You go where your people are. I think it’s very reasonable to post updates on Facebook and X.

Yea, that’s a cool idea. You could even make some fun animations.

Dario does a good job of addressing that in this essay. He lists several potential levels of global agreements that could be beneficial to all parties. For example, having models capable of bioterrorism hurts both the US and its “adversaries”. It’s likely we could get global agreement that these capabilities benefit nobody.

I believe Dario has good intentions regarding global agreements. However, I find it difficult believing government’s public statements will match their private behaviors. I would bet that the US government is developing models with potentially devastating capabilities because they cannot guarantee that other countries won’t do the same. Maybe we’ll end up having something like mutually assured destruction with AI models similar to what we have today with nuclear weapons.

I don’t have any skin in the game with this, and I don’t use WP. It appears Matt needs help right now. I don’t think he’s reacting rationally based on what he’s posting online or allegedly inside his former organization. I don’t know him, but it’s hard seeing people in a difficult time who need help.

Yeah! Seems like that's the assumption in this ongoing discussion, so I thought my point of view would be interesting. I'm not saying I'm doing it the right way, possibly I'm being very stupid, but the point here is that it's not just the "normies" who don't know what Sol is.

> it's not just the "normies" who don't know what Sol is.

You are closer to a normie than most here I assume.

No, it's a great point. I think we all live in bubbles and aren't aware of what others around us are doing.

At my admittedly very tiny workplace, I'm the only one who uses agents at all. The rest just use the web interface, though one tried cursor for a bit.

can i have a job there so i can work for like 2 hours a day

Lots of large enterprises and organizations have security policies that make it very hard to self-install these tools and haven’t figured out they should add them to their approved software list yet. Federal government in particular is still very slow

HN vastly over estimate the actual usage of agents, and AI in general. The few times I figure an LLM might help, I just use DuckDuckGos duck.ai.

I use it for making small disposable scripts, and in-browser chat with copy-pasting output works fine for that.

I have a hard time seeing how Meta is betting people will trust them to serve as their AI agent provider. Based on their track record data privacy and tracking, why would I trust them with my most sensitive data? That’s a hard sell.

If you already trust them with all your Facebook posts and your Instagram and etc it's probably more tempting?

I think for most people there is a big gulf between information posted to social and their entire email inbox, their credit card details, passwords, etc.

For this kind of tool to be useful it basically has to be able to impersonate you digitally. I know I personally have zero trust for Meta to do this securely and without exploiting me, whereas Google I feel a lot better about here. After all Google has made a business out of safeguarding data with gmail, drive, etc. Same with Microsoft and Apple. Meta, OpenAI, not so much.

I still have a Facebook account to stay connected with my family and friends. However, I have no trust in Meta to handle my health or financial information, as I am quite certain they will sell or use it for marketing purposes.

On the other hand, I’m always surprised how little many seem to care about data privacy.

They are just grabbing the low hanging fruits to make investors happy.

yeah, i could at least see telling this muse thing to post stuff to instagram for me.

Since Broadcom purchased VMware, I want nothing to do with them. I wouldn’t consider their products for anything.

If you have ever worked with low-cost offshore contractors, you know this it true…

So true.

I worked one place where I had a team of 4 offshore devs replace my two good people. Three months of some of the worst quality work I’ve ever seen. And I was responsible for it on paper.

Decided fuck it, promoted one of them to manager and gave him a project to finish in 3 months, leading the other 3.

In that three months I redid that entire project, did their current project and a week of another one. All in a 25 hour week calendar.

Then I quit.

A lot of people are going to get a painful lesson in this if companies keep using LLMs to do all their programming.

Maintaining AI code is the new maintaining offshore code. I don't envy software engineers who are far from retirement.

People already look me like crazy when I still review all the code changes AI does, and not even using the agent directly. And make it do things differently if it is unmaintainable slop. Their argument is that are you really going to modify the code by hand in the future?

I agree. I think the UI is the best part. It seems more responsive to me too.