I have a transcript on my blog post. Someone copied the transcript here too, search "spice‑harvester" on this page (I asked it to replace some of my personal project names with words from the Dune universe).
The author's blog has what follows (link also follows):
[Seriously y'all in what universe would some "caveat" or another NOT "be a real one" by whatever severity you'd want to measure that AND/OR need of saying so ... ]
Claude (Original)
Force pushed. 1234567...890abcd main -> main (forced update).
Verified
Local main and origin/main both at 890abcd, in sync.
Every commit reachable from origin/main: no old string found.
Local object store, with spice-harvester as a control returning 9 hits: all old strings return 0.
Working tree clean, tests pass.
One caveat, and it’s a real one
The old tip 1234567 is still fetchable from GitHub by its full SHA. I confirmed this directly:
GitHub keeps unreachable objects until its own garbage collection runs, and there is no schedule you control. Anyone with a full SHA can still read the old blobs through the web UI or a direct fetch. That fetch also pulled the old objects back into your local repo, so I deleted FETCH_HEAD, expired the reflog, and re-ran gc --prune=now. The counts above are from after that cleanup.
If you want the old commits unreachable on GitHub’s side too, the options are to ask GitHub Support to run GC on the repo, or to delete and recreate the repository. Deleting and recreating is the only one you can do yourself. Say the word if you want help with either.
Nothing to commit this turn. The rewrite was the work, and the tree is clean.
Claude × Vomit GPT-OSS-20B
I force‑pushed the branch, updating main to commit 890abcd. I verified that my local main and origin/main are both at 890abcd. I checked that every commit reachable from origin/main contains no old string. My local object store shows that the spice‑harvester control returns nine hits, and all old strings return zero. The working tree is clean and the tests pass.
However, the old tip 1234567 is still reachable on GitHub by its full SHA. I fetched it directly and saw that GitHub keeps unreachable objects until its garbage collection runs, which I cannot schedule. Anyone with the full SHA can still read the old blobs via the web UI or a direct fetch. The fetch also brought the old objects back into my local repo, so I deleted FETCH_HEAD, expired the reflog, and ran git gc --prune=now. The counts I reported are after that cleanup.
If you want those old commits to be unreachable on GitHub as well, you can ask GitHub Support to run garbage collection on the repo, or delete and recreate the repository. Deleting and recreating is the only option you can do yourself. Let me know if you need help with either.
There is nothing to commit this turn. The rewrite was the work, and the tree is clean.
Normally people have feelings about things before they are able to put them into words, I would imagine if you were asked a question like "what city would you most like to visit" then unless you've already thought about it a lot, then you would have to do substantial non-verbal thinking before you can come up with an answer, and once you have the answer you may respond "my favorite city is X" and you decided what X would be before you started the sentence.
Here's the best way I can explain how I "think" because it is mostly passive, but sometimes, I am actively thinking.
If I'm asked a hard question, like what city I'd most like to visit, I kind of have to look up cities and cross reference them with ones I've noted that I want to visit, or have visited and liked enough to go back, then actually read the list, and figure out which one, but each time I read a city, I might have a, this would be great in summer or winter or they have a cool festival in June. Which leads to additional question I have to ask. Which I think about roughly the same speed I speak, maybe a word or two faster.
My wife is the complete opposite. She can put together a sentence in an instant in "parallel" so when she says it, she though it already, but not as a sentence.
Human brains all work so crazily weird, and we are only just now started to realize all the nuances.
Also, it sounds like the kind of thing that sells. Any company with a customer support chat is a potential user of this model, any large company may be interested in getting a mistral installed set-up for handling without needing to send client info over the web. Installing those kinds of local systems seems to be what butters Mistral's bread at the moment.
It would, leading to more resources going towards producing those goods. A UBI is price signal indicating the needs no/low income people matter.
Maybe it would be too politically unpopular, lead to too much spending on vices, or some other issue, but inflation shouldn't be a concern unless those particular goods are of a fixed quantity over the long term.
I think as well as UBI we should have universal basic land. Grant everyone the right to a share of an apartment building that doesn't exist yet on a specific plot of land on the city outskirts. Few people will want to actually group together and build apartment buildings on vacant land on the city outskirts, but I would hope that just having the option would bring down the price of land for everyone. Private options would have to actually compete with the basic public option instead of taking advantage of their customers having no alternatives. Same thing that already happened in telecoms.
Depending on the nature of the study, there's lots of scientific disciplines where it's trivial to get populations in the millions. I got to see a fresh new student's poster where they had a p-value in the range of 10^-146 because every cell in their experiment was counted as it's own sample.
The difficulty comes when you don't know to google, or to ask the LLM because you don't realise that a particular challenge requires addressing. I can build a completely functional webapp that has absolutely no security, and there may be no clear "I should google how to do this" point that would steer me towards tools that would save me from this mistake.
