On the contrary, I cannot understand how people are seriously using LLM outside of software engineering without account-wide memory. When I ask things like "what do you think John should do next on project A?", I don’t want to have to explain in detail who is John, what is project A and what John was working on before.

Security-wise, having a Claw doesn’t seem so different from having a traditional (human) assistant or working with a consultant. You wouldn’t give them access to your personal email or bank account. You’d set them up with their own email and a limited credit card.

>You wouldn’t give them access to your personal email or bank account.

I thought it was vaguely common for secretaries (or staffers) to run the email/social media accounts of politicians and executives? Also you might not give access your secretary access to your bank account, but you'd give it to your financial adviser or accountant.

> I thought it was vaguely common for secretaries (or staffers) to run the email/social media accounts of politicians and executives?

Yes, that's correct. One of the many functions of an executive assistant for a senior executive is to manage the email inbox and the calendar. But even there, there are rules, even if they aren't technically enforced by Google Workspace or MS Exchange. Each principal has a slightly different set of rules with their EAs, and you could imagine similar differentiation with how people customize their own AI agents to get the best balance of keeping your inbox clean vs. not causing your email to turn into a weapon against you.

When a human assistant or advisor is on the receiving end of this delegation, there's typically plenty of risk for them if they do something untoward. I am talking financial, reputational, legal, career risks.

When an AI agent screws up on some highly consequential manner, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

And like with Claws, every now and then a politician's secretary will post something inappropriate or embarrassing, and then the politician will end up taking the heat for it. Recently the president was caught up in some less-than-appropriate posts about a former president and blamed it on a staffer.

A secretary has much more limited throughput than an AI agent.

> You wouldn’t give them access to your personal email or bank account.

Citation needed…

Seriously, the number of very senior people I’ve come across who will happily share their login details (which are clearly the same everywhere) with almost anyone to avoid having to read a three paragraph email should put to rest any privacy or security related argument that starts with “you wouldn’t…”

Here we are not talking about a « real hyperlink ». Ads are just showing the vanity URL, very much like they could show some text or image. Browser cannot protect users if they click on something that resembles a link without being one.

I live in Paris, I have 2 small kids, and I don't have much time on my hands (founder). I go to work (5km) by bike every day, whether it rains, snows, or worse ;)

French company in Paris: - 600€ /day for a good developer (a few years of experience in stacks related to our needs) - 700/800€ for a more senior one (someone that can very well train the rest of the team or handle complexe features by himself)

And do you know what went wrong?

I don't have a comprehensive answer. All I know is Areva bought 3 uranium deposits in Africa for ~2.5 billions of € (plus ~1 billion of € for additional services Areva built later, like a desalination plant) but the deposits were ultimately not exploitable (costs of extraction were too high because concentration of uranium in the deposits was too small).

Areva used to be top in their field (mine prospecting, geological stuff) and then discredited. Ended up being bought back by EDF (which is to say, bought back by the French state).

The company (Uramin) that Areva bought (to get the uranium deposit fields) seem to have lie about their deposits' potential. It was before Fukushima sent the price of Uranium down, so they were expecting a lot of return on investments from this move.

The whole affair is riddled with corruption, insider knowledge, betrayal and incompetence at some key high level ranks at Areva. Too much easy money if you ask me, then someone (Uramin + insider ?) wanted a bigger part of the pie and the whole cake turned bad.

edit: also too much money (~10billions) invested in different fields ultimately led up Areva to bankruptcy.

They sold reactors for 3 billion a piece but it cost them 11 billion to build the first one because they didn't have and couldn't find the necessary competence.

We have built a full digital bank on AWS serverless here. Lambda, S3, DDB, SNS, … no switch, we built it from scratch. The peace of mind is one of the biggest pros. So we can focus on more payment related problems. The ease to build an event driven system is also a plus.

The only thing I regret is DDB. While the technology is great NoSQL was a poor choice for us. But at the time it was hard to attach anything else to a lambda without a heavy performance drop.

Does this include core banking, e.g. the ledgers.

I am currently in the exact same situation, also in France. And it seems to me that the more we see the progress that has been made on gender equality (by simply talking to your parents… or looking at the US) the more we see the long road ahead: - why do I have to leave my wife and baby alone at home for many weeks? - why do every nurse, pediatrician or midwife makes you feel like a outsider (sometimes with this nice condescending remark: « Oh nice, I see that the father has came ») - in many maternity, why do fathers need to fight to stay with the mother and baby (in France, some I know literally hid in the closet so they were not kicked out in the evening!) - why do I need to go to the women restrooms and face judging looks simply to change my baby?

The worst of it is that, in the end, it sometimes feels easier to fit into the mold and be a bystander in your baby first months. But I am fighting hard this tendency.

True, but in France almost all companies will also supplement so you can have a full salary.

I run a small bank in France and we cycle the whole card everytime: numbers (called PAN), expiry date and CVV. The costs with Visa, manufacturing partner and processing partner is negligible (compared to keeping the PAN). Every bank I know in the EU is doing the same.