The Ring example is garbage. You paid for it and it's on your property. Nothing remotely similar.

I guess then it's OK for Flock to be required installed on your mobile device so they can check your geo history for the last hour and that you don't match the profile of the guy who stole Billy's Huffy bike?

What happens when the municipalities buy time on your device since, well, you don't own it and have no right to the software running on it because of ToS you agreed to. Or that awesome "save the children from CSAM pedos" bill you cheered for that paved the way for the USG and states to be guaranteed citizen introspection app slots on your device?

Because the piece of paper says so, it should then just be accepted as is!

The "my Ring camera" trope is a fun strawman, though.

Anthropic wants a moat, but that ship has sailed. Now all I keep reading about is: token burn, downtime and... Wait for it, another new product!

Anthropic thinks they are pulling one over on the enterprise, and maybe they are with annual lock-in akin to Microsoft. But I really hope enterprise buyers are not this gullible, after all these years. At least with Microsoft the product used to be tangible. Now it's... Well, non-deterministic and it's clear providers will gimp models at will.

I had a Pro Max account only for a short period of time and during that short stint Anthropic changed their tune on how I could use that product, I hit limits on a Max account within hours with one CC agent, and experienced multiple outages! But don't worry, Anthropic gave me $200 in credits for OpenClaw. Give me a break.

The current state of LLM providers is the cloud amplified 100x over and in all the worst ways. I had hopes for Anthropic to be the least shitty but it's very clear they've embraced enshittification through and through.

Now I'm spending time looking at how to minimize agent and LLM use with deterministic automation being the foundation with LLM use only where need be and implemented in simple and cost controllable ways.

There's no great way to garner the quality / efficacy of something non-deterministic that you can't trust, at least not currently. And I wouldn't be surprised that the providers haven't known that their LLMs could possibly be cheating for a while now.

On one hand they're saying: these models are so apocalyptic if everyone had them, and then on the other hand showcasing how their models are sweeping the floor on benchmarks. So which is it? Personally I don't believe any of these companies at this point, especially when they make claims that are non-public and wrapped in NDAs that benefit their bottom line.

[0] https://rdi.berkeley.edu/blog/trustworthy-benchmarks-cont/

It almost seems like a coordinated effort (Google in January, Anthropic and OAI in April) building out gated models that will eventually be very expensive. Yet, here we are: Aisle is saying that's not required to get there.

I don't think it's weird at all. It seems to me the Frontier providers are just trying to find, still unsuccessfully, a moat to make their unsustainable business model... Well. Sustainable.

But if you think you need an agent framework to use a prompt you're going to love this one simple trick...

Fuck Microsoft (aka Microslop).

[0] https://www.wired.com/story/using-a-vpn-may-subject-you-to-n...

And this is where I'd say I disagree. There's nothing about Peter Thiel, and his current business focus, that shows anyone he's not in the business of surveillance. Look at the company he keeps and then align that with many of the things Peter and who he surrounds himself with have said publicly. Thiel is tied to Palantir and Alex Karp. That relationship alone should tell you very clearly that, even if Thiel wasn't actually in the game of surveillance (opinion: he is) he would be very much associated with supporting it.

Karp said: “I love the idea of getting a drone and having light fentanyl-laced urine spraying on analysts that tried to screw us.”

Yeah, sure... I mean I can't imagine the fact that Thiel is tied at the hip to Palantir that he doesn't have an agenda with it other than data analytics and, what, ad rev? Right.

Thiel said, publicly, that everyone should be concerned about surveillance AI [0]. Let's call spade a spade. Thiel is in the business of surveillance whether or not there's some poor LLM generated sites stating that is the case, but then using that as the basis to give Thiel a pass on this because: not enough evidence here.

Thiel is a big part of what's wrong with his class. He's worried about something that he wants to control. He's not actually worried about you or I though. He's worried about someone else having the full surveillance view and so he's aimed to build and be part of that. So, maybe, we shouldn't give Thiel a pass just because he hasn't fully proven himself to be the person that the world paints him into a picture of.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/22/palantirs-peter-thiel-survei...

[0] https://tailscale.com/blog/peer-relays-beta

And as others have said it's very easy to burn token usage on the $100/month plan. It's getting to the point where it's going to very much make sense to do model routing when using coding tooling.

TSA used to have an API [0]. But, of course while the deprecation page still lives on the service does not.

Edit: Also looks like TSAWaitTimes.com [1] is an option, I'm sure their API works. o_O

[0] https://www.dhs.gov/archive/mytsa-api-documentation [1] https://www.tsawaittimes.com/