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jondwillis

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About jondwillis

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    Comment #49212110

    Accelerationism more like. Not just cutting aid to the poor.

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    Comment #49210065

    https://maps.apple/p/0mZU6qFyXAEYRe Yeah, Apple would never design a donut headquarters and make their employees live inside of it /s

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    Comment #49205938

    Since this has become a thread about complaining about unreadable, brain-killing AI slop, I'll add mine: >Six steps, no jargon. The note beside each one is the precise technical ve…

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    Comment #49175958

    Location: San Diego, CA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes, but not before November. Happy to go hybrid or onsite after that. Technologies: TypeScript, Vercel AI SDK, Workflow SD…

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    Comment #49170957

    I’ve found hooks to be really useful for correcting or inducing certain behaviors/outcomes that tend to occur during agentic development. For example, I’m working on a project to r…

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    Comment #49162677

    FYI, I'm interested but trying to drill into any of the specific postings is reloading the `/open-positions` page for me (Safari, connected to a VPN.) I'll go ahead and accept that…

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    Comment #49093252

    /frontend-design

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    Comment #48908552

    A coworker started spamming this word in ~April while working on system design/architecture.

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    Comment #48908483

    Thanks for the clarification. “Mode collapse” explains so much about how I have been experiencing output convergence and repetition for a while now.

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    Comment #48902959

    What is their fire suppression setup like??? Granted I guess they could be doing pumped hydro storage lol

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    Comment #48900851

    lol I had started a “plugin compiler” that Claude also wanted to name after the Jacquard loom https://github.com/jondwillis/jacq Fricking training distribution/same-y ness coming f…

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    Comment #48726934

    You should edit the article to suggest this point, it may not be obvious to everyone reading it.

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    Comment #48675942

    Ah, I suffer from bruxism and TMJ. I’m sorry you’re dealing with this condition.

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    Comment #48675703

    Unironic Paperclip Maximalism. Huh. I propose that you don’t actually want cheap tokens. You want cheap tokens in service of some other goals. Are they worth the environmental cost…

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    Comment #48615846

    Cmon tell us what it is

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    Comment #48485508

    Yeah unironically just let an agent harness rip with full admin access without monitoring anything it does or using a VM. It’ll be fine, probably. “How I Learned To Stop Worrying A…

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    Comment #48413864

    I think GP is basically saying, bitter lesson applies here.

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    Comment #48412138

    Low effort comment: reinventing things that Unix provides is the backbone of the entire western economy.

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    Comment #48412073

    This ACP has been rolled into A2A ( https://a2a-protocol.org/ ) and shouldn’t be confused (it’s happened multiple times for me, again just now) with Agent CLIENT Protocol https://a…

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    Comment #48404043

    I don’t think it’s reasonable to think that privacy regulation is coming with the current admin and weak “opposition”, and lack of capacity to care or understand the stakes by the …

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    Comment #48399831

    And that’s the entire point. Accelerate!

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    Comment #48399517

    Halvings? I guess?

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    Comment #48309308

    > I will check out if Claude Code itself has MCPB support. It doesn’t.

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    Comment #48249009

    That’s a decision-shaped comment.

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    Comment #48248863

    I’ve been considering this as well, and trying to get my colleagues to understand and start doing it. I use it to pretty decent effect in my vibe coded slop side projects. In the n…