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briantakita

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About briantakita

https://briantakita.me

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    Comment #47590388

    I was told by an exec...once a company or technology implements something and gets mindshare, the community (including companies) moves on. Competition is essentially dead for that…

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    Comment #47484682

    We already won. Are you tired of winning yet?

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    Comment #47345309

    > Then you should have no issue with people using LLMs to communicate more clearly. My raw thought: I wonder how many people are really objecting to the loss of exclusivity of thei…

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    Comment #47344953

    > LLMs are a cancer on human thought and expression. LLMs help to express what many people dont have the energy or ability to express. It also has a broader scoped view of protocol…

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    Comment #47247259

    The pre-submit commit as an immutable baseline is the key design decision — every agent interaction is an atomic transaction with a known rollback point, exactly right. On the "eve…

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    Comment #47240321

    The runtime state logging approach makes sense for browser automation — that's a domain where ground truth literally lives outside your repo. We have a similar dynamic with email s…

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    Comment #47225906

    Agent loops also enables the "hard discipline" of making sure all of the tests are written, documentation is up to date, specs are explicitly documented, etc. Stuff that often gets…

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    Comment #47223387

    I am now releasing software for projects that have spent years on the back-burner. From my perspective, agent loops have been a success. It makes the impractical pipe-dream doable.…

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    Comment #47222919

    I've been building agent-doc [1] to solve exactly this. Each parallel Claude Code session gets its own markdown document as the interface (e.g., tasks/plan.md, tasks/auth.md). The …

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    Comment #46799052

    It's part of the messianic end-times fervor that has been with America since the beginning...which is useful for imperial management...As it provides a constant source of existenti…

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    Comment #46787508

    When Science replaced Religion...Science took the place of Religion...

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    Comment #46787488

    Kayfaybe...Donald Trump worked with WWE for a reason...

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    Comment #46660972

    Mr Claude is already on it. He wrote an article titled "How Climate Change Affects the Behavior of Pet Hamsters and How Paying Carbon Taxes Can Help". Game changer! https://claude.…

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    Comment #46660539

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    Comment #46144426

    I think you will mostly get "the west is the best" over here. And "look at those evil authoritarians over there"....Enjoy your "freedom" to participate in the culture wars digital …

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    Comment #46144087

    Roblox has been banned in China since 2021. Perhaps it's something to do with nationalist governments not liking global corporate circumvention of their culture/power.

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    Comment #46140016

    I dont think porting everything over to React...making the site slower, bloated, & buggier is "creativity". I agree that people should be treated with dignity...but groupthink & he…

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    Comment #44618293

    Yet we have Microplastics, PFAS, & a slew of other dangerous contamination across the planet. And the military industrial waste is rarely mentioned. It seems the EPA cares more abo…

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    Comment #44514598

    > Calling a function is like calling for a servant — a summoning to perform a task. So we renamed our git branches from master to main...because of colonialism. So what's the corre…

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    Comment #44477283

    In Democracy you get to vote on who gets to vote on how taxes are spent.

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    Comment #44462945

    > They want decisive and ambitious action, you can't get that if we all turn to doomerism. What if "doomerism" is a key component to demoralize people to accept "decisive and ambit…

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    Comment #44332524

    I learned to consider that if one brings up Dunning-Kruger...projection/irony may be at play. Anyways...I've had a few reoccurring issues with libraries. Note that the language is …

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    Comment #44231408

    > reducing our total health Because America has been the paragon of health over the past few decades...because America spends the most per capita on Health Care. What a super effec…

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    Comment #43687794

    Harvard received the "worst score ever" clamped at 0.0 in 2023. By the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. The actual score was -10.69. They were particularly oppressive…