On the write path

Joined February 2008
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Adam Hevenor retweeted
Lots of people have known for a while that guardrails for frontier model APIs are very easily jailbroken, quite shallow and impossible to fix. They’re mostly a smokescreen and distraction, in my opinion. We need a different paradigm for AI safety!
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If I could move my business to Germany or Austria I would in a heartbeat. The truth that the US is the only game in town for tech careers is even more true for Americans.
When I struggle to structure my thoughts about what's happening I turn to writing. Today about the recent US Anthropic ban news, what it says about power and dependency, and what it should mean for Europeans and citizens of the world. It's a long one. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/6/13/a…
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Fable 5.
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you are using coding agents you are using loops. The architecture is a while loop and you can add more loops from there. You don't have to, and the longer things loop the more unpredictable (but potentially delightful) the outcome.
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The frontier models are great performance engineers. Give them tight problem constraints, and they'll produce high quality reproducible benchmarks. Here's one I ran today on @turbopuffer github.com/hev/bench
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A I have greatly missed owning my own distribution on the web. Here's my story of how I came full circle on CMS and web distribution. Fun fact my first web site from 2005 still works! Long live the semantic web. hevmind.com/writing/new-site…
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Teams that went remote and wrote everything down have a distinct advantage in the next wave.
This is effectively the #1 problem for AI agents in the enterprise. As we go from agentic coding (where a large amount of context is in the code base, and users are technical enough to get the rest to the agent easily) to a world of knowledge work agents, the context problem becomes much more acute. We see this every day with customers at Box. For existing digital knowledge, it’s often fragmented across legacy systems or environments that don’t play nice with agents, and have access controls that don’t map to the real work that needs to be done, which become a huge hurdle for getting agents the context they need. This has to all get moved to modern, secure cloud environments. But also, companies often haven’t captured and digitized some of the critical context that agents need to work with. Decisions, processes, and workflows often live in people’s heads and tribal knowledge that need to get turned into unstructured data for agents. This is actually one of the biggest points of leverage for applied AI companies, because they can work to specialize in getting agents exactly the information and domain expertise they need. But it’s also one of the reasons why FDEs and new system integrator plays will also work so well right now. The companies that figure this out will be able to get the most out of AI going forward.
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What could possible go wrong... ..cool feature tho.
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You can now turn any GitHub repo into a registry. Drop in a registry.json. Define your items. Install with the CLI. Distribute components, utilities, config, docs, rules, design systems, workflows, agents, skills and more.
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The research is damning. The surface of this substrate is completely load bearing!
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Somehow after nearly 60 years the db remains the most interesting piece of software IMO. I don't think Stonebrakers End of an Era paper bifurcation of OLAP and OLTP will hold up. New hardware (nvme) seems likely to collapse it but it'll take another ~30 years due to incentives.
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Share nothing!
The boring version of your data pipeline is often the best one. Parquet → S3 → DuckDB → BI tool. No distributed compute, no DAG framework, no orchestration complexity. It works reliably until it doesn’t, then you actually know why.
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Yep, have relegated opus to mostly front end work.
honestly claude code / opus 4.7 feels barely usable compared to codex / 5.5 at this point for any kind of long running / complex engineering work
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i know people have lots of different planning harnesses and stuff, but I just organically drifted into having my agents collaborate on rfc's with backing GH issues and it's surprisingly easy to manage.
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I am a big believer in discipline. Simon has it. Watch out $ESTC
turbopuffer crossed $100M run-rate in March. 19mo after $1M. Profitable & <$1M raised. Cursor・Anthropic・Notion・Cognition・Harvey・Bridgewater・Ramp・Linear・Legora・Superhuman・Atlassian・Granola We’d be nowhere without them. We work like hell to exceed their expectations.
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It does feel like agents speed running the web. This is web 2.0. next a mobile app social game version of your plan (that actually sounds pretty cool 😎)
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continuing my HTML era, I had so much fun talking with Claire at Code w/ Claude about staying in the loop with long running agents
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Adam Hevenor retweeted
currently, we use software. very soon, software will use us. this is now inevitable.
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Adam Hevenor retweeted
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you can use LLMs to produce the best code of your life you can use LLMs to produce the worst code of your life
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