Saeed Esmaili

Data Scientist at @spotify
Part-time tennis player, photographer, and side hustler

[Saeed Esmaili @saeedesmaili]

@JackEllis I've found TTS useful when brainstorming and clearing my thoughts. For all other use cases I prefer to type.

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@RozenMD I have just disabled the subagent tool so model has no idea about it and can't ever use it.

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@ClementDelangue @ivan_bezdomny Can we have rss feed please so I can read in my feed reader? Preferably per category, but a single rss feed for all would work as well.

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@mattpocockuk I did something similar, my configuration if someone is interested:
https://t.co/Jm1Gsr48lv

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@tryingET @mitsuhiko @DustdrifterX https://t.co/gATsWbLDqj

[Kevin Whinnery @kevinwhinnery]

@skeptrune @AnthropicAI This will be the safety classifier behavior previously present, with the documented fallback behavior, not all requests

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@strickvl @xeophon Ah, busted!
Fortunately I'm talking English to claude, but Azerbaijani about claude (to my partner and most friends, Farsi with some friends). Best of both worlds!

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

Bragging about how much software you’re shipping with AI is like holding down the shutter button and bragging about how many photos you took.

[Mario Zechner @badlogicgames]

Step 1: give technical champions a neat tool to dork around with in their free time
Step 2: wait for them to bring it into the enterprise, with or without approval, because it's useful
Step 3: gain enterprise share rapidly
Step 4: piss of the technical champions by fucking with their free time tool use and also degrade the quality of the tool by insisting on vibe coding everything
Step 5: have your CEO constantly say all SWEs are on the chopping board in 6 months
Step 6: find out you have no moat surprisedpikachu.pcx

[Mario Zechner @badlogicgames]

dario is going to have a very bad time when investors find out that the small $100k token packages with discounts he's selling don't produce any measurable ROI for those non-software corps.

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@0xblacklight I have a screenshot of before and after of /context here (15.5k vs 9.9k for tools):
https://t.co/Jm1Gsr48lv

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I disable many of them using --disallowedTools
See here: https://t.co/Jm1Gsr48lv

[Kyle Mistele 🏴‍☠️ @0xblacklight]

btw if claude feels dumber part of the reason is that it has literally 3 dozen tools BEFORE you add MCP servers

it used to have like < 12

this is really all you need and skill is optional:

read
write
edit (codex combines this with write into apply patch)
bash
agent
webfetch
websearch (combine with webfetch into webanswer if you are building your own harness)
skill

maybe todowrite don't have a strong opinion

[Saeed Esmaili @saeedesmaili]

@0xblacklight No that's incorrect. I have checked the api calls, and this removes them from tool definitions so agent has no idea about them. Also you can check /context before and after to see number of tokens decreases for tools.

[Kyle Mistele 🏴‍☠️ @0xblacklight]

btw if claude feels dumber part of the reason is that it has literally 3 dozen tools BEFORE you add MCP servers

it used to have like < 12

this is really all you need and skill is optional:

read
write
edit (codex combines this with write into apply patch)
bash
agent
webfetch
websearch (combine with webfetch into webanswer if you are building your own harness)
skill

maybe todowrite don't have a strong opinion

[Saeed Esmaili @saeedesmaili]

@TeamCoco hey Conan. Your plate probably is full, but would love to meet you while you're in the Netherlands. Let me know if you want me to take you to a tennis court and tell you about tennis culture in the Netherlands (from an immigrant's point of view).

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Just came across this Home Assistant addon that adds claude code to a home assistant server: https://t.co/wwpaJJV0jE

I wonder if someone has created a similar addon for running pi-mono on home assistant. I did some searching but couldn't find any.

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@badlogicgames I've been pretty hally sith Firefox on Android. I can use extensions like darkreader and ublock origin which is amazing.

[David Cramer @zeeg]

Do yourself a favor and ignore these kinds of takes.

"The more tokens I spend the more advanced I am"

The people who spend the most on tokens, actually, are generally wasting compute with garbage multi-agent coordinator "experiments". They produce absolutely nothing yet feign they're on the cutting edge. They're not.

There is certainly a degree minimum viable usage, but if you do not live in these projects, in these companies, you cannot fathom what the real world looks like. You do not need to consume a thousand dollars a day to achieve the best results.

The numbers quoted here, just like the original post, are completely fabricated. Certain tasks will lend themselves to more token consumption (50m+ in a day), while many others will be an order of magnitude less and be just as if not more productive and valuable.

Measuring net tokens is no different than measuring net lines of code. Its a garbage metric and does nothing more than show output.

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@rasbt Thanks! I'm using rss for almost everything, great to see this.

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@xeophon Face here, trying to beat you, applied two weeks ago but haven't received a reply yet :(