kristjansson
Born on February 17, 2015•4613 Karma
The mere fact of asking another human a question (absent a strong pattern of behavior to the contrary) should be strong evidence the interlocutor wants a human answer! Sending an AI answer should have the same social valence as sending a lmgtfy link; appropriate for bad actors but a pretty insulting response to an earnest question.
It's not quite as overtly retro, but it's a great functional font, and a great art object besides (at least that's how I justified the price!_
Also the line between “finetuning a base model” and “man this is a real good initialization” gets pretty blurry at scale.
Altogether a pretty presumptuous take.
This particular neighborhood in Orange County certainly looks aerospacey, but I bet the Disney-centered service workers in Anaheim made up just as much of the population as the industrial folks.
Big cities are big for a bunch of reasons, basically. There are no simple answers at this scale.
Either way, I don't see much point of intentional austerity in times of extreme growth. There will be time for austerity once the growth ends.
> As we focus on Claude Platform capabilities and connecting agents to APIs, we’ll be winding down all hosted Stainless products, including our SDK generator. Starting today, new signups, projects, and SDKs will not be available.
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By self-service, do you mean that the SDK generators are now source-available so they can be run by end users locally?
* Manual Maintenance: Returning to the pre-Stainless era.
* Agentic Coding: Works to an extent, but you lose the deterministic, review-free output required to keep an SDK perfectly structured and coherent.
* Open-source Generators: Helpful for basic use cases, but they lack Stainless's full-stack features like multi-language generation and publishing, MCPs, and documentation.
But hurting people can be the intent. If you're selling toys, you can make a business case for going out of your way to smash other people's toys, and that can become the main activity if it's advantageous enough.
'creating new things to make the world a better place' is marketing to a specific audience. There's other audiences who are just as willing to invest in 'will absolutely ruin any rivals', and that's hardly new. Right now it's very much in vogue but could become very unfashionable as people in general react to its inevitable effects.
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this concerns me. Skills are already just about the simplest possible thing; they're just prompts, in a directory!
Skills are already dead-simple and this prompt system doesn’t at all tackle the same problem.
Prompts are a feature that are simpler than skills, sure, but they’re a completely different feature entirely.
In the end, I think that this prompt-only design, with the integrated tools that come with zerostack, is more than enough.