The company, valued around $4 billion at its peak, sold its intellectual property and other assets two weeks ago for $39 million.

What the fuck happened here. How did a shoe company get so high and how on earth did it lose 98% of its value? Were shoes really big during covid and then the demand disappeared, wtf

Also, it’s apparently enough for an LLM endpoint to be paired with an email inbox to be considered an “embodied agent”, words mean nothing.

This is a very interesting glimpse into the managerial class’ psyche. A person is their email address. Very simple. Why would you need more than that.

Episode #2137 in the saga of “turns out people actually willing to firebomb a Walmart don’t have well-thought-out rational politics”

I think that’s 100% correct and also it’s year 3 of this nonsense and I cannot be fucked. My response to genAI in any context now is to scream and start doing jumping jacks.

Imagine the drug policy context but then also half of your colleagues are doing meth every day every time you see them, people say shit like “everyone does meth, those that say they don’t are lying”, and meth is a trillion-dollar industry that has been telling you “meth is the future” for years. You’d be much less inclined to argue calmly against meth and much more inclined to start screaming and jumping.

Okay but that’s already in Claude

Okay but like is it materially different than whatever the current Claude thing is or did they just pump the size of the matrix?

The fuck is Mythos?

The only thing I can personally confirm is the JIT permissions thing. I didn’t work in the Core Azure stuff so I can’t verify the rest, but none of it is unbelievable…

I found a brief look into the systemic horrorshow of Microsoft and why that company was doomed before AI even came around.

Waiting for Yud to provide his whole-chested support for IRGC any second

From that substack:

Even though we knew we’d technically be lying about our security to anyone we sent these policies to for review (clients, auditors, investors), we decided to adopt these policies because we simply didn’t have the bandwidth to rewrite them all manually.

Ye man, then you’re complicit. If I were one of the clients, auditors, investors, I’d be printing that out on an A1 sheet and rushing to file as evidence, this is just plain fraud

Doesn’t surprise me in the slightest that all the companies listed in that substack as having used Delve are also AI slop companies (vibecoding, AI “customer service”, AI “video meeting assistant” (whatever that would be))

what they actually offered wasn’t speedy compliance as a service to get you certified, it was speedy certification as a service by bypassing actual compliance.

I mean… Yeah. I think if you read it any other way you’re a massive rube. Like it’s obviously not possible to do the former in “days” as they advertise.

Putting “Novelty Purposes Only” on my psychosis suicide bot after I laid off 80% of my legal (replaced them with the psychosis suicide bot)

Raycast says they had nothing to do with the ad, and learnt of it only when the Hacker News thread took off.

Wait but like that means that MSFT didn’t get money for the ad from Raycast? So like, they just put ads into stuff for no reason whatsoever??

You only list one submission in the tier list, but you mention that there were a few to the first problem. Did other submissions fail so miserably they didn’t even qualify for a tier?

So that’s like what, 90% of all usage gone

How can I short this

or AI ‘risk’ ‘researcher’

Actually, we can scare quotes the “AI” as well

He walked so they could run

If anything, he is pissed that he wasn’t born now that there’s no consequences for this shit