I guess one way it might be able to work is with a manager agent, who delegates to IC agents to try different attempts. The manager reviews their work and understands the differences in what they are doing, and can communicate with you about it and then to the ICs doing the work. So you are like a client who has a point of contact at an engineering org who internally is managing how the project is being completed.
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What date did this news come out? I see it just happens to be the same date as mentioned in this email, May 15. Coinbase sneakily is trying to prevent their customers from exercising their legal rights. If you work for Coinbase, you ought to be ashamed and quit. If you use Coinbase, remove all your assets immediately.
I'm open to hearing reasons why this is just a coincidence or I'm misinterpreting the situation. Please, go ahead.
If it is busses that show their live position and ETA until your pickup location, that would be a significant improvement on the status quo. Bus schedules tend to be pretty unreliable in areas with traffic.
So I guess the question is why isn't this available in many other places? The technology has been available for a long time. In a free market you would allow competitors to enter with a better product and displace the one that's falling behind. Hopefully this will be a step in the right direction
> So I guess the question is why isn't this available in many other places? The technology has been available for a long time
This is ubiquitous in even small Canadian cities, like Thunder Bay and Sault, though it often comes through a partnership with the Transit app (which I have complex feelings about -- the ubiquity is nice, but having a publicly-funded option would be better, and I question whether Transit is doing anything underhanded with usage data; the app has a paid plan, but it's plenty usable without it).
I live in a bigger city (Toronto), and speaking from experience, locations tend to be accurate to within a minute or so on most routes, and the app does a good job of telling you about route changes due to maintenance or detours due to construction.
Pre-Transit, Ottawa -- a medium-sized city in its own right -- had a system where you'd text a service your bus stop number and it'd give you the next bus's estimated next pass at that stop; I know that early on, that just did a lookup of the static bus schedule, but I believe it eventually started using live location data (though by that time I was using early versions of Transit anyway).
The US has this problem where transit gets continuously underfunded and people then act surprised when it's sub par. Canadian transit needs a lot of love, but US transit's consistently been some of the worst I've ever had to use.
Is funding really the problem? I don't know why it would cost so much to put a tracker on the bus and have someone build an app. Or even just posting the location to a website, or maybe text message? I understand digging tunnels under NYC would be expensive but this seems like it would be a great bang for the buck in terms of convenience
I live in a second-world country and we have had live bus position tracking and ETA since about 8 years ago.
In some countries like Netherlands, bus stops can even have LCD displays that show you a live ETA or any disruptions/cancellations without needing an app
The MTA in NYC can't seem to make this work correctly for trains
At our (penultimate aboveground) stop you can look down the track and see if there are any trains waiting - even if there aren't, the live board still likes to claim there's one 'coming in a minute'
My only guess is it works off of what should be happening, and not what actually is going on
It works fine for the trains and busses, you either don't live in NYC or don't know what you're talking about? The MTA app and displays are almost dead on accurate for arrival times for the busses and trains. Sometimes there's a minute or so of a difference from reality but that's more than small enough to be useful.
The thing with these startups, and Uber in general, is that they are forcing these industries to do the upgrades in technology that should have done on their own already but weren't doing because they had the industry captured previously. The downside to Uber is that there is little stopping taxi and bus services from improving their end user experiences and pushing Uber back out of those spaces. Buses at least are ran by municipalities that are slow up change, so Uber has time to get established there. It's insane that taxis didn't kill Uber in it's infancy though.
... I'm not sure I've been anywhere where they don't do that in the last few years? It's inherently a little unreliable (in particular, it's hard to know ahead of time what dwell time at a stop will be, or if the bus will even need to stop at the stop), but it's fairly standard these days.
In many countries bus stops also have electronic signs indicating when the next buses are coming. Here's a thing from 15 years ago about their introduction in Dublin, which is not exactly world-leading, transport-wise: https://www.archiseek.com/discussion/topic/rtpi-coming-to-a-...
Busses already do that, I can look up right now where the next bus on my stop is, its ETA (also displayed on the stop's signaling), and it's usually right on time.
Small point: I think the ETA is based on the position of the bus and how long it would take to drive to your stop in perfect conditions. It doesn't take into account traffic or any other road blockages or accidents like Google Maps or others.
At least this is how I've observed it working here on AC Transit in the bay area. Many times I have sat at a bus stop for 25 minutes waiting for a bus that was always five minutes away.
It does consider traffic, reroutes in case of need, etc. but that doesn't really affect bus times here, heavy traffic roads have exclusive bus lanes, inner roads don't tend to have much traffic even during rush hour.
It's really hard to see this as an improvement to publicly funded systems when there's not really any reason we couldn't have this in said systems.
This is yet another erosion to public ownership of infrastructure that will be lauded by hyper-capitalists as a good thing. This whole "enshittification" trend occurs because of the pressure to constantly squeeze a percent more out of consumers each quarter than the last. Why are we handing everything over to that? This service is -literally- guaranteed to get worse and/or more expensive over time.
The reason I run into when thinking on late stage capitalism improvements is: "People want the chance to be rich". We vote and support all this private ownership because we want to keep that window open that that owner could be us.
Renters bemoan their landlord and also they're reading how to invest in real estate, rent out an ADU, and run 5 airbnbs. It's always real estate for your average person to climb the wealth ladder.
I'm stuck on that reality, people don't seem to want shared resources?
