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espeed commented on Claude Code is being dumbed down?   symmetrybreak.ing/blog/cl... · Posted by u/WXLCKNO
steinnes · 15 hours ago
I can’t count how many times I benefitted from seeing the files Claude was reading, to understand how I could interrupt and give it a little more context… saving thousands of tokens and sparing the context window. I must be in the minority of users who preferred seeing the actual files. I love claude code, but some of the recent updates seem like they’re making it harder for me to see what’s happening.. I agree with the author that verbose mode isn’t the answer. Seems to me this should be configurable
espeed · 10 hours ago
Such as Claude Code reading your ssh keys. Hiding the file names masks the vulnerability.
espeed commented on X For You Feed Algorithm   github.com/xai-org/x-algo... · Posted by u/grainier
espeed · 22 days ago
Have we entered the age of AI programming people?
espeed commented on Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo   blog.mozilla.org/en/mozil... · Posted by u/recvonline
espeed · 2 months ago
Rather than develop its own AI (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45926779), Firefox should develop a system to pipe your html rendered browsing history in real time so external local services can process it (https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/archive-your-browser-hi...). See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45743918

Firefox probably won't suddenly have the best AI, but it could be the only browser that does this. Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46018789

espeed commented on The Mozilla Cycle, Part III: Mozilla Dies in Ignominy   taggart-tech.com/mozilla-... · Posted by u/holysoles
cannonpalms · 3 months ago
You can already do what you're looking for by reading the browser cache as new data is cached. This would allow you to see the site as it was loaded originally, instead of simply fetching an updated view from a URL. The data layout for the cache in Firefox and Chrome is available online.
espeed · 3 months ago
Does the cache store the rendered DOM?
espeed commented on The Mozilla Cycle, Part III: Mozilla Dies in Ignominy   taggart-tech.com/mozilla-... · Posted by u/holysoles
espeed · 3 months ago
Someone needs to convince Firefox rather than develop its own AI (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45926779) to develop a system to pipe your html rendered browsing history in real time so external local services can process it (https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/archive-your-browser-hi...). See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45743918

Firefox probably won't suddenly have the best AI, but they could have the only browser that does this.

espeed commented on Gemini 3   blog.google/products/gemi... · Posted by u/preek
espeed · 3 months ago
I paid for Gemini Pro. Am I getting Gemini 3 Pro (https://gemini.google.com)? "To be precise: You are currently interacting with Gemini 1.5 Pro." https://x.com/espeed/status/1991333475098718601
espeed commented on ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web   anildash.com//2025/10/22/... · Posted by u/AndrewDucker
whilenot-dev · 3 months ago
I'm confused, do you want more than the browser history then? ...something like Microsoft's Recall? Browsers currently don't store what they've seen and for good reasons. I was with you for a sec, but good luck convincing Mozilla to propagate rendered pages to other processes then!
espeed · 3 months ago
Being able to index and own your data changes the model of the Web.
espeed commented on ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web   anildash.com//2025/10/22/... · Posted by u/AndrewDucker
pdntspa · 3 months ago
So you're one of those people trying to attach history to everything!

Yeah I am sure lots of people want their pornhub history integrated into AI...

If that is the "future" (gag), we better be able to opt out

espeed · 3 months ago
It's your personal AI running locally on your machine, you can opt out of what you index. You own your data.
espeed commented on ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web   anildash.com//2025/10/22/... · Posted by u/AndrewDucker
whilenot-dev · 3 months ago
AFAICS this has nothing to do with "open-source personal AI engines".

The recorded history is stored in a SQLite database and is quite trivial to examine[0][1]. A simple script could extract the information and feed them to your indexer of choice. Developing such a script isn't the task for an internet browser engineering team.

The question remains whether the indexer would really benefit from real-time ingestion while browsing.

[0] Firefox: https://www.foxtonforensics.com/browser-history-examiner/fir...

[1] Chrome: https://www.foxtonforensics.com/browser-history-examiner/chr...

espeed · 3 months ago
Due to the dynamic nature of the Web, URLs don't map to what you've seen. If I visit a URL at a certain time, the content I see is different than the content you see or even if I visit the same URL later. For example, if we want to know the tweets I'm seeing are the same as the tweets you're seeing and haven't been subtly modified by an AI, how do you do that? In the age of AI programming people, this will be important.

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