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Um, yes? Very much so. Infant swimming self-rescue courses are life-saving if you live in an area with a lot of swimming pools, especially if you have one of your own.

E.g., https://www.infantswim.com/

Except the Swiss are total arseholes about it, they won't even grant citizenship to people born there or who've lived there for twenty years and speak the language. Many want to cap total population at 10 million, we'll see what happens in June.

And twelve years ago, the Swiss voted to restrict EU FoM for itself and the backlash was instant.

Can't blame the government, this is the Swiss voting public doing their best to be dickheads.

Japan is a bunch of islands, yes it's pretty closed, but Switzerland is a land-locked village with fewer people than London and entirely dependent on trade and the movement of people and money for all they have, and barely a scrap of a language to call its own. English is super common there, probably as a way of democratically inconveniencing everyone.

> Opus 4.7 introduces a new xhigh (“extra high”) effort level

I hope we standardize on what effort levels mean soon. Right now it has big Spinal Tap "this goes to 11" energy.

What was the bug? I configure DNS for both public and private networks on cloudflare semi-frequently and always see changes in minutes or less.

The usefulness of thinking tokens in my case might come down to the conditions I have claude working in.

I primarily use claude for Rust, with what I call a masochistic lint config. Compiler and lint errors almost always trigger extended thinking when adaptive thinking is on, and that's where these tokens become a goldmine. They reveal whether the model actually considered the right way to fix the issue. Sometimes it recognizes that ownership needs to be refactored. Sometimes it identifies that the real problem lives in a crate that's for some reason is "out of scope" even though its right there in the workspace, and then concludes with something like "the pragmatic fix is to just duplicate it here for now."

So yes, the resulting code works, and by some definition the model did the correct thing. But to me, "correct" doesn't just mean working, it means maintainable. And on that question, the thinking tokens are almost never wrong or useless. Claude gets things done, but it's extremely "lazy".

A stopped clock is right twice a day; a broken one can be wrong forever. Just saying.

That is part of why I am not... too worried as an engineer?

Like years of manually studying, fixing and reviewing code is experience that only pre ~2020 devs will have.

The intuitive/tacit knowledge that lets you look at code and "feel" that something is off with it cannot really be gained when using Claude Code, it takes just 1000s of hours of tinkering.

It will suck if the job shifts to reviewing and owning whatever an LLM spits out, but I don't really know how effective new juniors are going to be.

Totally this. People who don't see this seem to think we're in some sort of "bubble" or that we don't "ship proper code" or whatever else they believe in, but this change is happening. Maybe it'll be slower than I feel, but it will definitely happen. Of course I'm in a personal bubble, but I've got very clear signs that this trend is also happening outside of it.

Here's an example from just yesterday. An acquaintance of mine who has no idea how to code (literally no idea) spent about 3 weeks working hard with AI (I've been told they used a tool called emergent, though I've never heard of it and therefore don't personally vouch for it over alternatives) to build an app to help them manage their business. They created a custom-built system that has immensely streamlined their business (they run a company to help repair tires!) by automating a bunch of tasks, such as:

- Ticket creation

- Ticket reporting

- Push notifications on ticket changes (using a PWA)

- Automated pre-screening of issues from photographs using an LLM for baseline input

- Semi-automated budgeting (they get the first "draft" from the AI and it's been working)

- Deep analytics

I didn't personally see this system, so I'm for sure missing a lot of detail. Who saw it was a friend I trust and who called me to relay how amazed they were with it. They saw that it was clearly working as intended. The acquaintance was thinking of turning this into a business on its own and my friend advised them that they likely won't be able to do so, because this is very custom-built software, really tailored to their use case. But for that use case, it's really helped them.

In total: ~3 weeks + around 800€ spent to build this tool. Zero coding experience.

I don't actually know how much the "gains" are, but I don't doubt they will definitely be worth it. And I'm seeing this trend more and more everywhere I look. People are already starting to use their computer by coding without knowing, it's so obvious this is the direction we're going.

This is all compatible with the idea of software engineering existing as a way of building "software with better engineering principles and quality guarantees", as well as still knowing how to code (though I believe this will be less and less relevant).

