ctolsen

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Comment · 9 hours ago
I've seen the show many times through and I know which episode every single one of these are from. But with a few exceptions I don't remember the name of any of them. It's just not a thing my brain picks up.
Comment · 1 day ago
> Are there modern harnesses that don't do subagents/subthreads/whatever the same way?

At the end of the day it's a UX question. I could do the same as this (I use Paseo, similar thing, less obviously vibed copy in the docs if that helps...) with a bunch of terminal tabs and pi, and maybe some skills and scripts to help out, but it's a pain to manage.

Comment · 1 day ago
Thanks, signed up and found it.
Comment · 1 day ago
AI is not the issue here. But when your business is based on security and privacy you better adopt it carefully and deliberately. If you're measuring your teams on how much AI they use, I don't trust that you're putting security front and center. AI can be used to improve security, but you can absolutely do the opposite if you push too hard.

Also, any time anything comes out it gives a clear impression that the leadership are bullies, from the CEO on down. That creates an environment in which people are afraid to speak up, which means issues get overlooked. Which isn't great for security either.

I would have absolutely no problem with a CEO setting a solid, well-founded direction about the use of AI to improve their products while keeping a foundation of security and privacy. But Yen just sounds like a Silicon Valley tokenmaxxing douchebag.

Comment · 1 day ago
I run my business on Proton and we do miss some things. But they’ve been doing a good job making things happen slowly but surely, and I can be patient.

What I can’t tolerate is if they stop putting security first, which it sounds like they are under Yen’s leadership.

Comment · 2 days ago
Is that "specific kind of API key" something that can be used in any agent, or is it Vibe CLI only?
Comment · 3 days ago
The thing that makes the least sense is that Haiku 5.5 is apparently better than every single open weight model in existence except Kimi K3.1. Which is just... not true. I feel like I don't even have to explain it to anyone who has touched both sides of that equation for more than three minutes.
Comment · 7 days ago
Opus 5.5 is even more verbose. 260M on the same suite.
Comment · 8 days ago
I mean you can run them in the cloud and not worry about safeguards.
Comment · 10 days ago
Why do you need the open weight models to work at home? You can use them whenever you want.
Comment · 10 days ago
I am the opposite. I work with LLMs all the time but don’t use them much at all personally. Not for lack of trying, I’ve tried several times with different frameworks and I just can’t find a use case that is remotely worth it.
Comment · 11 days ago
Comment · 11 days ago
I've used OpenBSD the last year or so (as a bastion/jump host for a few systems) after using *BSD systems very little for probably the past decade, and... good lord I love it so much.

Say what you want about the benefits of systemd or the usefulness of other parts of what is now unavoidable with Linux, and I won't argue with many of them, but OpenBSD just feels like a *nix system is supposed to. `ps aux` is like 10 entries at first. `pf` makes so much sense. `man` pages are consistently incredible. The security/cryptography focus, managing services, pledge/unveil... so many things about it is just *chef's kiss*.

It's not and will probably never be a daily driver for me and it may not fit your use case for anything, but I highly recommend playing with it.

Comment · 17 days ago
Should do it across the board. The world would be a better place if harvesting personal data for ad targeting was illegal.

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