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Something crazy has taken our office by storm this week. It's a phenomenon we have dubbed #AmazonLootBoxes. It all started with this tweet from @meslin, who was just trying to order some boxes. xitter.cf/meslin/status/12258349β¦
1. Three weeks ago, I ordered a box of boxes from @PkgWholesalers, via @amazonca. Specifically, I ordered a package of 25 boxes, each 6x9x6: amazon.ca/gp/product/B00CP34β¦
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There's been a lot of buzz about β and criticism of β Instinct over the last few days. Building an agent that YOLOs it can produce impressive results. Building an agent that you can actually trust with real data & responsibilities is much harder.
At @TaskletAI much of what we do is giving businesses enough control that they can trust agents for real, consequential work. Here's a few things we to make this real ππ»π§΅
Dangerous Professionals who are regular readers of @patio11 will be 0.00% surprised by this anecdote.
Always an adventure calling the IRS
Me: "Hi, I'm calling about penalty relief for my client. He's disabled and --"
Agent: "What's the account number?"
Me: "He lost his job. Couldn't afford to file. He has severe anxiety and --"
Agent: "I see. The penalty is $847. Next?"
Me: "His anxiety is documented. He's been struggling for years. He literally couldn't handle opening the mail from you guys."
Agent: "Understood. The penalty stands."
Me: "He's on disability income. This is going to hurt him badly."
Agent: "I hear you. Still $847."
Me: "He was literally unable to function during this period. His doctor can verify --"
Agent: "That's unfortunate. The penalty is assessed."
Me: "So there's nothing we can do? No hardship exception? No compassion?"
Agent: "Not without something to base it on, sir."
Me: *long pause*
Me: "I mean - unless I..."
Agent: "You could...."
Me: "Could what?"
Agent: "Well. You'd have to say it."
Me: "Say..."
Agent: "THE words, sir."
Me: "What words?"
Agent: "I can't say them for you."
Me: "It's not even a sure thing though. Could it work?."
Agent: "Only one way to find out sir."
Me: *long pause*
Me: "I'm going to say it."
Agent: "I'm bracing, sir."
Me: "First time penalty abatement."
Agent: "Excellent. Your client is eligible. I'm releasing the penalty now. We're all set."
Me: "Wait. That's it? Just like that?"
Agent: "Yes sir. The penalty is gone."
Me: "It's automatic?"
Agent: "Exactly."
Me: "So why all the drama? Why couldn't you just tell me?"
Agent: "Because most people don't understand how serious a decision it is to say THE words."
Me: "It's that serious? Why?"
Agent: "You just used your one shot."
Me: "What do you mean my one shot?"
Agent: "First time penalty abatement. You can only invoke it once per client. Ever."
Me: "...once?"
Agent: "That's right. Once... And then it resets again in three years."
Me: "Wait, it resets? So we can do this again in a few years?"
Agent: "Is there anything else I can help you with?"
no monday quite like the tuesday after a holiday weekend that you took an extra day offβ¦gonna go hang in the +dB range for a while
no days like those when an EXPLAIN promises your query is gonna scan 1800 rows and then still not being done with a simple COUNT after 4 minutes π«£
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.@OpenTable is there any way to get account support from a real person? your Contact Us page has no options other than the "chatbot" which does not work (literally just links me to the support page...and the reason i need support is that your support page is wrong)
learned today that when you use s3fs to mount a bucket to your file system, it reports a number for available free space. anyone else ever seen an E in the output of a df -h before? cause i sure haven't π€ͺ
FYI if you want to see what features @NotionHQ email will launch in about 18 months, you could just go use @Shortwave today Β―\_(γ)_/Β―
doing a real great job on the bots, elmo. an "apple" crypto scam during the iphone event with the apple logo pfp AND a gold verified checkbox??? (screnshot for posterity)
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The Palestine Children's Relief Fund has rescued over 200 children from Gaza needing medical treatment. Tracy Smith discusses with doctors the dire conditions in Gaza and the impact on children following Israel's response to Hamas' attack last October.
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Please watch this short video so you know at least a little about what is happening in Gaza
can't wait to see all the ways this will produce endless frustration in the most π way possible. my biggest gripe with π devices for YEARS has been how their design language of "only show what's important" forces hiding failures in a way that greatly inhibits troubleshooting.
so that's my fear w/ this setup: it's going to get implemented invisibly in apps, the app will only work if this remote compute does it's part, but your network connection is going to be interrupted in a way that only prevents you from getting to the compute and not the base app.