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bredren

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About bredren

I build internet products and work extensively with generative AI.

Recent public projects include:

- Contextify: https://contextify.sh (A tool to assist CLI-based agentic programming workflows)

– FileKitty: https://github.com/banagale/FileKitty (a prompt engineering utility)

– Chief of Staff: https://chiefofstaffhq.com (a pre-generative AI text-to-speech SaaS)

I also very occasionally write at: https://banagale.com

Feel free to say hello, rob @ the domain above.

Recent public activity

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    Thank you! Right now Contextify parses the developer surfaces: Claude Code (including the Desktop "Code tab") and Codex. Claude Cowork and Claude Desktop chat are on my radar. IIUC…

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    I've been working on Contextify, which backs up your Claude Code and Codex conversational history and makes your entire history available via a skill or mcp. Contextify ( https://c…

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    Yes, also reminds me of the lead up to the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_Master_Settlement_Agre...

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    Comment #49212620

    Possibly content that appears only briefly? I'm not sure otherwise. It seems wasteful.

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    Comment #49206850

    Even more so has been what appears to be a miss with Opus 5 in Claude Code.

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    It is a bit of a tagent but still--Theme Park was dope. I was too young to grasp the compete with other businesses (stocks and shares?) level but still had a lot of fun building pa…

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    Comment #49187003

    This seems to be an institutional, massively scaled version of https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch . In March Karpathy described this direction: The next step for autoresearch…

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    Comment #49186824

    Securing cyberspace matters to everyone. Defending critical infrastructure or design of tactical cyber-offense is reasonably in scope for military work. However, reducing (or rathe…

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    Comment #49149009

    Thank you, for your patience in my reply here it is: https://banagale.com/cinematic-canvas-ai-film-animation.htm I provide a "how I got to this" up front, but if you want to jump r…

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    Comment #49148796

    Please feel free to do so! I have a source available copy of the self-hosted sync server up on github here: https://github.com/PeterPym/contextify-cloud-self-hosted If you have tim…

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    Comment #49148169

    Thank you for mentioning it and for putting your suggestion in the language you did. That page with the time machine may not make it obvious, but the product does have a linux clie…

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    Comment #49146163

    I worked with an LLM to build a ~3D animation of the Back to the Future delorean Time Machine as a way to spice up the hero on a docs page. That took a fair amount of custom tuning…

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    I thought this was going to be about AI / agentic development stacks. Because long running, well tuned pipelines can deliver on some important goals but be broken by the changes fr…

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    A month ago the highly upvoted blog entry [0] about Rivian’s rejection of CarPlay included this quote from Rivian’s Chief Software Officer, Wassym Bensaid: The challenge with scree…

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    Comment #49103228

    That's neat. Once it is built, I think a cooler use is to trace wiring and plumbing through your walls of your existing house. Your revit model may include all of this data, or at …

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    Comment #49090915

    Citizens was the worst part of the prior program

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    Comment #49041976

    These cards are very important to knowing what the companies are tracking regarding safety. Not just in what the models can or might want to do, but how they treat the operators th…

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    Comment #49041928

    I've been on one to two of these plans for eight months or so. There used to be a lot of issues with CC's terminal but at least in iterm2 they have largely been sorted. What termin…

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    Comment #49041876

    I find that my orchestrating agent still needs to be fast to properly coordinate a fleet of slower models. During post-training of opus 5, the last few days, opus was a real wreck.…

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    It has been a good long while, but in my undergrad the engineering dept did not put a lot of emphasis on being a well rounded individual. It was more about passing physics and gett…

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    I used to read him in my dad's PC Magazine subscription. I had some ~falling out over what my teenage self perceived as backwards take on mp3s and their proliferation. Perhaps one …

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    Comment #49013338

    It is ~a meme on subreddits that developers struggling to get good results out of any given model is a "skills issue." But I think your comment drives at some authentic take on thi…

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    Ask HN: Anyone working on practical robotics (cobots) for the home?

    I'm specifically interested in people either building or buying 6 degrees of freedom robotic arms and rails and then integrating them with vision and sensors and tool changing. The…

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    Comment #49010309

    This goes straight to the compiler and whether that precludes original craft. But I think it would be more relevant to discuss the use of open source packages. Because I absolutely…