Simon @spoltier@qoto.org

@tedunderwood.me@bsky.brid.gy I know you're half joking, but when I catch myself "goldplating" like this for some throwaway /noncritical personal tool, I consider it a kind of procrastination or self-soothing behavior.

@ahl @binjip978 @bcantrill Let me help you out: I noticed a pointed lack of chime when Bryan mentioned a certain capillary topic that appeared in a previous episode.

@bert_hubert re: smart outsourcing, this also came to mind: https://danluu.com/nothing-works/

"... mid-sized tech companies, we can see that they often need to have in-house expertise that's far outside what anyone would consider their core competency unless, e.g., every social media company has kernel expertise as a core competency."

@susankayequinn looks like there's some "tuning" going on https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/waymo-robotaxis-driving-like-humans-20354066.php, which they will hopefully get in trouble for.
As for the liability, Uber has a similarly effective solution that doesn't require $30b (and counting) of investment: it stops with the driver-contractor. They do provide additional insurance, but they usually can't be sued themselves AFAICT.

@bob yeah, pretty bad. Though on the upside I'm pretty sure cars would not be allowed on public streets if they were invented today

@TheServitor @kdkorte indeed! See https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/114693248045080643 and many other posts by @simon and others

@TheServitor @kdkorte the practical implications are overstated in my opinion. It could make it harder for the kind of business model that requires rug-pulling by relicensing open-source, but most code is either open-sourced under a generous license (MIT /Apache, etc) or it's never made public (in which case copyright is irrelevant; we're talking about leaking of internal company information, which is a different legal topic).
The security risks when your LLM starts accessing the web directly are much more concerning.

@xkcdbot I think this estimator you're using might be biased

@tedunderwood.me@bsky.brid.gy it *sounds* to me like actual fruit being sliced, which gives the impression that they are made of some kind of hard jelly as opposed to glass

@ahl @oxidecomputer @bcantrill it does have this fight-or-flight flavor, but it's growing on me