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New comment by jonplackett in "Talorys – A self-hosted personal AI agent on Cloudflare's free tier"

jonplackett — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 17:34:22 +0000

Yeah completely agree. Jeez someone made something cool.

It’s self hosted as in not by an ai provider. This is obvious.

Sure it’s set up to run on some infrastructure but just tweak it if you want to and stop complaining.

New comment by jonplackett in "Claude Haiku 5.5"

jonplackett — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 17:25:01 +0000

About pelicans on bicycles.

And then just and recursive loop

New comment by jonplackett in "Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt in Rust and released it as OSS"

jonplackett — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 10:22:03 +0000

What do you think comes next instead?

New comment by jonplackett in "Claude Haiku 5.5"

jonplackett — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:37:31 +0000

Pelican on a tricycle?

Two pelicans on a tandem?

New comment by jonplackett in "Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt in Rust and released it as OSS"

jonplackett — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:14:21 +0000

Are we getting to the point (in a few years maybe?) where software will have its Suno moment where there is no need to actually pre-create it on some occasions.

It’s just created when required and personalised to exactly that use case. Then either reused or just discarded.

That is a weird world if so.

Or maybe we all have our own personalised version of photoshop that Adobe allow you to modify and still keep paying them.

New comment by jonplackett in "Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt in Rust and released it as OSS"

jonplackett — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:11:24 +0000

When they say ‘clean room’. What do they mean by that exactly?

It wouldn’t have access to the actual code anyway. Do they mean they just describe all the features? Not even screen shots?

I guess each model now knows all the menus and what photoshop does really well anyway from the computer use training.

New comment by jonplackett in "Claude Code’s suggested message feature: I think the real customer is the model"

jonplackett — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 23:24:37 +0000

Apple messages on my Mac has started doing this recently. Anyone figured out how to turn it off? It drives me mad

New comment by jonplackett in "Meta’s Muse is an adorable privacy and security dumpster fire"

jonplackett — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:16:51 +0000

Anyone who believes meta are taking privacy seriously cannot have more than a handful of brain cells.

New comment by jonplackett in "Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates"

jonplackett — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 22:29:43 +0000

But my ponderance is - is that enough. Is AI supercharging or just super finding?

New comment by jonplackett in "Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates"

jonplackett — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 22:06:37 +0000

I think access to AI too early (before any expertise) is going to serious cripple educational development.

Next gen of scientists might look quite different.

New comment by jonplackett in "Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates"

jonplackett — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 21:27:36 +0000

A lot of these ‘an agent invented’ or ‘an agent solved’ are actually the agent wading through a lot of info and finding something a human did that no one noticed or saw the relevance of at the time.

If ai becomes so prolific that we humans all stop doing those things then will they still work?

New comment by jonplackett in "Understanding Frontier Artificial Intelligence"

jonplackett — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 23:35:04 +0000

So you are just not worried?

You don’t think ai will actually become more intelligent than humans, at any point in the future.

Despite how technology just endlessly marches forward.

If you imagine a future where you’re wrong and ai IS cleverer than people - do you think in that future we can still control it?

New comment by jonplackett in "Understanding Frontier Artificial Intelligence"

jonplackett — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 18:57:09 +0000

Right now no.

But that is what super intelligence means dude.

This is what they’re trying to create.

Don’t you realise that yet?

New comment by jonplackett in "Understanding Frontier Artificial Intelligence"

jonplackett — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 18:56:04 +0000

I feel like we are having completely different conversations tbh

New comment by jonplackett in "Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields"

jonplackett — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 18:54:58 +0000

It’s nice but clearly designed for desktop

It’s a mobile world. This would be so nice as a proper touch enabled game

New comment by jonplackett in "Understanding Frontier Artificial Intelligence"

jonplackett — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 15:37:14 +0000

What are your examples of less intelligent things controlling more intelligent ones. And not just people over people because I just don’t think that’s a big enough gap in intelligence to represent what a super ai would be compared to humans.

New comment by jonplackett in "Understanding Frontier Artificial Intelligence"

jonplackett — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 11:52:24 +0000

We’ve put bacteria to work making food for us. We’ve put viruses to work reencoding our dna. we’ve put virtually all animals to work to move things or get eaten.

This isn’t really my point though.

My point is - ai is going to be like another level up if intelligence from us. Like a jump from chimp -> human -> super ai.

Chimps cannot control humans. So humans cannot control super ai.

The argument of if super ai can control US I guess is different.

But the fact is if we decided tomorrow we don’t like chimps and don’t want them to exist anymore. We could probably achieve that within a week or two of concentrated effort.

New comment by jonplackett in "Understanding Frontier Artificial Intelligence"

jonplackett — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 11:48:37 +0000

Doesn’t this just make it even worse? Like we can’t even control things LESS I telligent than us so what hope do we have to control something MORE intelligent?

New comment by jonplackett in "Understanding Frontier Artificial Intelligence"

jonplackett — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 11:46:53 +0000

I don’t think it’s relevant.

Humans all have a reasonably similar level of intelligence.

Pol pot wasn’t a genius. But he also wasn’t a monkey.

When we are talking about summoning super intelligence we aren’t talking about a very clever human, we’re talking about the difference between life forms.

This is why I am talking about human vs animal intelligence.

How many times in history has an animal successfully ruled over a population of humans?

New comment by jonplackett in "Understanding Frontier Artificial Intelligence"

jonplackett — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 10:15:49 +0000

I don’t really understand the relevance of this statement.