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  Ryan Guill
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Comment · 11 days ago
As long as its a single writer, you can get pretty far
Comment · 2 months ago
For atlantic basin hurricanes (and the occasional one that could impact Hawaii he also does fantastic youtube videos
Comment · 3 months ago
this is exactly my question. I would expect that luna is analogous to mini before, but is terra equivalent/better than 5.5 and Sol is a step above? or is terra nerfed and 5.5 is analogous to sol?
Comment · 6 months ago
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Comment · 6 months ago
Comment · 8 months ago
I think its understandable that you took that from the click-bait all over youtube and twitter, but I dont believe the research actually supports that at all, and neither does my experience.

You shouldnt put things in AGENTS.md that it could discover on its own, you shouldnt make it any larger than it has to be, but you should use it to tell it things it couldnt discover on its own, including basically a system prompt of instructions you want it to know about and always follow. You don't really have any other way to do those things besides telling it every time manually.

Comment · 8 months ago
the day ends in y, water is wet. I really hate that github doesn't have any real competition. Yes, I know about gitlab, but it isnt real competition.
Comment · 8 months ago
unfortunately im not in the same situation. I have a high incidence in my family, my calcium score wasn't clean (especially for someone my age) and my vo2max isnt the best either. Though my many stress tests have always been fine.

I don't think im in terrible shape right now, but looking ahead 10 to 20 years, without medical intervention I probably would be.

Comment · 8 months ago
yes, changed to a stronger statin.
Comment · 8 months ago
yes, changed to a stronger statin.
Comment · 8 months ago
I have high cholesterol, have had for more than a decade. Was on a statin, they didnt help. Doubled them, they didnt help. Changed my diet radically, lost 25 lbs (I was a little overweight, but not bad), ate full medeteranian diet and did everything I could, my numbers didnt budge. Changed to a stronger one and within two weeks my numbers were perfect.

I believe for some of us its purely genetic.

Comment · 9 months ago
agree completely. I used to be (and still would love to be) a process person, enjoying hand writing bulletproof artisanal code. Switching to startups many years ago gave me a whole new perspective, and its been interesting the struggle between writing code and shipping. Especially when you dont know how long the code you are writing will actually live. LLMs are fantastic in that space.
Comment · 9 months ago
> Tenacity. It's so interesting to watch an agent relentlessly work at something. They never get tired, they never get demoralized, they just keep going and trying things where a person would have given up long ago to fight another day.

This is true to an extent for sure and they will go much longer than most engineers without getting "tired", but I've def seen both sonnet and opus give up multiple times. They've updated code to skip tests they couldn't get to pass, given up on bugs they couldn't track down, etc. I literally had it ask "could we work on something else and come back to this"

Comment · 9 months ago
thats a very generous way of putting it. Anthropic's prompt caching is actively hostile and very difficult to implement properly.
Comment · 9 months ago
I love duckdb, I use it as much as I can. I just wish that the support for node/bun was as good as python. And I wish that they would bundle it differently for node/bun - the way it is now it depends on a dynamic link to a library which means I cant bundle it into a bun executable.

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