I'm probably very out of date here, but I thought domains weren't allowed to be purchased programmatically due to misuse, crime, fraud etc. Why is it allowed now just because of agents? This is bonkers to me.

Yeah absolutely embarassing take. If I had a nickle for every time someone sent me some AI garbage that was supposedly "thoroughly vetted and cross checked agent output", I'd be at least a thousandaire (gotta keep it real).

There are strengths, but if you think its writing stream of code and just using it as is, I would LOVE to compete against you.

Can I push to production anytime I want? I can run 10000 agents then no problem. I'll just move fast and break things and I'll get massive cheers because its AI.

You joke, but in a way this is the natural trajectory technology has been heading. AI has just increased the magnitude of it

Did the author say which model and harness handled the first attempts? Codex at the end ok but what did he try the rest with?

They specifically refused to do it, which is very meh and in retrospect reads like Codex astroturfing because of that ("all AI bad except for Codex"?

On what grounds is there a lawsuit? Hasn't scraping been classified as legal?

Calling someone’s apartment an opium den is potentially libel, and if it results in a material financial impact, you’ve got a lawsuit.

Is it someone's apartment or Airbnb's apartment?

classifying people's businesses as an "opium den" using a shitty LLM prompt seems like a pretty good way to piss some people off.

I don't necessarily agree with labeling them drug dens. But certainly the hosts showed zero or negative effort in keeping the room clean and suitable to rent. They do deserve some shaming.

> The problem is millions of years of evolutionary wiring makes us see it as alive

Maybe for laymen, but I would think most technologists should understand that we're working with the output of what is effectively a massive spreadsheet which is creating a prediction.

The thing with evolutionary wiring is that it doesn't matter if you're layman or "technologist". The technologist part is just a small layer on top of very thick caveman/animal insticts and programming.

That's why a technologist can, just as easily as any layman, get addicted to gambling, or do crazy behaviors when attracted by the opposite sex.

>small layer on top of very thick caveman/animal insticts and programming.

Which is also why marketing and advertising works on EVERYONE. When AI puts out the phrase "Prompt engineering", everyone instinctively treat it as something deterministic, despite them having some idea of how an LLM works...

>LLMs are highly intelligen

I will tell you why it is not.

Intelligence is understanding low level stuff and using it to reason about and understand high level stuff.

When LLMs demonstrate "highly intelligent" behavior, like solving a complex math problem (high level stuff), but also simultaneously demonstrate that it does not know how to count (low level stuff that the high level stuff depends on), it proves that it is not actually "intelligent" and is not "reasoning".

So your problem with the definition is that "I invented it"?

Do you have any rational objection to the definition? If you don't have, then I am afraid that you don't have a point.

> "NEVER FUCKING GUESS"

It's very hard to treat this post seriously. I can't imagine what harness if any they attempted to place on the agent beyond some vibes. This is "most fast and absolutely destroy things" level thinking. That the poster asks for journalists to reach out makes it like a no news is bad news publicity grab. Just gross.

The AI era is turning about to be most disappointing era for software engineering.

This is going to be the most important job going forward, the guy in charge of making sure production secrets are out CC's reach. (It's not safe for any dev to have them anywhere on their filesystem)

I'd be interested to learn where those words exist in Cursor's context. My assumption was that it was part of the Cursor agent harness, but it's just as likely it was in the user instructions.

> The AI era is turning about to be most disappointing era for software engineering.

this has been obvious to me since like 2024, it truly is the worst, most uninspiring era of all time.

As soon as I read that line, I knew everything I needed about the author and his abilities.

Did the author even mention what they thought should have been used instead?

pi.dev I'm much more interested in. Closer to the bone, or maybe better said, pi.dev is more like a lego and OpenClaw seems like a big Ninjago set.

I was shocked when I saw the guy behind libgdx was also behind pi.dev. Random tech worlds colliding.