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Depends on the framework you’re using. I’m using Qwen Code Companion (via a VS Code IDE plugin) and it’s got some kind of tiered system built into it for adding tool definitions to context, it’s got a standard built-in set that’s always mentioned but other stuff only gets added to the context under certain circumstances. I can’t recall all the details, I found out about it when I was chatting with Qwen Code to ask it why it hadn’t used a particular MCP I’d given it to solve a problem despite it seeming like a useful tool for the task and we got into a discussion about to configure it. As I recall it’s something along the lines of most tools only being present in context by default as little one-liner stubs and the agent has to tell the framework “that one looks like it might be useful for what I’m doing” for the full definition to get loaded.

Most of the time I’m working on small scripts and specialized applications these days, and codebase memory is overkill for those so I haven’t actually seen it in use much.

Then you’ve got an account.

We’ll see how much personal verification information Reddit ends up requiring on that email, I guess.

If the site literally refuses to send you data unless you’re logged in then it doesn’t matter what wrapper you’ve got around the empty shell.

You can lead a horse to water.

The point of Spez’s plan is to make it so you would need an account for that, though.

Reddit is still one of the biggest social media sites on the internet. News about it is important to a lot of people. You’re demanding that everyone else conform to your preferences.

It’s funny, way back in the mists of history Reddit’s original plan was very similar to the Fediverse’s. They opened the source for their servers and had plans for how it could interoperate with other independent “reddits”.

Somewhere in the NSA someone is going “damnit! They found that one too!?”

And now everything will go back to normal and people in China will stop using AI.

Right?

Sure they can. The fundamental similarity here is anti-intellectualism, a distrust in the notion that science and technology are positive things that can enhance our lives. America is rife with it these days and the result is all sorts of beliefs sweeping through society that stand in opposition to what the “experts” say. Vaccines cause autism. Pasteurization is bad. “Chemicals” or “GMOs” are bad. Transgenderism isn’t real. Data centers are responsible for vast quantities of water consumption. LLMs are incapable of creating anything original. And so on. Once these beliefs get rooted then any effort to dislodge them only becomes part of the narrative of untrustworthy oligarchs and technocrats trying to manipulate people, which is especially tricky because many of them are trying to manipulate people. Makes it hard to know which authorities to trust without learning enough to become one yourself, and learning is hard when you don’t know which information sources to start with.

Unfortunately I have no idea how to counter such a large-scale movement in society. As the old saying goes, you can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into. A lot of the anti-science sentiment comes from irrational sources - fear of the uncertain future, fear of losing prestige and power, fear of loss of personal autonomy. Some of those fears are rooted in real concerns but the reactions they can provoke are not necessarily productive.

Oh by all means then. Free is free. :)

I’d say “sure, why not?”

Depends on how expensive the tool is, mind you. I use local models so I’ve never had to poke around much at how much the paid ones go for, I don’t know what you’re using.

Sadly, it was already just a gutted shell of its former self at this point. This is just putting the zombie to rest.

Cosmically abundant, but not abundant on Earth. Or any terrestrial planet, for that matter. The problem is that helium is both extremely light and chemically inert, so it quickly escapes into space from any celestial body smaller than a gas giant. Earth lost all of its helium almost immediately after it formed.

The helium that it does have is stuff that was produced deep in Earth’s interior as a result of radioactive decay. When an atom releases an alpha particle as part of a radioactive decay chain, that’s a helium nucleus. The helium seeps upward through the crust and gets trapped as a contaminant of certain natural gas pockets. The helium we harvest industrially is extracted from those particular natural gas wells as a byproduct of four billion years of radioactive decay. When it gets released into the atmosphere - such as when it’s used in a party balloon or blimp - it disperses into the upper atmosphere and is lost to space. One use, then it’s gone forever. Eventually those natural reservoirs it’s being extracted from will run dry and that’ll be it - no more helium available on Earth.

I really hate party balloons. What an utterly ridiculous waste.

I’m all for AI, personally. When using it as a programmer it’s a huge force multiplier, just pay attention to what it’s doing.

Not just to boost the payload, but to reduce the wastage of literally irreplaceable helium as well. It’s a completely non-renewable resource and there are other applications that there are no substitutes for (such as coolant).

Thanks for at least not being so angry you didn’t bother adding that edit, I was very “wut?” There. :)

I worked for a Microsoft studio for a while that took forever to allow Copilot to be used internally, and they were all Microsoft. It was very frustrating, especially given that permission was finally granted for Copilot use just a matter of weeks before the whole studio got abruptly shut down anyway.

Corporate bureaucracy. Weird and dumb.

Well, open weight is not open source. There’s a lot of black box still left in those models.

It’s still far more open to investigation and analysis than the likes of ChatGPT, though. Lots of work has been done to allow some degree of investigation into how the “brains” of an LLM work and in the case of Deepseek you can actually apply those techniques to the model you know you’re using.

There are different levels of trust one can apply. In the case of Deepseek you can run the model on your very own hardware with no external connection to China at all. You can abliterate and fine-tune the model’s weights yourself. You can observe all of its reasoning text as it works.

So I think I’d trust Deepseek over the likes of OpenAI, who insist you send all your data to them and be happy with whatever they choose to send back to you.