Been wanting to try silverback but not sure how to get started?. Have docker installed? Run

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Alchemy suddenly changing your account's billing without telling you is fun.

Personally, my intuition here is that the less time the AI spends writing code, and the more quickly it is able to arrive at a solution (in fewer lines of code), the better the results are going to be.

Now, does this intuition still make sense when AI is coding things?. I don't think so, but we'll see.

The intuition is pretty simple: devs like writing code. So even if you are saving them time by helping them write less code, they will actually be *more* annoyed if the tool takes slightly longer to run, because that takes them out of writing code, so they don't feel productive.

One thing to keep in mind for devtools:.you are optimizing for runtime. It doesn't matter if it actually takes longer to do the development loop, if it runs even 1 second faster it will *feel* faster because time spent writing code doesn't count towards the overall experience.

RT @valkenburgh: "Merely writing code without ill intent is not a crime." . Respectfully, there is no intent element to getting first amend….

What makes this all the more hilarious is various government agencies talking past each other. Treasury: "self-custodial DeFi software without embedded surveillance is a crime".DOJ:

So in closing, keep DeFi simple (and safe!), use off-chain monitoring to complement where AML surveilance is actually needed (e.g. off-ramping funds to purchase real-world goods, payments, etc.), and stay far, far away from impeding on 1A rights to express ourselves thru software.

DeFi however is a closed system, and I am firmly against trying to integrate these sorts of complex requirements into DeFi protocols as they are complex enough already (from an engineering perspective), adds marginal benefit, and creates significant financial contagion risk.

We actually have very effective off-chain monitoring systems already, and with the use of Automation/AI (which cannot possibly be integrated on-chain) you can layer on these types of requirements for systems that require them e.g. Stablecoins (as they have off-ramp capability).

From a practical standpoint, it's just very inefficient to integrate ever-changing & complex financial monitoring requirements into immutable and difficult-to-code on-chain smart contracts. Off-chain monitoring systems are much, much easier to update and refine heuristics for.

Once these systems are compromised, the way DeFi works creates layers-upon-layers of financial instruments that, once compromised like this, create financial contagion throughout the system, encouraging the systems for financial and economic collapse to occur. It is a bad idea.

Further, there is actually a pretty strong incentive to not only obtain the honeypot of KYC information, but to take over custodian's critical signing keys, which can grant false credentials to hackers allowing them to more efficiently launder money through these systems.

It causes more hacks because it centralizes KYC information into intermediaries that, historically speaking, are very, very good at leaking user data and getting hacked themselves. Except unlike Web2 data leaks, these data leaks can cause *permanent harm* to end-users.

This is really, really bad and stupid rulemaking, and needs to have a large number of comments telling the Treasury why such rules are not only anti-innovation, but easily circumvent-able, will cause *more* (not less) hacks and thefts (empowering threat actors), & goes against 1A.

RT @L0laL33tz: The Treasury is contemplating the implementation of digital identities in DeFi. This would mean that all software developer….

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It doesn't say it anywhere, but I was as surprised as anyone when Deepseek came out and blew the US state-of-the-art out of the water. Issuing e-Yuan on a public network like Ethereum would be the equivalent for their financial sector.

This is exactly what we don't want to have happen (but what is currently being advocated for in Senate's market structure bill, and default w/o any market structure bill at all).