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jondwillis commented on Comet AI browser can get prompt injected from any site, drain your bank account   twitter.com/zack_overflow... · Posted by u/helloplanets
jondwillis · a day ago
Repeat after me

Every read an LLM does with a tool is a write into its context window.

If the scope of your tools allows reading from untrusted arbitrary sources, you’ve actually given write access to the untrusted source. This alone is enough to leak data, to say nothing of the tools that actually have write access into other systems, or have side effects.

jondwillis commented on Gardening Boosts Brain Health   bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/andsoitis
jondwillis · 2 days ago
I highly suggest chaos gardening if you have to use your brain all day and want a hobby that allows you to reconnect with nature without much stress or effort. For me, this boils down to not using my phone to look up the optimal way to germinate, grow something, or manage a problem (pest, disease, other.)

It’s fine to garden in a more intentional way, and I do sometimes, but it’s also nice to get to rediscover the hard lessons that have been passed down generations (my own chain of farming knowledge only breaking with my parents’ generation) and learn the “vibe” of what makes plants thrive more or less.

Native plants are also going to be the most chill—- evolutionary fitness does most of the work you would otherwise have to, and you’ll be helping to restore native habitat and ecosystems a tiny bit.

Bonus points for home composting. Closing the loop on personal food waste while restoring soil health is by far the most rewarding bit of gardening for me. It also makes me a little neurotic about the waste and disconnection from nature that default mode urban and suburban living results in.

jondwillis commented on I don't buy Macs anymore   jasonsaidwhat.substack.co... · Posted by u/overbring_labs
jondwillis · 3 days ago
I'll never get those five minutes back. Author is too busy dunking on low-T hipsters (no need to call me names) and imagined pin-dicked Apple employees while blathering on about skill issues.

Woah, walled-garden company doesn't have a convenient way for you to exit?

>NoteStore.sqlite

jondwillis commented on Mail Carriers Pause US Deliveries as Tariff Shift Sows Confusion   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/voxadam
avidiax · 3 days ago
Is this in-part payola to FedEx?

Seems they (and UPS) will be winners in this.

jondwillis · 3 days ago
The relevant quote from the article:

>The company suggested that shippers use carriers with services in place that allow them to pay duties before goods arrive in the US, such as United Parcel Service Inc. and FedEx Corp.

Is there anything about those two companies, aside from the fact that they're not foreign or US public institutions having their remaining metaphorical windows smashed, that make you think this is payola?

jondwillis commented on Mail Carriers Pause US Deliveries as Tariff Shift Sows Confusion   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/voxadam
jondwillis · 3 days ago
Since you're flattening and addressing GPs comment with a political false dichotomy... A conspiracy isn't needed to explain the decay of culture, values, material conditions - all it takes is a set of incentives that don't align with broad public well-being, and some time. Move fast and break things!

Feudalism is back, baby! A simple reversion to the mean.

jondwillis commented on As Alaska's salmon plummet, scientists home in on the killer   science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/rbanffy
steve_adams_86 · 6 days ago
I've been fortunate enough to never encounter it with my fish, but it's all over forums and subreddits related to aquaria. Fish get it constantly. If you aren't checking them daily it seems fairly easy to get an infestation that's beyond treatment. I can't imagine. I actually care for my fish quite a bit, and would hate to see them wiped out like that. Each tank I have is a sort of sanctuary, a little ecosystem to steward.
jondwillis · 6 days ago
Hey this is off topic, but I filled an outdoor fountain at a rental place with fish, plants— not nearly a self-sustaining ecosystem yet but that’s the eventual goal. All good. However, I’ve grown to realize the responsibility of my little pond project and realize I can’t leave them here with nobody to take care of them if I ever had to move.

What are good options for if I wanted to try to give them away before that event?

There’s about 20-25 at the moment. It’s a mix of common, petco-style goldfish-tier freshwater fish. They would require the taker to have a tank too, so I’m kinda doubting much demand even on something like FB marketplace for free.

jondwillis commented on OpenAI Employee Stock Sale Would Value ChatGPT Maker at $500B   nytimes.com/2025/08/19/te... · Posted by u/xnx
bluefirebrand · 6 days ago
Possibly could, but investors chase trends so when the sell off starts it very often becomes an avalanche
jondwillis · 6 days ago
wet flapping sound of a balloon emptying quickly but not too toooo quickly?
jondwillis commented on Best Practices for Building Agentic AI Systems   userjot.com/blog/best-pra... · Posted by u/vinhnx
canterburry · 10 days ago
"The “Smart Agent” Trap: I tried making agents that could “figure out” what to do. They couldn’t. Be explicit."

So what about this solution is actually agentic?

Overall, it sounds like you sat down and did a proper business process analysis and automated it.

Your subagents for sure have no autonomy and are just execution steps in a classic workflow except you happen to be calling an LLM.

Does the orchestrating agent adapt the process between invocations depending on the data and does it do so in any way more complex than a simple if then branch?

jondwillis · 10 days ago
Provide a tool schema that requires deep analysis to fill out correctly. Citations and scores for everything. Examples of high quality citations. Tools that fail or produce low quality results should return instructions about how to recover or interpret the result.

Have agents with different research tools try to corroborate and peer review output from competing agents. This is just one of many collaborative or competitive patterns you can model.

Yeah, it can get quite a bit more dynamic than an if statement if you apply some creativity and clarity and conviction.

jondwillis commented on Model intelligence is no longer the constraint for automation   latentintent.substack.com... · Posted by u/drivian
threecheese · 10 days ago
Author IMO correctly recognizes that access to context needs to scale (“latent intent” which I love), but I’m not sure I’m convinced that current models will be effective even if given access to all priors needed for a complex task. The ability to discriminate valuable from extraneous context will need to scale with size of available context, it will be pulling needles from haystacks that aren’t straightforward similarity. I think we will need to steer these things.
jondwillis · 10 days ago
We’re already steering, during pre-training (e.g. reasoning RLHF), as well as test-time (structured outputs, tool calls, agents…)
jondwillis commented on Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness   yro.slashdot.org/comments... · Posted by u/MilnerRoute
ChrisMarshallNY · 11 days ago
I tend to have a pretty open, kind, and respectful approach to others.

It’s frequently interpreted as weakness and naivety.

I’m actually a pretty hardboiled and cynical person on the inside, but choose not to approach life in that manner. There’s reasons. Long story for other venues.

It’s always interesting to see the reactions from folks that think I’m an easy mark, when it dawns on them, that I’m not.

Kindness and generosity are not [necessarily] weakness.

jondwillis · 11 days ago
>It’s always interesting to see the reactions from folks that think I’m an easy mark, when it dawns on them, that I’m not.

I'll bite. Go ahead and list some recent examples of this actually happening please.

u/jondwillis

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