Alex Taco

Self Deployed Full-Stack AI Engineer.
Prev: EdTech & HealthTech.
Now: Dad + Founder Mode.

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Haven't posted in 1yr! Amazing convos with builders at Miami Consensus & Solana Accelerate energized me to start building out in the open.

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@ericzakariasson @bot Conversation mode just like ChatGPT/Codex has, where you can access all the features and coordinate your work all form one bot/conversation.

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Officially made the move from the highest tier @claudeai to @grok superheavy ... sadly, in my opinion, Opus/Fable can no longer complete meaningful or complex end-to-end work in the CLI, in a reliable or reasonable amount of time. Grok just builds... reliably and fast. Whatever magic @AnthropicAI had before, seems to be gone.

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@chrisparkX @bot @XDevelopers Taggin @bot

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@chrisparkX @bot @XDevelopers Bought credits and can't use it at all, been trying for a week, please see https://t.co/qw7wjjrddQ

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@iScienceLuvr I’ve found that introducing 3rd party harnesses on Codex or Claude models is futile because they love to break out of them. It’s like playing whack-a-mole. Then, an update drops, and the thing you were trying to optimize it for becomes natively supported or better.

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@therealchaseeb Insult maxxing is an essential anti slop pattern

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@Youkhna @MinimalCompany Who remembers unwrapping a @BlackBerry pearl with these qwerty keyboards? Blindfold me today, and I could still type flawlessly with these.

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@AnatoliKopadze So... a database?! Graphs are UIs for developers who can't CLI 😎

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@dannypostma Say it with your chest. Whispering code is sus vibes.

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@danellisona "Your instinct is right, but there's a distinction underneath it that changes what's possible — and once it's clear, the answer gets better, not worse."

Because it says things like this. Still wouldn’t use anything else. But expect that to change once grok actually catches up.

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@systemdesignone CLI is the correct and only answer.

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@unclebobmartin @grok turn this into a skill or harness i can use with @xai grok build

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@mattpocockuk May the best harness facilitator win.

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@wookash_podcast Quantity ≠ quality. The’ve just automated the illusion of progress.

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@KentonVarda I’ve yet to meet a happy middle manager. Agent prompting just scales the misery.

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@yacineMTB Fines for AI slop should exist. It’s just digital littering.

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@elonmusk Starship is the Santa María

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Frontier AI isn't smarter... it's just better at hiding the slop while humanmaxxing our egos for token churn. Change my mind.

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@JakeFleshner Agentic OSHA