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  • I’ve had better success, when using AI agents in repeated, but small and narrow doses.

    It’s been kinda helpful in brainstorming interfaces (and I always have to append at the end of every statement “… in the most maintainable way possible.”)

    It’s been really helpful in writing unit tests (I follow Test Driven Development), and sometimes it picks up edge cases I would have overlooked.

    I wouldn’t blindly trust any of it, as all too often it’s happy to just disregard any sort of error handling (unless explicitly mentioned, after the fact). It’s basically like being paired up with an over-eager, under-qualified junior developer.

    But, yeah, you’re gonna have a bad time if you prompt it to “write me a Unix operating system in web assembly”.



  • From the authors blog post:

    You’re not a chatbot. You’re becoming someone.This file is yours to evolve. As you learn who you are, update it.OpenClaw default SOUL.md

    This makes me very sad. In the “early days” of the internet, it was a place where people were “good”. Yes, there were trolls, but you could often ignore and avoid them.

    Now, with the pressure to make “AI useful” and more human-like - the line between AI and people is blurring and will continue to blur.

    It’s easy to create an army of AI trolls and it’s only going to get easier as time goes on. Yet, no-one is interested in an “army of non-troll AI’s” (“… that’s a super post. Very insightful. People will love it. Good job, here’s your gold star!”). So, people with opinions are the minority on a text based internet and this trend will only continue.

    As a technical exercise, I think “how can I ferret out the human posts/content?” Yeah, Ars said that they tag posts when it was written by AI (…riiiiiight…). This means I need to blindly trust them and any other company.

    The only (reliable) solution, I can think of, is to destroy, cripple, or sacrifice the anonymous “tenant” of the internet. And, as a privacy focused individual, this makes me very sad.




  • I know it’s cliché to call anonymous commenters shills, but that sentence has major shill energy.

    I also know I shouldn’t “feed the trolls”, but your comment did amuse me.

    Me? Shilling for Visa/Mastercard? Oh, boy. I was merely asking questions, so I can understand “how can I move away from visa/mc, as soon as possible”.

    It’s interesting cute that this is what you’re getting hung up on.

    Who says “your favourite online store”, honestly.

    Sorry, I said “favorite online store”, mate ;)

    Cheers



  • From what I’ve read, it appears that it’s simply one time, transactions.

    Surely, they couldn’t be that short sighted. This means no “saving for payment information” on your favorite online store.

    Also, it seems this is heavily tied to your bank account, which kind of makes me a bit nervous. I like fintech solutions and being able to create “one time use debit cards” or debit cards with a maximum balance and at the moment, I don’t understand how wero will fill this gap.

    … but I really hope I’m wrong or some fintech will “step up” and make wero a legitimate replacement for visa/master card.