Austin Wallace

System optimizer: Data engineering, AI tooling, and Team Canada quadball

[Austin Wallace @austeane]

@So8res Saw this here first, so linking the blog in case anyone else in the same boat:
https://t.co/saz0cL56ZO

[Austin Wallace @austeane]

@visakanv @nosilverv This is almost right! Actually you can trace this type of incentive structure all the way back to nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcers table.

[Austin Wallace @austeane]

@yhdistyminen @corsaren It’s also not That far from the Sun Eater

[Austin Wallace @austeane]

@Dubs408 No wilt, no problem:

[Austin Wallace @austeane]

Which of these two teams that I generated wins in a 7 game series? Dirk mainly plays C with Lebron mainly at the 4. Hakeem dominates the paint, but...

[Mohamed @MoeSquare]

This game is quite addicting, even if some of the win/loss records being spat out is questionable https://t.co/fvRyhcJg7F

[Austin Wallace @austeane]

@camolNFT Here's my first 82-0 and I think they lose to my 72-10 team.

[Austin Wallace @austeane]

@camolNFT Someone with ball knowledge tell me, this team would absolutely be better than 72-10?!

[Austin Wallace @austeane]

@fullartfanatic @camolNFT Switch Dirk and Lebron, I assume the simulation didn't take that into account

[Austin Wallace @austeane]

@camolNFT 2020's wade was a beast

[Austin Wallace @austeane]

@MoeSquare Someone with ball knowledge tell me, this team would absolutely be better than 72-10?!

[Austin Wallace @austeane]

@artinventcr I think he should produce the next spiderman film that hands over the mantle to a younger actor

[Austin Wallace @austeane]

The most important meta-tip that can help you figure everything out that everyone is overwhelmingly try to explain:
Tell Codex your overall goal, ask it how you can set it up for success, and encourage it to ask you questions. If you do that, it will tell you the tools it needs to be able to properly edit spreadsheets, and figure out with you any ambiguities.
You can dervive what to do just by thinking about how to best collaborate with another Thing

[Austin Wallace @austeane]

@leerob 5: Have your agent walk you through the changes it makes! Code reviews aren't the result of trying to find the best way to help a human *understand* what is happening and why. https://t.co/arSNxdrJKk
I build Walkthrough to do this, but you can also just ask your agent.

[Austin Wallace @austeane]

@trq212 Great prompt, and I've also been thinking about how to equip the agent to be able to more effectively communicate with the user.
Akin in spirit to your HTML use, I've created a Walkthrough skill that works in tandem with your prompt!
https://t.co/arSNxdrJKk

[Austin Wallace @austeane]

@pvncher @irl_danB I think the core improvement for workflows is that it in-harness empowers a frontier model to deeply plan for itself it’s own execution architecture. Eg I’ll need some agents to code, to review, etc.
All the other details, you can take it or leave it.

[Austin Wallace @austeane]

@pvncher @entropicEngine @RepoPrompt Eventually you find yourself ending that sentence three words earlier lol

[Austin Wallace @austeane]

@pvncher @entropicEngine @RepoPrompt I *think* a symlink guarantees that the file is included in it's context in every prompt, removing a Read toolcall.

[Austin Wallace @austeane]

Strongly agree! I think I’ve invested a ton of time into this and I am confident in my skills relative to the field but also much more confident that I’m not near optimality.
I think some of this is individual skill, and also I think that the ecosystem of harnesses, skills, and other not yet named constructs is nowhere near optimality yet.

[Austin Wallace @austeane]

@pvncher I see the memetic payload has taken root 😘

[Austin Wallace @austeane]

@WCNegentropy @vgrichina @DavidKPiano I agree it can go too far, but I think there isn’t any indication that happened here.
The main agent spending time getting overall context, and then sending a single subagent to do some work, is a good pattern when the eg tool calls of that work won’t help it going forward.