My experience using LLMs in contexts where I care about the quality of the code, as well as personal projects where I barely look at the code (i.e. "vibe coding") is also very clearly showing me that the direction for new software is slowly but surely becoming this one where we don't care so much about the actual code, as long as the requirements are clear, there's a plethora of tests, and LLMs are around to work with it efficiently (i.e. if the following holds -- big if: "as the codebase grows, developing a feature with an LLM is still faster than building it by hand") . It is scary in many ways, but agents will definitely become the medium through which we build software, and, my hot-take here (as others have said too) is that, eventually, the actual code will matter very little -- as long as it works, is workable, and meets requirements.

For legacy software, I'm sure it's a different story, but time ticks forward, permanently, all the time. We'll see.

paying for - so some form of return is expected.

That's funny, 'cos being anti-gay contravenes the UK Online Safety Act too.

Yep essentially. I would argue that we're probably closer to a MITM proxy like Proxyman than Wireshark. We don't do general packet sniffing (yet), although internally we use our own packet sniffing tools for reverse engineering on-prem installations.

Because the government is responsible for border control and immigration?

The alternative is that the company must provide evidence, but I don't see how this is better.

I also initially read it as "this is an example of the type of category that would have the requirement". Which doesn't preclude other categories also needing the requirement.

And now it isn't. Pray they don't alter the deal any further.

Hey great change, am now buying. It was by pure chance i came back to this thread after 3 days, which is a damn shame as Im sure there were many people put off by the pricing that missed the change.

You used a secret backup test! Truly honored to see the flamingos. We obviously need them all now ;-)

We can do both.

I dunno, I feel like the kid who used ChatGPT to decide to cut funding to a program such that tens of thousands of people now die deserves some social criticism. People should experience shame when entering in to such a project.

A kid who breaks into a car to steal a backpack gets railroaded into prison. That's orders of magnitude less harmful to society than what these guys did.

You think his argument was that we should welcome the likes of Google controlling the direction of our cognition? The book was about the dangers of asserting our independence from those who control technology? Admittedly, I haven't read the sequels.

So LLMs are destroying the economy and the environment but at least “catastrophic risk” is still low. Ok then…

Metawith the llama series as well,they just didn't manage to keep upping the game after and with llama4.

This lens

https://7artisans.store/products/50mm-f1-05

is a fantastic wide aperture lens which is commercially available, affordable and a great value. Personally I tend to get bored if I am walking around with a 50mm lens but with that lens, the challenge of manual focus, the ability to take photos with hardly any light, and the ability to take dreamy photos like people have never seen I have so much fun. They make it for all the major camera brands.

Overall I am impressed with Chinese lens manufacturers who make other lenses like

https://www.venuslens.net/product/laowa-9mm-f-5-6-ff-rl/

which again are a great value and let me take pictures you haven't seen before.|

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/tagged/9mm

Just happened to me and I was really confused. First time I've seen any malware callouts so it had me worried for a minute.

> This file is clearly not malware

Yeah, it's all my code, that you've seen before...

Cool project! PCIe itself I think is likely to end up doing something similar soon, there are provisions in the spec now for optical retimers.

That logo is just so dystopian.

so if API is published, there is nothing to reverse engineer.

and if API is not published, and you MITM with self-compromised CAs, and then use it (commercially?) you ~100% breaking ToS.

this is just un-ethical. or YC does not have regard anymore for such things?

> IPv4 allows fragmentation by the middleboxes, which in practice papers around a lot of PMTU issues.

In theory yes; but actual packets are 99%+ flagged DF. Reassembly is costly, so many servers drop fragmented packets, or have tiny reassembly buffers. Back when I ran a 10G download server, I would see about 2 fragmented packets per minute, unless I was getting DDoSed with chargen reflection, so I would use a very small reassembly buffer and that avoided me burning excessive cpu on garbage, while still trying to handle people with terrible networks.

Router fragmentation is also expensive and not fast path, so there's pretty limited capacity for in path fragmentation.

I agree that PHP's request oriented "shared nothing" approach has its advantages.

That being said there are very decent options for long running processes/application servers these days - see RoadRunner, Swoole and Frankenphp.

>For the build-out, she found painters on Yelp, sent an inquiry, gave instructions over the phone, paid them after the job was done, and left a review. She found a contractor to build the furniture and set up shelving.

I'm sure this involved vast amounts of human oversight (e.g. checking that the contractor had actually done stuff) that isn't mentioned.