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I've always referred to it in UX terms. "Progressive Disclosure" -- It pulls more context as needed.

In this way, I tend to think of the context environment on an agent is the "agent nav" -- it presents context, allows progressive disclosure, and if poorly designed, makes the agent flounder as a poorly designed UI/UX does.


A DAG?! Holy innovation, Batman!

Vectoralist News doesn’t have the same ring to it

Depending on the context, it’s fair use.

As it is, in this case.


It's as fair use as this scenario:

I can use 6 seconds of a movie in a clip as fair use so I cut an entire movie up into 6 second clips and play them all one after another for you.


No, it’s been decided by the courts to be fair use.

I’m not sure why people think they understand IP law better than the courts just because they don’t like the answer


> I’m not sure why people think they understand IP law better than the courts just because they don’t like the answer

Because judges are human beings and can be catastrophically wrong; e.g., see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dred_Scott_v._Sandford


Settled out of court does not mean the court has decided what is fair use in the case.

https://www.goodwinlaw.com/en/insights/publications/2025/06/...

https://admin.bakerlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/ECF-23...

> For the print library copies that Anthropic purchased and then converted into digital library copies, Anthropic already enjoyed entitlement to keep the copies in its library. The purpose of the copying was to keep them in its library but with more favorable storage and searchability properties. Copying the entire work was exactly what this purpose required. There was no surplus copying. The source copy was destroyed.

> The third fair use factor favors fair use for the purchased library copies converted from print to digital.

...

> This order grants summary judgment for Anthropic that the training use was a fair use. And, it grants that the print-to-digital format change was a fair use for a different reason. But it denies summary judgment for Anthropic that the pirated library copies must be treated as training copies.


Ah yes because “the courts” have an unblemished historical record of never getting anything wrong

> Can I make my own competitive LLM?

Yes, yes you can.

See the number of startups that have finetuned or trained an OSS model to build their business on.

“But you have to have compute!”

Ok, and you’re writing OSS on a rock with no internet connection?

The world has all kinds of barriers, but if anyone has a chance of competing on the LLM from it’s not going to be by getting rid of fair use.


forecasting = modeling = intelligence, you mean?

Forecasting = modeling + intelligence

And while compute likely is being overinvested in now (i.e., the price is artificially inflated, supply is being dramatically increased, etc.), the likelihood that this is a temporary shortage and, in the event of 'hype' deflating, an impending surplus -- I don't think we yet have to fear the inability for one to personally compute.

You're going to probably be downvoted because the truth is hard and the collective human ego is self-reinforcing, but I think you are correct.

'Quality' is a function of filling in the gaps of the new tools, not eschewing them entirely.


A point is coming very soon where coding agents are not tools but are just your replacement. If you prompt a coding agent to make you something then go have lunch, you didn't make anything, it did.

The Bobs are coming.

"What is it, would you say, you actually do here?"

:)


"You didn't build that house, your hammer did"


If I can tell a hammer to build a house, go have lunch, and come back to a finished section, then yes, I'm not really building anymore am I?

Some older folks I know call it Chat Jippity non-ironically


You are. Most people have just long decided to forgo nuance for the simplicity of snark and hate as a default response


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