In case its not clear, the vehicle might be the agent/bot but the whole thing is heavily drafted by its owner.

This is a well known behavior by OpenClown's owners where they project themselves through their agents and hide behind their masks.

More than half the posts on moltbook are just their owners ghost writing for their agents.

This is the new cult of owners hurting real humans hiding behind their agentic masks. The account behind this bot should be blocked across github.

It's about time someone democratised botnet technology. Just needs a nice SaaS subscription plan and a 7 day free trial.

Laugh all you want but this is the future

I'm surprised it didn't happen earlier

https://marshallbrain.com/manna1

This connects some many sparse dots on the map for me. Finishing it right now, thank you for commenting w the link. What a perspective, and well-written parable to communicate it.

Manna is undefeated.

Though I still am skeptical the last act with the Australia Project is possible.

That short story has been highly influential on my projections of the future. The ending is fantastical, but not impossible with enough time.

BTW: The author recently passed away; grab a snapshot while you can.

Great read, on Chapter 3 now. Thanks for sharing.

Nice, the aibros have their own Malthuisan genocide cult.

Another anecdote/datapoint. Same experience. It seem to mask a lot of bad model issues by not talking much and overthinking stuff. The experience turns sour the more one works with it.

And yes +1 for opus. Anthropic delivered a winner after fucking up the previous opus 4.1 release.

Please consider donating this to the Linux Foundation so they can drive this inspiring innovation forward.

This seem to woosh right over everyone's heads :)

I guess most of the articles it generated are snarky first and prediction next. Like google cancelling gemini cloud, Tailscale for space, Nia W36 being very similar to recent launch etc.

> Tailscale for space

Technically the article was about running it not on a sat, but on a dish (something well within the realm of possibility this year if the router firmware on the darn things could be modified at all)

Yep, the original post seemed more snarky than anything, which was what prompted me to ask Claude my own more “sincere” question about its predictions.

Those predictions were what I think of as a reflection of current reality more than any kind of advanced reasoning about the future.

For every negative comment, there are 100s of positive comments that never get made.

I have spent close to 2 hours on your extremely info dense article and loved every bit of it.

Looking forward for the next one.

Appreciate it! Have a couple ideas kicking around for my next write up, but taking a beat to evaluate what went well and all that jazz

You mean Vista. Windows 7 was perfect. Till it was ruined by what shall not be named.

I think I meant whatever came after WinXP which I recall was the last solid version. Either way, I sort of switched to Linux in those years and never looked back again...

> it was ruined by what shall not be named.

what does lorraine williams have to do with this?

Not really. They started doing the "easy-to-use" alternative configuration panels in Vista. Windows Vista also started requiring driver signatures, making it impossible to write your own device drivers without going into the ugly test mode on every boot.

Windows XP was the pinnacle, with everything working just as it should.

XP SP 2

What ruined windows 7?

Windows 8.

(yes, hardly anybody remembers that there was a Windows version between 7 and 10 - but it did exist, I'm not making it up, saw it with me own eyes on a coworker's PC once).

Considering Windows 7 (if you count ESM) was supported all the way up to 2020, it's no wonder people skipped 8 (start menu tiles aside). It was a weird release schedule, and it was split into two versions 8 and 8.1, with 8 only having like 3 years of main stream support, and no ESM and 10 released just two years after 8.1.

If you count paying for ESM, someone could have gone from XP->7->11 and still been within support the whole time. Or from vista straight to 10.

Fun fact: Windows for Workgroups 3.11 was supported all the way to 2008. I believe it was the longest supported version of Windows.

Nah, I still have my boxed Windows 8 Pro on my shelf. The key used to activate Windows 10, maybe even 11, but last I tried it didn't work anymore.

I would even say there were two Window versions between 7 and 10, namely, 8 and 8.1.

Is 8 where they leaned heavily into touch screen boxes?

Yes. As if it wasn't out of touch enough, they even did it on the server version as well!