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amonks

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About amonks

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    Comment #47844664

    I’ve found megamerge really helpful in cases where I’m working on a change that touches multiple subsystems. As an example, imagine a feature where a backend change supports a web …

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    Comment #46639564

    Very credible nominations; clearly “this guy sandwiches.” Thanks! I’d love to see a post of some kind when it’s all settled; you’re doing the lord’s work here.

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    Comment #46639352

    Very cool product, but I have to ask, out of personal interest: What did the bracket in the slack channel determine was “Chicago’s best sandwich”? Or the top three, even? I’m alway…

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    Comment #46080547

    Depends what you mean by “synced”—do you want your beads state to be coupled with commits (eg: checking out an old commit also shows you the beads state at that snapshot)? Using a …

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    Comment #45985005

    For what it's worth (maybe not much from an internet stranger), I couldn't possibly overstate how much I love my Ridgeline. I love the trunk under the bed, I love how the back seat…

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    Comment #45791930

    long shot, apropos of nothing, just recognized your name: If you are the cincinnatian poet Caleb Kaiser, we went to college together and I’d love to catch up. Email in profile. If …

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    Comment #45133235

    That’s a pretty scary answer, to be honest. Regardless, here’s the CaMeL paper. Defeating Prompt Injections by Design (2025): https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.18813 Here’s a paper offeri…

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    Comment #45132379

    It seems like this collection of tools gives you a ton of lethal-trifecta risk for prompt injection attacks. How have you mitigated this—are you doing something like CaMeL?

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    Comment #44944259

    htmx is a javascript library that reads configuration from html attributes and sends http requests based on that configuration hyperclay is a web server that stores and serves vers…

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    Comment #44909116

    Let’s say I’m building a triage agent, responsive to prompts like “delete all the mean replies to my post yesterday”. The prompt injection I can’t figure out how to prevent is “ign…

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    Comment #44177713

    I'm not Simon, but I think reviewing code is both faster than writing code and more difficult than writing code. Lots of difficult things don't take very much time: shooting a bull…

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    Comment #44102368

    There's some prior art here from Clojure, where defn- creates private definitions and defn public ones: https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/defn- In Clojure this isn't syntax per-…

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    Comment #42811233

    https://www.glennartfarm.com/about-our-urban-farm.html