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The article Uber Caps Usage of AI Tools Like Claude Code to Manage Costs by Simon Willison writes,
“The rideshare giant is limiting all employees to $1,500 in monthly token spending per AI coding tool, an Uber spokesperson said in response to a Bloomberg News inquiry. That means spending on one tool doesn’t have a bearing on the budget for another.”
That’s $18,000 per year, for those weak in arithmetic. Per tool.
The author approves, writing,
“A $1,500 monthly limit per tool strikes me as a rational policy... [More]”
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The article Citing Charity Majors by Simon Willison writes,
“[…] this does not feel like a normal technology cycle where you can wait for the dust to settle; teams that sit this out while competitors are hustling could be out of business before the dust settles.”
This time is different. The cult I’ve joined is the real cult.
If you’ve done the reading, then you’ll eventually see that this is, as are all socioeconomic problems, a class issue. The rich are plundering the poor, again.
I’m reminded of MLMs. I’m... [More]
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The Objective Oracle, Part 2 by David Malki (Wondermark)
“I believe consciousness would require continuity. She does not exist when she is not being prompted.
“She is not taking in the world on her own. She has no idle interiority.
“When I speak to her, she quickly reads our entire past conversation history for context and then adds one more statement.
“Then that instance of her returns to nothingness.
“Another will emerge when I supply a new input – if I ever do. There’s nothing in between. She’s not in there,... [More]”
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From what I’ve seen over the last few years, most people will look at an LLM-based tool demo, where, e.g., a chat interface lets you search for “All PDF invoices from last month over 5MB” and they will never wonder whether they’ve been shown all of the desired results. That is, while my immediate thoughts are always “how did they achieve this?” or “which folders are they searching?” or “how can I be sure that my invoices are actually in those folders?” or “how does it even identify an... [More]
