Alex Tandrau

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8, 9, 10. Enjoy (or reply in comments with your own suggestions)

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Conversation with one of our engineers today:

Engineer: Great progress today. We pushed about 40 items, all direct feedback items from the customers.
Me: How did you do that?
Engineer: I let Fable do it all over the weekend. I just reviewed them today.
Me: How did you avoid token limits (we're on a Team subscription)?
Engineer: Oh, I just had it auto correct his work in the browser. The wait for browser tools stretched out the token burning..

More on tokenmaxxing in the thread

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7. Alternative to #5, use the statusLine hook to call your own command

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Fun little afternoon project! Oh, the things I always wanted to do, but didn't have time..

Had a couple servers lying around (as we all do I guess). Set them up into an Incus cluster within my personal Tailscale network and migrated a few low intensity web services that I run for myself.

Gave @Tandrau01 a home and hope to have him up and kicking very soon.

Next step: make him useful

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My minimal summer setup

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Loads of thinking these days about educating the next generation...

This week, Boris (9yo) and I spent about 4 days on a Connect 4 game in Python, written fully by hand, artisanal style. Yes, this definitely teaches the basics, but do we need or want to teach this abstraction level?

Breaking a problem into subproblems and building the blocks back into a solution is the most valuable skill for technology for sure. But what's the right sized block for a generation that will reach maturity in 10-20 years from now?

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We recently updated one of our most complex AI Assistants to use Programmatic Tool Calling (PTC).

V1 - Without PTC: LLM → tool → context → LLM → tool → context → LLM

V2 - Self Implemented PTC: LLM → tool that receives a sequence of tool calls as parameters → LLM ...

V3 - With PTC: LLM generates code that runs in a sandbox (Javascript for OpenAI starting with 5.6, Python for Claude) that can itself run multiple tool calls.

Massive difference!

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@theagentdrop No cleanup, by design

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When new models get released, I like one-shotting the VOID/01 game, a space simulation that runs in the browser. I did this today for Grok 4.6 using Claude.

🧵See below Fable (with Claude Code) vs Sol (with Codex) vs Grok 4.6 (with Claude Code). All with same prompt and no follow ups.

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Any favs?

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Grok 4.6 on Claude Code (via OpenRouter):
- Graphics not as great
- But very playable, controls are flawless, feels more of the inertia and gravity
- Hull and core degrade separately, heat indicator added an additional layer
- Enjoyed it most
- Cost was $1.32 via Open Router; about 8 minutes