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jacob019

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About jacob019

Jacob Stoner Owner of jacobsparts.com Email my first name at that domain.

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    Comment #47408107

    Anyone using it with nodejs to make a sandbox for code agents?

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    Comment #47158952

    I also hate how tmux uses alt mode and can never remember all the shortcuts, copy paste is a PITA and just today I had to look up how to dump the scrollback buffer to a file. Named…

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    Comment #46720335

    I haven't had time to make a repo, so I'll just drop this here for you: https://jacobstoner.com/subrepl_mcp.py Just make sure you have the deps installed and add it to CC as a stdi…

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    Comment #46588703

    Is this satire? You don't need to bend over backwards to use CC/codex. There is a rich ecosystem of options for wiring up LLMs.

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    Comment #46555483

    Okay, I will :) I'll add a new repo for it, maybe this evening, and I'll reply here with a link.

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    Comment #46554728

    Ohh, looks interesting, thanks for the tip! Git as db is clever, and the sqlite cache is nice. I'd been sketching sqlite based memory features myself. So much of the current ecosys…

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    Comment #46553510

    https://github.com/jacobsparts/agentlib See CodeAgent or subrepl.py if you're just interested in the REPL orchestration. I also have a Python REPL MCP server that works with CC. It…

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    Comment #46553274

    Seems everyone is working on the same things these days. I built a persistent Python REPL subprocess as an MCP tool for CC, it worked so insanely well that I decided to go all the …

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    Comment #46407834

    I get where you're coming from, especially since role playing was so vital in early models in a way that is no longer necessary, or even harmful; however, when designing a complex …

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    Comment #46407507

    Funny you should mention this, I just added a simple filesystem sandbox to my coding agent. Check it out: https://github.com/jacobsparts/agentlib/blob/main/src/agentl... The framew…

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    Comment #45829122

    "The global North's carbon problem subsidizes the global South's energy access." This is problematic. The subsidized economy will grow inefficiently, the wealth transfer will inevi…

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    Comment #44870162

    Is it just me or have all mainstream news agencies suffered a significant loss in quality in recent years? It all seems lazy, opinionated, more like social media and less like old …

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    Comment #44694209

    I've been seeing AI slop being used as ad-hominem. If I'm writing a couple paragraphs, I'll often run it through a model and ask it to make minimal edits for spelling and grammar. …

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    Comment #44683224

    Love it! It's going on my toolbar. I face the same problem, constantly trying to hunt down the latest pricing which is often changing. I think it's great that you want to add more …

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    Comment #44542134

    Grok, please drive me to synagogue. Doors lock. I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.

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    Comment #44542120

    Destroy all humans.

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    Comment #44240420

    Do we know parameter counts? The reasoning models have typically been cheaper per token, but use more tokens. Latency is annoying. I'll keep using gpt-4.1 for day-to-day.

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    Comment #44240340

    I break out Gemini 2.5 pro when Claude gets stuck, it's just so slow and verbose. Claude follows instructions better and seems to better understand it's role in agentic workflows. …

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    Comment #44211295

    Wild. What is the rationale?

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    Comment #44210759

    I had this thought as well and find it a bit surprising. For my own agentic applications, I have found it necessary to carefully curate the context. Instead of including an instruc…

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    Comment #44205347

    That's true for Flash 2.0 at $0.40/mtok output. GPT-4.1-nano is the same price and also surprisingly capable. I can spend real money with 2.5 flash, with those $3.50/mtok thinking …