jcutrell

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Email me at jonathan.cutrell[at]gmail. Twitter - @jcutrell

Host of Developer Tea. Co-founder of Spec. Engineer with the head of an economist and the heart of a teacher.

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Comment · 1 month ago
As a hiring manager I now have a rational reason to prefer people willing to use profanity. Thank you.
Comment · 4 months ago
My problem with all of these kinds of things is that memory architecture is the whole point.

If all I needed was common memory space I'd just use symlinks and cloud sync, Obsidian or whatever.

But the context shaping is what makes memory useful in the first place, so just doing one stop shop memory is IMO about as useful as plain old markdown...

Comment · 4 months ago
Silly or not, precedent matters and labeling it silly is rhetorical. The impact is going to be critically important.
Comment · 5 months ago
This really is the perfect time for something like MDX to shine.
Comment · 6 months ago
With products coming out like this, many claim to do basically the same thing.

How is this better than Claude Code's built in agent orchestrator? Do I need 100 agent types? How do I know the trained agents here are somehow better? Specialization doesn't equate to "better" in every case.

I want to see the light but at this point it feels like these kinds of projects need a better way to benchmark how they are improving on the available state of the art.

It feels like in 2018, a new browser state management tool emerging. Why does this exist?

Comment · 6 months ago
This is what Apple promised a long time ago, and just couldn't quite connect on delivery.
Comment · 1 year ago
I'm considering starting Tirz, but really want to go to retatrutide. Curious if you have a recommendation.
Comment · 1 year ago
This could be modeled with stdev
Comment · 1 year ago
Aside from it being "instructions for agents", I'm not sure I understand how this isn't just a markdown file that more or less reads like a readme that targets more junior engineers.
Comment · 1 year ago
I am curious about how this compares to dataview. As a dataview user, I'm not immediately seeing something bases does that dataview doesn't, but I am not a power user.
Comment · 1 year ago
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Comment · 1 year ago
I really like this idea, I think it represents an interesting intentional step to get out in front of what hiring managers might do anyway.

I am working on building profiles for people I work with, and really my goal is to end at something like this for them.

Comment · 1 year ago
Sadly it will be praised as "tough" by many.
Comment · 1 year ago
I'll add to the conversation another interesting technique from Chris Voss, which is to use no-oriented questions.

People like to say no. (I'm not sure what this cognitive bias is, but anecdotally I agree.)

So, if you can frame your requests in a way that "no is permission", it will often get a red light a bit easier.

Example: replace "Is this a good idea?" with "is this a bad idea?"

Now, of course "not a bad idea" is not the same thing as "good idea", but it's a lot more likely. Even reading that, I imagine most people would respond more intuitively, because it helps us avoid a commitment we don't necessarily want to adopt.

Comment · 1 year ago
I think there is some positive effect potential for Apple to let this slide. The broader this network is, the more adoption it receives. P2P as a super-structure has always been a bigger than vendor problem; adoption by any means is likely an allowable tradeoff, especially since Apple doesn't have to do the work here.

Eventually they will capitalize more on the mesh density, rather than crushing the adoption now.

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