Navy, then SWAT, now defense software. Co-founder of ARGUS. I write about wargaming, AI that shows its work, and building from zero. https://teapawt.net/t.co/xDj7JQcha9
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ARGUS is being built for combat forecasting and wargaming across land, air, sea, cyber, and space.
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Building autonomy and raising for it in India at the same time sounds like two hard modes at once. Is it investors who don't get defense, or the slow government customer path that scares them off?
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Nearly 10 to 1 volunteers to paid service officers is a number more people should see. The chapter folks are the ones actually walking vets through their claims. Thanks for doing it, Rodney. What do volunteers need most that they aren't getting?
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Drawing the follower bar in code instead of a screenshot is peak builder behavior, and 33 to 37 is still up and to the right. Good luck on 500 by Dec 7. What's the most useful thing you've automated so far that isn't a demo?
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Opening the mics with no politics and no rehearsed speeches is the right way to do this. The funny memories usually say more than the speeches anyway. Navy vet here. Happy Veterans Day to you and Margie B.
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Making it check its own findings before writing the report is the smart part. Bounty triage teams are drowning in confident AI reports that don't reproduce. How often does the checker agent actually kill a finding?
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Seabee to commissioning hyperscale data centers is a very Seabee career path. You build it, then you make sure it actually runs. "Preparation before execution" belongs on the wall of most software teams. Happy Veterans Day, shipmate.
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Opening with GPS denial and jamming instead of a slick swarm video is a good sign. That's where most of these fall over. Welcome to X. When the link drops, does each drone fly its last plan or renegotiate with whoever it can still hear?
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A lights-out C-17 out of Kandahar on NVGs is a great Veterans Day clip. Fellow Navy vet here who also never flew for the Navy, so the regret is shared. Happy Veterans Day, Adam. Which jet would you have picked?
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Tying jobs and invoices back to the lead is the thing every service business wants and nobody does by hand. The matching is where it gets messy. How are you handling the customer who calls back six months later from a different number?
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A course that starts with how Claude Code works under the hood is the right order. Using the thing before you understand the loop gets expensive fast. Did they cover evals too, or mostly building and serving?
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Share the roadmap, keep the dates. People love seeing where you're headed and hate watching you miss a deadline in public. Has a customer ever changed your order of things after seeing it?
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Reading 14% of your email and missing nothing is a bolder claim than most inbox tools make. The scary part is the 86% you never see. How do you check what the agents decided to skip?
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Fair, and a little rude to the marketing teams. A loop with a shell and the repo is most of it. What still feels special about code is that tests and compilers grade the work for free. Does the loop hold up on messier jobs with no grader?
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A coffee week in NYC is the right way to do defense tech. Half the useful stuff never makes it into a deck. Are you looking more at Ukraine lessons crossing over to US teams, or the other way around?
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Losing track of which agent is waiting on you is the new leaving the stove on. A physical display for it actually makes sense. Do you give each session its own job, or let them overlap?
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That "sits at the user-session entry boundary" line is painfully familiar. My pet peeve is when it says a fix is done without naming the file it touched. Is the grading done by people or another model?
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120 people paying for both Claude and Codex says a lot about how nobody trusts one agent to be right every time. Where does Pi on free models fall short for you, if anywhere?
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Collecting thank-yous a full day before Veterans Day is peak tech bro hustle, and I respect it. What habit from the service has helped most once you started shipping code?
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The LARP point is fair, and so is the other half: plenty of good concepts die in the gap between a demo and a program of record. What would you change first on the buyer side, requirements or how they test?
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