This was in my staff documentation and it’s now in my AGENTS.md: tell don’t ask.
If there is a decision that you need to make don’t ask me for input, do the thing that you think makes sense and then write down what you did and why.
If it’s the wrong thing I’ll update the docs to make it clear for next time.
Without this I would always wake up in the morning to an inbox full of questions and no work done, rather than an inbox full of finished tasks and maybe a couple of corrections.
With LLMs if I ask for a code analysis and plan to fix something they tend to put a list of questions at the end about which they want confirmation.
Then I have to waste time saying yes or no or coming up with the solution. If I tell them to instead just make assumptions and record them all at the end then I only need to correct 1 or 2 assumptions if required.
The idea of giving a non deterministic automated process direct deployment control is fucking madness to me. That’s why I don’t get the obsession with MCP. Deployment can be scripted. It doesn’t need an LLM, it is a completely deterministic process and you want it to run identically every single time.
The right model for agentic API usage is having LLMs write scripts that use APIs. Connecting agents to MCPs and telling them to go and do stuff over and over not only wastes money but invites catastrophe.
And hasn’t been found guilty of rape, hasn’t attempted a coup, hasn’t triggered the worst oil shock the world ever experienced for literally no reasons, etc
You have roving poorly trained gangs of jackboot federal thugs illegally imprisoning citizens in privately owned gulags and mridering protesters extra judicially. The president is a criminal and a rapist. Him and his entire staff are corrupt self dealing incompetent grifters. He’s put a fox TV host in charge of the army and podcasters in charge of the FBI.
The list goes on.
It’s a total replication of idiocracy. What right wing social media slop are you consuming that you think the US is in good shape?
Computers generally are stupid for schools. There should be a computer room and computer classes, but all other learning should happen offline. Computers are far too distracting.
Half of my classmates in university failed Compsci, they could not use a computer but they somehow could install Instagram, do basic video edits there and doomscroll. It is NOT conputers! Phones should be the main target.
But computer usage proficiency is not computer science either. These skills should be teached in a separate class. Agree with the gen z lack of computer skills though.
No it costs the same, the reason they do it is that it’s slightly more difficult to spoof a real number sender ID because most gateways will verify ownership by sending you a text on that number before letting you send outbound from it, where as they have no way of doing the same for an alphanumeric sender ID
For sure, but the eventually-settled-upon rationale was some kind of nuclear deterrence. To walk away with Iran (likely) to maintain its uranium stockpile + possible toll control of the strait is such a complete and utter self-own.
I saw /graphify recently which cuts down on exploration cost and seems more appealing (although I haven’t tried it yet)
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