Retired software engineer and amateur accordionist.
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Possibly things are worse, but here’s an argument that we’ve gotten unrealistically ambitious about universal education through college:
What People Want From Our Schools Has Never Been Accomplished, Anywhere, Ever https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/what-people-want-from-o...
I don’t know if it will work, but here’s a startup that seems to be building an AI-controlled shotgun:
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/9-mothers-corporation
Given the war in Ukraine, wanting to build such things is certainly understandable. But still, this is the stuff of nightmares.
If it's a remote API, I suppose the argument is that you might as well fetch the documentation from the remote server, rather than using a skill that might go out of date. You're trusting the API provider anyway.
But it's putting a lot of trust in the remote server not to prompt-inject you, perhaps accidentally. Also, what if the remote docs don't suit local conditions? You could make local edits to a skill if needed.
Better to avoid depending on a remote API when a local tool will do.
This project is an enhanced reader for Ycombinator Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/.
The interface also allow to comment, post and interact with the original HN platform. Credentials are stored locally and are never sent to any server, you can check the source code here: https://github.com/GabrielePicco/hacker-news-rich.
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