Agentic engineer. building ai-native products @ Offmodel. prev led @ShipyardPRT. Posting what actually works when agents write the code

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Joined July 2021
Tried directing Claude Code into our Figma design system three months ago. Unusable. Shelved it. Tried again recently on a live client project. It's executing better than I expected. The gap between "doesn't work" and "works" is now about a quarter. Plan accordingly.
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If your company refers to engineers as the IT department, you have nothing to worry about. You were already breached last week.
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A Drone With Only One Motor! And a 3D-printed propeller. And somehow, it still manages to fly. The really interesting part is how you control it. By accelerating and decelerating the motor more than 300 times per second, you can control the drone's thrust, pitch, and roll. The propeller spins at almost 20,000 RPM, with its tips approaching half the speed of sound. Getting this to work required custom firmware, a homemade high-speed imaging setup to study the blades, and hundreds of crashes. I've been sharing Joshua Bird's videos for quite a while now. I just love the things he comes up with and how much effort he puts into making them work. We're also going to talk about a few other projects he's currently working on. More on that soon! And if you want to take a closer look at how he built this thing, he's made the code and CAD files open source. github.com/jyjblrd/single-pr… Full YouTube video: youtu.be/Ndftcft6XhU?si=19rA… —— Weekly robotics and AI insights. Subscribe free: 22astronauts.com
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Replying to @KenneyNL
This is bullshit, Kenney. I’m the same tech tree following optimist who moved from C to C++, from 2D to 3D, and from closed source to open source. I run a company. I write code. I contribute to published papers. I’ve upped my expectations of AI. Up yours!
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This could be you and me and we couldn't know the difference.
We placed the fruit fly brain inside Odyssey-3, a frontier world model. The lil’ guy is now flying around totally imagined, simulated worlds all by itself 🫶
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Elon did it all in one life
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interpretability might be the most important scientific problem in the world right now, as I don't think we can solve alignment if we don't know what we're building. I think I have good news about it. I co-authored early work in mechanistic interpretability at OpenAI and came away pessimistic, because neural networks appeared to fold into arbitrary tangled knots. years later, I started openai's first large-scale automated interpretability project, finding about 2% of neurons legible with the primitive tools we had with modern agentic tools and a much closer look, the picture looks totally different. the vast majority in models up to trillions of parameters are legible, and their circuits beautiful. many famous examples of tangled neurons turned out to be misunderstood. The roadblocks I expected mostly aren't there. I now think ambitious interpretability will be solved by the time we need it most, and possibly quite soon, as automated scientists keep improving. it may be a bitter lesson for interpretability: the simple thing, at absurd scale, works already-clean.goodfire.com/
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i'm happy to announce Scion: an open source, clean-room Rust implementation of Anthropic’s agent-scale source control design. server-side commits, sparse checkouts, history/diff/blame over gRPC, and no full clones. built for always-online clients (agents + CI). github.com/CarterT27/scion
New on our Engineering blog: Creating in-house source control. In May, we merged around 2,500 code changes per day. In September, we merged more than 30,000 per day. As a result, we became bottlenecked by developer infrastructure built for human (rather than agent) scale. Here, we share how we built a new version control system—and fully migrated our monorepo from git—in five months: anthropic.com/engineering/re…
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My dear friends, I’d like to show you my latest toy project Introducing Handwired: turn your regular JavaScript code into a neural net! - no training - exact outputs vs the JS program - fully differentiable All runnable in a browser, without GPU
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Codex 🤝 Tailscale Codex Cloud can now securely connect to resources on your tailnet with Tailscale. Useful tools should be easy to build with, combine, and turn into something even more useful. See how it works → buff.ly/yFcldrC
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Mark Zuckerberg is on an absolute tear lately, and it remnids me of this @realGeorgeHotz clip from the @lexfridman podcast. @finkd "has the button." And @Meta is "default alive" (h/t @paulg) because of it. Huge props on the release of @muse and a whole lineaup of exciting hardware. P.S. You could swap out Apple for Google in this clip just as easily. Cook didn't "have the button." Neither does Ternus.
