Claude Code is unresponsive, API Error: 500

Early lunch break maybe.

EDIT: Seems to be back.

I'll be honest, I like the way Claude defaults to relentless positivity and affirmation. It is pleasant to talk to.

That said I also don't think the sycophancy in LLM's is a positive trend. I don't push back against it because it's not pleasant, I push back against it because I think the 24/7 "You're absolutely right!" machine is deeply unhealthy.

Some people are especially susceptible and get one shot by it, some people seem to get by just fine, but I doubt it's actually good for anyone.

The sycophancy makes LLMs useless if you want to use them to help you understand the world objectively.

Equally bad is when they push an opinion strongly (usually on a controversial topic) without being able to justify it well.

I hate NOTHING quite the way how Claude jovially and endlessly raves about the 9/10 tasks it "succeeded" at after making them up, while conveniently forgetting to mention it completely and utterly failed at the main task I asked it to do.

That reminds me of the West Wing scene s2e12 "The Drop In" between Leo McGarry (White House Chief of Staff) and President Bartlet discussing a missile defense test:

LEO [hands him some papers] I really think you should know...

BARTLET Yes?

LEO That nine out of ten criterion that the DOD lays down for success in these tests were met.

BARTLET The tenth being?

LEO They missed the target.

BARTLET [with sarcasm] Damn!

LEO Sir!

BARTLET So close.

LEO Mr. President.

BARTLET That tenth one! See, if there were just nine...

An old adage comes to my mind: If you want something to be done the way you liked, do it yourself.

But it's a tool? Would you suggest driving a nail in by hand if someone complained about a faulty hammer?

AI is not an hammer. It's a thing you stick to a wall and push a button, and it drives tons of nails to the wall the way you wanted.

A better analogy would be a robot vacuum which does a lousy job.

In either case, I'd recommend using a more manual method, a manual or air-hammer or a hand driven wet/dry vacuum.

It honestly reads like low effort engagement bait I'd expect to see on Twitter

It's fentanyl, one semi successful smuggling run traffic's enough fentanyl to lethaly dose thousands of people.

I mean a semi load worth could probably kill everyone in the US. Stuff is damnned strong.

The thing I used to like about the USA was that it aspired to a higher standard than the historical ones set by monarchs and fascists.

It does make me wonder if people are running very boring polite websites that can suddenly do very not boring or polite things if you know how to ask the right way over an onion address.

Surely I can't be the only one to think of this right?

In fact dozens of US spies and informants were killed or imprisoned when a secret communications network was exposed doing just that. I wish I bookmarked a better source, it described that the HTML for the portal was reused on every site, so once it was discovered on one site, everyone using it was burned.

Here's one article that alludes to it re: CIA informants in Iran, but I seem to remember China killing US spies and it just not making the news at all

"an analysis by two independent cybersecurity specialists found that the now-defunct covert online communication system that Hosseini used – located by Reuters in an internet archive – may have exposed at least 20 other Iranian spies and potentially hundreds of other informants operating in other countries around the world.

This messaging platform, which operated until 2013, was hidden within rudimentary news and hobby websites where spies could go to connect with the CIA. Reuters confirmed its existence with four former U.S. officials."

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-spie...

that seems unwise, you'd be associating your 'impolite' activities with an irl legal identity

Well, you could use a disposable legal identity. Say a hobby site, about bowling.

Tor does this sort of although not like you think. It's used as a bridge transport.

>https://blog.torproject.org/introducing-webtunnel-evading-ce...

>WebTunnel is a censorship-resistant pluggable transport designed to mimic encrypted web traffic (HTTPS) inspired by HTTPT. It works by wrapping the payload connection into a WebSocket-like HTTPS connection, appearing to network observers as an ordinary HTTPS (WebSocket) connection. So, for an onlooker without the knowledge of the hidden path, it just looks like a regular HTTP connection to a webpage server giving the impression that the user is simply browsing the web.

Good thing no one is suggesting that

I was a bot hyperbolic but having Teslas steer by wire with remote code execution is close enough to an Elon Musk behind every wheel. What was the name of the movie, "Leave the World Behind"?

Not sure about a movie but that reminded me of the "Driver" short story in the "Valuable Humans In Transit and Other Stories" tome by QNTM (https://qntm.org/vhitaos).

I'd recommend to buy the book, but here's an early draft of that particular story:

https://qntm.org/frame

I think a nod to how auth is handled would be well worth adding to the README.

Knowing it can integrate with API's is great, but knowing how a consumer of MCP interacts with auth, and how you do so with downstream API's would be very welcome.

That's a great idea. We'll add that asap. More broadly, we're working on documentation that explains Metorial, and it's sub-components, in more detail.

Just for context, it's as simple as 1) creating an OAuth Sessions (https://metorial.com/api/oauth-session) which includes a URL which you 2) pass on to your user's to authenticate at and you're done.

This is fascinating.

If one had an infected thymus, does this mean that immune cells would be eliminated for attacking the infection, and thus the immune system be tuned to ignore the present infection?

I've never thought or heard of that, but theoretically yes?

However most of this happens before birth, and thymus infection is pretty unlikely at that point - the baby is protected by the mom's antibodies and is also physically sequestered. If the unborn baby has a thymus infection I would be more worried about what the mother has.

It's called Gemini