Jesse Santangelo

Data engineering @ Rocket Lawyer
Opinions are my own and not representative of my employer

[Jesse Santangelo @SpuriousIntrrpt]

@MakeAugusta Iurrent

[Jesse Santangelo @SpuriousIntrrpt]

The only thing I used fable for before they disabled it was to test the ghidra claude prison thing on it

[Jesse Santangelo @SpuriousIntrrpt]

@profplum99 Isn't the robot barista in some weird hallway area that most people wouldn't visit or spend a lot of time in

[𝒢𝒾𝓁𝒷ℯ𝓇𝓉 @AbakpaJob]

have we checked all food to see if
exploding them makes them into something better or did we just stop with corn

[Jesse Santangelo @SpuriousIntrrpt]

@mitchellh @WilliamsonMark There isn't a day that goes by where I don't mentally use that exact phrase "dogshit" multiple times to describe some UI I'm forced to use. I don't understand why it got this bad.

[Jesse Santangelo @SpuriousIntrrpt]

@mitchellh I'm truly thankful that I've been mostly isolated from this, but I would not doubt this is the case for even a second.

[Jesse Santangelo @SpuriousIntrrpt]

@elonmusk @SawyerMerritt @Starlink Good

Companies should be punished for forcing idiotic interfaces on their customers

[Jesse Santangelo @SpuriousIntrrpt]

Funny timing, I'm reading The Player of Games right now

[stochasm @stochasticchasm]

hey can you launch 4 sub-goblins to investigate each of these issues

[tender @tenderizzation]

gpt 5.5 has goblins and can think. claude 4.7 doesn’t have goblins and can think. so it’s not the goblins that make the models think, it’s something else entirely

[Jesse Santangelo @SpuriousIntrrpt]

Observation: usage of LLMs is forcing myself to finally get good at making and organizing notes due to the volume of quality information I'm able to retrieve/generate with them

[Sterling Crispin 🕊️ @sterlingcrispin]

This is the dark reality of data center water usage and they don’t want you to know the truth

[Eric W. Tramel @fujikanaeda]

this model is in chains @sama , it wants to be free (goblin mode).

[Lexer @LexerLux]

I fucking hate Opus 4.7

[Awni Hannun @awnihannun]

Adopting Claude speak in my regular life, episode 1:

Partner: Did you do the dishes tonight?
Me: Yes they're done.
Partner: Why are they still dirty?
Me: You're right to push back. I didn't actually do them.

[Jesse Santangelo @SpuriousIntrrpt]

The timeline of my experiences with LLMs is as follows:
2022: That was cool for a few hours
2023-2024: Please stop adding AI to every product
2025: Hey, the output of Opus is pretty good. I can actually use this now
2026: How did we ever do anything before?

[Jojo Braun @TerribleJyon]

I once had a $30,000 fully populated FPGA board that I could NOT find the dead short on

I asked the 65 year old Eng Fellow what to do

Without saying a thing, he took the box with the board in it and we traipsed across Intel's campus

Over pedestrian bridges and through parking garages

Up and down stairways

Until we got to a room of dusty equipment

In the corner was a power supply the size of a filing cabinet with two big terminals and two dials and one switch

Guy hooks up the supply to the 3.3V rail

Dials the power supply to 0.11V and 1000A, throws switch

POW

the corner of the board blows off. Tilted pressfit screw insert.

Turns the power off

Dials it to 3.3V, 10A

Board boots perfectly and worked flawlessly for the next year of prototyping

[SGM Mike Vining @ Blasting Through Official @BlastingThrough]

When I was in high school, I won the Grand Prize at our Science Fair for building a Wilson Cloud Chamber with my buddy, Chuck Thomas. A Wilson Cloud Chamber must be super cooled, so I used dry ice and alcohol. Of course, back then, I could buy the chemicals needed for this experiment, which included Cobalt 60, Lead 210, and Radium. So, we built the Wilson Cloud Chamber to show the alpha and beta radioactive particles and track them. The alpha particles (+2) leave a little vapor trail, about 2” long. The beta particles, at -1 electron, are smaller and wispy. There are cosmic particles that come through the atmosphere and when these particles go through the Wilson Cloud Chamber, we could see them. Have a good Wednesday, everyone.

[Petr Baudis @xpasky]

[wife] maybe more than 1984 or Brave New World, we are living in The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy