Luis Villa

I got lucky! Missed my window for vil.la though 😆

Totally reasonable. Definitely love it.

(I’m not serverless on my blog, but have gone static. Could pretty easily build this+some minimal caching into the static build, though.)

preach. So many non-fiction books are really pamphlets in (very bad) disguise. Let me pay $3-5 for the pamphlet!

Oooh, interesting.

Why not caching on your end? Just for simplicity, or a deeper architectural choice?

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I am not sure! The line between those things in patent-land was fuzzy before this.

Vacation status: wondering if I can sneak away from family to re-read the copyright office report and send a brainstorming email to Trusted Copyright Friends. 😬

Yeah hence “not sure this is a good idea”. Especially since “unknown quirks” covers a lot of ground, like security problems, under “quirks”.

But it’s interesting.

If your criticism is “this is insecure” and the person criticizing has never shipped a significant amount of secure code, and the person being criticized has shipped more secure code than the vast majority of professional programmers then… yes, it is?

Hahahah that is amazing

Yeahhh, that was a mistake. Remind me some other time to explain why at non-toot length.

Also related, I really want to read the reviewed book (not out for a few weeks) because “failure of sensemaking” seems to be the core challenge of the day, including around copyright.

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I need to reread the Copyright Office advisory, because I am wondering if it got to the right result in the very wrong way.

Namely, if software is now something we can just describe with a functional spec, no (c) because purely functional rather than because no authorship?

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(this place has the juice)

Matches my vague sense that it was MS → OAI → Anthropic in that order, perhaps in part because Claude had hardly any commercial business to speak of at that point

It should! It’s very weird and counterintuitive and probably temporary.

Time is very weird right now. I want to say late 2024? But could be 1984 for all I can say reliably.

Yeah a topic I (under-)discussed with my students last week is that specialized legal AI tools are probably at this point worse than general-purpose tools for many legal tasks.

All the major ones have adopted it as a commercial norm, yeah: free/consumer tier has “we can train on you”, business-tier terms (as low as $20/mo IIRC?) get privacy guarantees that would have addressed the court’s stated issues here.

There’s still issues of ethics/malpractice, of course.

No, I’m toasting my brother at his wedding 😂

Yup, that too but that didn’t fit in the first toot and lolsob I’m supposed to be on vacation

The price of a professional tier license is still so cheap that there is no excuse for small firms. (Probably most of them already have copilot as part of licenses they’re already paying, as well.)

Definitely an issue for pro se, but everything is an issue for pro se 😔

I don’t think it’s correct to say that’s about “off the rack” LLM, it’s specifically about the free tier, which has no privacy guarantees. All the professional tier LLM tools (still “commercial off the shelf”) provide the privacy guarantee the court wanted to see.

Which court/holding is this?

Cozy red teaming 🤪

Every once in a while I try to buy vil.la but last I checked they wanted $30k for it

Of all things I bought it from a British guy named … Steve? Bob? Amazingly I can’t find the email.

Hopefully we don’t invade Iceland 😬

he’s definitely better positioned than you to know if it is “beneath him”, and he’s likely better positioned than you to know if it is “ridiculous”, since he’s a skilled and dedicated coder and this library is his life’s work.

Right, plus the corollary “if you don’t code you aren’t as capable”. So many conversations over the years with very skilled programmers who did not, for the life of them, have the skills to understand the human beings they were nominally writing code for.

I do not! My friend who I was passing along a doll post does. Or did until last night.