Agents will eat software.
We're in the clippy era of agents, but they will adapt to be the flexible layer that interprets intent, handles edge cases, and composes capabilities.
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I've been trying to explain AI agents to friends and family who aren't following the latest. The simplest version I have is: Apps are trains. Agents are helicopters.
Apps follow routes developers built in advance. If nobody designed the button or workflow, you can't go there. Agents change that. You tell them what you want, and they figure out how to get there.
Building an agent isn't the hardest problem anymore. Building one you'd trust to fly you around every day is.
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You know, I love kids. I'll defend kids crying on airplanes and melting down in restaurants. I respect parents who are doing their best.
But tonight at dinner, I encountered a toddler with a kazoo, and let me tell you, we all have limits.
“If you haven't read hundreds of books, you are functionally illiterate, and you will be incompetent, because your personal experiences alone aren't broad enough to sustain you.”
— James N. Mattis
Thinking about the time our high school English teacher gave us a poem to analyse
When we finished she told us it was Donald Rumsfeld’s WMD press conference, and that was the class
ai can’t write good because it’s designed to write pleasantly average sentences with all the right words in the right order and imho good writing requires u to strategically deploy a word that is wrong and maybe even evil
I don’t think enough has been written about what we lost in 2016—not because Trump became president (that part we know), but because HRC did not.
She was, by far, the most qualified non-incumbent ever. Because she’d already lived in the White House for eight years, there would have been no learning curve. She would have hit the ground running. (Like, she knows where the light switches are in the residence!) No candidate was ever more prepared for every aspect of the job.
She is excellent in small groups. She wins people over because she’s brilliant and humble. She had great ideas that would have actually helped people most in need of help. And she had the savvy and the determination to implement them.
Hillary Clinton would have been one of the greatest US presidents. That’s a hill I will die on. And our country hasn’t properly mourned this being stolen from us.
6yo (to her crying brother): "It's okay to be sad, sometimes we need to let our feelings out, just let yourself be sad."
Me: "Oh darling, that's so lovely, well done. Why is he crying?"
6yo: "I hit him."
For America's 250th birthday can we PLEASE bring back the original American Girl books? It is a national tragedy that these treasures are OUT OF PRINT. Our intangible cultural heritage, y'all.