Felix Brener

Gentlemen, what’s stopping you from dressing this way?

wanted to build a dashboard tracking ai companionship on reddit. turns out the landscape moves too fast for a stable read — which kind of became the point. precision-first keyword validation, no llm classifier — important for a discourse this overinterpreted. claudeslop below

Underrated things about NJ - 1) NJ is deeply, deeply unpretentious. It filters out pinkies up people better than anywhere else in the country. 2) NJ is hilarious. My least funny friend in high school is top 1% funny any other place in the country. 3) Food in NJ is amazing. Especially in the suburbs. Strip mall meals in NJ mog just about any other suburban cuisine in the country.

anyone thinking about, learning, or already working with agentic systems, you should know this. the first few steps of your setup matter more than any model or framework you pick later. get them right and you never lose your flow. the foundation nobody posts about: > 1. tailscale. a private mesh network across every machine you own. laptop, desktop, rented node, all on one secure tailnet, reachable from anywhere. nothing else works well until this does. > 2. termius, over that tailnet. one SSH client that reaches every node, phone included. you are never away from your stack. > 3. tmux. persistent sessions. disconnect, close the laptop, come back, every session exactly where you left it. agentic work runs long, your terminal has to survive that. > 4. a private git repo. the one i am most glad i found. it is the memory layer across all my agents, they pull, they work, they merge back, the codebase stays alive between sessions. context that would die in a chat window lives in the repo instead. > 5. script everything from day one. ssh aliases for every node, setup scripts, the boring boilerplate automated. if you will do a thing more than twice, it is a script. everything past these five is decorative. know these cold. and the habit that ties it together: ask the AI itself. for the config, for the error, for any of it, let the agent do the lifting, then double check what it hands you. lock the five, build the habit, and you make it. skip it, anon, and you ngmi.

4.5 year old daughter: "Are grandma and grandpa homo erectus?"

I just got to my neighborhood bar and this man sat next to me and started chatting with me. It took me wayyy too long to realize he was actually hitting on me

sf is so weird what do you mean theres a tinned fish party

anyone thinking about, learning, or already working with agentic systems, you should know this. the first few steps of your setup matter more than any model or framework you pick later. get them right and you never lose your flow. the foundation nobody posts about: > 1. tailscale. a private mesh network across every machine you own. laptop, desktop, rented node, all on one secure tailnet, reachable from anywhere. nothing else works well until this does. > 2. termius, over that tailnet. one SSH client that reaches every node, phone included. you are never away from your stack. > 3. tmux. persistent sessions. disconnect, close the laptop, come back, every session exactly where you left it. agentic work runs long, your terminal has to survive that. > 4. a private git repo. the one i am most glad i found. it is the memory layer across all my agents, they pull, they work, they merge back, the codebase stays alive between sessions. context that would die in a chat window lives in the repo instead. > 5. script everything from day one. ssh aliases for every node, setup scripts, the boring boilerplate automated. if you will do a thing more than twice, it is a script. everything past these five is decorative. know these cold. and the habit that ties it together: ask the AI itself. for the config, for the error, for any of it, let the agent do the lifting, then double check what it hands you. lock the five, build the habit, and you make it. skip it, anon, and you ngmi.

Seems like Grok build can’t build anything Way worse than i thought

OPENAI 🔥: In the future, Codex will be able to control other desktop devices with the Codex installation. All your Mac Minis, your desktop station at work, or even your grandparents' old computers can form your own "Codex network". Along with the upcoming "Locked Use" setting, this feature will allow Codex to invoke Computer Use capabilities on other machines from your main device.

shooting my shot: I'm dating again! I'm a 31-year old eng in SF, mostly nerdy (into local politics, the economist, a24, Ellsworth Kelly) also reasonably outdoorsy (running, skiing) and I cook you should be a 25-35 guy who wants kids, is intellectually curious, and lacks chest hair

Elon just updated the entire X algorithm code I just went through all 24,000 lines of the algo What I read blew me away Here’s everything you need to know about how to go viral and if you can still get shadowbanned: 🧵