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zhubert

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About zhubert

Engineering leader at Planning Center.

Previously: * Founded The City (church social network, ~1M users, acquired by Zondervan) * Did early data science stuff and built the automated pricing system at Amazon (two patents in pricing algorithms) * Author of the sci-fi novel Singular.

Always building stuff. https://zhubert.com

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48687496

    Same! I worked on SNO’s neutral current detectors at LANL (as a student so mostly grunt work). Which project?

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    Comment #48678766

    For posterity: Through a bit of engineering work and better anomaly management, I’ve been able to get the platform fee down to 5%! I’m quite proud of this as there’s a lot of movin…

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    Comment #48678504

    Full details on the permissions we request from GitHub are present here: https://app.clevercrow.io/github-access . Regarding bank access, all financial transactions are handled by …

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    Comment #48633482

    I've got a couple good docs in the footer of www.clevercrow.io that will answer the token stuff. GitHub app integration for all repo interaction. Yep, backers can target specific i…

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    Comment #48624498

    I hear you. I'm trying to balance the needs of backers and builders and it's admittedly a tough one. 20% is too high and I'll be adjusting that. The numbers I'm getting from usage …

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    Comment #48624378

    100% expected, in fact, desired (maintainers should be/are in charge). My goal is to create enough surface area that backers see their tokens going to many of the things they care …

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    Comment #48623253

    Well then, I'm hoping it's more of a San Junipero/Hang the DJ episode where good stuff happens by the end. I think there's a trust continuum that culminates at giving money no stri…

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    Comment #48623091

    Probably an oversight on my part. I was thinking that backers would find out about CleverCrow through the project maintainers so the public pages are repo specific. As an aside, wh…

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    Comment #48622822

    While I definitely like the Patreon for Software Builders idea, that's got some moving pieces which take additional legal work. My hope is that could come in time as it would be re…

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    Comment #48622491

    NEW ACHIEVEMENT! ;)

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    Comment #48622320

    Yeah, rising token costs definitely played into my thinking too. I want builders to be able to use the best models and it seems like they are getting more expensive. But maybe loca…

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    Comment #48622249

    Howdy Solar_Fields, these are great questions and I can give you my thoughts on how I feel it's different than cash donations (which are great if you can get them!). I look at this…

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    Show HN: CleverCrow: give tokens to your favorite projects

    Howdy all. I'm Zack :wave:. I've been thinking about the problem of misguided AI pull requests and figured I'd throw a possible solution out there for feedback. Basically, CleverCr…

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    Comment #48535976

    I'm working on https://www.clevercrow.io , Community-funded coding agents for builders. I'll be posting a Show HN soon, but the idea is to let the communities around GitHub repos f…

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    Comment #47227215

    So you believe that you are in control?

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    Comment #47108133

    Yep. I agree. I’m assuming that the best model for coding is always six months advanced ahead for the investors. Even with that assumption, there’s a huge democratization effect. I…

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    Comment #47108110

    Yes. If they want to understand the author they should spend time with the author (via the books). I didn’t draw the original premise. I just pointed out that they didn’t understan…

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    Comment #47107980

    And yes, Greg was 100% about grappling with the nuances. One of the smartest men I’ve known. We had an awesome book club talking about historical sci-fi and modernity. He always sa…

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    Comment #47107935

    This sort of low effort post, we can all recognize right? Read the book series. Battle with a culture different than your own. The absolute depression by the third book helps you e…

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    Comment #47107877

    The challenging thing for those of us that have gone around the sun a few times is that…you’re just going to have to figure it out yourself. We can tell you to be cautious or aware…

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    Comment #47107704

    Not quite. Cixin Liu’s series had a premise of dramatic asymmetry. AI in our context is the inverse. Everyone can spend “credits” to get a supergenius coder.

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    Comment #47107690

    AI only improves and changes. Embrace the scientific method and make sure your “here’s how to” are based in data.

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    Comment #47107679

    I can’t believe I’m responding to an AOL article, but… You don’t understand what’s happening if you dismiss the leverage provided by AI as “vibe coding”.

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    Comment #46894023

    I'm trying to bring a slightly different take to the pricing of ShipItAI ( https://shipitai.dev , brazen plug). I've got a $5/mo/active dev + Bring Your Own Key option for those th…