Ben Vinegar
@bentlegen
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Watching an LLM just rip all-out on an autoresearch project is fascinating. Just thinking about all the human hours it would've taken to get this font file reduced by 5%... now available to you for the low cost of $7.82.
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hey @MarkJCarney make sure these guys get a few billi
The first-ever Canada Investment Summit kicks off today in Toronto.
Some of the largest investors in the world are here for a reason: they see our strength, they share our ambition, and they want to build big with us.
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Interesting to me that the consensus on here is that the entire frontier is lying. I can’t really recall the last time the consensus here was accurate. In fact, during times of volatility and noise it’s very often exactly wrong.
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many companies can barely stay on top of Discord - us included - especially on weekends
but we set up @modemdev to make sure we don't drop the ball entirely
happy to set this up for anyone's OSS community
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Capability vs. Safety resource allocation:
Nuclear: 60/40
Aviation: 60/40
Medical devices: 20/80
AI: 99/1
Do I understand the situation correctly?
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It took writing a programming book, speaking at 20+ confs, leading eng at a billion-dollar startup, having some OSS projects people use, getting invited on podcasts, starting a company, hanging out with smart / successful people who seemed to think I knew what I was doing …
… before accepting maybe it wasn’t all a fluke
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you don’t understand, i’m the world’s best imposter, absolutely world class imposter skills, a lifetime of developing them to be so convincing, i’ve somehow accumulated promotions, references, a career, and a body of work purely as supporting evidence for the bit.
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I resigned from @Sentry today. I spent the last year doing research on how to automatically fix issues after they acquired my company last May. They’re not acting responsibly. They’re racing straight toward self-healing software and gambling with drastically reducing the size of @datadoghq bills everywhere. No more thoughts below.
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got my first youtube hater
feels great tbh, like I finally made it
If you want to play around with an early thing: you can now give us money and we give you tokens in return.
We're about to hit 20 data integrations (!)
- each is isolated in its own @CloudflareDev worker(s)
- await incoming data mostly via webhooks, some polling, one websockets
- each processes events into Modem's ingest format & forwards to our main service/pipeline
- they manage their own resiliency/recovery
- all have staging envs, run E2E before prod
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Get an instant pulse on customer sentiment from every channel - bring your agent or use ours
Now with support for Pylon, Plain, and Canny
🏛️ announcing hunk v0.22.0 - now w/ `hunk log`
- TUI for reviewing git/jj history
- quickly jump from commit → diff
- OR multi-select a commit range
- supports mouse + all colour themes
also in this release: multi-line comments, lower memory usage, faster --watch, & more! 🔈
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🏛️ announcing hunk v0.22.0 - now w/ `hunk log`
- TUI for reviewing git/jj history
- quickly jump from commit → diff
- OR multi-select a commit range
- supports mouse + all colour themes
also in this release: multi-line comments, lower memory usage, faster --watch, & more! 🔈
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we started using Devin, it's impressive
but it may *also* have written the worst PR in Modem's history
(still gonna use it)
okay time to upgrade @bunjavascript
Toronto company btw
(aside, a cool way Canadians can help each other out is by trying each other's products)
hunk test suite on Bun 1.4 takes noticeably less time
(92% code coverage btw, we’re not savages)
your agent can now highlight individual lines and words in your diff
it's helpful for agent-steered code reviews - they can drill in and explain small code blocks
🎙️ State of Agentic Coding w/ @mitsuhiko and @bentlegen returns
In this episode (#9#):
- how agents are getting more autonomous
- the subsidies will continue until morale improves
- @herdrdev and VC-funded terminal apps
- vibe coding from your car, and more!
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My favorite part is where the agent tells @kentcdodds that Durable Object storage will cost roughly the same as R2, and he’s like “that sounds fishy” (correctly)
Shows how experts navigate suspect responses and where juniors will stumble
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We need more content like this where skilled practitioners break down their agent sessions: where and why they push back, what they discard, what they keep, etc
