@antoniogm Local llm's are the way for this exact reason. Privacy matters.
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pacific tim
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Litigation is going to get wild when discovery involves granting access to your existing Slack/Google Docs/Gmail MCP, and opposing counsel hits every internal doc and convo with LLM prompts and submits the results as exhibits.
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So I went to the MCP Dev Summit and hated it. But that was all my fault. But coming away from the summit, I'm very optimistic about the future of MCP. I think I finally solved in my head how to make this crap actually work.
There are basically three approaches for tool calling. CLI, MCP, and roll your own. I think all three approaches have a valid use case for now. As time goes forward MCP is actually the best long-term solution. I don't feel like arguing with you on why. But just like Doctor Strange I've played out all the scenarios in my head and MCP seems to be the only one that makes sense. We might have to kill half the world first but it'll work out.
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@Siron93 They should be put in gulags for this exploitative bullshit. Thanks for warning people about these scam artists.
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Olive makes $150,000/month from a food scanner app. A warm, illustrated brand led by a friendly mascot.
• 17-step onboarding with fear-based messaging
• collects allergies, restrictions, specific additives
• asks for a rating before you've even used the app
• 3-screen paywall sequence
• value demo → trial reminder → pricing
• free trial locked to yearly plan
• monthly is the decoy
• CTA says "Try for $0.00"
• account creation happen after you've already paid
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Tell us how we could make Zed the single best tool for working with markdown
Mitchell Troyanovsky@mitch_troy
I suspect the IDE will be making a comeback over the next 6 months as people realize that you can get away without reading every line of code, but you better be reading every line of markdown Surprised more IDEs haven't focused on being the absolute best place to edit markdown
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This seems messed up actually - when do the boundaries stop moving?
Anthropic only allows subscriptions with a real human pressing enter? You're going to have to verify with FaceID?
Peter Steinberger 🦞@steipete
Anthropic now blocks first-party harness use too 👀 claude -p --append-system-prompt 'A personal assistant running inside OpenClaw.' 'is clawd here?' → 400 Third-party apps now draw from your extra usage, not your plan limits. So yeah: bring your own coin 🪙🦞
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Deontay Wilder hits hard due to his frame and how quickly he can accelerate it.
Very long frame makes legs look skinnier but he’s a large guy + limb length provides a lot of leverage for certain strikes thrown a particular way.
Jon Jones is an example of a long limbed athlete with very different punching technique and it doesn’t translate to power the same way.
Different movement strategies can create different outcomes even with the same body type.
Wilder hits hard for a different set of stacking qualities than someone built like Tyson.
Arnold billy allen@Arnoldbfa
Wilders legs and punching power surely defy science
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@TechLayoffLover You're lying and have zero verified sources. 30 CTOs would not have dinner with you and let you spill their secrets online you retard. Can't believe people fall for this trash.
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Had drinks with 30 CTOs last night at an off-the-record gathering in Palo Alto
Every single one showed me the same internal PowerPoint slide
"2026 AI Headcount Targets: Path to 70% Cost Reduction"
The numbers will make you physically sick
Fintech CTO planning to cut 280-person engineering org down to 43 "AI orchestrators" by September. Same product roadmap. Same delivery expectations.
Healthcare CTO already eliminated his entire manual QA department. 67 people. Replaced with 3 senior engineers running autonomous testing agents that ship code directly to production.
SaaS CTO walked me through his "human depreciation timeline": 340 engineers today, 89 planned for 2027. Customer support going from 120 humans to 12 "escalation specialists" managing AI conversations.
The most chilling part: they're all using the exact same consulting deck from McKinsey called "The 30% Organization"
One CTO literally said "hiring humans for code is like hiring horses for transportation"
Another showed me Slack screenshots where his L7s are asking if they should train their replacements
The consensus was unanimous: if you can't manage 10 AI agents by Christmas, you're not making it to New Year's
Every single one of them is planning to announce these cuts as "AI transformation success stories"
While their stock options vest at record highs built on the backs of workers they're about to execute
The future of engineering is 3 humans with 50 AI agents in a WeWork somewhere while 500 families lose their homes
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@spnidelman Big fan of your games and they inspired me to make my own 💚
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INTRAVENOUS 3 ANNOUNCED MOTHERFUCKERS
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#indiegame #indiedev #gamedev
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@carolinekwan Your correct her case didn't get thrown out because he's innocent. It got thrown out because she's retarded and filed in the wrong state.
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because people are too fucking stupid/misogynistic to understand this update:
the judge threw out the sexual harassment claims (she’s still able to bring claims of retaliation) because he ruled that Lively couldn’t bring a SH claim under federal law since she was an independent contractor on the film. federal anti-discrimination laws including Title VII do not protect non-employees.
California state law DOES have protections for ICs, but the judge ruled that she can’t file a claim under CA state law because the movie filmed in New Jersey.
