Readit NewsNow, we'll never be able to educate most of the world on why they should seek out tools that handle the memory layer locally, and these big companies know that (the same way they knew most of the world would not fight back against data collection), but that is the big education that needs to spread diligently.
To put it another way, some games save your game state locally, some save it in the cloud. It's not much of a personal concern with games because what the fuck are you really going to learn from my Skyrim sessions? But the save state for my LLM convos? Yeah, that will stay on my computer, thank you very much for your offer.
I don't get the resistance to a digital/national id in other countries. To us it is quite bizarre.
Some have explained it with a lack of trust between citizens and the country.
But without such digital id it is impossible to have such digital government services as we have here. The government services need to verify and autheticate the citizen, so they only access their own data and not someone who has the same name and birth date by accident.
I don't see how such a system gives the government more powers. It already has all the data on its citizens, but it is spread out, fragmented, stored with multiple conflicting versions, maybe some of it is stored in databases where no one cares about security, etc.
Want to make a quick change or fix? The agent will likely figure out a way to do it in minutes rather the than hours it would take me to do so.
Want to get a good understanding of the architecture and code layout? Working with an agent for search and summary cuts my time down by an order of magnitude.
So while agree there’s a lot more “what the heck is this ugly pile of if else statements doing?” And “why are there three modules handling transforms?”, there is a corresponding drop in cost to adding features and paying down tech debt. Finding the right balance is a bit different in the agentic coding world, but it’s a different mindset and set of practices to develop.
When the agent can't kick the can any more who is going to be held responsible? If it is going to be me then I'd prefer to have spent the hours understanding the code.
The opportunities for creative expression are amazing in such a system
For example. I don't understand how: - moving pieces of wood around a board can have mass appeal - Smearing colored paint on material can have mass appeal - Smashing sticks against covered buckets can have mass appeal
There may be a lot of quality material out there, and it's just hidden under the mountain of low effort scraped, copied & AI content
For me it’s no different from generating code with Claude, except it’s generating prose. Without human direction your result ends up as garbage, but there’s no need to go and actually write all the prose yourself.
And I guess that just like with code, sometimes you have to hand craft something to make it truly good. But that’s probably not true for 80% of the story/code.
Perhaps I'm a Luddite, or just in the dissonance phase toward enlightenment, but at the moment I don't want to invest in AI fiction. A big part of the experience for me is understanding the author's mind, not just the story being told