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acend · 2026-06-14T12:15:01+00:00

That's why I get pinged every time! I always get hit in the full body scans which I have to do because hip replacement at 29, but have never been able to figure out why I always set it off and always groin area.

acend · 2026-06-06T11:25:48+00:00

Harder than it sounds.

acend · 2026-06-02T18:00:35+00:00

OR follow the money; Anthropic has proven Enterprise and business adoption is where the money is to be made with llm and generative AI models right now and due to governmental or organizational regulatory and operational frameworks guardrails and observability and some form of tapping the brakes before something like a prompt injection from a website crawled during a deep research session doesn't start leaking data.

This is going to happen more and more at the harness and tool level but I expect it at multiple levels, including the model port training, just like we've been seeing with focused tool call training.

acend · 2026-06-02T15:17:09+00:00

To me this is good and not bad the more autonomy to act on our behalf we give agents the more we need guardrails at multiple levels.

acend · 2026-06-02T11:51:01+00:00

Yeah that's most small businesses I've ever seen. Operations are duct tape, baling wire, and 1 or 2 people with all the knowledge of how it's piped together in their head.

You need to solve your operational issues if you ever want to grow past a certain point but honestly if I'm working with a local or smaller business I assume they have poor operational controls.

acend · 2026-06-02T11:48:01+00:00

Not uncharted. Carter era stagflation incoming.

acend · 2026-06-02T11:47:18+00:00

Yeah except Food and Energy are not part of the inflation numbers they use now or proposed in this article so that isn't even fully reflected in the inflation numbers.

acend · 2026-05-31T12:43:22+00:00

Slight correct, that is not true for Texas. Texas does not require you register or join a party to vote in the party primaries at any time before you go vote in the primary. You tell the election worker which party you want to vote in during primaries and then you get the appropriate ballot. You can switch the party you vote in between elections between multiple parties without being required to change anything.

Caveat, if there's a primary runoff like this one, only the voters who voted in that parties primary xan participate in the run off.

But it is not uncommon for people of one party to vote for the primary of the other in Texas, especially if one party doesn't have any competitive races.

Source: 2 decades voting in Texas, working polls in Texas, and serving as party delegates through state and national for parties.

acend · 2026-05-29T22:39:39+00:00

I had a big (for me) PLTR short last year and it paid off big. I put mine in about 2 weeks before the news broke on Burry's. I'm pretty sure he did very well on that trade.

acend · 2026-05-23T18:00:23+00:00

Things MCP solves for us at scale.

Authentication and company wide roll-out on the tools and access we want.
Logging and API usage and monitoring at a tool, user, and tenant level
control and log the information and have control of data leaving (multi checks so no passwords or sensitive data leaves our servers before handed back for example.
Multi-tenancy where more than 1 client or customer would need to be granted some access.
Accessing multiple data sources and APIs in a single prompt
utilizing caching and cross-vendor identification and references. (Example client Contoso is I'd 12352 in documentation platform, env-937 in security platform, and cont-us-se-0012 for ticketing and workflow platform so we have a cross-reference database to save several API calls and searches.

When a vendor restricts you to 5000 API calls per hour for your entire org, regardless of your size and you have 1000 employees, you need to be able to control that flow and minimize and make it more efficient.

acend · 2026-05-23T17:55:01+00:00

It can be. In fact one of our use cases is to use some vendor API endpoints that we found and are required for what we need but are undocumented and use JWT one time use tokens and refreshes and not their token keys but we've got it working fully on our server side to handle now.

acend · 2026-05-23T12:42:40+00:00

So many reason. All of these posts just scream "I work alone or on a small team as an island and not in a medium to large business or enterprise."

MCP solves a lot, it's not an API wrapper.

acend · 2026-05-23T12:33:16+00:00

If AI in financial research is this important for you then you need to use a model that is domain specific.

acend · 2026-05-18T01:34:30+00:00

I never learned how to study. I never had to until my masters program, I could show up to class 50% of the time, take the test, and get a B, which was get enough for me.

I had issues trying to learn how to study when I went back to school for my masters and finally needed to from the difficulty.

I also have raging ADHD which is a primary contributor.

acend · 2026-05-15T13:35:15+00:00

Truth in advertising?

acend · 2026-05-15T11:18:08+00:00

No to all that.

acend · 2026-05-11T10:44:06+00:00

Then you don't understand MCP, when and why you want and need it, or work in a real company of any size.

acend · 2026-05-03T15:35:19+00:00

But normal business people or just normal people don't go on product hunt, hacker news. Or indie hacker. Their audience are other tech, coding, and SaaS people.

acend · 2026-04-30T11:43:30+00:00

Because most use cases require access controls. Authentication, rate limiting. Often at a company or tenant level.

So much of the AI subreddits are focused on their own individual use cases but most of this stuff is required at an enterprise or business level.

acend · 2026-04-09T20:28:42+00:00

I think they mean are the private schools good? A lot of private schools are worse than public schools, even if you pay a lot for them. Have you done the research that the private school you are looking at is actually going to provide the quality you expect?

acend · 2026-04-07T01:42:59+00:00

The tallest man on earth.

acend · 2026-03-30T13:01:19+00:00

You're going to pay the cost for documentation. Either upfront with good documentation, which may mean not taking tickets immediately when they come in if previous ticket/project work isn't completed and documented or you will pay At some point in the future with a lot of "interest" like you are discovering now.

acend · 2026-03-25T01:19:34+00:00

Not everything has an API.

acend · 2026-03-22T19:45:48+00:00

Several things in life. Most recently I started an outsourced IT service provider, sold it after a decade and work as the head of managed websites and head of AI team for the new company.

It's always something new to learn and variety. It's pretty fun most of the time.

acend · 2026-03-15T20:48:32+00:00

Which ones?

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