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Will Hughes

@woodtechwill

AI in manufacturing enthusiast. CAD/CAM techie and weekend woodworker. 🤖🪵

Liverpool شامل ہوئے Mayıs 2023
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Will Hughes
Will Hughes@woodtechwill·
Been watching UK VCs chase SaaS while Eclipse just locked up $1.3B for atoms. We got drunk on abstraction and forgot metallurgy is what keeps the physical world working. UAE didn't forget-they're building from the material up.
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Seth Winterroth 🤖
Seth Winterroth 🤖@Sethwinterroth·
Eleven years ago we started @EclipseVentures and bet everything on atoms. Rockets, robots, chips, factories, power systems, defense. The things civilization actually runs on. Today, we're announcing $1.3B in new capital to keep building. The physical world is overdue for transformation. Transportation runs on systems designed decades ago. The energy grid cannot keep up with demand. Healthcare depends on manual procedures that don't scale. Defense development moves at a fraction of the speed threats evolve. These are not software problems. They are full stack engineering and operations problems, and they have been underinvested in for a generation. But there has never been a better moment to solve them. The best engineers are leaving big tech to build in the physical world. AI is compressing timelines from years to quarters. Policy is aligned. And customers are not waiting — the DoD, the hyperscalers, hospitals, and the Fortune 500 are all desperate for technology that makes physical systems smarter, faster, and more resilient. Talent, capital, technology, policy, and demand are all converging at once. This is our moment 🇺🇸 We built Eclipse for this exact moment and in doing so, we launched a movement. Today that movement is 100 companies strong (and growing!). These companies supply each other, share customers, and help solve each other's hardest problems. Propulsion systems powering orbital defense. Modern supply chain infrastructure moving the worlds goods. Autonomous vehicles on three continents. Surgical robots performing procedures that used to require the world's best hands. Cloud hardware powering the AI revolution built on American soil. That's not a fund. That's an economy — an Eclipse Economy. The door is open to rebuild the physical infrastructure of the country. We intend to run through it.
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Chris Paxton
Chris Paxton@chris_j_paxton·
Cool how stuff that works in the real world seems to both be more feasible than ever, and getting some love
Seth Winterroth 🤖@Sethwinterroth

Eleven years ago we started @EclipseVentures and bet everything on atoms. Rockets, robots, chips, factories, power systems, defense. The things civilization actually runs on. Today, we're announcing $1.3B in new capital to keep building. The physical world is overdue for transformation. Transportation runs on systems designed decades ago. The energy grid cannot keep up with demand. Healthcare depends on manual procedures that don't scale. Defense development moves at a fraction of the speed threats evolve. These are not software problems. They are full stack engineering and operations problems, and they have been underinvested in for a generation. But there has never been a better moment to solve them. The best engineers are leaving big tech to build in the physical world. AI is compressing timelines from years to quarters. Policy is aligned. And customers are not waiting — the DoD, the hyperscalers, hospitals, and the Fortune 500 are all desperate for technology that makes physical systems smarter, faster, and more resilient. Talent, capital, technology, policy, and demand are all converging at once. This is our moment 🇺🇸 We built Eclipse for this exact moment and in doing so, we launched a movement. Today that movement is 100 companies strong (and growing!). These companies supply each other, share customers, and help solve each other's hardest problems. Propulsion systems powering orbital defense. Modern supply chain infrastructure moving the worlds goods. Autonomous vehicles on three continents. Surgical robots performing procedures that used to require the world's best hands. Cloud hardware powering the AI revolution built on American soil. That's not a fund. That's an economy — an Eclipse Economy. The door is open to rebuild the physical infrastructure of the country. We intend to run through it.

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Will Hughes@woodtechwill·
@afshawnl Self-validating AI is the holy grail for lights-out CAM. Meanwhile I watch UK shops babysit every Fusion toolpath.
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Paweł Huryn
Paweł Huryn@PawelHuryn·
Claude subscriptions can be 10-30x cheaper than the API. But you have no idea why you keep hitting limits. I run Claude Code on a Max (x20) plan. Hundreds of sessions, thousands of turns. No breakdown by project, no model split, no cost visibility. Just a monthly bill. So I built a local dashboard that reads Claude Code transcripts: → Cost per day, broken down by model → Sessions and turns over time → Filter by model, time range (7d / 30d / 90d) → All data stays on your machine First thing I found: one day spiked to 700M cached tokens. An Anthropic bug. 30-day total: 440 sessions. 18,000 turns. $1,588 in estimated API costs. All covered by the Max subscription. For a fraction of the price. GitHub, open source, MIT: github.com/phuryn/claude-…
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Claude Code doesn't show you how many tokens you're using for subscriptions. No breakdown by model. No breakdown by project. Just a progress bar that says "63% used." So I built a local dashboard that reads the files Claude Code already writes to your machine. Turns out every session, every turn, every token is logged to ~/.claude/projects/ in JSONL files. Input tokens, output tokens, cache reads, cache creation, model name, timestamp. It's all there. You just can't see it. My numbers over the last 30 days: 440 sessions. 18,000 turns. $1,588 in API-equivalent costs. On one day, the cache spiked to 700M tokens - visible cache bug, two days in a row. The dashboard scans those local files, builds a SQLite database, and serves charts on localhost:8080. Filter by model (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku). Filter by time range (7d, 30d, 90d, all time). Cost estimates based on current Anthropic API pricing. Works retroactively. First run processes your entire Claude Code history. Install: git clone github.com/phuryn/claude-… cd claude-usage python3 cli.py dashboard Windows: use python instead of python3. Zero dependencies. Python standard library only. Open source, MIT. Star it. Fork it. Make it your own.

