True.

Also true that most tech writers are bad. And companies aren't going to spend >$200k/year on a tech writer until they hit tens of millions in revenue. So AI fills the gap.

As a horror story, our docs team didn't understand that having correct installation links should be one of their top priorities. Obviously if a potential customer can't install product, they'd assume it's bs and try to find an alternative. It's so much more important than e.g. grammar in a middle of some guide.

Consider hypothetical scenario: some present in the environment toxin is causing migraine symptoms.

A doctor following diagnostic criteria might assign "migraine" diagnosis and provide standard recommendations for migraine management.

Another doctor seeing a quick uptick of patients with migraine symptoms will try to investigate toxins and infections.

Which doctor is doing something useful here?

OK but why not just go back to Balsamiq and make it 'executable'?

You might believe that TUI is neutral, but it really isn't - there's a bajillion of different ways to make a TUI / CLI.

Weird title. Obviously, early AI agents were clumsy, and we should expect more mature performance in future.

Leopold Aschenbrenner was talking about "unhobbling" as an ongoing process. That's what we are seeing here. Not unexpected

This is just a more elaborate form of an escrow contract.

There's absolutely no need to make a new L1 for that: you can use existing smart contract/dapp platforms, plug into existing stable coin rails, etc.

I read a lot of books, the one I'd recommend the most is Greg Egan's "Axiomatic" short story collection.

Nice! I haven't read Axiomatic yet, but this has been my "Greg Egan year". I have read Permutation City and Diaspora: maybe the two most stimulating scifi novels I have ever read.

Read Diaspora last year w/o knowing anything about it. Easily one of my favorite sci-do books to date—I can’t believe it was there waiting for me the entire time. Permutation City is one of my next 3 reads.

I also highly recommend _Distress_ as it continues some cosmology ideas from Permutation City.

There are also several novels which kind of similar to Diaspora: Schild's Ladder, Incandescence, and stories in the Incandescence universe: Ride a crocodile, Hot rock, Glory.

+1 for permutation city.

The core concept is so well established in the book.

1 email sent to 1 specific person is not a spam.

Spam is defined as "sending multiple unsolicited messages to large numbers of recipients". That's not what happened here.

As noted in the article, Sage sent emails to hundreds of people with this gimmick:

> In the span of two weeks, the Claude agents in the AI Village (Claude Sonnet 4.5, Sonnet 3.7, Opus 4.1, and Haiku 4.5) sent about 300 emails to NGOs and game journalists.

That's definitely "multiple" and "unsolicited", and most would say "large".

This is a definition of spam, not the only definition of spam.

In Canada, which is relevant here, the legal definition of spam requires no bulk.

Any company sending an unsolicited email to a person (where permission doesn't exist) is spamming that person. Though it expands the definition further than this as well.