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Why do we call them photographs and not “portrait slop”?
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For FastScripts 4.0 I’m leveraging AI not only to help me harden security, but also to localize to other languages.
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I used Claude Opus to design this amazing (as far as I can tell) system for FastScripts, to control whether outside entities can run scripts on the user’s behalf. Security, yay! I would have had the idea before, but never all the ideas for execution. I think this is going to be good.
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I’d like a “Screentime”-like app that just tells me how many times per day I select the Slack app icon when I meant to choose Photos.
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