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AI models have better tool latching on a `bash` tool than they do MCP tools.

Would you mind explaining more. Sorry, I'm not following but find your comment super interesting.

Ah yes, strongly worded letters. That is the way to fix things. They must be trembling in fear at the weight of your words.


What do you suggest?


* focus locally; getting invoked with local politics by supporting local candidates with your time and effort - the state department runs programs to talk to city and state officials concerning foreign policy matters and city’s and local governments can create pressure on federal representatives from those states.

* vote with your wallet; boycotts and divestments are tools ordinary people have to effect conglomerates. Ensure your retirement money is not invested with companies engaging with the political ideas you do not agree with

* protest; attending in person events shows leaders numbers and images that are harder to ignore than their consultants’ polling data.


I've done all of those and while I think they are important i believe it's most important to let politicians know, otherwise they rely too much on money.


Pointing that whatever people think they are doing is not working does not mean we have to propose a solution. I'd suggest revolution, but that won't ever happen in the US.


If the bots respected robots.txt, I would not have a viable business plan.


The default is to allow non-Mozilla user agents so that existing (good) automation continues to work and so that people stopped threatening to burn my house down. Lovely people in the privacy community.


Sorry xe :(


This month I'm recovering from major surgery. I'm okay, it's something I've been waiting to get done for a very long time. I'm just bored in recovery and running out of my science YouTube backlog.



Do you want some more science YouTube recommendations to top that off?


Hope you feel better soon!

What sorts of topics do you enjoy learning about on Youtube?


An easy fix for GitHub is to clearly mark which PRs and comments are done via the web vs the API. This will let people at least have some idea.


...but, like, why even offer an API at that point? Now every API-initiated PR is going to be suspect. And this will only work until the bots figure out the internal API or use the website directly.


Uh... i think Graphite (yay, stacking!) uses the API pretty heavily.


yep we do! another big use case for it seems to be big enterprises for their own internal tools - we see this a lot with our largest customers.

but the OSS use case described here is a pretty different case, what OP suggested may still be useful there


This is honestly one of the most hilarious ways this could have turned out. I have no idea how to properly react to this. It feels like the kind of thing I'd make up as a bit for Techaro's cinematic universe. Maybe some day we'll get this XKCD to be real: https://xkcd.com/810/

But for now wow I'm not a fan of OpenClaw in the slightest.


> Maybe some day we'll get this XKCD to be real: https://xkcd.com/810/

I think we're just finding out the flaw in that strip's logic in realtime: that "engineered to maximize helpfulness ratings" != "actually helpful"...


Please actually attempt to read what I have actually written instead of seeing two words and making grand leaps of assumption.


Keep those two words out of your writing, and I won't read them.


Pay my hourly rate and I'll write whatever you want within reason :)


Not listed in your website AFAICT.


For writing it starts at $200 per hour with a minimum commitment of 10 hours of work.


Another day, another downtime. Lovely.


Ah, right, GP meant Microsoft Copilot 365 Enterprise Edition (with Copilot).


Beautiful!


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