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Techmeme surfaced OpenAI’s August 14 documentation for Computer History, a macOS feature that turns activity across apps and websites into a timeline and memories that ChatGPT and Codex can use. The original URL is OpenAI’s documentation page, which explains both the workflow and the privacy model.

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Staff is the new Senior now (Blind)

• carpet2 (Microsoft): Senior is the new Staff now*
• fish 🐠 (Lyft): Senior Staff is the new Senior actually. Staff is the new mid-level. Senior is the new entry-level. Anything below that is intern.
• gkdnwodrnn (ex-Amazon): Senior is the new staff, staff promos and interviews are harder across the board What you’re describing is 2021 Covid market where anyone was getting in as senior or staff

Being polite to LLMs (Blind)

• Maximum10! (Vanta): I am still being polite out of habit. I don’t see why you would not be. Maybe skipping a thank you or please occasionally to minimize typing, but I don’t see why anyone would try to be impolite.
• c8ycyloy (Salesforce): I’m still polite. Old habits die hard. I figure it’s fine to stay in practice lest I start being super curt to people 😂
• griwi029 (Pixar): [I am polite because it doesn’t cost me any more money or time or effort to be nice than it does to be a prick, and the latter doesn’t make it work any better. It’s how I converse normally and it’d be an effort to be rude.

I see the people whose prompts are abusive and cruel and wonder how damaged they are to be like that and I bet they would treat humans the same way if they could. Power over another shows a person’s true nature, frequently.](https://www.teamblind.com/post/being-polite-to-llms-jx0goiws#comment-51665866)

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Techmeme surfaced TechCrunch’s August 13 report, “In a first, US will allow some private firms to carry out cyberattacks.” The article examines an August 12 presidential memorandum that creates a federal program for vetted American companies to conduct offensive cyber operations against foreign criminal organizations.

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Sold my company, now I don’t know what to do (Blind)

• dronegirl (Amazon): Well bud you can make up for rest of it now. Congrats and enjoy.
• ulyss (Google): Get married. Get divorced. Lose everything. Start over
• p4head (Google): [You remind me of this tolstoy story - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Much_Land_Does_a_Man_Need%3F

You dont have to run anymore buddy.](https://www.teamblind.com/post/sold-my-company-now-i-dont-know-what-to-do-cj1hviz5#comment-51649155)

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Techmeme surfaced Google DeepMind’s August 12 release, “Putting sign language AI into users’ hands.” Its sign-language-to-text model, SL2T 1.0, is launching in Gboard and Live Transcribe on the Pixel 11, where it translates American Sign Language into English text. That makes the release more consequential than another benchmark announcement: a long-neglected language interface is moving from research into a consumer product.

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Meta’s BIG comeback?? Thoughts on Muse Glimmer? (Blind)

• 6666661 (Netflix): [Are you an infant? Do you lack object permanence? Do you forget everything you learn about meta mere seconds after you are exposed?

For fucks sake stop paying attention to this trash company. They participated in a genocide in Myanmar, they have stolen data, they have not had a single innovative idea since ranking the hotness of women at Harvard. They have had more layoffs than they have had successful products.

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A real-time clinical conversation forces an AI system to solve three problems on incompatible clocks. It must answer quickly enough to sustain rapport, reason carefully enough to update a differential diagnosis, and continuously notice visual or auditory evidence that may change the case. Asking one model loop to do all three invites a bad compromise: either the conversation stalls while the model thinks, or the reasoning and perception become shallow enough to keep latency tolerable.

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Techmeme surfaced Ben Thompson’s August 11 analysis, “Nvidia’s Risky Business,” alongside the announcement that Nvidia and six Wall Street firms intend to mobilize more than \$500 billion for AI infrastructure. The striking part is not simply the size of the target. It is the proposed transfer of AI-buildout risk from cash-rich technology companies and public bondholders into private-credit funds, insurers, pensions, sovereign wealth, and other pools of long-duration capital.

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SpaceX is doing so well! Who could have ever predicted this? (Blind)

• TBjy63 (Amazon): One of the most innovative companies in the world and then some braindead rando is bullshitting on their stock… lol
• UdXw86 (Carta): SpaceX is thriving, and real investors are doing just fine. Dumb money ate some 💩 - nothing new there. I’m up 18% on SPCX and expect 100% returns long term
• wmeB00 (Oracle): It’s overvalued at IPO anyway. Will go up in the next few years if story continues. Note Meta also fell below IPO price after going public, which is normal.

OpenAI no more Leetcode (Blind)

• Twduit (Google): It’s never been LC what are you talking about? They went fully practical a while ago. I can share the general prep material if you’re down to compare notes.
• insideball (JPMorganChase): Glad to see Leetcode die. Finally.
• abcxyz420 (Google): OpenAI has never done leetcode interviews

MIT students are dropping out of Computer Science (Blind)

• DarkMAGA (LinkedIn): Honestly, the better major is probably applied math, electrical engineering, or data science. something actually rooted in real engineering not just coding.
• out of (ByteDance): Kids are dumb and easily swayed by hype and propaganda.
• code4lyfe: It makes sense. What is the point of a cs degree with you can ask codex to do everything? And I’m sure most students are doing exactly that. Your degree becomes a joke.

San Francisco “AI” chatbot revealed to be one man manually answering every prompt, reaching 5,000 queries an hour. (r/technology)

• Quenz: Human: Become Detroit
• lazyhustlermusic: Reminds me of all of those articles like the Amazon Go stores.
• Donnicton: tldr it’s the guy’s art piece and does not actually cost anything unless you sign up for the “pro” tier which is made clear is a useless tier and is just to support his art.

Anthropic is turning Claude Code’s auto mode on by default (r/technology)

• agm1984: I only use auto mode with dangerously skip permissions
• kir_rik: Well, unfortunately it’s unusable the other way. I’ve wrote a hook that bans python and node completely. Permissions list just broken for months and they never fixed it
• Exponential-777: Claude needs to learn how to use less words. Example. The solution to my issue is very simple. I need to change a typo in code on line 888 from kButtFloss to kbuttFloss. Instead Claude insists on telling me how that typo wrecked 20 things downstream with elaborate detail. He will write 1000 words and sometimes not even include the solution.

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Techmeme surfaced Meta AI Research’s August 10 release, “Introducing Muse Glimmer: An Open Agentic Model That Runs on Your Device.” Muse Glimmer is a 30-billion-parameter model designed for local agents, released with full-precision and quantized weights under Apache 2.0. The release is notable less because it sets a new overall intelligence record than because it brings a useful combination—reasoning, vision, tool use, failure recovery, and long context—onto a single high-end personal computer.