This is a horrifying reminder of how fucked our system is
Variety@Variety
A judge has thrown out 10 of the 13 claims in Blake Lively’s sexual harassment lawsuit against Justin Baldoni, including allegations of harassment, defamation and conspiracy. He allowed three claims to proceed to a trial, including claims of breach of contract, retaliation and aiding and abetting in retaliation. variety.com/2026/film/news…
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@toddsaunders I mean this explains why your posts are so retarded, because you need to be spoon fed like a toddler.
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“Explain very simply like I know nothing, and you are my teacher” might be my most used Claude prompt.
Anyone have something similar they use they like?
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@toddsaunders "An AI native startup can build your entire product in a weekend."
Try building Photoshop or Final Cut Pro in a weekend you idiot. Prototypes and production code are very different in terms of quality and rigor. It's a lot harder than a weekend, even with agents.
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If you are the large (pre-AI) incumbent in your space, your revenue is your biggest liability.
I know it's strange to say that money is a liability... but I did the math and it gets worse than you think.
And before you ask, yes I had Claude do the math for me. And are not in the incumbent’s favor.
The median equity-backed SaaS company spends 107% of ARR just to operate. Between COGS, R&D, sales, marketing, and G&A, they are spending $1.07 to keep every $1.00 of revenue.
And it gets worse.
The median SaaS company spends $2.00 in sales and marketing to acquire $1.00 of new ARR, and the bottom quartile companies spend $2.82. The average payback period is 23 months, and most SaaS companies are underwater on every new customer for nearly two years.
If you are legacy software, here is the part that should REALLY keep you up at night.
An AI native startup can build your entire product in a weekend. And more importantly, their cost structure is not 107% of revenue. It is 40%. They do not have 200 people defending a number. They have 12 people using Claude Code to go after your entire category with margins you can’t match.
Those margins show up in your margin compression and churn.
Your revenue is the thing that makes your VP of Sales say "let's not disrupt the base." It is the thing that makes your CPO say "we can just add AI to the existing product." It is the thing that makes your board say "let's see how this plays out for another quarter."
We’ve all been there and I hear it from these executives all the time.
Those are all rational responses to protecting current revenue. They are also the exact sequence of decisions that ends with you getting completely disrupted by some AI YC company.
The only company I have seen actually make the transformation is Intercom. They did not protect their revenue. They looked at the cost of defending it and decided it was cheaper to destroy it and build something new.
That is the Intercom Moment.
Every incumbent CEO has one coming.
Or it already passed, and they just don't know it.
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@BigJohn043 PE? Rent seeking vampires you all are. You belong in a gulag.
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@alexisohanian I appreciate your honest about being a fake and insincere grifter. No wonder the site went to shit after Aaron left.
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Love how I've written about this extensively online, in my book, etc. but it still ends up making the rounds online like a revelation every few months.
mitsuri@0xmitsurii
Reddit Co-founder: We basically faked our first users.
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@ellebeecher Wtf do outbound sales people do at Meta? It barely has any products to sell.
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I was a sales rep at Meta for my first job.
60 clients at a time. Emails at all hours. People literally reporting me to my manager if I didn't respond in under 2 hours.
I laid in my bed at 9 PM every night answering emails to avoid getting hit with a "Let me talk to your manager" sneak attack.
Zero creative energy. Zero space. Zero me.
Then I did some pretty wild last-ditch-effort stuff (story for another time) and my favorite manager reached out: "Elle, stop DMing people that you're gonna quit. I'll find you another role."
He did. Internal facing only with no external clients or sales component.
I got 50% of my energy back in a snap.
That's when I started hosting the walks. That's when I met my love. That's when everything changed.
If I hadn't switched roles, I wouldn't be here right now.
Sometimes the path to your purpose starts with one internal transfer.
Give yourself the gift of space.
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@webdevMason Your def valor stealing incels here sis. Haters and misogynists are not unique to incels e.g. Andrew tate
Incels probably think this is hot lol
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Let us be cute and silly in yoga pants and a group setting 3 hours/week, this is load-bearing in ways the incels will never understand
Dr. Clown, PhD@DrClownPhD
Women will do anything to “work out” except actually work out…
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@alexkehr Because apple is shit for oss development and treats you like a child.
Adults use Linux.
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@uwunetes Its illegal and they can easily win fighting it in court. It was ruled illegal in Louisiana last year.
Don't be a coward, it's that simple.
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I'm not sure what you expect them to do? get fined up the ass? if the law exists what do you do about it other than comply? or go bankrupt? I guess
Andras Bacsai@heyandras
Ubuntu will implement "age verification" - like wtf.
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@TimSweeneyEpic Their banning side loading apps Tim, bad take.
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Google is opening up Android all the way with robust support for competing stores, competing payments, and a better deal for all developers. So, we've settled all of our disputes worldwide. THANKS GOOGLE!
