In the late 2000s i remember that "nobody is willing to pay for things on the Internet" was a common trope. I think it'll culturally take a while before businesses and people understand what they are willing to pay for. For example if you are a large business and you pay xxxxx-xxxxxx per year per developer, but are only willing to pay xxx per year in AI tooling, something's out of proportion.

> For example if you are a large business and you pay xxxxx-xxxxxx per year per developer, but are only willing to pay xxx per year in AI tooling, something's out of proportion.

One is the time of a human (irreplaceable) and the other is a tool for some human to use, seems proportional to me.

> human (irreplaceable)

Everyone is replaceable. Software devs aren't special.

Domain knowledge is a real thing. Sure I could be replaced at my job but they'd have a pretty sketchy time until someone new can get up to speed.

Yes, with another human. I meant more that you cannot replace a human with a non-human, at least not yet and if you care about quality.

Perhaps you can replace multiple developers with a single developer and an AI tool in the near future.

In the same way that you could potentially replace multiple workers with handsaws with one guy wielding power tools.

There could be a lot of financial gain for businesses in this, even if you still need humans in the loop.

That may be, but I still think

> if you are a large business and you pay xxxxx-xxxxxx per year per developer, but are only willing to pay xxx per year in AI tooling, something's out of proportion.

Is way off base. Even if you replace multiple workers with one worker but better tool, businesses still won't want to pay the "multiple worker salary" to the single worker just because they use a more effective tool.

Yes, I agree. But do they have to?

It would seem to me that tokens are only going to get more efficient and cheaper from here.

Demand is going to rise further as AI keeps improving.

Some argue there is a bubble, but with demand from the public for private use, business, education, military, cyber security, intelligence, it just seems like there will be no lack of investment.

Late 1990s maybe. Not late 2000s.

> indirection

Isn't nvc often about communicating explicitly instead of implicitly? So frequently it can be the opposite of an indirection.

I guess so? I'm not well-versed, but the basics are usually around observation and validation of feelings, so instead of "you took steps a, b, c, which would normally be the correct course of action, but in this instance (b) caused side-effect (d) which triggered these further issues e and f", it's something more like "I can understand how you were feeling overwhelmed and under pressure and that led you to a, b, c ..."

Maybe this is an unhelpful toy example, but for myself I would be frustrated to be on either side of the second interaction. Like, don't waste everyone's time giving me excuses for my screwup so that my ego is soothed, let's just talk about it plainly, and the faster we can move on to identifying concrete fixes to process or documentation that will prevent this in the future, the better.

The surprising thing for me was how long it took to get old. I got a reward(and then immediate regret upon reflection) for way too long.

I think a prompt + an external dataset is a very simple distribution channel right now to explore anything quickly with low friction. The curl | bash of 2026

Exactly. Prompt + Tool + External Dataset (API, file, database, web page, image) is an extremely powerful capability.

I think you misunderstood. The API key is for their API, not Anthropic.

If you take a look at the prompt you'll find that they have a static API key that they have created for this demo ("exopriors_public_readonly_v1_2025")

Yes, thanks for explaining it.

I have a hunch my casio wrist watch is designed to be running a bit too quick to make resetting the seconds easier. Your averaging assumes manufacturers try to make their watches as accurate as possible for average conditions

I think it runs quick to be on the safe side, so you never miss appointments, trains, etc. because of your watch.

But yes, good point.

This is the kind of thing that Casio designers would probably come up with (second to have as much accuracy as possible within their budget)

Given two time changes per year I guess something like 1 min per year is acceptable

That's how you self select as a high value ad target

In Shanghai there's lots of strobe lights on major intersections to presumably take clean license plate pictures of people driving against traffic after an illegal turn. Pretty plausible it significantly increases compliance.

The list of supported annotations is quite short though

> InGate development never progressed far enough to create a mature replacement; it will also be retired

I stand corrected. Had a feeling it's dead when I looked into the GitHub repository a couple of weeks back.