PR. their models dont do anything more than others. neither do their tools. they have very agrressive and misleading marketing.
work in cyber for 15+ years, worked at largest CS vendor globally and fortune5 companies. (top of the list).
only ppl using AI are shops with clueless ppl getting flooded in nonsense.
You will see the same sentiment in a different flavor (different products) in OSS security mailing lists now.
do not fall for it. for every one of these things. Test it, verify it, for yourself. dont take anyone's word. 100B+ valuation makes external voices generally worthless (easy to buy)
Im not saying its all worthless or will never amount to anything. But test yourself. please. a lot of money is getting chucked around.
Look at it this way.
They have a stake in having companies create not very good software.
They have a stake in supplying engineers to fix that.
They have a stake in tools to fix problems that it creates.
A link to the HN discussion from when this was already posted here 6 months ago, possibly to be helpful, but also possibly as an attempt to admonish others for not knowing this is a repost.
I'm okay with downloading your app provided it's actually good and does something substantially better than a website could do. I'm talking seamless mobile UI, use of mobile features like gps or nfc, or easier/better security and authentication.
However, I don't want your bloated or minimum effort dog-shit app just to watch a movie on a plane, browse a site like Reddit, order a pizza, read a news article/blog, or shop at your specific online store. I will begrudgingly download it if I must, but I'll hate you for it.
I remember a scene in this show which felt like many real meetings I've had in my life. The big hot shot CEO guy pulls everyone into a meeting to share his big idea. The idea? Let's sell a computer that's "twice the speed, half the price!"
...The engineer then rolls his eyes like "yeah no duh". If we could just magically do stuff like that, we would have done it already. Classic management thinking they have an original idea with no understanding of the engineering beneath it all. I thought they would just tell him off and that would be it. I really felt seen in that moment.
The frustrating thing is, they then take pointy haired boss's idea seriously. The rest of the season is spent actually pursuing that dumb, dumb idea... This felt disrespectful, and I stopped watching.
There's a case cited in that paper which does suggest something similar:
> A report in the lay literature describes the case of Claire Sylvia who reported changes in her personality, preferences, and behaviors following a heart and lung transplant at Yale-New Haven hospital in 1988. Following surgery, Sylvia developed a new taste for green peppers and chicken nuggets, foods she previously disliked. As soon as she was released from the hospital, she promptly headed to a Kentucky Fried Chicken to order chicken nuggets. She later met her donor’s family and inquired about his affinity for green peppers. Their response was, “Are you kidding? He loved them… But what he really loved was chicken nuggets” (p. 184, [9]). Sylvia later discovered that at the time of her donor’s death in a motorcycle accident, a container of chicken nuggets was found under his jacket [9].
I haven't read the whole thing, maybe there's something more relevant as well. That report isn't really about accessing the previous persons "memories" but at least claims she adopted a part of their personality. I'd be skeptical about its accuracy without more such reports, however.
A safer assumption would be that our body influences our behavior and tastes, and in turn they are directly affected by changes in our body, like an organ transplant.
A more interesting question regarding the case above would be "what's in our hearth and lungs that affects our perception of capsaicin?".
So if this were true you'd expect people with spine injuries to forget large parts of their lives? Or what is the mechanism to be able to transfer these memories from organs to the brain?
Could you maybe have your harness limit the memory of Claude and then occasionally, when Claude specifically asks for it ("i need to remember something"), you can give Claude the full game history? Most turns, I'll bet it's okay to have a short context and maybe some notes. And then maybe once in a while it's nice to see the full chat history. Wdyt?
Not exactly the same, but kinda: my gen 1 Google Home just got Gemini and it finally delivers on the promise of like 10 years ago! Brought new life to the thing beyond playing music, setting timers, and occasionally asking really basic questions
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