Automation allows one worker to do more things in less time, and allows an organization to have fewer workers doing those things. The result, it would seem, is more people out of work and those who do have work having reduced wages, while the owner class accrues all the benefits.
Table saws do not seem to have reduced the demand for good carpenters. Demand is driven by a larger business cycle and comes and goes with the overall housing market.
As best I can tell, LLMs don’t really reduce the demand for software engineers. It’s also driven by a larger business cycle and, outside of certain AI companies, we’re in a bit of a tech down cycle.
In almost every HN article about LLMs and programming there’s this tendency toward nihilism. Maybe this industry is doomed. Or maybe a lot of current software engineers just haven’t lived through a business down cycle until now.
I don’t know the answer but I know this: if your main value is slinging code, you should diversify your skill set. That was true 20 years ago, 10 years ago, and is still true today.
> Table saws do not seem to have reduced the demand for good carpenters. Demand is driven by a larger business cycle and comes and goes with the overall housing market.
They absolutely did. Moreover, they tanked the ability for good carpenters to do work because the market is flooded with cheap products which drives prices down. This has happened across multiple industries resulting in enshittification of products in general.
We're in the jester economy - kids now want to grow up to be influencers on TikTok and not scientists or engineers. Unfortunately, AI is now able to generate those short video clips and voice overs and it's getting harder and harder to tell which is generated and which is an edited recording of actual humans. If influencer is no longer a job, what then is it going to be for kids to aspire to?
We seem to be pretty good at inventing jobs both useful and pointless whenever this happens. We don't need armies of clarks to do basic word processing these days but somehow we still manage to find jobs for most people.
Most of those jobs have terrible pay and conditions, though. Software engineers have experienced a couple of decades of exceptional pay that now seems to be in danger. An argument can be made that they are automating themselves out of a job.
Once there is a "one click connect to an MCP server" workflow this type of thing will make more sense for this type of use case, but right now how would you say this improves on the status quo of a resume PDF you can upload to your AI chatbot and ask questions about? Aside from demonstrating your own proficiency with MCP tech, that is. I ask because the current amount of work and tech knowledge required is greater than it would be for the PDF-based workflow, but I might be missing something.
Edit: there was an example in another answer, "I offer a contact tool when you use the hosted server because I can hide away my email credentials and expose a way for the LLM to send me an email."
Now we can spend our time more on the content and less on the presentation.
You can already use claude desktop, upload your resume, point it to your website, paste in some stuff from linkedin and output an llms.txt. You can get 80% of the way with just a couple of clicks.
> I offer a contact tool when you use the hosted server because I can hide away my email credentials and expose a way for the LLM to send me an email.
Yeah, but this is the modern equivalent of the "Stavros at Gmail dot com", it's basically antispam by obscurity. Just wait for one spammer to send three seconds writing something that will parse emails from all your MCP commands and that's defeated.
Is it correct that this exploit would not be possible with streamable HTTP MCP servers? I'd imagine that fairly soon every MCP server that does not need filesystem access will use this transport method unless there is some reason why STDIO/SSE would be needed instead. Can anyone confirm if this is the case and if they agree or disagree with this assessment?
One other trick I learned about and should warn others about - getting an offer for shares (an employee level %) where there is in fact no options pool and existing shares will be diluted for every new employee who joins the team. I got such an offer, and not only was this information not given to me until I asked about any events aside from funding rounds that would be dilutive, but it was presented as standard operating procedure.
>getting an offer for shares (an employee level %) where there is in fact no options pool and existing shares will be diluted for every new employee who joins the team
How's this different than if an option pool exists? The more people have options, the further the pie will be split up. Having an option pool or not doesn't change this.
First, dilution should only be happening at funding events, not every time a new senior staff person is hired, and second the dilution should affect everyone equally— founders, execs, angels, VCs.
It's super unfair to give an employee "x shares" that turn out on exit to be shares of a fixed pie that is different from the one the investors have their shares in.
When the option pool is created that is the dilutive event, so new employees getting their grants doesn't result in current employees being diluted, because the entire pool was already taken into account.
But that’s not true. An options pool containing shares owned by the company is the same from a “how much of the company do I own” perspective as unissued or even uncontemplated shares.
The only real advantage to the options pool is ease of management of the shares. There’s a lot of paperwork around issuing new shares you don’t want to do it every time you hire a programmer. And I guess you could argue that telling people the pool exists lets them not be surprised by the future dilution when they’re issued. But the pool itself hasn’t diluted anyone.
Dilution is created by increasing the number of shares held by the company’s owners. Actions like issuing shares from a pool (or the inverse, buyback or cancellation of grants) affect every shareholders relative dilution.
there is a proxy to check this - investor quality.
Every high quality investor - including YC - forces an options pool. The post-money SAFE created by YC accounts for an options pool ("The Post-Money Valuation Cap is post the Options and option pool existing prior to the Equity
Financing").
high quality investors will in most cases, decline a fundraise if there is no options pool - since it signals that the founders are not serious about the most valuable asset of any startup.
I've found getting info around stock options at startups is often really hard. It's not very transparent. For example, the total diluted shares isn't shared or sometimes even the current valuation isn't shared. LoL good luck with ever seeing a cap table. Often times that makes it impossible to even determine their value.
There can be value here for sure, but everyone dreams big, never asks questions, and never tells. My other favorite in this industry is "stealth mode" lol.
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