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@broady

yaml/md engineering @buildwithfern, former bigtech worker. coding for fun.

Katılım Nisan 2007
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cbro
cbro@broady·
I've verbally accepted an offer to join as staff eng @buildwithfern to sling some yaml (the currency of the future). I'm excited to be a part of a small team scaling it up with @getpostman.
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cbro@broady·
@kerckhove_ts Never played Factorio but flow control is very important!
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Tom Sydney Kerckhove
Tom Sydney Kerckhove@kerckhove_ts·
There's a rule of thumb in Factorio: "avoid item/fluid buffers" which you only tend to learn after quite a while. (Buffers don't really save you, but do prolong the time before you find a broken process) I think about this a lot in the software industry.
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Tim Culverhouse
Tim Culverhouse@rockorager·
@broady What language are you working in? Best advice for terminals these days is to use mode 2027 and use proper grapheme segmentation
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Tim Culverhouse
Tim Culverhouse@rockorager·
Rocko’s second Law: If you get involved in terminals or TUIs you will eventually make a Unicode library
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cbro
cbro@broady·
@weswinder not to mention it's rude to ask an LLM what model it is and expect a reliable result.
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Wes Winder
Wes Winder@weswinder·
lol this dude just blocked me for telling him gpt-5.5 doesn't have a codex model variant?? he was (understandably) confused because codex (the app) identified itself as "codex" in chat openai has done irreversible damage by using the term "codex" for a million different things
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cbro
cbro@broady·
@techwithhannahm watch your head and watch your step on the way in! 😭
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Hannah Mulvaney
Hannah Mulvaney@techwithhannahm·
one small step for autonomous vehicles. one giant concussion for mankind
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Quinn Slack
Quinn Slack@sqs·
Just cut the Amp Token Fee by 75% when using your ChatGPT sub with @AmpCode's deep/rush modes: ampcode.com/settings/model…. Now it's $0.05 per 1M tokens. (Still experimental, still subject to change.) Happy coding!
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Botir Khaltaev
Botir Khaltaev@botir33751732·
@broady haven't checked out thanks for sharing will take a look. for me it's not just about code search. for each task i believe there are different workloads i.e. for code it's symbols and literals. for knowledge bases it might be relationships and semantic similarity
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Botir Khaltaev
Botir Khaltaev@botir33751732·
Grep with indexes is severely under explored. You can create virtual representations of your file system depending on task you are doing to increase agent performance. github.com/botirk38/sift
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cbro
cbro@broady·
@AdamRackis 😭 I think everyone has their own unique experience and I appreciate the discussion on the timeline about it.
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Adam Rackis
Adam Rackis@AdamRackis·
@broady Am I the broken clock here or is dhh 😂
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Adam Rackis
Adam Rackis@AdamRackis·
I’ve always said typescript is basically a linter, except good. With incredible inference skills. ffs dhh your cloud hosting / infra takes are amazing and I’ve been cheering your savings on 💰 Please come around on types 🙏 You’re too smart for this shit 👊
DHH@dhh

Agents don't need types. They're perfectly capable of pulling off incredible refactorings without. Give them a linter and a test suite, and you have all you need. Token efficiency is where it's at.

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cbro
cbro@broady·
@utpalnadiger that's very nice but we need to know what you use to access your agents from the beach
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Utpal Nadiger
Utpal Nadiger@utpalnadiger·
the crazy part about living in sf is a bali-esque beach is a 17 minute drive away.
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cbro@broady·
@lsrspeakstocomp i studied information systems and it's crazy how it's actually only really relevant now in my career
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Lakshay Sagar Rana
Lakshay Sagar Rana@lsrspeakstocomp·
ontology + linguistics is all you need.
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Michael Druggan
Michael Druggan@Michael_Druggan·
Update: Ludwig has paid me $1000 as the recent disproof of the unit distance conjecture was judged to qualify as fully autonomous interesting math. This is an exciting development. I fully expected to win this bet but I didn't expect for it to happen quite so soon.
Michael Druggan@Michael_Druggan

After some back and forth to agree on terms @ludwigABAP and I have decided that if on Dec 31 2030 @littmath says that AI has not yet generated any interesting math research I will pay Ludwig $1000 and if he says that it has Ludwig will pay me $1000. This bet will be on the honor system but I think we both care enough about our reputations that no one will squelch.

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cbro
cbro@broady·
@geoffwolfe true grit wait i missed the f in there somewhere
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Geoff Wolfe
Geoff Wolfe@geoffwolfe·
Bro went from saying he grinded out a PhD to now glazing himself for dropping out of PhD.
Beff (e/acc)@beffjezos

@elonmusk @iScienceLuvr Finishing PhD is an anti-signal in many cases. If you didn't learn to go to drop out go to industry and build real things, then you are probably too theory-pilled

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cbro
cbro@broady·
@omarluqq @skvark lmk if you try it - I mount to /mnt/github.com I should probably make sure it works on macOS (NFS) and not blow up the computer (drivers are tricky). I think I can make initial listings even faster too.
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Olli-Pekka Heinisuo
Wanna make your coding agent feel truly limitless? Give it access to all open source code so that it can grep, glob and read through it. Currently, it sees only your local system. That's what unlocked the current tier of capabilities. The next step is to let it see also inside all the dependencies.
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cbro
cbro@broady·
@DonaldPMitchell I only filed one patent but I was amazed how fast the patent lawyers understood the idea and did all the paperwork. Brilliant minds.
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Donald Mitchell
Donald Mitchell@DonaldPMitchell·
At Bell labs and Microsoft, I found patent attorneys to be interesting characters. A lot of general knowledge and experience understanding every kind of thing. One told us, "if you are in a meeting, and someone starts talking about another company's patents, leave the meeting immediately to avoid double-damage lawsuits. Tip over the water pitcher as you get up, so everyone remembers that your left."
Jawwwn@jawwwn_

.@PalmerLuckey: American companies don't actually have engineers anymore. "American companies have been hollowed out." "We're not teaching engineers how to be engineers anymore." "We're not teaching designers how to actually design things to be manufactured." "We're teaching them how to be high-level design shops that put together a design package, that gets sent to the real engineers in China—and they actually figure out how to do the work." "People are turning into architecture astronauts." "They pick components, and they put them in a nominal layout." "But the real work of—how am I actually going to put this together? How am I going to build a manufacturing line to make this? How am I going to need to figure out how to do the one, two, three, four, five different revisions of this board to pass radio emissions and interference standards? That's all done in China. So they are the real engineers." Via @HooverInst

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