You can say whatever you want about the thing that will never see the light of day.

This thing will absolutely see the light of day because this is all hype toward a release.

And even if it weren't, they seem to imply that Mythos will find a way, like it's dinosaurs in Jurassic park or something

Wasn't that the entire premise of drop, though? Massive stock of quality, curated items. Not necessarily in a specific niche. The "what new drop is there today" is the appeal.

If it's now a glorified Amazon, who cares?

At first, the entire premise was facilitating group buying to meet manufacturer order minimums for unique or high-demand hardware, and discounts for meeting manufacturers' volume discount targets. Then it morphed into a general specialty/niche retailer for people with keyboard, headphone, "EDC" and began to also focus on "house brand" type merch.

There is a lot you can do to shape the end result to not have these faults. In the end, the engineering mind and rigor still needs to apply, so the hard work doesn't go away.

But, the errors that are described - no architecture adhesion, lack of comprehension, random files, etc. are a matter of not leveling up the sophistication of use further, not a gap in those tools.

As an example. Very clearly laying out your architecture principles, guidance, how code should look on disk, theory on imports, etc. And then - objectively analyzing any proposed change against those principles, converges toward sane and understandable.

We've been calling it adversarial testing across a number of dimensions - architecture, security, accessibility, among other things. Every pr gets automatically reviewed and scored based on these perspectives. If an adversary doesn't OK the PR, it doesn't get merged.

that's why openai bought openclaw

I mean they hired the guy who created it. It's not exactly like openclaw is a real product.

Sure it is.. you can download and use it right now. Helps you understand why people are interested in it, at the very least.

Also not like it’s a particularly good piece of tech. It was the first to show a new category. But jeebus the design and security are a nightmare. Any of the numerous other claws are better choices for anything serious.

I've been programming for literally my entire life. I love it, it's part of me, and there hasn't been more than a week in 30 years that I haven't written some code.

This is the first time that I feel a level of anxiety when I am not actively doing it. What a crazy shift that I am still so excited and enamored by the process after all of this time.

But there's also the double edged sword. I am also having a really hard time moderating my working hours, which I naturally struggle with anyway, even more. Partly because I am having so much fun and being so productive. But also because it's just so tempting to add 1 more feature, fix one more bug.

None in my area. Time to disperse. Get out of major cities like the pandemic promised. Fill in this great country we live in. Proliferate the governments surveillance for them.

Yeah - this easily replaces the Macbook Air M1, which I only use for traveling. I am hoping the battery life is just as insanely good.

AI Agent's like Claude Code are an arms race to the bottom. Just like frontier model quality, they all converge on feature sets over time (plan mode, skills, remote execution, sandboxing, etc.,) and opencode is holding its own, preferred even, in a lot of cases.

The real differentiated value comes from the environment the AI Agent operates in, the runtime.

The runtime is agent agnostic but provides a stable interface to your domain. People tried this with MCP, but MCP is a dead end. Local tool calling is so much better. Being able to extend integrations autonomously is the way, instead of being forced in to a bloated bag of tools.

This is why we built swamp - https://swamp.club. We can integrate with any technology with an API, CLI, or code base and build repeatable, typed, validated automation workflows. There are no providers to wait for. No weird tool call paths trying to get the right concoction of MCP. The agent builds the integration itself, on the spot, in minutes.

Key changes are

- ID verification to see porn on Discord.

- Also, some warnings to not befriend stangers.

Not very heavy handed, you can google porn anytime. I am not sure who this serves.

It serves UK, EU, and various US States' regulations to "protect the kids".

Discord is only the next biggest canary in the coal mine. These regulations are going to force a lot more websites and apps to do this, too.

I wish these sorts of regulations had been written hand-in-hand with a more directly technically-minded approach. The world needs a better technical way to try to verify a person's estimated age cohort without a full ID check and/or AI-analyzed video face scan before we start regulating "every" website that may post "adult content" (however you choose to define that) starts to require such checks.

I just wish parents would do what parents used to do: parenting. Then we wouldn't need any of this bullshit.

The way they teach math is stupid

I like the common core math curriculum. I think it makes a lot of sense. I prefer it to how I was taught.

I have a kid in school and a math degree so I have some knowledge of this.

Math education has always been a failure, or a "crisis." The number of people who come out of school with any functional math ability has been fairly constant over the decades, and depends a lot on family background and economic class. I'm not even sure that differences across countries are all that significant when people reach adulthood.

Don't get me wrong. I was one of the successful ones, but I think math education is in need of reform. In fact I would reform it quite radically.