Benjamin Van Meter

(Responsibly) burning tokens to Sammy Virji 🤌

Great overview applicable beyond the Defense Industry; Blakes' securities/corporate practices often considered the best in the country

If you are building something sufficiently complex with the latest models (Astra High / Opus 5.5) Your role as an engineer now is largely to pull the models out of architectural local minima Out-of-the-box/un-prompted they still avoid "factorizing" and compressing a solution into it's most minimal representation (generalization)

Friendly reminder all hardware is effectively hackable now with abliterated models

Currently experimenting with a server-authoritative retained-mode compositor/render-server application architecture. Thinking being by pushing semantic information down the stack, and with a few clever tricks, you can implement advanced compositional experiences while improving performance/rendering performance. Time will tell.

Hacking with the good folks at @NovusOrg today

Spent the past 3 hours hill-climbing kernels with Astra, time for sleep

Vancouver fall is too nice man

There are specific growth engineering arbitrages open right now with respect to Codex/Claude computer-use. 👀

Spectra/speculative execution timing vulnerabilities definitely made it into the training data 😂

You know you are GPU poor when your are trying to revive an old Quadro

Oracle architecture discussions right here in Vancouver 🫶 Very cool checking out dctrl's new space in Gastown!

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okay they cooked with the corgi fresco

If you're a harness, you're now adding system of record capabilities. If you're a system of record, you're now adding harness capabilities. You need to be both.

Overcast summer evenings are the best for building