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zackham
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About zackham
https://stepwise.run - Deterministic scaffolding around nondeterministic work. Observable runs. Human gates. Resume after reboot. No babysitting.
https://github.com/zackham/aloop - An embeddable Python agent loop for multi-agent orchestration, declarative permissions, and editor integration via ACP. Use any LLM from any provider, extend through hooks, embed as a library, drive from the CLI, or expose as an ACP server.
zackham@gmail.com
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Comment #49136743
single author, single user software is the one place where there is no rev limiter on ai. i spend the vast majority of my time on the computer steeped in my personal software now. …
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Comment #48997585
all ingested data and all derivations of that data can link to source channel and associated ACL that syncs with the source. then search/reads/etc just join on and respect the ACL.…
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Comment #48929597
agreed. i built this for a wide variety of background workflows that have been running seamlessly for many weeks now. it's an overbuilt personal project but i think pretty dialed i…
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Comment #48012375
I have a project in this space that I've run many thousands of jobs through. It's solid and full featured. Feel free to connect: https://stepwise.run/
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Comment #47970097
if you are looking for a customizable agent harness that provides everything except a tui (cli, acp, embeddable python package) i built and use this for a handful of projects where…
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Comment #47766574
The most durable way to reason about agents is to just think about humans. We have thousands of years of prior art on coordinating instantiations of stochastic intelligence. Contex…
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Comment #47752210
When I come across a paper/article/insight that connects to one or more things I'm working on, I generate 20-30 minute podcasts that do deep research, connect it back to my work, a…
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Comment #47735550
agreed. the long-running tasks i handle with immediate-background and continually edit message with updates, along with fork-and-reconcile semantics so you don't have to queue mess…
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Comment #47689761
pi is great and made popular some things that are really valuable, that hopefully spread to more projects (arbitrary forking with /tree, system prompt transparency and control). i …
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Show HN: Clux – Simple session manager for Claude Code
I juggle 5-6 Claude Code projects and kept losing context when switching between them or when a terminal died. Built clux to fix that. It wraps tmux to give you named, directory-sc…
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Show HN: Scout – micro-game teaser for a map-based cycling RPG
One-day experiment using claude code and grok heavy to build a tiny teaser for Scout, a map-based cycling RPG we’re about to release in Portland, OR. I’m a founder of Ride with GPS…
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Comment #45553543
Hey - OP here. I've been working on Ride with GPS since 2006 (!) and the game we've built is the most fun I've had in a long time. We're launching in PDX and if that is a success, …
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Show HN: Scout – micro-game teaser for a map-based cycling RPG
One-day experiment using claude code and grok heavy to build a tiny teaser for Scout, a map-based cycling RPG we’re about to release in Portland, OR. I’m a founder of Ride with GPS…
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Comment #44761008
Ride with GPS | Full Time Remote | https://ridewithgps.com/about We are the world's best library of bike routes, and we enable cyclists to go on better rides, more often. We have a…
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Comment #44268075
I'll add to the sibling comment and say I've been writing software for money for 25+ years, have a CS degree, and have found immense leverage with these tools. I put in the time on…
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Comment #43205264
If you're using org-mode and thinking about customizing it a bit more, and/or would like it to serve you in a way that is a bit more aligned with GTD, this reference from Bernt Han…
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Comment #43179696
I've used or built more personal knowledge/task/project management tools than I care to list over the years, and adopted various methods along the way. I've ended up in a place whe…
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Comment #35401030
Ray Kurzweil has laid out a view on the future that has always been interesting and is feeling increasingly relevant. Incredibly, his prediction for AGI in 2029 seems... conservati…
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Comment #31589528
Ride with GPS | Web Frontend | Portland, OR | Remote More details here: https://ridewithgps.com/careers We're a small but very strong team (28 of us) helping people have a better t…
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Comment #29289265
I understand the points being made, it's just not what I choose to focus on in the very limited time I'm going to spend engaging with this material. The purpose of my comment was t…