Didache Dave
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imagine reading this and still thinking we’re months away from automating all white collar work
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@AniseNot Yes! There’s this well-to-do liberal tenancy to (willingly?) not recognize patterns regarding every insane behavior they experience in the wild, caused by their own ideas.
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Lib boomer family that I refuse to talk about anything important with be they are so touchy about political stuff, assume I am a democrat. Today they were complaining about the amount of profanity & non-child friendly visuals & language at the No Kings March today
It was so offensive to them they left early
A couple weeks ago they were penalized at work for “fat shaming” wherein they stated that some people could not participate in an activity because their bodies were too large to fit
They have recently encountered Theybies & a mother who won’t let family know the sex of their baby
All of this happening & they laugh thinking these are one off occurrences with crazy people. They don’t get it yet, THIS IS HOW THE WORLD IS NOW
THIS IS WHY I REGISTERED REPUBLICAN. But if I told them that they would very likely stop speaking to me
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@elvin_not_11 I get anxiety, knowing such a large company is able to operate like this and get away with it. Fuck Microsoft. And fuck the corporations continue to use Windows products and subsidize this slop.
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@doodlestein You don’t understand what this is. This is the equivalent of what the GUI/desktop did to personal computing. Efficiency is not the point.
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The new Anthropic computer use system is cool and looks useful, but I think it’s ultimately the wrong approach.
It’s one thing to use humanoid robots because they can seamlessly slot into a human-centric physical world that’s difficult and expensive to reconfigure, and use the same buildings, stairs, tools, appliances, etc.
That makes sense to me (plus seeing weird spider-bots and crab-bots would scare children) for a lot of reasons, both practically, economically, and technically.
But your computer isn’t like that. It’s all just software. Your clicks and keyboard shortcuts just get turned into instructions. The cost to reconfigure most software, if you do it in clever ways, is pretty low.
And then you can make it super efficient and intuitive for the agents without wasting so much of their cognitive energy trying to pretend to be a human user and jumping through hoops.
More importantly, it also lets you have much more control from a security and audit and telemetry standpoint, with fine-grained permissions and execution controls.
This is the approach I’ve been following in my Flywheel Connectors project, which is almost ready.
I’ve been quietly working on this basically every day for 2 months and 2k commits.
It’s already ~1.5M lines of Rust and offers many dozens of connectors of all kinds, with all the controls and security features you’d ever want. And adding new connectors is easy and fast.
Plus, adding and using a new connector doesn’t give it carte blanche over your machine: you have very tight controls over everything, and your agents can configure and control it all via the fcp cli tool.
It’s all designed to be agent-first in every way. For agents, by agents, taken to the extreme.
Anyway, I’m excited to finish it soon and start integrating it into my various projects and systems. If you want to take a sneak peak, you can see it here:
github.com/Dicklesworthst…
Felix Rieseberg@felixrieseberg
Today, we’re releasing a feature that allows Claude to control your computer: Mouse, keyboard, and screen, giving it the ability to use any app. I believe this is especially useful if used with Dispatch, which allows you to remotely control Claude on your computer while you’re away.
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If you have precheck, you are America A. If you do not, you are America B. There is no better indicator than this.
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@Govindtwtt I think we’re in a sweet spot where someone who earnestly is interested in learning compsci but has no experience or schooling in it, and get very smart very fast by poking around in Claude code.
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@mattshumer_ Don’t tell her. Compute is wasted on such plebeians.
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Sitting next to a woman on a plane using ChatGPT on Auto mode.
I need someone to physically restrain me from telling her to turn on Thinking mode at the very least.
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Anyone else think “learning how to use AI” is dumb? Like just talk to it lol. Ask it to do things.
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@SecretCFO Spreadsheets do the job in that they’re auditable by the average investor. Excel is more just a set of rules we all follow to we can talk to eachother. We get code can do all of this much more efficiently & we don’t care.
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Interesting perspective but it misunderstands the job spreadsheets do.
