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Joined August 2015
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for the late voters my guide remains here and I have UPDATED governor to vote for steyer for strategic reasons (sigh)
thank you for waiting patiently, the official benkraft voter guide is here! come for yes I do have an opinion on the governor's race, stay for footnote 8 with 200 words of my best opinions on CEO pay data
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soliciting catchier names for my voter guide, "elect boring competent candidates so you won't be pissed off" doesn't have the same ring to it
thank you for waiting patiently, the official benkraft voter guide is here! come for yes I do have an opinion on the governor's race, stay for footnote 8 with 200 words of my best opinions on CEO pay data
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oh yeah and while I'm picking fights with Big Voter Guide, let it be known that said footnote 8 is more accurate than GrowSF's research on the same point
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thank you for waiting patiently, the official benkraft voter guide is here! come for yes I do have an opinion on the governor's race, stay for footnote 8 with 200 words of my best opinions on CEO pay data
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Ugh why do they remind the agent about malicious files after every read
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forget model context protocol, who is building model cost protocol, a standard for ingesting inference cost data?
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thinking about becoming a kubernetes brother
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update: k8s is fine but I'm returning to my roots as an aws iam girlie now x.com/bnkrft/status/17357504…

15 Dec 2023
There are more things in AWS IAM, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy
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You are in a maze of twisty hypertext passages, all alike.
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this ain't my first time living in a glass house, bucko
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tired: do you thank your large language model? (obviously) wired: do you sigh in commiseration with your large language model at the code it's dealing with?
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inspired: do you wish your large language model good luck when it might need some?
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I'm also very conflicted about this, because on the one hand, obviously the rename is stupid macho nonsense, but on the other hand, where I come from, lefties have been complaining about "Department of Defense" being doublespeak for my whole life and probably longer
Replying to @sarahmsachs
It's only sorta official! See e.g. military.com/feature/2025/10…
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Reports today saying Dario Amodei is somehow both the Messiah and the Antichrist, so I guess Frank Herbert must be laughing somewhere too
10 May 2023
Replying to @bnkrft
I find this really funny because as a kid I always felt "but robots wouldn't actually work like that", now here we are
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all you people complaining about how certain agent CLIs are a bit vibe coded have no idea how truly vibe coded the same providers' cost/usage reporting is. you ain't seen nothin!
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fortunately for me, I simply download the exports and vibe code my own reporting :-)
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companies need to write funnier risk factors. tell me about your principal engineer who drives around the city in a 1991 corolla without airbags, your chief of staff whose gas stove is leaking, your teams having skydiving offsites
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Which feels more feelings?
25% Claude Opus 4.6
62% the average shrimp
0% meaningless/unknowable
12% other/see results
8 votes • Final results
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if y'all aren't careful I'm gonna write a package manager where the resolver is a large language model
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