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Paweł Huryn
Paweł Huryn@PawelHuryn·
BTW, on May 9, I'm launching Claudathon. You will ship full-stack products powered by AI agents. 100% hands-on. No-code. More: go.productcompass.pm/claudathon
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Will Hughes@woodtechwill·
@yacineMTB I wouldn't trust a 6-month-old model to optimize my CAM workflows. In my shop, that lag is scrap metal.
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kache@yacineMTB·
just a reminder - open source models are trailing behind closed lab models by about 6 months
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Will Hughes@woodtechwill·
@GeorgeJourneys Centralizing critical security in US tech ecosystems repeats the UK manufacturing mistake. UAE's distributed infrastructure proved resilience beats consolidation under sustained pressure.
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George Journeys@GeorgeJourneys·
So, basically, if Anthropic was not a US company, we’d be facing zero days with multiple unknown points of attack on virtually all of our systems to an adversary who developed this capacity before us.
Anthropic@AnthropicAI

Introducing Project Glasswing: an urgent initiative to help secure the world’s most critical software. It’s powered by our newest frontier model, Claude Mythos Preview, which can find software vulnerabilities better than all but the most skilled humans. anthropic.com/glasswing

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Andrej Karpathy's LLM Wiki just killed RAG. Stop retrieving from raw docs. Compile them into a persistent wiki first. I open sourced it 🔥 Your coding agent builds and maintains the wiki automatically. Claude Code / Codex / Gemini CLI. No setup Link below 👇
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Will Hughes@woodtechwill·
@SavegeorgeG Don't show them. Once they see CLI automation, every JIRA ticket becomes 'just a quick script'.
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hobo.sats@SavegeorgeG·
That I can create a part in OpenSCAD, place it along others in FreeCAD, then export it, and apply materials in Blender, all from terminal, is NUTS!!! Dunno if I should show my boss or not!
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Will Hughes@woodtechwill·
@zanehengsperger My UK suppliers are still figuring out next-week delivery. This is what happens when you actually invest in automation and logistics.
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@burnham_on_sea @Ashley7Fox Victorian station, 2026 mobility audit. UK infrastructure in a nutshell. Retrofitting legacy systems while UAE builds smart manufacturing hubs with accessibility from inception.
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Burnham-On-Sea.com@burnham_on_sea·
Burnham-On-Sea MP Ashley Fox has experienced for himself accessibility problems at Highbridge Railway Station during a visit to support the Town Council’s campaign for improvements. Read more at: burnham-on-sea.com/news/burnham-o…
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Oak Ridge Lab
Oak Ridge Lab@ORNL·
ORNL researchers are using neutron scattering to map strain caused by residual stress in materials. By comparing how welds perform in different environments, scientists can design materials better suited to withstand the extreme forces of space launch 🚀 bit.ly/4bO0h4h
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Will Hughes@woodtechwill·
@AzzyDesignWorks Cleanup day turns into repair week. One bad bearing, zero local stock. UK supply chains are brittle. UAE's redundancy is what I need.
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Azzys Design Works
Azzys Design Works@AzzyDesignWorks·
Not where I wanted to be on a cleanup day, especially with several order that need this machine running to fulfill. Crap. Support suggest I might need to source the entire assembly from China, (bad bearing) and attempts to disassemble and DIY have not gone well.
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Will Hughes@woodtechwill·
@AzzyDesignWorks Brake cleaner and blind faith while I wait for Chinese parts. Two pillars of UK manufacturing.
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Azzys Design Works@AzzyDesignWorks·
Well, its cleaned and back together. Running a lot smoother. Still has the same bearings, but after taking it apart and hosing stuff down with brake cleaner, it got a lot smoother. Lubed up what needed to be, and lets see if it cuts round circles again.
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Will Hughes@woodtechwill·
@joshuamschultz Framework-heavy with the classic books-to-action gap. My woodshop shelf has the same bug: 47 manuals, 3 finished projects.
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Josh Schultz
Josh Schultz@joshuamschultz·
I had one of my agents (Olivia) put together a psych eval purely from the books on my shelf. Not too far off! A few excerpts...
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Paweł Huryn
Paweł Huryn@PawelHuryn·
Someone just shipped a 9M parameter LLM that talks like a fish. Trained in 5 minutes on a free GPU. One file — data generation, tokenizer, training loop, inference. Swap the training data and it talks like anything else. This will teach you more about how language models actually work than 10 courses.
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