> AI's greatest feature is that it obfuscates provenance.

maybe because people see AI not just as a clever packet manager, but also, to some degree, as a problem solving engine. Similar to humans.

It is why I feel dirty after AI generates a piece of clever code: I know I am stealing somebody's IP without attribution. And the AI companies benefit from this, not the real people behind the training data.

Isn't this how Google operates? I have their AI subscription (about $20 per month). If you want to have a chat history (retain chats after reload) or connect the LLM to Google services (Drive, Emails) you have to activate an option which also allows training. If you don't want to allow training then the subscription is basically useless.

Well I think that's the next trillion dollar question, if you can figure it out.

We don't need to know the entire knowledge base of mankind to want or know what to do next. It points to an entirely separate architecture than LLM.

>to manipulate or combine the data into a more useful format

why not build this directly into MCPs?

Hmm, indeed, so maybe I could have all this as an MCP, so I can just easily pass any imaginable data manipulation inside it, and then also have it support calling other MCPs, all inside that one MCP, to avoid filling context with intermediate data..

Sounds a lot like a shell to me.

Go idea. We will call this new MCP “bash”. It will allow you to stream the output of one command to the input of another incrementally as the data is generated.

>Which is all the stuff you have to work on before you can type in a prompt to an LLM

why not let the LLM derive what exactly was meant by the Jira ticket? I get lazy lately and if the LLM sounds like it understands the ticket I don't question it.

hmm, I got rid of WhatsApp the day it was sold to Facebook and never touched it since. I don't think anything in the app changed that day.

You think a significant number of people started boycotting SO after the sale?

I'd disagree that the site wasn't changing. I think they were already trying to sideline job portal possibilities because it wasn't making a high enough worth calculation compared to entirely unrealized estimates. However my reaction to changes was forgiving for the old firm while feeling transactional was basically doom to my using the site as I didn't really need anything from interactions.

I agree that ditching the job adverts was a super weird move. But it didn't actually affect users at all.

It had the possibility of surfacing employers or coworkers with a little more comfort about their ~support competence. The enterprise stuff seems more like the stealing an OSS contributor who can't deny competence to work on internal Jira from now on..

I had a work SO account with many questions/answers - everything fine. Later I created a SO account for use with my private projects and happened to have answered a couple questions without getting upvotes. The algorithm banned me from answering questions with the remark that I should improve the quality of my answers. You can bet that I never answered a question again on SO with any account.

They probably mean a vote which doesn't violate international law.

I came about a Google subscription which includes 2TB of storage. I filled it with crypto noise (ok, Gemini did it for me). I couldn't let it be unused. Will have to delete it when the subscriptions runs out.

Maybe all intellectual work is intellectual labor?