The Australian sulfur-crested cockatoos are pretty smart. They would teach each other how to open heavy bin lids to raid the garbage. I seem to remember they would even team up to do it. There are studies about how this behaviour spread from suburb to suburb in Sydney.[1]

More recently they've figured out how to operate drinking fountains.[2][3]

[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/cockatoos-lear...

[2] https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-06-04/sydney-sulphu...

[3] https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/nature-wildlife/2025...

My admittedly more puerile thought upon reading that bit was to change to code so it only loads goatse.

"Unlock your phone."

"No, I don't have to."

Detained in a room for twelve hours.

"Okay, okay, here's my phone."

So you missed your flight, probably not getting a refund on that ticket, missed the people/plans that were setup around you arriving 12 hours ago?

I'd rather wipe my phone and then restore it when I arrive.

"Why are you travelling with a blank phone?"

Detained in a room for twelve hours.

I'm rather partial to MyBatis (and Liquibase) but I might have to give Jooq a try.

I really like this idea. Gonna need an "Awesome Axe" page that collects agents.

One idea I'm thinking of is, after an agent has been in use for a while, and built up and understanding of the task, would be something like, "Write a Python script to replace this agent."

I could imagine this would work with agents that are processing log files or other semi-structured data for example.

True, although I wonder if that was one of the points he is trying to make.

In any case, you could go to his Mastodon account listed at the bottom of the article and check out who he is following.

“For months, callers to the Washington state Department of Licensing who have requested automated service in Spanish have instead heard an AI voice speaking English in a strong Spanish accent.”

For some reason this reminds me strongly of an old play-by-email game called C++Robots[1]. I loved the idea, but the timeslice limitation[2] I found too annoying.

I had youthful dreams of re-implementing something similar that would run on the Java Virtual Machine, where you could run the submitted robots via the debugger interface so you could keep "real-time" in the game environment more authentic. Ideas are cheap, follow-through is hard.

[1] https://corewar.co.uk/cpprobots.htm

[2] https://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/pbem_articles/cpprobots_environ...

> assume I'm an LLM

I've noticed a habit of late of people accusing a comment of being LLM generated if they disagree with it. It was getting quite tiresome a few weeks ago but seems to have died down.

I suppose it is possible that they are actually LLMs making the accusations? :-)

(I'm one of those weirdos that try to use proper grammar and complete sentences in text messages and instant messages.)

How have you been tracking down all the bits and pieces from your operating system that the agent still needs to do what it needs to? I'm working with Java projects and Gradle builds and the list of stuff is getting crazy.

I don't work with Java projects, but I just give it access to the basic binaries it needs, though I reserve some commands for myself.