Sure, there is a great volume of spreadsheets that can and should be coded into oblivion. And they will be. Good riddance
But the most valuable spreadsheets are tools for thinking. Trying to solve that problem with code will end up with something that looks a lot like a spreadsheet + Claude plugin …
andrew chen@andrewchen
prediction re the end of spreadsheets AI code gen means that anything that is currently modeled as a spreadsheet is better modeled in code. You get all the advantages of software - libraries, open source, AI, all the complexity and expressiveness. think about what spreadsheets actually are: they're business logic that's trapped in a grid. Pricing models, financial forecasts, inventory trackers, marketing attribution - these are all fundamentally *programs* that we've been writing in the worst possible IDE. No version control, no testing, no modularity. Just a fragile web of cell references that breaks when someone inserts a row. The only reason spreadsheets won is that the barrier to writing real software was too high. A finance analyst could learn =VLOOKUP in an afternoon but couldn't learn Python in a month. AI code gen flips that equation completely. Now the same analyst describes what they want in plain English, and gets a real application - with a database, a UI, error handling, the works. The marginal effort to go from "spreadsheet" to "software" just collapsed to near zero. this is a massive unlock. There are ~1 billion spreadsheet users worldwide. Most of them are building janky software without realizing it. When even 10% of those use cases migrate to actual code, you get an explosion of new micro-applications that look nothing like traditional software. Internal tools that used to live in a shared Google Sheet now become real products. The "shadow IT" spreadsheet that runs half the company's operations finally gets proper infrastructure. The interesting second-order effect: the spreadsheet was the great equalizer that let non-technical people build things. AI code gen is the *next* great equalizer, but the ceiling is 100x higher. We're about to see what happens when a billion knowledge workers can build real software.
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@MrGfromSD @Strangeland_Elf Would hope so. If there was a huge movement to change the regular workweek to 8-4 vs 9-5, then I’d be fine with standard time. But it won’t happen.
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@didachedave @Strangeland_Elf You think your manager doesn’t want to work 7 to 4 in the summer either?
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You know you can just “use the light” if you get up an hour earlier, since that’s what you are doing with DST, anyways.
Mitch Maurer@MitchMaurer2
@Strangeland_Elf Daylight Savings Time gives us one more hour of usable light every night, every day.
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@Strangeland_Elf Light from 4:45-5:45 AM is way less usable because it’s BEFORE WORK. Shifting that light to AFTER WORK increases its usability.
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I mean my tweet wasn’t about when you leave work, it was about how you can use light in the morning if you get up earlier in the morning, so the term “useable light” is silly.
Didache Dave@didachedave
@Strangeland_Elf Unfortunately, our EMPLOYERS keep us until “5PM”, so we have to TRICK THEM using DST so we can all LEAVE EARLIER. Thank you for attending my TED talk.
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You have to understand that DST is a psyop to trick employers into letting us out earlier in the solar day so when sunlight is abundant during the summer, we get to use more of it without thinking about our job. This is not complicated. Please don’t ruin a good thing.
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Everyone has to understand that DST is a way to trick employers into letting us out earlier in the solar day, so when sunlight is abundant during the summer, we get to use more of it during leisure hours. This is not complicated.
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@CourtneyHella What is this proving? It’s true that it will never be light at 8:30 PM without DST.
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Many people who support DST honestly believe the sun would set at 4pm in July. It’s very depressing to know that so many of my fellow countrymen are morons. 😔
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People don’t understand that daylight savings time is just a way to force employers to let you out earlier. Yes you have to show up earlier as well but who cares? Don’t you want more time after work to yourself to like do things outside? I would be fine with permanent standard time if employer switched to 8-4 instead of 9-5 but they won’t.
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@PatBlanchfield @TheComptr0ller In order to tackle this question, we must define the period of time for which “back in town” applies to the boys. Two months? Two years? The song only mentions that the boys had gone away, not the duration.
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@TheComptr0ller but then they will no longer be the boys who are back in town - just the boys
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the "boys are back in town" may be a happy anthem but its very pleasure also depends on sorrow. for while we celebrate the boys' return we also know they must leave. even now the hour of their departure draws close. perhaps we ourselves will be the ones who drive them away
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This is how all other 49 states picture Texas and they are not wrong.
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