amadeuswoo

Joined 10 months ago

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ML engineer and data scientist. Computational approaches to music, philosophy, and history. amadeuswoo.com
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Comment · 9 months ago
Excellent clear cut guide, will certainly share with my non-technical friends and family
Comment · 9 months ago
Looks pretty good, the speech pipeline feels noticeably faster than the general-purpose apps I've used for lang conversations. Dead air kills immersion after all
Comment · 9 months ago
The skills that atrophy are the ones you weren't using anyway. If you let the LLM do the interesting/engaging parts, that's on you, not the tool
Comment · 9 months ago
The "management as superpower" framing assumes people thoughtfully evaluate AI output. In practice, most users either review everything (slow, defeats the speed benefit) or review almost nothing (fast, but you're trusting the AI entirely). The MBAs who did well probably had domain expertise to spot wrong answers quickly, that's the actual superpower, not generic "management skill
Comment · 9 months ago
Very gorgeous and creative! Any plans to attempt other isometric cities? (Like SF, LA, Paris, London)
Comment · 9 months ago
Yeah, the context window is a blunt instrument, everything competes for attention. I get better luck with shorter, more opinionated skills that front-load the key constraints vs. comprehensive docs that get diluted. Also explicitly invoking them (use the X skill) seems to help vs hoping they get picked up automatically
Comment · 9 months ago
You don't, it's a map of intent, not infra state. What exists, why, what talks to what. Live state still needs IaC and observability. The .md captures the 'why' that terraform can't
Comment · 9 months ago
One thing that’s evidently helped: using CLAUDE.md / agent instructions as de facto architecture docs. If the agent needs to understand system boundaries to work effectively, those docs actually get maintained
Comment · 9 months ago
Honest question: has anyone found skills that fundamentally changed their workflow vs. ones that are just ‘nice to have’? Curious what the actual power-user stack looks like.

Anyways, great work on this btw, the agent-agnostic approach is the right call

Comment · 9 months ago
Always appreciate an English major in the wild. But I think taxonomy is only wasteful if it doesn't map to real distinctions, good naming saves debugging time like when untangling "what did we mean by 'user' here?".

Wittgenstein said the limits of language are the limits of the world after all

Comment · 9 months ago
It's worth noting Threads requires an Instagram account to sign up. That's like a 2B+ user funnel with constant in-app cross-promotion.

Not diminishing the growth, but "daily active users" hitting parity with X is a different achievement when you have that kind of distribution baked in Meta

Comment · 9 months ago
Interesting architecture. Im curious about the workflow when an agent hits a denied action, does it get a structured rejection it can reason about and try an alternative, or does it just fail? Wondering how the feedback loop works between safety kernel and the LLM's planning

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