Building software and teams with agents and humans. Founder of Connsulting, co-host of @managerxbuilder
Washington, DC
Joined May 2013
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Rebooting my X. Expect a lot of AI talk. Planning to discuss how and what I'm building these days.
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Google models are a little extra. I have trouble trusting the model when it has thinking blocks like this...
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Stock DeepSeek refused to write the phishing email. Brian switched to the abliterated twin of the same model and it wrote the lure, reset link included.
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Klaus thinks dedicated tech debt weeks should be gone. Kunal's not sure, because you're shipping a lot more than you used to.
Stop telling people to "be more organized." They'll tell you they are. Name the action instead: spike the week Monday morning, list the blockers by lunch.
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Google Argon is unbelievably slow. Any one else running into this?
Never thought speed would be a factor for me, but I can't get into flow with it.
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Same with the AI. Give it a destination. I don't care if it went left or right at the streetlight, only that it arrived where I expected. 10 to 15 seconds a prompt, four or five threads at once. You're managing it, not reading it.
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The scarcest resource these days is human attention. I'll happily throw more tokens at a problem if it achieves the same quality of output with less human attention.
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For a client I moved from Zapier to n8n because Claude can actually control it. I want Claude building the automation and managing the failures.
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An abliterated model has the refusal weights cut out. Brian ran one on an isolated home lab next to stock DeepSeek. Same model family. One writes the phishing email, the other won't.
Give people an outcome and the tools to achieve it and they will flourish.
Now do this for your agents, too.
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My favorite new skill is my coordinator skill. It acts as a team lead over subagents to build, coordinate, and merge PRs for vibe projects.
I've been seeing a lot of tweets about people wanting one central place to talk to. This is my version of it.
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Brian deleted all of his custom sub-agents this week. He still runs vanilla sub-agents constantly, because a test writer shouldn't know what the implementer did.
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Brian's personal wiki ranks sources by trust. His own words count most, then his calls, then the podcasts and newsletters he trusts. Random web results never get in.