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jessmartin
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About jessmartin
Inventing tools for a better tomorrow.
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Comment #49220999
Philosophy and CS double major here, love reading old books. Read a lot of theology and ancient literature. Homeschooling my kids, part of the curriculum is learning Latin.
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Comment #48337285
Waiting for “JSONL is all you need for durable workflows.”
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Comment #47898007
Agree. I ~never see that stuff.
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Comment #47713053
I love the idea of using a shared event log for coordination. Smart! I have a Symphony-style[1] factory, which keeps all the context in a single session, but I want to start splitt…
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Comment #47620192
Really cool to see JSON Canvas getting attention. (Hi, kepano!) It was one of the inspirations for OCIF (Open Canvas Interchange Format), which we've been working on since JSON Can…
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Comment #47337323
strong agree. I always have the LLM put an actual markdown doc in a docs/plans/ folder before starting work. I often, but not always review it. Aside: it also helps for code review…
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Comment #47337284
none yet!
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Comment #47337282
Not a small amount :) I spend $140/mo on Anthropic + OpenAI subs and I use all my tokens all the time. I've started spending about $100/week on API credits, but I'd like to increas…
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Comment #47328015
I got my own level 8 factory working in the last few days and it’s been exhilarating. Mine is based on OpenAI’s Symphony[1], ported to TypeScript. Would be happy to swap war storie…
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Comment #46926238
I wonder if this is just a byproduct of factories being very early and very inefficient. Yegge and Huntley both acknowledge that their experiments in autonomous factories are extre…
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Comment #46926193
They have a Products page where they list a database and an identity system in addition to attractors: https://factory.strongdm.ai/products For those of us working on building fact…
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Comment #46926125
I’ve been building using a similar approach[1] and my intuition is that humans will be needed at some points in the factory line for specific tasks that require expertise/taste/qua…
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Comment #46761871
Wow. This is exactly my kitchen faucet. Which makes sense, because my house was built in 1961. Works great. Amazing how durable the faucet is!
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Comment #45654404
This! It’s both-and. Literacy has been undeniably good, but we rarely consider the consequences of widespread literacy. There’s a way of knowing something that can be recalled oral…
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Comment #45654164
Can you say more? Link?
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Comment #45611738
Same. Was very excited about MCP but Claude code + CLI tools is so much nicer.
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Comment #44939037
Has anyone put together a comparison table for Desktop apps? I’ve started using conductor.build and it feels nice, but would happily evaluate others.
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Comment #44475534
Relay user here! It’s great. Quite reliable for an early product.
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Comment #44475527
One of the authors of the Landscape here. Glad you found it helpful!
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Comment #44383401
Could be the prompt and/or tool descriptions in whatever tool you are using Claude in that degraded. Have definitely noticed variance across Cursor, Claude Code, etc even with the …
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Comment #44107954
curious: did you literally use the Local-first Landscape[1] to do the evaluation? (full disclosure: co-author of landscape) [1] https://localfirst.fm/landscape
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Comment #44106297
Just saw the talk on it at Local-first Conf. So many snyc engines these days. LiveStore is exploring an interesting space in the idea maze: marrying event sourcing with sync engine…