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ianlpaterson
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About ianlpaterson
Previously: built identity-centric cybersecurity products, took a company public on TSX-V, wrote for Forbes and CIGI on cyber policy.
Interests: OPSEC, travel gear that survives a decade, one-bag travel, Canadian defence/innovation policy.Recent public activity
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I built this to answer a question for myself: which model should I actually route each type of task to? The harness runs 38 deterministic tests (CSV transforms, letter counting, mo…
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Comment #47212403
Concur - there are things I've been wanting to get to for (checks calendar) a decade+? that I'm now shipping. It's awesome.
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Comment #47208746
There's an intermediate step, which is to use a combination of claude code sandboxing (bubblewrap), plus some pre tool hooks to look for sketchy commands, but it's still interactiv…
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Comment #47177465
I've been running Claude Code as my primary dev environment for ~6 weeks now, and the planning/execution split is real but undersells the bigger insight: file-based memory is the o…
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Comment #47161203
yes!
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Comment #47161202
First impressions of Qwen3.5 35b are that it's amazing
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Comment #47147191
Coming from OpenClaw, it's pretty amazing how fast pi is, particularly paired with Qwen3 that dropped today. It's a magical time.
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Comment #47116092
Unclear, how much is too much... what?
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Comment #47115104
Author here. I use Claude Code as my primary dev environment. Wanted autonomous agents I could message from Slack without sending everything through cloud APIs. The 14 errors are t…
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Comment #47068857
The security concerns here are real but solvable with the same discipline we apply to any privileged software. I run OpenClaw on Apple Silicon with local models (no cloud API depen…