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> Why now

I am skeptical that they decided human input is their bottleneck just as the cost per token spiked from some AI providers. I see this as a way to reduce their compute spend (offloaded to the community), but I doubt they are going to give up any creative control, so their employee review bottleneck probably won’t change.


There is another solution: Get a machine with flow control and a pressure gauge on the group head. You can saturate the puck at low pressure to avoid dry pockets, then ramp the flow rate up until the group head pressure peaks. If the pressure starts to drop you can increase the flow to maintain the group head pressure.

As for the 6 bar course grind theory: You may maximize the extraction of soluble coffee mass, but the concentration will be lower. It does not take very much extra water to ruin the taste and texture of a latte.


They changed it do all of the changes in a virtual cloud environment, then dump the final result at the end of the response. Before it would stream changes, so if it made a minimal fix, then decided to go off on a tangent you could stop it quickly. Now you have to wait 5+ minutes to get a single line of code out of it just to find out it also refactored everything and burned a stack of tokens. No amount of prompting seems to force it to make incremental changes locally.

> They changed it do all of the changes in a virtual cloud environment, then dump the final result at the end of the response.

That’s a hallucination. All they did was hide thinking by default. Quick Google search should easily teach you how to turn it back on (I literally have it enabled in my harness).


I am using Copilot in VSCode and it does stream the thinking output to me. At some point it will say something like "Implementing changes..." similar to "Thinking...", but there is no content to expand. ChatGPT and local models always push the code changes in small chunks. Claude used to and at some point changed.

Is anything that might be wrong or misinformation now a “hallucination”?

Can you blame them for believing thinking tokens are completely hidden now? Anthropic has changed the way to see it 3 times in 3 months with no warnings or visible upgrade path. First it was shown by default, then you had to press control+o, then control+t, then it got locked behind a settings.json, then you had to manually enable with --verbose, now it's some random ENV var.

Whoever is their product manager should be embarrassed at the UX they provide.


Product managers reduce velocity. The behavior changes every time another instance of Claude Code thinks something else would be a marginal improvement, with no further oversight or thought put into it.

I’ve started co-opting it specifically in situations where someone claims something untrue that is both easy to verify and stated confidently, but also ostensibly isn’t intentionally spreading misinformation.

You don’t have to use compute to pad the token count.

You should be running your own fork before making pull requests. You don’t have to get other people to use it, you just need to get in the habit of rebasing regularly and cutting releases for yourself. Someday I hope maintainers get better visibility into downstream improvements without the politics of pull requests.

Mitre used to issue CVEs within 24 hours. I am going on 4 months now with no follow up, and no way to tell them GitHub issued a CVE already… I’m pretty sure they were just rubber stamping before. Considering disclosure normally should be coordinated with maintainers, 3rd parties like Mitre don’t seem to have much to offer or much to gain other than being a bottleneck.

Honestly im surprised private industry doesnt take this over. Everybody already has their enriched, supplemental data on top of the Mitre/NVD definitions.

You are missing the section on “x402, UCP, and ACP”: monetization. If the end goal is to get a cut of your paid agent traffic, they have a strong incentive to block free access from automated sources.

It looks like the youtube embed is broken. It is supposed to link to a EEV blog video. It is wild how many times someone brings me broken equipment and it turns out EEV blog has already investigated the same issue for the same device.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-V_Z3bD_PA


They still don’t render the markdown (or LaTeX) it outputs.


Microsoft used to have an app called Office Lens. It helped color correct and keystone adjust documents scanned with a phone camera. They pushed an update that gutted the app and said this app has been replaced by OneDrive. After installing OneDrive and dodging multiple dark pattern storage upsells, I discovered the OneDrive app doesn’t have any of the document scanning tools. I’m sure someone got a bonus for increasing OneDrive installs though.


I got caught up in that too. Install OneDrive and saw you can't use it without signing up. I bailed right that.

Now admittedly my workaround ended up being uh... Google Drive.


I've since replaced Office Lens with FairScan. Usually it's the case that the big tech proprietary software is extremely streamlined while the open-source alternative is janky and confusing, but in this case it seems Microsoft's greed has flipped this completely upside down

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.fairscan.app/


> I discovered the OneDrive app doesn’t have any of the document scanning tools.

Loved office lens! The closets thing they have now is - + icon and Document.


It doesn’t? I use the OneDrive app for scanning documents all the time. + button then “Capture”


Oh, I have to use their app to take the pic. I can’t use my existing photos anymore.


It's worse than that - the feature exists in the paid OneDrive app, it lets you scan, edit, add pages etc just like the office lens. It just doesn't save the output - scanned files just disappear in the void.


What do you meant?

A quick search on youtube give me many short showing this function in OneDrive app.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YT9EmGCpRxk


Wow. This is news to me. Office Lens had been my trusted scanning app for ten years. It was years ahead of Cam Scanner bullshit, which many people used, likely because of marketing.


What the fuck. I dodged a bullet by deciding to try a FOSS scanning app at F-Droid's suggestion (whose timing may not have been accidental). The trapeze correction of FairScan is not great... but it's not going to try to pull any crap on me, and if the app changes, it's probably for the better.


Unregulated capitalism descents into scams and fraud. Why better your products and services when it is possible to buy competitors, increase prices and lie?

We need judges and policymakers that punish harshly this behavior and force companies to compete in quality and price instead of lies and competition elimination.


The "OneDrive" app definitely has a nice document scanning tool.


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