> Proceeds to list but a handful of remotely meaningful repos I'm pretty sure, shortly after the motorized vehicle was made commercialy available, there were only a "handful of remotely meaningful" people and companies…
> Something else that git isn't good at: permissions. It doesn't have to be good at permissions. That's what DevOps platforms that integrate git are for.
Why
> what stops the agent from echoing the secure storage? The fact that it doesn't see it and cannot access it. Here is how this works, highly simplified: def tool_for_privileged_stuff(context:comesfromagent): creds =…
And in a skill, I can store the secret in the skill itself, or a secure storage the skill accesses, and the agent never gets to see the secret. Sure, if I want my agents to use naked curl on the CLI, they need to know…
> The core philosophy of MCP is simple: it’s an API abstraction. The LLM doesn’t need to understand the how; it just needs to know the what. Wrong. It needs to "understand" both these things. The only difference is…
> I don’t understand how people can remember all these custom scripting languages. We can't. Why do you think the `man` command exists?
As the old saying goes: "This too will pass." Consumer hardware will always be a market worth serving for companies who don't see their stock price as their product. If the existing companies are unwilling to make a…
> iran's dickhead move... Remind me again, which country started this whole mess? > what choice do the gulf nations, or even all the asian+european (strait users) nations have? They can go "yeah, you know, the US has…
Absolutely true, but there is a silver lining: When people rewriting open source libs with a bot then come crying to maintainers that their rewrites have bugs, and they would like for someone to fix said bugs for free,…
> Just because they have been made before LLMs doesn't mean it can be done again Erm...no? That's exactly what that means. Earth-Ovens haven't been in widespread use for hundreds of years. People can still use them to…
> The submitter is supposed to be the good programmer; And how will that be assured? Everyone can open a PR or submit a bug. > The problem is the time. But not the time spent TYPING. The problem is the time spent…
None of this counters the argument I made above :-)
> Because it takes a massive amount of developer work You know what else takes "a massive amount of developer work"? "any LLM-generated code must be reviewed by a good programmer" And this is the crux of the matter with…
> Not sure how they can expect to make a viable full OS without massive use of LLMs, so this makes no sense. Every single production OS, including the one you use right now, was made before LLMs even existed. > What…
The sad part is, how infinitely more functional these simple, static HTML documents are, compared to much of the shit that floods the "modern" web. Ofc these pages cannot replace SPAs. That's not the point. The point…
> That's great, but it's always just one agency, or one very local bit of government. Transitioning every system wholesale at once, is not gonna happen. I rather have our governents and agencies do it step by step than…
> It's one thing for the file you're working on to be vulnerable if you walk away leaving the editor open Considering that walking away from an open editor means also walking away from an unlocked machine, the problem…
> If you walk away from an unlocked machine ...then I might as well ask what happens when I walk away from the encrypting edior while a file is still open. User Error can happen with any encryption or security schema.…
Why does my text-editor need to do "encryption at rest"? If I want data encrypted, I store it in an encrypted drive with a transparent en/decryption layer.
As funny as the "Bush hid the facts" bug may be, there is a world of difference between an embarassing mistake by a function that guesses the text encoding wrong, and a goddamn remote code execution with an 8.8 score >…
> Absolutely false. I have built tons of tools which are feature complete and continue to work to this day without intervention And how many of these tools are mission critical to the point that they are installed on…
For me it's nachos, homemade cheese-and-cream-and-onion-and-garlic dip, and some fine wine.
> Spending 4 years evaluating something that’s changing every month means almost nothing, sorry. No need to be sorry. Because, if we accept that premise, you just countered your own argument. If me evaluating these…
> but to catch any low hanging fruit before you spend your valuable time reviewing. And that would be great, if it wern't for the fact that I also have to review the reviewers review. So even for the "low hanging…
> Proceeds to list but a handful of remotely meaningful repos I'm pretty sure, shortly after the motorized vehicle was made commercialy available, there were only a "handful of remotely meaningful" people and companies…
> Something else that git isn't good at: permissions. It doesn't have to be good at permissions. That's what DevOps platforms that integrate git are for.
Why
> what stops the agent from echoing the secure storage? The fact that it doesn't see it and cannot access it. Here is how this works, highly simplified: def tool_for_privileged_stuff(context:comesfromagent): creds =…
And in a skill, I can store the secret in the skill itself, or a secure storage the skill accesses, and the agent never gets to see the secret. Sure, if I want my agents to use naked curl on the CLI, they need to know…
> The core philosophy of MCP is simple: it’s an API abstraction. The LLM doesn’t need to understand the how; it just needs to know the what. Wrong. It needs to "understand" both these things. The only difference is…
> I don’t understand how people can remember all these custom scripting languages. We can't. Why do you think the `man` command exists?
As the old saying goes: "This too will pass." Consumer hardware will always be a market worth serving for companies who don't see their stock price as their product. If the existing companies are unwilling to make a…
> iran's dickhead move... Remind me again, which country started this whole mess? > what choice do the gulf nations, or even all the asian+european (strait users) nations have? They can go "yeah, you know, the US has…
Absolutely true, but there is a silver lining: When people rewriting open source libs with a bot then come crying to maintainers that their rewrites have bugs, and they would like for someone to fix said bugs for free,…
> Just because they have been made before LLMs doesn't mean it can be done again Erm...no? That's exactly what that means. Earth-Ovens haven't been in widespread use for hundreds of years. People can still use them to…
> The submitter is supposed to be the good programmer; And how will that be assured? Everyone can open a PR or submit a bug. > The problem is the time. But not the time spent TYPING. The problem is the time spent…
None of this counters the argument I made above :-)
> Because it takes a massive amount of developer work You know what else takes "a massive amount of developer work"? "any LLM-generated code must be reviewed by a good programmer" And this is the crux of the matter with…
> Not sure how they can expect to make a viable full OS without massive use of LLMs, so this makes no sense. Every single production OS, including the one you use right now, was made before LLMs even existed. > What…
The sad part is, how infinitely more functional these simple, static HTML documents are, compared to much of the shit that floods the "modern" web. Ofc these pages cannot replace SPAs. That's not the point. The point…
> That's great, but it's always just one agency, or one very local bit of government. Transitioning every system wholesale at once, is not gonna happen. I rather have our governents and agencies do it step by step than…
> It's one thing for the file you're working on to be vulnerable if you walk away leaving the editor open Considering that walking away from an open editor means also walking away from an unlocked machine, the problem…
> If you walk away from an unlocked machine ...then I might as well ask what happens when I walk away from the encrypting edior while a file is still open. User Error can happen with any encryption or security schema.…
Why does my text-editor need to do "encryption at rest"? If I want data encrypted, I store it in an encrypted drive with a transparent en/decryption layer.
As funny as the "Bush hid the facts" bug may be, there is a world of difference between an embarassing mistake by a function that guesses the text encoding wrong, and a goddamn remote code execution with an 8.8 score >…
> Absolutely false. I have built tons of tools which are feature complete and continue to work to this day without intervention And how many of these tools are mission critical to the point that they are installed on…
For me it's nachos, homemade cheese-and-cream-and-onion-and-garlic dip, and some fine wine.
> Spending 4 years evaluating something that’s changing every month means almost nothing, sorry. No need to be sorry. Because, if we accept that premise, you just countered your own argument. If me evaluating these…
> but to catch any low hanging fruit before you spend your valuable time reviewing. And that would be great, if it wern't for the fact that I also have to review the reviewers review. So even for the "low hanging…