Cooper Pellaton

Cooper Pellaton

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SW/HW guy living in SF.

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Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

DELL EXEC: Consumers are “not buying based on AI. In fact I think AI probably confuses them more than it helps them understand a specific outcome." @pcgamer.com #CES www.pcgamer.com/hardware/del...

Cooper Pellaton reposted

AI agents aren't magic. There is a reason the code we write today doesn't scrape HTML pages and uses APIs instead. AI agents are no different. Agents still need an API to interact with and permission to do so. Sure, they can generate a client, then guess what to do next, but good luck with that.

Nathan Peck@nathanpeck.com

Okay, to put it concisely, what changes with an AI agent is that it is a tool that is more flexible at solving unexpected problems. For example, the airline booking example in your other thread: the AI does not care if an airline recently redesigned their website and all the fields have changed

My wife and I began doing annual planning last year, and I was surprised by how incredibly beneficial it was in bringing order amidst the chaos of an otherwise tumultuous year.

Cooper Pellaton reposted

People talk about “falling down a Wikipedia rabbit hole,” but my young friends: as incredible as it is to believe, before search engines became the de facto standard, this was how the *entire internet* worked. Link to link to link to—oh dear it’s 4am already.

Really hate how much more I like it here than Mastodon. Ideologically I feel I should prefer their federation model but the content and people here are more engaging by leaps and bounds.

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