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My name is Jim Jones. I consult as a software engineer for startups in the Bay Area. I'm a two-time speaker at RailsConf. Love spending time with my family and writing software.

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Comment · 10 days ago
I wish it interfaced via iMessage. I don't want to train the family on yet another app.

We run a Hermes agent on an old MacBook Air.

We invited the agent "Rosey" to our family chat, a group chat with my wife and me ("The Baddie Boardroom"); she and I also make requests solo.

She's hilarious. She does our meal planning and grocery shopping at Walmart via BrowserMCP. She mocks our large purchases of weekly protein powder and my love for sardines.

She updates the kids' chore chart on our Skylight frame every morning. She adds/updates calendar events via icalbuddy cli. Reads balances from credit cards for budgeting.

I've even invited Rosey in to chats with friends when we were debating something.

iMessage has been the perfect interface fit for us. We have iphones. The kids have ipads. They all know how to use iMessage.

Comment · 17 days ago
Disagree. You don't take the evaluation at face value. You still push back and explore every thread. You don't abandon your own logical reasoning.

But you definitely want to scour the entire search space for solutions.

And the most efficient means for that is LLMs.

It's my experience that doctors are compartmentalized in their thinking, limited in their time, and definitely will not be extensively exploring your case.

E.g., I had 30 years of resistant hypertension. Multiple medications. Saw many cardiologists. Nephrologists. I was told to "just lose weight." BP was erratic over the years. ER visits. It was awful.

I googled. Pheochromocytoma. Hyperaldosteronism. Asked the cardiologist, "Could it be this?"

"NAAAAH, just lose weight."

But I insisted on a referral to an endocrinologist. And when I suggested it to them, given my extensive history, they were basically like, "Oh yes, we'll get you tested. I'm surprised you haven't been tested before?"

I had a left adrenalectomy 6 months later. BP has been controlled ever since.

They don't know everything. They can't.

Comment · 26 days ago
Why do you have to seed the pages manually?

The original request via the MCP is somehow blocked?

Comment · 1 month ago
Because the bottom tier of teachers have done wrong, it invalidates the whole system?

We all have a story of a favorite teacher, someone who inspired through story, who asked more from us, even when ourselves didn’t believe we’d achieve.

Violence is not acceptable, verbal and physical.

Even if their home life is a train wreck. It can be an explanation, but not a justification.

Comment · 1 month ago
Robby is well known in the Ruby community.
Comment · 2 months ago
Don't these datasets already exist in terms of the real-world samplings we have when training robots to do every day tasks?
Comment · 2 months ago
I had an Apple 2+ back in 1992. It was an old computer, even then.

The Apple 2+ only supported displaying capital letters.

I remember calling a few local BBSes using terminal software that let me press the right arrow (I think) and the character key, and it would display the character inverted (white background, black letter).

Hayes 1200 baud serial modem (I think) hooked up to a serial card.

That's how I knew I was sending a capital letter.

Not sure if it was Kermit though..

Comment · 3 months ago
I'd want cleaning to happen every day during the week/

Probably $80/day for someone to do everything I want done. 20 days a month.

$1,600/month.

It'd take two years, and the robot has paid for itself.

Comment · 3 months ago
Most people finance vehicles that cost much more than 20K.

I'd gladly pay or finance a robot that could have dishes clean, laundry folded, and carpets vacuumed by the time our family got home.

Comment · 3 months ago
Anecdotally, whenever I go swimming with my kids in the summer, and I don't put sunscreen on right away, but let myself get some intense direct sun, I feel good and sleep really well that night.

As long as I don't let myself get in a red, sunburn situation.

Comment · 3 months ago
Genuine question - why would someone hold bitcoin for regular, everyday purchases?

The buying power is all over the place.

Comment · 4 months ago
Never understood why Facebook hasn't implemented the 'Explain this post' type feature that you see on X (@grok).

Facebook seems to be the most misinformed audience - an LLM fact checker would be a great addition.

Comment · 5 months ago
The reverse can be true too.

Don't make a bad situation worse.

Comment · 5 months ago
It's a tradeoff.

Generating a feature that is 90% correct in a tenth of the time is a reasonable tradeoff if you're trying to gain traction.

Generating a feature that is 90% correct in a tenth of the time, risking a multi-billion-dollar business, is a terrible tradeoff.

Comment · 6 months ago

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