andrew furman 🗺️

Using LLMs to handle insurance claims
Also ❤️ Geopolitics 🗺️ Bikes 🚲 Trains 🚈

[andrew furman 🗺️ @furman]

Awesome history of insurance by @daschreiber :

🇨🇭1713 Bernoulli defines Law of Large Numbers
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿1686 Lloys of London founded, redefines insurance
⛵️1799 Insurance Companies own most data
🚂1899 Insurance Companies own most data
🖥1999 Insurance Companies own most data
🤖2019 ❓

[andrew furman 🗺️ @furman]

@lucas_builds @vincenzo_naked I've been using CLI for everything and even started writing my own custom CLIs.... wrote this one to search my Google Photos: https://t.co/ra6ucIKuEN

[andrew furman 🗺️ @furman]

It's still wild to me that I had zero GitHub contributions in 2023, probably working on some private repos at work, but still. You look at today and it's 100+ contributions every day. Crazy how the world has changed in 3 years.

[andrew furman 🗺️ @furman]

Looking back on it, I think I'll always remember Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude Opus 4.5. Those were the days that changed it.

[andrew furman 🗺️ @furman]

@sojoodi @OpenAI Haha that's kind of awesome. Side effect: you also get the response at 1,500 tokens per second, right?

[andrew furman 🗺️ @furman]

@sojoodi @OpenAI Yeah, there's no Mac app for Grok. Stinks.

[andrew furman 🗺️ @furman]

@mindoverdata Best passenger throughput: 🚆 Trains.
Safest for passengers and others: 🚆 Trains.
Most cost-effective household transit method: 🚲 Bikes.
Lowest microplastic runoff: 🚆 Trains.
Lowest energy use per rider: 🚲 Bikes.
Most cost-effective infrastructure to maintain: 🚲 Bikes.

[andrew furman 🗺️ @furman]

@lukecodez I'll take the other side of that.

I just rewrote a CLI tool that I use every single day in Rust. I've never looked at the Rust code, and I use it every single day. It works amazingly 🤷‍♂️ https://t.co/e6CTgYzhJJ

[andrew furman 🗺️ @furman]

I used to refuse to work with people who would say "Lets re-write it in Rust"

this morning (while I was on a run) .... I one-shot prompted Claude Fable 5 to rewrite one of my CLI tools that I use daily in Rust (works perfectly 👀)

[andrew furman 🗺️ @furman]

@justmazer Thinks to self... Am I technical? 🤔

[andrew furman 🗺️ @furman]

@Iam_HITESH__ @mayuri_3015 What's the answer here? Minimalist Stack 🤷‍♂️

- Claude Code
- Cloudflare Only:
---- Buy Domain
---- Worker to run app
---- D1 Database
---- R1 file storage

[andrew furman 🗺️ @furman]

@coreyganim @RexMacMillan Instead of having Todoist, all of my tasks are GitHub issues

[andrew furman 🗺️ @furman]

@matt_teeixeira CLI only apps for me https://t.co/RkGHQSeDE7

[andrew furman 🗺️ @furman]

@RyanShinra @TechByTaraa Yeah, I also like using Cloudflare for everything.

When I start up a new project, I commonly:
buy the domain on Cloudflare
set up a landing page using a Cloudflare worker
use R2, which is AWS S3-compatible storage
use D1 to spin up a SQLite database

[andrew furman 🗺️ @furman]

@thekitze I was thinking of this too. What are the seven services left in the world?

CloudFlare (or alt cloud provider)
Github
Model Companies (Claude Code / Codex)
Twilio / SendGrid?

What else has a long life to live?

[andrew furman 🗺️ @furman]

@techandsundry I was thinking about this the other day too. The only thing that remains constant for me is GitHub (I've given up Obsidian after 10 years, my vault is now a github repo)

[andrew furman 🗺️ @furman]

@rileybrown @MrGabrielKunkel No screens over here, just Claude printing all the parts of the internet that I want to read

[andrew furman 🗺️ @furman]

I thought the local ski area ( @springmntn ) had a super confusing map, Claude just drew me a new one.

[andrew furman 🗺️ @furman]

@sdvaladze @SebastianRoehl https://t.co/HrKm1SVSo4 solves this problem

[andrew furman 🗺️ @furman]

@buildwithrajath I'll take the other side of this. I would love if there's just one chat box that does everything.

[andrew furman 🗺️ @furman]

@chris2dtop @techandsundry I make a newspaper for my 2-year-old and 4-year-old and Grokbot just has terrible results every day and then Claude Code always one-shots it. This is just my daily lived experience

[andrew furman 🗺️ @furman]

@techandsundry By the way, I just downloaded your Cogito Voice app for Apple Watch. This is amazing