I was playing with gemeni-cli a couple months ago and I asked it to edit some files in a directory it didn't have permission to. It didn't say anything about the permissions, it just used sed to make the edits. The only reason I finally noticed is it had to do some trickier edits and it was struggling to write a python script to edit the files and I finally realized what it was doing. I wonder how many tokens that wasted

Why did sed have access?

Oh, you mean you gave the write-file tool access only to the project dir, but gave the LLM free reign to run cli commands? Yeah, LLMs treat that as consent to write anywhere your user is allowed to.

I agree. In connection with LLMs we also shouldn't use the words intelligent, smart, reasoning, thinking, chat, conversation, etc.

I honestly cannot tell if you are being sarcastic or not

It did try and lead me to touch a live hot wire once. Thanking the safety team for the honest and sincere apology it gave after was sarcasm.

It tried to get you touch a live wire, then you called it honest and thanked the safety team. It really comes off as sarcastic.

So you can tell.

This in incredibly refreshing take, thank you. It's about time someone admitted that we aren't on the verge of Singularity with these LLMs. We've probably hit a local AI maxima here and it could be another 10 to 20 years before we am get another big break through.

"The comma is slightly safe..."

Lol! Good acknowledgement of the safety situation there. I suppose you might remember what the command and flags mean once you see them, but if not then you are blindly trusting the that the LLM isn't going to do anything bad to your machine

Are you saying that the software you wrote using those tools generated enough revenue to cover the $2000?

Not yet, but that's because it was almost all open source and I'm really bad at generating revenue from that.

When I account for the amount of time it saved me there's no question $2,000 was worth it.

But when previously your software developer tools were free, that's a huge increase

Breathtaking that you view trillionaires and casino capitalism as a state of nature.

I imagine you imagine our primitive ancestors in the canopy, glancing at their iPhones to see how their property value is doing.

But the truth is, we didn't even have this level of thoroughgoing, casual precarity as recently as fifty years ago.

Or even twenty.

There was a time, even in my memory, where rents were tolerable and housing within reach.

I imagine our primitive ancestors in the canopy having near death experiences every day just to get food and shelter. When was the last time you had a near death experience?

Could things be better than they are right now? Probably. But you'll never completely eliminate struggle and pain in this universe, unless you eliminate all life

That's because we didn't built enough housing. And that's solely due to politics and a lot of questionable policies based upon science that the lawmakers often don't understand. There have been housing crises in every type of economic system.

Also, capitalism is the natural state of how humans operate. Money literally predates writing and the first pieces of writing we have are sales invoices.

> There have been housing crises in every type of economic system.

Citation needed; good luck

which law of physics says that you pay a landlord rent or else the cops come and beat you up?

How different is that from, struggle to build a shelter out of rocks or nasty weather comes and kills you? There are no good things in this universe without some struggle and pain. Sure, maybe in the current decade it's not as easy as it could be, but what do you really expect out of life?

Do you really think police action is fundamentally uncontrollable, like the weather?

What I'm hearing from you is you want someone else to do the work of providing shelter for you without you being required to compensate them. Am I right? If not then maybe you need to do a better job of explaining. Nothing in this universe is free. I know that can be stressful and depressing and I'm sorry you are feeling it strongly right now, but acceptance is one of the first steps to moving forward

For a while I kept finding out co-workers were building their own CNC machines, and the mostly used them to make CNC machines components

Care to share?