Anyone know anyone who can approve "Amazon affiliates" API access for my weekend project? Seems like this should be a very low bar, but I have been unable to get approval

It seems like a big limitation w/ AI agents rn isn't the AI, it's that the surface for software to interact w/ other software has gotten pretty small Software on a phone is isolated to itself, and most modern services don't have public APIs. Agents would need to physically tap?

Just finished making a little cold plunge in the style of a Japanese ofuro. No fasteners, no epoxy, no plastic: instagram.com/reel/C7Ua96jJP…

This is a sad turn in a sad story. Glad I got to visit before it was destroyed.

Pre-Google, part of working with computers was developing a kind of intuition for which search engines to query with which things, how to query them, and what to expect. LLMs feel strangely similar rn. I find myself moving between them for diff things and prompting differently.

If you want to learn more about homelessness in SF, I think two easy things you can do are: 1. Volunteer and eat at Martin de Porres on Potrero. 2. Work from the SF public library main branch in lieu of a coffee shop. Occasionally say hello to the ppl on laptops at your table.