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bckr

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About bckr

anthony at robo-rx dot com

happy to chat about crazy futuristic ideas, things you're writing, software engineering, music etc

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    Comment #49211919

    I like the ideas a lot. The Readme needs some polish (I think it’s great that it reads as hand-written; an LLM could make suggestions that make it just 10% easier to read). Is chor…

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    Comment #49151835

    What are the specs of your laptop and what tokens per second do you get?

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    Comment #49126677

    Right but what keeps the second line clean? You’re going to get spam there too.

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    Comment #49125796

    I think we have to do something this extreme. We have to give the system a total makeover. Somehow we also have to keep it from being fully centralized and have the big brother pro…

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    Comment #49008895

    Can 3100 links be legendary? I feel like there can be at most 310 legendary links

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    Comment #48992800

    Yes, agentic coding is machine learning. Not because of the underlying language models, but because it is gradient descent, where the test harness provides a gradient for the agent…

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    Comment #48894208

    Most people don’t know about that because they live in an information bubble handcrafted by the oligarchs.

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    Comment #48800689

    Yes and Pythonic is the Pythonic word for idiomatic

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    Comment #48776763

    Engineer? Wow, that’s high falutin. Sanitation Technician is as high as I got.

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    Comment #48738655

    I suggest you encoding your invariants in the harness. Architectural invariants that can be mechanically checked, including which modules are approved, which dependencies, etc.

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    Comment #48687279

    VC startup world is not about intelligence. It’s about impressing investors.

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    Comment #48673614

    What models have you tried? Gemini 3.1 pro has vision capable of reading my sloppy diaries from 10 years ago, down to small glyphs and doodles.

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    Comment #48673568

    Wow. That sure is something.

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    Comment #48673409

    Yes. It’s astonishing how I see individuals with these enormous egos centered on their intellectual, technical achievements, who have such egregious blindspots surrounding their ow…

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    Comment #48673277

    Where I made up my mind is during “dance party” where the boys have faces and the girl has a dancing woman for a head. Overall the idea is creative, but also not at all what I hope…

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    Comment #48661417

    > Cursor is declining Yep. I switched to Zed over the weekend and I’m very happy so far. It’s snappy.

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    Comment #48661352

    “Listen” is being used in a non-literal way here, with the meaning “to accept as true”.

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    Comment #48650854

    We could all chip in

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    Comment #48590667

    We set up something with a registry of AgentCards and a messaging system with SSE streaming—then we realized we didn’t need an agent on the other side so now we have this weird hyb…

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    Comment #48535575

    I’m in the first weeks of designing nub: Not Unix, Basically. The motto is “general-purpose, provably correct software, for everyone”. The idea is to build, on top of seL4, a softw…

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    Comment #48315406

    Still haven’t succeeded! I’m on my 8th business since being a teenager. I have lost quite a bit of money. I’ve earned some through consulting. I think for those of use for whom it …

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    Comment #48207757

    Oh yeah, he’s the one who said glue people are useless

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    Comment #48207734

    When you have everything but can’t even keep your hands to yourself. Shameful.

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    Comment #48131179

    I think it’s worth having a tiny model that can convert a short sentence into a structured tool call. Now you can add an orchestration layer and you have separation of concerns. Th…

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    Comment #47675572

    yes. But also some stuff will be amazing.