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New comment by kylecazar in "'AI' Is Not a Tool by Rich Hickey"

kylecazar — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:36:07 +0000

Hickey describes a tool as something wielded, usually requiring "control, sensory feedback, intention, intimacy, continuous direction, expertise". Lack of that is automation.

I believe my own use of AI is closer to Hickey's definition of a tool. I'm very involved (for now). But, I'm also certain some use it as automation, flying on vibes, providing vague 30,000 foot prompts and deploying the result to production without understanding the code. Hence, gradient.

That's my interpretation of parent.

New comment by kylecazar in "Open-Source Microsoft Office Excel, PowerPoint, and Word Replications"

kylecazar — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 15:22:29 +0000

A very small group of companies have the infrastructure required to train and serve a frontier model. They have a stranglehold on the compute/resources required for a new participant to break in.

And an overwhelming majority of enterprises running AI in production do so via one of two providers.

New comment by kylecazar in "Anthropic AI model submits false tip on unsolved Philly murder, police say"

kylecazar — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:48:14 +0000

"its model was conducting a test involving interactions with randomly selected websites"

Stop doing this?

New comment by kylecazar in "Would you quit sleeping if you could?"

kylecazar — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 01:01:27 +0000

If sleeping in this hypothetical does absolutely nothing for you biologically/psychologically, then yes.

I only value it so much because of how I feel when I'm well-rested.

New comment by kylecazar in "Gemini 4 Argon"

kylecazar — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:32:48 +0000

Google (and the others) signed the White House Accord on Superintelligence yesterday. Basically a promise to self-regulate and release responsibly.

Maybe announcing it was delayed until the agreement, and releasing it was delayed to show compliance.

New comment by kylecazar in "Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm"

kylecazar — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:25:15 +0000

I think they meant post-match personal incompatibilities exist that can't be accounted for in even the most thorough profile

New comment by kylecazar in "World Labs is Joining AMD"

kylecazar — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 21:36:18 +0000

The past couple of years have really driven home the fact that a company is worth what someone will pay for it

New comment by kylecazar in "Turning GLM-5.3-Flash into a Jev-like decision model"

kylecazar — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:05:15 +0000

The post claims comparable quality at comparable latency (the difference in the latter only stemming from serving region).

Hence my note about the risk of cost being the only moat.

New comment by kylecazar in "Turning GLM-5.3-Flash into a Jev-like decision model"

kylecazar — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:26:41 +0000

There's some speculation that Jev is an open weight model with novel post-training (RLCD). So, if these folks have competitive accuracy with just the base model, it may raise some questions about the necessity of Jev's architecture. You generally don't want to find yourself competing only on price.

Fyi, I haven't tested this yet.

New comment by kylecazar in "Too AI; Didn't Read"

kylecazar — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 21:44:59 +0000

Especially for personal communication, I'm comfortable saying if you couldn't bother to write it, why should I read it.

If I'm reading reference material/documentation or an update, I care a bit less so long as it isn't tedious.

New comment by kylecazar in "Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net"

kylecazar — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 22:11:56 +0000

And that driver will be punished and no longer driving

New comment by kylecazar in "OpenAI breaches Medicare, Albanese reveals"

kylecazar — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:20:50 +0000

I see what's happened here, you clicked the archive link that doesn't have the full article cached. Click on the OG link and you'll see it in its entirety.

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/openai-breaches-medi...

New comment by kylecazar in "OpenAI breaches Medicare, Albanese reveals"

kylecazar — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:24:39 +0000

Thought the same, but there is a bit about writing files to the server and circumventing "blocks", which sounds more interesting.

Either way, there's essentially no real information yet so I'll withhold judgement until there is, I suppose.

New comment by kylecazar in "Once Claude can measure something, it can make it faster"

kylecazar — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 21:38:30 +0000

"You know what we want. Let’s go"

New comment by kylecazar in "Jev in 25 Lines of Python"

kylecazar — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 11:59:49 +0000

I assumed they call it System One just because it's fast and there's no chain of thought/reasoning.

Either way it's an analogy that's bound to be loose as Kahneman's modes are about humans.

New comment by kylecazar in "AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up"

kylecazar — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 08:07:37 +0000

There's a difference between task-level productivity, which AI has been shown to increase, and effects on the macro. You're talking about the latter while most people here are engineers considering the former.

It's still unclear if task-level productivity gains bubble up, but it's also still early and I'm not sure we should expect to see immediate results there.

New comment by kylecazar in "ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector"

kylecazar — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 22:36:11 +0000

Chrome still allows it. Safari and Firefox don't.

New comment by kylecazar in "Google illegally retains customer data,and I am taking legal action against them"

kylecazar — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:44:18 +0000

AI Studio falls under the Gemini API additional terms. Those terms give Google the right to keep your data on their servers for "processing" for some window (30 days, longer if free user I believe).

Of course they shouldn't use words that imply permanent deletion if it's only a front-end/workspace removal until that window expires. But if retention is expressly allowed in their terms you won't be winning anything.

You found an instance of misleading UX, which is fairly common in our industry.

New comment by kylecazar in "Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude"

kylecazar — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:14:47 +0000

"Plan a trip to Italy next month and book the flights"

I see a version of that all the time and would never, ever do it.

New comment by kylecazar in "Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking"

kylecazar — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 21:54:28 +0000

They are. They were supposed to release 3.5 Pro over the summer but haven't because of persistent architectural/technical issues allegedly. Which is better than releasing it in that state imo.

Their AI leadership team has taken some hits recently too, in the form of departures. I believe when they get their bearings they will be competitive again. 3.8 Flash has been a great model for me.