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Software "agents" were a hype-y topic when I was a graduate student 25 years ago. I wrote one for a class. I feel like what's being called "agents" or "AI agents" these days are even less capable than what seemed possible a quarter of a century (1) ago when I was in school.

What I thought then is still true today: to make something like a software agent legitimately useful for a lot of people would require a large amount of low-level grunt work and non-technical work (2) of the sort that the typical Silicon Valley company is unwilling to do. (3) The technology is the absolute easiest part of this task. Throwing a Bigger Computer at the problem leaves all those other pieces of work undone. It's like putting a bigger engine in a car with no wheels, hoping that'll make the car go.

By the way #AI companies and VCs, I'm available for contract work and have done due diligence research before if you ever want to stop wasting everyone's time and money!

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #agents #hype #SiliconValley #VentureCapital #dev #tech

(1) Which we've been told repeatedly is essentially infinite time in the tech world.
(2) Establishing semantic data standards and convincing a large enough number of people to implement them being an important component. LLMs do not magically develop protocols and solve all the ETL-style problems of translating among different ones. The Semantic Web didn't really stick for a lot of reasons, but one reason is that it's hard!
(3) Back when I was still in the startup world I was asked several times by VCs to tell them what I thought about some new startup that claimed to be able to magically clean and fuse data. I think they're still very keen on investing in this style of magic, because it requires an intense amount of human labor, but I think where companies landed was invisibilizing low-paid workers in other countries and pretending a computer did the work they did. Which has also been happening for well over a quarter of a century.

We're going to see so many #MCP servers released the next months, and they will most make some mistake that we don't yet know about that will haunt us for decades.

If you
can: wait a few weeks or months and learn what works, what doesn't and (crucially) the security impliciations before you jump on to this.

#dev

Mulla on nyt itsetehty markdown-editori johon lisään erillisiin kenttiin frontmatterit ja päivämäärä tulee automaagisesti jne. MD tiedostopäätteinen filu ladataan tallettaessa sitten blogitekstien kansioon ja Astro tekee sille sitten taikoja.

Onko jotain muitakin MD-editoreita jotka handlaisivat frontmatterin tai voisi tehdä jonkun templaten jolla voisi tehdä saman. Editorini on hyvä, mutta lisätietämys aiheesta olisi rok.

New Kitten release

• Fix: messages that are promises are properly awaited before being sent.

kitten.small-web.org

Kitten automatically and transparently handles asynchronous content in your templates for you so you don’t have to worry about it. One place where this wasn’t working properly is if you addressed `this.component` to stream a custom update of your component manually instead of calling the `this.update()` method of Kitten component instances.

e.g.,

```js
export default class AdminPage extends kitten.Page {
// …
onSelectedPost (data) {
this.send(kitten.html`<${this.component} postId='${data.selectedPost.postId}' />`)
}
}
```

:kitten:💕

#Kitten#SmallWeb#SmallTech

@tchorix & I are presenting on data modeling within #PostgreSQL in a storytelling fashion at @posetteconf, a free virtual event hosted by #Microsoft that's all about #Postgres this June 10-12!

Want to tune in? Add the livestream to your calendar, or register (optionally) here: posetteconf.com/2025/talks/pos (or, wait until the recording is out after the event!)

Illustrations will be completed by Scarlett Riggs, who we are very excited to be working with.

This talk should be great for anyone that's looking to understand things from the perspectives of an application developer, and a seasoned database administrator; here, you'll be able to learn when it is best to handle logic within the database vs. the application!

Looking forward to seeing you there 📽️

#techevent#tech#opensource

Возможно, вы грустите из-за того, что lor.sh закрывается.

Но вообще, у этого есть и плюсы.

Например, некоторые его обитатели побежали искать себе варианты для селфхоста. Естественно, как это обычно бывает, незамутнённый взгляд под непривычным углом быстро находит проблемы.

Поэтому, например, @rayslava вон скоро будет чинить плагин для Emacs под Mitra, а мы с @iliazeus уже нашли несколько проблем в GoToSocial и одном веб-клиенте для него и Mastodon.

Так что может lor.sh летом и закроется, но тем самым даст некоторый толчок нашей федеративной экосистеме стать лучше.

Так что налейте мне полстакана да выпьем за лорш и людей, которые там собрались 🍻