Matt Asher

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[Matt Asher @MattAsher]

When I die, I want to be buried with the big box of random computer cables that I’ve been squirreling away for the last 3 decades cuz who knows maybe I’ll finally need them in the great beyond.

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@Saint_n0mad What kind of monster refuses to tip their baristabot? Look at that artwork!

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@1concordia @lochan_twt I'm not sure this will be as big a problem as expected, assuming agents have access to detailed docs for whatever new language, framework, or system they are working with. Also, if new models like Mythos live up to their hype, they'll find original solutions to new problems.

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@shikhr_ English is the only programming language left.

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@St_Rev Fair enough, but also there's an argument to be made that Cantor's obsession with certain mathematical structures was, at the very least, not so helpful for his sanity.

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This should have been done with plastic straws. Tell people to fold them in half before throwing out to protect the turtles, make no other change.

Also for some reason this reminds me of the "ich lüge bullets" scene from Heathers.

[nicolas, 30 ans @nic_carter]

@willdepue give people a "low water use" toggle and change absolutely nothing on the back end (all ordinary queries are already low water use - a couple mL)

[Matt Asher @MattAsher]

Still thinking about this.

[Pedro Werneck @pjwerneck]

@cnakazawa All you have to do is add a default prompt asking it to mimic some writer. I have mine speaking in Hubert Selby Jr. style.

[Matt Asher @MattAsher]

This is the trend and I don't think it's reversible. I still limit agentic AI to a dedicated computer, but within that context I use it for basic OS things. Why dig through a maze of settings to find what I want when I can just ask Claude to change it? Or ask it to launch a website and log me in. Or do an every expanding set of OS things.

[Philo Groves @PhiloGroves]

Lots of talk about an “AI OS” and trust me as someone who explored it for months: it is overkill. It would need to run as a virtual machine to be useful.

But we will probably see AI fullscreen apps, almost like video games, that feel like their own OS.

[Matt Asher @MattAsher]

Apparently I've reached the stage of live that involves doing a lot of smoke tests.

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@nateberkopec Token cost and base reality (no one wants your slop-coded Salesforce alt) will serve the role of "no guy".

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@kordelfrance @signulll Feature, clearly. If humans had an easy way to directly effect autonomic functions, we would accidentally kill ourselves.

Just think, at what age would you your child a heart rate adjusting dial?

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@kylben It's not real communism if all the millionaires live.

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@ChShersh @samoye95 That's literally what code is

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@IsleyResistance This is brilliant

[Matt Asher @MattAsher]

That would save us not only from brainless articles about how free bread isn't really free, but also short circuit linguistic shenanigans about "free" health care or any other service that's paid for indirectly, and rationed by mechanisms other than price. 4/4

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Twelve (yes, twelve!) bullet point articles about how omg "free" bread isn't really free are silly or ai slop, but there is a broader issues that English uses a single word for free where other languages have two, and we really should have three... 1/

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We have expressions that get at that idea, like unmetered, or endless, or "all you can eat", but I think English would benefit from an explicit word for this kind of "free", something like the Dutch "onbeperkt". 3/

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@AnnaSpiegs Are you a human being Anna?

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I find it increasingly difficult to have normal conversations with childless adults around my age. It's like they live in an alternative universe of boutique concerns and navel gazing tendencies.

[White Mountain Supremacist @FreeRangeWhites]

There are a lot of reasons to have kids. This one is underappreciated.

I don't really consider people to be fully adults if they don't have kids.