People should say what models/tools they used in even show the prompts.

"show the prompts"

What would the prompt for this look like?

never mind the fact that the model is constantly reseeding itself against the files it’s reading from your working directory, so the prompts are useless on their own.

Yes, if you do a bunch of simulations and write-up a technical report, that is science.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.14740v1

You can change just change the last word and get Latin American foreign policy for the past 130 years,

"Imagine a world where in order to do business in the US you must grant the government control of your country".

Big Tech: you can just do things.

Corrupt, evil Government: OK.

If the gov does the "nuclear option" described on article, what do you think Anthropic's AI can do about it?

I have been trying to help someone in Guatemala receive payments from international tourists and PayPal seems to be the best option we've found, even though I don't like using it (horror stories about money being stranded in locked account, etc).

A rival UN with $1B entry fee.

"Hundreds of billions of lines of COBOL run in production every day, powering critical systems in finance, airlines, and government."

That number sounds enormous. If the same code runs on 10,000 ATMs, are they counting that 10,000 times?

No.

Cobol is an extremely verbose programming language, and it was used in an era when the practice of programming was much less developed. Calls into libraries were often not used, and instead any re-used code was copied, essentially inlined by hand. (With all the obvious problems that caused.)

The combination of automating complex processes, requiring embarrassing amounts of code to do simple things, re-use by copy and the fact that it was dominant in it's field for such a long time (4 decades!), the amount of COBOL code that exists out there is just staggering.

I know of 1 smaller Cobol company. They alone had 10 to 100 million lines, after a decennium of trying to move to Java. Source files containing 1 routine were easily a few KLoc. The number in the article is probably too low.

The main problem with these code bases are they predate modern coding practices, so the sheer size, incomprehensability and untestability will crush you. You can easily spend your whole carreer reading the source code and reach pension age before you finish. Also, the organisational difference between 2 code bases is much bigger than modern code bases, as every company invented their own practices, and people rarely switched companies so didn't know what others were doing.

I wonder how much American labs do the same.

If they would sue we could find out in Discovery. Which is probably why they don't sue, and cry publicly for political action

Groups and Marketplace seem to be the main genuine uses in many non-US countries.