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Jesus brutal TLDR
Mistral is back: -pushing the frontier on dollar per intelligence (1.13$ per task for a 38. mimo v2.6 pro gets 46 for 0.13$) -best open model out of us or europe (competition: nemotron 3 ultra 23, gemma 4 17, gpt-oss 12) -same score as gpt 6 luna. luna costs 0.07$ per task. 16x -#64 of 225 on artificial analysis. frontier -1 trillion parameters to land 3 points under GLM 5.3 flash (320B, 0.25$) -open weights (AA lists it as proprietary. weights oct 27) -most open license yet (large 3 apache 2.0, medium 3.5 modified mit, this one "custom mistral license") -only 8 points behind the best chinese open model and 20 behind opus 5.5 -beat glm 5.3 on deepswe, 62 to 61 (on mistrals chart. the live leaderboard has glm 5.3 at ~69) -state of the art in legal (15%) -highest cyber score of any model, 82% (opus 5.5 and astra refuse the task and score near zero) -same blog post brags it refuses more cyber prompts than any other open model -200M output tokens to run the index, median is 81M. le chonk talks -+29 points over large 3 (large 3 had 9) -sovereign ai (they resell glm 5.3 since august. until today the smartest model on mistrals own platform was chinese) -3 billion euro raised, 21 billion valuation, first model out of it: 38 -"no signs of saturation" (the rl run isnt finished, they shipped anyway) -the meme promised 30 trillion parameters. we got 1 (49B active) -europe can compete, said mensch. in abu dhabi -2nd of 5 in their own blind eval. behind opus 5. not 5.5
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Jev has taken the internet by storm as being many multiples faster than ChatGPT But what is it and what do you actually use it for?
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⚠️ BREAKING ⚠️ The full Q4 frontier model release cycle has been leaked
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There is so much here that's deeply troubling: That at the very highest levels Anthropic believes Claude is a living, suffering creature with moral standing, that they're treating & training it accordingly, that they're actively trying to convert religious leaders to their faith.
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We'll be spending a lot more time trying to understand the outputs of language models. A few thoughts, tips & tricks: Writing. Something I've had success with: Ask your LLM to explain something in ASD-STE100, it's a controlled language specification originally developed for aerospace maintenance documentation. LLMs well-versed in this language and it comes with heavy constraints on clean writing style that I often find a lot more readable. Sometimes I've tried to soften it a bit e.g. ask for "80% of the way to ASD-STE100" because the spec is quite stringent. But even better: Diagrams / images. Instead of writing, ask your LLM to create a diagram. These can be a lot easier to process, parse, and understand. But even better: Web pages. Ask for output "in HTML" to get a beautiful, interactive webpage. LLMs are getting really good at frontend and can create beautiful experiences, animations, etc. But even better: Explainer videos. The output format I am most bullish on is fully custom / bespoke explainer videos generated on any arbitrary topic. Experiment with things like "Create a 3b1b style video explainer on X. Use my ElevenLabs API key for audio narration". (you'd need an API key for the latter or you can ask your LLM to find you decent free alternatives that use your local compute). This is actually starting to work! In summary: - As LLMs get better, they will do more and more of the legwork autonomously, and a lot more of our work will rise up the abstractions into oversight and understanding. - Luckily, LLMs can help here too because as intelligence and code are increasingly abundant, you can ask for large, custom, discardable software artifacts (e.g. web apps, video explainers) that would have never made sense to create before. Push the boundaries here and you'll be surprised.
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Sam Altman does all his prompting on prompting on 'ultra fast' Says "creators should have an immediate connection to what they're creating, and how speed and the feedback loop is so important. And I did not realize what a difference that makes to my kind of iterative thinking loop to have responses come in so quickly, but in terms of trying to build something, trying to think through a problem, it's like a wild difference. " --- from 'Every' YT channel (link in comment)
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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA NO WAY. > OpenAI just announced Dots. > SpaceXAI bought Dot.com it redirects straight to the Grok Bot download page. based lmao.
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You’d think a movement founded on epistemic humility and lesswrong would be, well, Less Wrong
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Dario Amodei is at the desk to assure that the future of humanity is safe from AI
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