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alxndr

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About alxndr

i like languages and computers and bicycles and music and coffee and other things too

Web front-end specialist looking for a job with an ethically-aligned company

  http://eleven-twelve.net
  http://github.com/alxndr
  http://drwxrxrx.bsky.social
  email: YWx4bmRyK2huQGdtYWlsLmNvbQo=
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/alxndr; my proof: https://keybase.io/alxndr/sigs/B-vRl0kOw2kpqag-RlOReucueGiSJi-u5Ef4CTQ_TkI ]

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48944612

    But not one of the cranks being behind the chainring… interesting

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    Comment #48926717

    Thanks, it makes me chuckle too. It also serves as an indicator of how much it's adhering to what I've laid out in the file, sorta like how Van Halen's rider specified a bowl of M&…

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    Comment #48926658

    Ha, good catch, thank you. I must have been thinking of "inflammable"...

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    Comment #48914928

    I'm more irked by the sentence-structure patterns it continually uses... here's my list: https://github.com/alxndr/dotfiles/blob/3d099dbf86da9/claude...

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    Comment #48914881

    Punctuation lover here, and it's really disappointing that my use of em-dashes is now considered an AI tell... Even though I use them differently from how LLMs do, the distinction …

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    Comment #48909653

    IIRC I experienced this confusion the most when reading commit messages and documentation authored by Claude in my repos. Now that I've managed to convince it to stop using first-p…

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    Comment #48908655

    ...or we call it an overused catch-phrase.

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    Comment #48908304

    I did something like this in my global `CLAUDE.md`... https://github.com/alxndr/dotfiles/blob/272475280d84e/claude... > It can be tricky for humans to interpret the meaning when Ge…

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    Comment #48361843

    500 error when requesting the individual Job Description pages... ⟫ curl -I https://www.getfwd.com/careers/ HTTP/2 200 ⟫ curl -I https://www.getfwd.com/careers/job/5128202007/ HTTP…

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    Comment #48361185

    Location: Oakland, California Remote: Yes (or hybrid/on-site in San Francisco or East Bay) Willing to relocate: no thanks Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, NodeJS, Elixir, Pyth…

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    Comment #48172443

    Darkly funny that Pangram 3.3.1 thinks "100% of this text is AI generated"

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    Comment #48046076

    I’ve had to talk to company lawyers about specific commits. Case was settled afaik

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    Comment #48015952

    As a member of that group of 1300+, I'm wondering if there's something specific you're looking for which no one has addressed?

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    Comment #47958531

    "The great enemy of communication, we find, is the illusion of it" —William H. Whyte

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    Comment #47956835

    I have been trying to convince Claude to use "Claude" instead of first-person pronouns, and only recently have gotten it to say stuff like "Claude'll go ahead and take care of that…

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    Comment #47657857

    This is the approach I’m taking, along with being much more verbose than my normal style with comments in the code and commit messages (including snippets of the prompts/insights t…

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    Comment #47656536

    > […] the knowledge base isn’t just for research. It’s a context engineering system. You’re building the exact input your LLM needs to do useful work. > […] there’s a real differen…

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    Comment #47616858

    Noticed that and was wondering, thanks for the explanation. Does this imply that human-people need to go “vouch” for the flagged comments to bring them back into HM’s good graces?

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    Comment #47608532

    I think if you treat it like a coworker who you respect, it will speak to you like a coworker who respects you, but will still make some idiotic mistakes...

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    Comment #47384825

    Yesterday it was showing a hint in the corner to use "/btw" but when I first tried it I got this same error. About ten minutes later (?) I noticed it was still showing the same hin…

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    Comment #46348350

    FWIW archive.org has a lot of live music as well

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    Comment #46348156

    Is this synonymous with AI-assisted coding now??

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    Comment #46149440

    IMHO they’re starting off harder this year!

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    Comment #45325303

    Isn’t this already (slowly) happening?