This indeed causes problems for the 1 - 9 AD decade, which only has 9 years this way, but most people won't care because we live in 2023.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/bertelschmitt/2017/07/25/ultraf...

VanMoof released the VanMoof S3 in 2020, which was €2000 (the predecessor was close to €3000). The S3 sold very well because of its low price and great design, but its build quality was really subpar. In fact, insiders say around 10% of all S3 bikes had defects that required repairs (note that 1 - 2% is standard for a typical bike model).

So in the end, VanMoof sold many cheap bikes which was great for their market share but not so great for their margins. Then, on top of this, they had to repair many of the bikes they sold which ate into their margins even more. Lastly, because of supply chain issues, they weren't able to offset the repair cost by fixing the S3 issues and quickly selling many proper units to new customers.