Sameer Samat@ssamat
Android has always driven innovation in the industry through its unique flexibility and openness. At this important moment, we continue to be at the forefront of how developers distribute their apps and games on billions of devices globally. Today we are announcing big changes: – Leading the way in store choice: A registered app store program that makes installation of participating app stores easier with a streamlined flow – A new business model for Google Play with lower prices for developers: The ability to use your own billing alongside Google Play Billing, and lower service fees. These changes will make for a stronger Android ecosystem with more choice for users and even more successful developers who can further invest in higher quality experiences on mobile and beyond. The above will be rolling out in phases, subject to local laws and processes. We are also excited to announce that we’ve resolved all our disputes with Epic Games globally! Details on all of this can be found at our blog post. android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/a-new-…
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@browser_use You brag about overwork? Class traitors all of you.
You belong in a gulag.
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We work 996 at Browser Use. 9 am -> 9 pm, 6 days a week.
Our new Porsche 996 merch reflects this - it's our fun portrayal of the company's work culture. But to be honest, work doesn't feel like work when you're tackling hard problems with a great team.
As a tribute to SF, we're handing out tons of free merch to anybody who also works these extra hours to change the world.
Just comment, and I'll get some over to you :)
And don't tell my CTO how much it cost to make pls
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@santiagogolind2 @LewisMoran @ripplebrain I don't fully agree that things will change but I appreciate your engaging in good faith here. It feels like our foreign policy doesn't change much, irregardless of whose running things.
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@Pacific_Tim @LewisMoran @ripplebrain I fully understand your sentiment, but I think people overestimate the power of AIPAC. Their influence has been completely diminished and it will be reflected in future campaigns. Being a zionist has just been the accepted position by the American public for the past 70 years.
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I'm going to explain this in detail for people aren't familiar with it. It's going to sound somewhat unbelievable because it's some of the most stone cold Sun Tsu Machiavelli shit of all time, but Sinwar openly described it in these terms.
First, put yourself in his shoes. Gaza is an open air concentration camp, and there's no indication this will ever change. The Israelis are gobbling up increasing amounts of Palestine outside of Gaza. They're also normalizing relations with the Sunni Arab states to an unprecedented degree. The Abraham Accords were signed in 2020, and Israeli relations with the entire Sunni world are on an upward trajectory.
The only faction within the region that could possibly come to your rescue is the Shia. The Iranians have huge military potential, but their strategy is to keep themselves at a distance while slowly attriting the Israeli axis with proxy forces, and this is having mixed results. The Iranians are under severe economic pressure and have no interest in a wider war. It looks unlikely that they'll be able to change the picture for the Palestinians if this continues.
So what do you do? First, you need to understand the mindset of all the factions involved: Israel, the US, Hezbollah, Iran, the Gulf monarchies, Egypt, Ansar Allah, and so on. The Israelis are almost as dissatisfied with the present situation as you are. While they're achieving diplomatic success, their goal is to fully ethnically cleanse Gaza and the rest of Palestine, and start gobbling up territory in Lebanon and Syria to drive towards a future Greater Israel. Even if their position is gradually improving with the Sunni states, ultimately they're nowhere close to their long term goals, and have serious regional enemies in the form of Hezbollah and Iran. And they have the largest military in the world at their disposal if they need it.
Sinwar's strategic decision was to force a "great battle," a "flood for Al-Aqsa." His calculus was that if Hamas initiated a massive, open attack on Israel, the Israelis would use it as a casus belli to implement their strategic goals with regard to Palestine. With relations still not fully normalized with the Arab states, this would heighten the contradictions within the Middle East and lead to a massive regional war. As the Israelis would be forced to go for broke, they'd attempt to also resolve their goals in Lebanon, which would of course suck in Hezbollah, and in turn suck in Iran.
Perhaps the most crucial second-order effect without which this plan could have failed is the reaction of Ansar Allah. Their actions in the Red Sea and decision to regularly lob missiles and drones at Israeli territory kept the situation from cooling off. If they hadn't been willing to take on the US Navy solo, the plan might have failed.
It's taken until this latest outbreak of hostilities between Israel and Iran to get the Iranians to fully break with their strategy of caution and de-escalation. Sinwar understood the US/Israeli relationship. The Israeli ability to wield the US military like a tool ensured that a direct American attack on Iran was inevitable, forcing the Iranians to adjust their posture.
This plan required a willingness to make enormous sacrifices. Gaza has been destroyed, Hezbollah is severely degraded, and the Iranians are now under existential threat. But much of the public worldwide is rapidly coming to grips with the true nature of the US/Israeli relationship. Support for Israel around the world is at a 70 year low. Tel Aviv has been hammered with hundreds of ballistic missiles in four separate True Promise operations, and there are active blockades in both the Red Sea and Persian Gulf. The US has openly abandoned its Gulf allies, paving the way for a total collapse of the geopolitical picture as it stood in October of 2023. The Israeli position is more tenuous than it's been in decades.
The most mind boggling thing is that Sinwar set all of this in motion and then took up a rifle and went out to meet the IDF head on. Once Al-Aqsa flood began, the situation, which would pull in dozens of countries, was beyond his control.
Amerikanets 📉@ripplebrain
Total Sinwarification. We're all just pawns in the game of a man who died in battle more than a year ago.
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