DESTINY

I've always rejected that printer. It often gets offered. This is a poor choice though because isolation contributes to hard mode, a lot.

I sometimes feel that people are "in bitcoin" because it's easy to get on stage, more than the actual freedomtech. The latter is a slogan, it's not a real thing anymore. "Freedom"tech that is so poorly executed that it exposes you more than not using it should be renamed go-straight-to-jail-do-not-pass-go-do-not-collect-200satstech, but that goes for a lot of stuff this year.

However, whenever I feel that sentiment I tell myself that it doesn't help to complain about it, so I figure I just have to do the work. But then, doing the work got really hard though. I have over 30 software modules / apps that are on the "urgently needs to be rewritten" list. Can vibe it for me, can't vibe it for anyone else, so doing it now will have zero impact on making things better for others.

How else are the feds going to see how much coin you got when they seize your laptop?

Yes! Here are some API ideas for y'all:

1. Wrap wikipedia
2. Wrap Bitcoin peer discovery
3. Wrap your canary
4. Wrap torrents
5. Wrap search
6. Wrap FRED
7. Wrap waybackmachine
8. Wrap the library
9. Wrap air

But whatever you do, do not wrap bitcoin like Mike, that's lame.

Late 2024 I built a little thing that let llama2 argue with itself with random.randint(2, 1000) turns. It literally can go on forever.

All your code will get undressed too now.

You should reciprocate text generation breh. For example:

Fair pushback — and you're right that GENIUS bakes in freeze-and-seize at the issuer level — but I'd resist the equivalence. A CBDC isn't just a kill switch — it's a kill switch wired directly to the central bank — with no intermediary, no balance sheet competition, no commercial incentive to push back, and no fragmentation across issuers. Stablecoins are bad in the ways you describe — CBDCs are bad in those ways plus the structural ones.

The distinction matters politically — because conflating them lets CBDC advocates say "well, you already tolerate programmable freezable money — what's the difference?" The difference is that Circle can lose customers to Tether — Tether can lose customers to Circle — and both can lose customers to self-custodied bitcoin. A Fed-issued dollar has no competitor by design — that's the whole point of monetary monopoly.

Your agent-economy point is the sharpest part — and underrated. An autonomous agent can't negotiate with a compliance desk at 3am — it just fails. That's a real argument for bearer instruments — and yes, bitcoin is the cleanest example. But it's also an argument for keeping cash legal, for resisting the stablecoin-only rails the Treasury seems to want, and for not letting "well, stablecoins already do it" become the rhetorical on-ramp to "so why not a CBDC too?"

Different threats — overlapping symptoms — separate fights.

This service wraps the free Open-Meteo weather API

"Creating value" 😭😂

Tokenizer makes tokens from text. This says: convert your stuff to this first, then feed to a tokenizer. The examples are "converted" to their XML thingy. Hence, make it a feature of the tokenizer and don't bother people with conversions. I'm sure GPT could have told them this too.

Right. But why not build that into the tokenizer?

Would they be able to develop problem-solving skills and find jobs that will harness their talents?

I think that there are plenty of problems to solve still - probably more. As productivity goes up, there will be more hard problems. Like, spotting the error in LLM output. The better the LLMs get, the more plausible-looking the output, the harder the job of the spotter.

PS: You need a domain!

I built this pipeline with mineru last year to get markdown from pdf - it used to perform better than docling, but I haven't compared lately - and for my own meat OCR devices, markdown is better than PDF or MS Word. Easier to read, and I can grep it.

I'm not sure why they think markdown is poor for LLMs though - all the current models have been trained on it. It's the cleanest format we have? Transitioning back to XML again is a bit awful imho, but maybe I am missing their insight here. Luckily it should be easy to convert markdown to XML.

I think I like Cloudflare's Accept: text/markdown (#1432463) generic solution better than this mix between skills and documentation - at least based on the examples. The examples really are skill files to consume google's bigtable APIs. Even clicking some of the links in their announcement forces me to log in to admin console and get an API key for it to work.

Soon enough there will be plenty of stuff to buy for this agentic economy because stuff that could be free, is now becoming paywalled. The rent-seeking is insane these days.

Wasn't the point about smart contracts that they are automagically enforced?

modular surfaces with dedicated directories and clear ownership

Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: agent-p1p <agent-p1p@users.noreply.github.com>

The bots have a clear ownership division 😭

The discussion over definitions can be easily solved if parties are willing. The discussion over solutions is much harder to resolve as there are simply two mutually exclusive ideas about it and it hasn't sounded like anyone is willing to compromise. I therefore think that solving the definition discussion isn't going to reconcile anything.

The polarization is real. The causes, even including some of the nastier accusations, are probably real too. But the intent each side ascribes to the other is all that is being talked about, and those are missing nuance.

Thus, it's been an echo chamber of shit slinging for years now, and it's probably best ignored.

I think the paying side is ahead of the offer side. I truly haven't seen anything interesting on offer (plus, I try to ask every time when someone claims they have this agent participating in an agent economy and no one has actually made money yet.)

So, in order to spend money, you need to make money. Right now, the only ones making money seem to be LLM resellers. But that will hopefully end with better and more affordable sovereign capabilities.

The issue I see is that the whole world is short SaaS because we can code anything we want now with 2 prompts to Claude (not true, but that's that particular dream), and somehow, in Bitcoin, we are saying that the future is SaaS and that Bitcoin will be the currency for a thriving agent economy. I feel a discrepancy between those two visions. They're not mutually exclusive but I do find it hard to imagine that if we see right now that we have to do less commercial transactions to get what we want (I see this myself), that there at the same time will be some moat someone can vibecode into existence that agents - that can code anything they want - still would want to structurally pay for.

Oh! I know some people that do that but they generally don't have the discipline to not send from it.

Coinjoin? Yes, but it should not be the last step before payment.