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swyx

24,262karma·6,033submissions·December 9, 2015
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Writer/Angel in devtools and smol AI enjoyer.

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personal blog: https://swyx.io/ideas

book: https://learninpublic.org/

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i thought this was more common than it is, but it's also not rare. Claude: Around a dozen turtle species globally can breathe through their cloacas (rear openings), with roughly half living in Au…
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(semi serious) are there any ways to distinguish photos from being taken up close with no barrier vs behind plexiglass in a zoo?
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good summary. i think you forgot heartbeat.md which powers some autonomy. do you think the agent admin ui mattered at all? other contributors while i think of them: - good timing around opus 4.6 as th…
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just you. i use default substack font with some bolding
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they are actually 4 companies in one. planning to ask him about that when he comes on the pod
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Author here. You guys are reacting like engineers - it's not the raw features, it's the critical mass that only a rare few like openai can attract. I don't care that someone else is al…
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thank you for listening!! team works hard on it. Jeff was an absolute bucket list GOAT to have on the show and to launch the pod with the new Deep Think is just icing on the cake. Every 3-4 months peo…
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author here, entire editorial is entirely human written
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directory perhaps less confusing.
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how are you so sure :)
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ok gotcha. yeah i guess my background with temporal.io got me used to "every workflow instance can have a shit ton of long running state that gets persisted and rehydrated at will". check th…
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ok nice reply. i think i was where you were in 2021 around doing stuff in sprocs. i think pple generally follow a cycle of going overexcited about throwing everything in the database and then going &q…
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how exactly is adding a stored procedure as an agent mind bending
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why?
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not vouching either way, but he already responded to this and so people should decide for themselves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy6qY-fEAjA …
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the image makes it easier to see the top post and response together. also i guess the threads comments add extra context
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[Editor here] happy to answer any questions! this was a great/fun piece to put together to help ease engineers in to the general field of AI for Science
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if you were an experienced/mature tech employee you should probably know that there are real HR reasons why companies are strongly advised not to give too much information in a rejection email. t…
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username checks out
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thanks yeah... am a total noob to the api so have no idea but i guess just based on principle if you can see everything the slack webapp sees then it stands to reason the info about the unread message…
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saved you a claude: Polarr's Mission: For over a decade, Polarr has provided photographers with intelligent, intuitive AI-powered tools for photo and video editing, culling, and workflow automati…
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what about a way to read channels rather than messages? seems missing? also... any shortcut for UNREAD messages? for yknow making a recap
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