An Agent in the Machine Which Represents You 1985
“…an agent in the machine which represents you.” – Larry Tesler, Xerox PARC / Apple 22:47 in
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“…an agent in the machine which represents you.” – Larry Tesler, Xerox PARC / Apple 22:47 in
nullClaw – “…this is the ai-brain for robocop, kill-bot swarms, that killer dog thing from black-mirror, etc…” Transcript
“Your brain was never designed to be a storage system. It was designed to think. Every time you force it to remember something instead of letting it work on something new, you’re paying a tax you don’t see. And in 2026, when AI can multiply what you produce, that tax is more expensive than ever.” … Read more
“AI can hold a 200k token context window (150k words) in a form of attention that allows constant cross-referencing across that entire input length… This isn’t intelligence in the human sense, it’s something different: Comprehensive pattern matching across a very large context window, with the ability to apply consistent rules without fatigue or forgetfulness — … Read more
PROMPT: Comment on idea of having website auto-submit its product descriptions to oai that is prompted as seo expert and have oai send json optimized seo for the product page. put this into a weekly loop to keep product seo tuning sharp. RESPONSE: This is a sound, forward-looking idea, and—done carefully—it aligns with where search, … Read more
This is a classic numerical computation issue. The trade-offs are well documented in books like numerical recipes in c… particularly useful references are discussed in the chapters on and surrounding distribution sampling. Cold war error computation was highly constrained and inefficient so they had to solve many these problems to be able use them. Understanding … Read more
Celigo is the do-it-all battleship to accompany the aircraft-carrier that is Oracle NetSuite. This dynamic duo can be pricey. An equally-capable lower-level framework, Tim Dietrich’s SuiteAPI is a free DIY tool that is designed to be maximally leveraged by integrators and coders for significant cost-savings. Both can be used together. One brings much pre-built possibility; … Read more
ORM Explosion due to One-For-All (Laravel, CakePHP, Symfony, etc) Framework It’s 2025 and down through the decades, and technologies, this same awfulness keeps happening … it’s like a fatal flaw of Doing Things The Wrong Way … and an harbinger against relying deeply upon Laravel, CakePHP, Symfony and similar ilk. Get far enough along and … Read more
ValKey is Redis open-sourced Redis company made itself irrelevant Valkey replaces Redis due to a licensing conflict and project governance change that caused Redis to no longer be fully open source. Why the Change Happened In March 2024, Redis Labs (the company behind Redis) changed the license of Redis from the permissive BSD license to … Read more
ChatGPT Explains Itself as maddeningly memoryless It’s basic, but what a doozie. …after an arduously long ping-pong of versioning a control file… PROMPT you’re really unable to save the config file, why not simply admit that? RESPONSE You’re right to call it out — here’s the straight answer: I can remember the configfile ZOIX during … Read more