You drastically underestimate how bad most systems are. All of the vendors in your examples have good APIs. Those vendors already did the hard part.

All of the systems we need solutions for are moving targets that are breaking constantly. You can’t model those in 30 minutes because the ways in which they break don’t show up until months later.

Unfortunately it’s mostly not up to you. It’s a weakest-link problem. It doesn’t matter if you don’t use a note taker AI, if even one person on the call uses one. Their tool doesn’t notify you and usually the person doesn’t either.

It also has the reverse impact to the person using the note taker, where people say less around them. Same as if I'm talking to someone with Meta glasses.

I wonder if the people who use these tools know the people they meet with speak less during their meetings, and then all of the participants have a post-meeting call without them to say what they really thought.

It’s not obviously true. A higher number of attempts, a larger talent pool, typically doesn’t change the average much (or it might even make the average go down), but tends to produce higher peak outcomes.

We see this everywhere (science, startups, sports, chess, etc).

If you want the best spreadsheet, game, or whatever app you want, you’re only interested in the few highest peaks.

So you do actually get better signal to noise with a larger wasteland of discarded attempts. The higher peaks make it easier to filter out the noise.

The goal you’re intrinsically motivated by seems different than this. That seems to be the whole disagreement.

It might solve much of existing crime, but that’s not the same as a net reduction in crime.

Bribery, blackmail, and coercion would just fill the crime vacuum.

No. Agents run in VMs. Assume anywhere you’re running an agent will be compromised, because eventually, it will be.

The only reason most people haven’t is luck, they didn’t happen to install Axios or Tanstack at a certain time.

And doesn’t that mean the job potentially runs twice? Yes.

In DBOS there are two kinds of “things that run”: workflows, and steps (workflows are made of steps).

Workflows must be deterministic (so it’s fine if it runs twice). Steps don’t have to be deterministic but have at-least-once execution (so it’s best if these are idempotent).

So that’s why we now have as many different tech stacks as we have developers at work. Conway’s law taken to its logical conclusion?

> The records sit in Airtable

A secret cabal running the world. On AirTable.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/leak-exposes-members-of-peter-th...

What’s your evidence for this claim?

https://www.hudsonrock.com/fortinet

- Disable the network cards in the BIOS

- Install

- When prompted to setup the network press Shift+F10

- Type: start ms-cxh:localonly

- Setup the local account

- After install completes re-enable the network cards in the BIOS

Nothing could be easier. Truly the most user-friendly OS.

QBASIC. When you need a package you type it in from a magazine. Virtually anything you could ever need is only 1-12 weeks away.

- Has history with the bank (trust)

- Is willing to put their neck on the line

AI in the current form has no ability to put its neck on the line.