Leading Developer Productivity @asana. Writing about AI dev tools & platform orgs. From VA → NYC. Formerly @wearevts, @espn, @3dvia

Joined December 2007
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U.S. Secretary of War to CBS: We are on track to sign the agreement with Iran, and the question is not whether we will sign it, but when
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Few joys in life compare to finding something, holding it above your head, and humming the little Zelda item discovery jingle.
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Would love to be able to flip from Fable to Opus or Sonnet without needing to worry about existing prompt caching or context.
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I suppose this would ultimately look like many Claude sessions in a single view? And I get around this with tmux. But it feels a little inelegant
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I built a small weekly review agent to summarize my week. It takes input from a few specialist outputs and feeds an agent that runs Sunday evenings. But the seven day feedback loop was brutal. So I started looking into evals.
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The fun part about working with this strategy was the mocking. I mocked various failure modes with JSON fixtures, then adjusted the main agent. Fixtures like: a sub-agent returns an error, a sub-agent returns an empty set, one input dominates the others.
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Dedicated machine tmux Termius
I laugh when I see people in holding their laptops half open so their Claude Code doesn't shut off All my projects run on a @Hetzner_Online VPS with Claude Code installed next to the sites/apps that I work on and I just SSH in with @TermiusHQ and it keeps going forever even if I disconnect (I use Mosh or Tmux or I just /resume) My MacBook Pro battery life is also much better as everything happens on the server not my laptop I work so incredibly fast now, it's like having a secret benefit over everyone else who are still AI coding on a laptop, then deploying to their server, while their battery life dies and they can never close their laptop And whenever I want I can just switch to Termius on my iPhone and continue working! My workflow is literally: I have a bug or feature, I open Termius, I type it in the project tab, it fixes it, every fix it auto commits to GitHub but it doesn't actually deploy from there anymore because it's editing the site on the server live I don't recommend that to everyone, but I do recommend getting a VPS you can code from and then use as staging and test and deploy from there to your production server
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I appreciate Claude deciding after my third round of questioning to just build the thing and show me
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Shipping is a verb and not a noun
I’m still curious what makes someone technical vs not technical. Where is the line on the spectrum of Excel macro to doping your own silicon in the shed? Who decides? Is there a committee?
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Dan Ubilla retweeted
when i die, my tmux sessions will outlive me
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Thinking Hmm...
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Infinite Scrolling 📉 Infinite Strolling 📈
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RIYL complaining about things, hearing others complaints, Kafka
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So long as they take the time to look up and use the system they have set up, yes
Whoever is taking the time to craft an insanely organized and well-documented Obsidian vault will experience personal AGI faster than anyone else. Arguably months before.
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Going to create an analog AI app. It’s a text box with no backend. Type out your problem, and when you’re done, you’ll realize what you need to do next
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The human urge to tell the LLM everything worked before clearing the context.
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Agentically written code is as sloppy as you allow it to be
Code becoming cheap has introduced a problem of slop masquerading as defensive programming & increased reliability. We used to make tradeoffs all the time- “I can spend 4 hours implementing redundancy in this code for something that is extremely unlikely to happen, or ship this simple fix right now with alerting in place”. But if the hardening will only take you 10 seconds of typing, why risk leaving edge cases unhandled? AI code review is exacerbating this problem by surfacing extremely unlikely scenarios as critical edge cases that must be fixed asap. The comment looks sus, but time is cheap. The tradeoff is 10 seconds of your time vs getting paged at 4am. You can debate it, or you can tell your agent to handle the review & implement fixes while you go make a latte.
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