Nico Baier
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Nico Baier
@nbbaier
Developer and linguist based in Chicago. PhD from Berkeley. I've also taught at McGill and UBC. I pretend to hate puns but I really don't
Chicago Beigetreten Ekim 2011
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I just stumbled upon this awesome article by @0xcgn and can't believe how much it resonates with me, it's very similar to my experience of agentic whiplash:
"The cost of building has collapsed, but the cost of maintaining, supporting, and committing to the thing you built hasn't changed at all."
also:
"Your agent setup is your vim config now. But for the cognitive layer."
Highly recommended it: cagin.dev/writings/pi-lo…
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HE HAS RETURNED TO OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPMENT LET'S FREAKING GOOOOO
github.com/maaslalani/she…
Great person to follow if you're looking for project inspo. He's always building fun stuff.
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I am finally using the tool for some real work!
Pekka Enberg@penberg
I am pretty tired of drowning in Ghostty tabs while running coding agents, so throwing some tokens at it to build a tool in Rust that runs on Linux. It's essentially just Ghostty with a nice workflow to managing coding agent workspaces.
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This this this
Matt Pocock@mattpocockuk
I don't know what the fuss is about. Anthropic's rules on using subscriptions are very simple: Claude Code = OK Claude's online platform = OK Agent SDK running in personal software = OK... ish? Agent SDK running in commercial software = NOT OK Claude Code running in CI = ?? Oh, maybe it's not so simple... Agent SDK running in CI = ?? claude -p running in CI = ?? claude -p running in personal software = OK claude -p running on open source software, but run on my personal computer = ?? claude -p running on distributed sandboxes, kicked off by me = ?? Distributing open source software which relies on claude -p, and documenting how to use your subscription with it = ?? A thousand other edge cases = ?? Let me be clear. I have never before experienced, from any developer tool, such a frustrating lack of clarity over the basic terms of usage. I personally asked, 3 weeks ago, and have received nothing but delays. The recent @bcherny announcement did absolutely nothing to clarify things. I say this as someone who just released a Claude Code course - my incentives all align with supporting Anthropic.
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I don't know if I've ever seen an llm generate this kind of diagram without misaligning something somewhere.
Anyone got a way to fix this automatically? I know there are solutions but now I can't find them
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@nbbaier here's an explanation ;)
x.com/vaibcode/statu…
Vaibhav Gupta@vaibcode
apparently more people like order-n planning. Here's how i do it in a bit more detail. tldr: 1. define a shitty ticket 2. research relevant parts of the codebase + prior art 3. understand and select from the landscape of design choices <-- this is time intensive 4. define a better ticket 5. research relevant parts of the codebase + prior art 6. understand and select from the landscape of design choices <-- this is time intensive 7. assemble a "plan" 8. assemble a plan with code snippets 9. let it rip 10. meticulously read test cases and compiler snapshots 11. go back to 1 with whatever I and agent got wrong. i repeat steps 4-6 until it really works. we're building BAML, a new programming language, fully in rust. and have had high success with 10-20k line PRs that "just work". X wouldn't upload so here's a video that shows more details: youtu.be/8wQBvT6L8Xk
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plan mode only works for order-1 difficulty tasks.
if you task is order-0, one shot it
order-1, plan mode
order-n, you need a recursive plan mode where you grill into increasing levels of depth at each layer.
for implementing test syntax, i had 4 times i had to create a "plan" just in this run (and 2 phases of defining the ticket)
Matt Pocock@mattpocockuk
I have also stopped using plan mode It creates a plan FAR too eagerly and usually asks you zero questions en route The whole point of planning is to get on the same wavelength with the LLM, not to generate an asset you don't read /grill-me all the way
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@penberg @nbbaier Its hard to keep up with all the very cool and interesting LLM orchestrators, Im not even sure you can call swarm that. The way it keeps global and project-specific state looks very robust. repo-explainer.com/penberg/swarm
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I can't read code, but I use open-source repos all the time. So I made a Github explainer: the @github for humans.
Simple human-facing explanations of the best repos out there. Because humans don't read code anymore, and vibe coders never did.
repo-explainer.com
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me and Claude are too busy trying to vibecode our way out of the permanent underclass
Genius Tech@Geniustechw
Guys, what's stopping you from obtaining this physique?
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NASA’s launches aren’t an advertisement for their upcoming IPO
Elias Makos@eliasmakos
Can someone explain why the Artemis launch video feeds didn’t look as good as this?
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@nbbaier @elithrar @mattzcarey @thomas_ankcorn y'all just have to wait for us to publish the artifacts @elithrar mentioned 😁
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ive been working w/ @elithrar, @mattzcarey, and @thomas_ankcorn on this and it's possibly the most exciting/cool thing ive worked on in my career
also finally had the chance to work on a project w/ these 3.
some of the most talented and fun colleagues to work with
Matt Silverlock 🐀@elithrar
working on the announcement blog, dev docs & API for something coming very soon 📦
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