Jacob Haugen

Lead Engineer | MSAI at U of T | Entrepreneur at heart

[Jacob Haugen @built_by_jacob]

@mattshumer_ Kinda pointless unless we can see the tool calls that generated it. Could be extending something you already built. Link to the jsonl folder of the tree of sessions that made this.

[Jacob Haugen @built_by_jacob]

What happened to @cursor_ai it's hiding the IDE. They're trying to be an agent control surface. IMO that's just a bloated version of claude code. Where's the extension ecosystem?

[Jacob Haugen @built_by_jacob]

BAM loops: the closest equivalent of a hammer in loop engineering. Builder, adversary, manager. All opus 5, herdr, and /loop and /goal on the builder.

[Jacob Haugen @built_by_jacob]

https://t.co/ApQW0k0Wos:
1. Plan your goals, questions, metrics, telemetry.
2. Inputs and outputs for everything that you write.
3. If you want to go further, add the context.
4. Start naming the side effects.
5. Define your data models.

You can make a really good system.

[Jacob Haugen @built_by_jacob]

Invent the smallest vocabulary of concepts that lets a human predict Stockfish with maximal accuracy. At each stage you could measure Elo loss. The compression curve of chess knowledge.

[Jacob Haugen @built_by_jacob]

What is the smallest set of concepts that explains almost all expert performance?

[Jacob Haugen @built_by_jacob]

Imagine a blading stockfish down to human-level understanding, and that a grandmaster might have 200 heuristics. Anoppis might have four and fail to keep track of them. What's the minimum instruction set that would achieve 90% of the accuracy of stockfish?

[Jacob Haugen @built_by_jacob]

Oh I'm doing something called goal-based development. Write your goals and boot up daily agents to resume conversation to check on the trajectory of a value in your codebase. Represent it, buy, & vote conversations.

[Jacob Haugen @built_by_jacob]

Really interesting idea is how I want to resume conversations with threads.

[Jacob Haugen @built_by_jacob]

Dude @xToolOfficial you make me want to become iron man with your products.

[Jacob Haugen @built_by_jacob]

Prediction: next wave of AI hype is going to be around marketplaces/networks. People went from agent calls to harnesses to loops to graphs. Next one is going to be market dynamics of them trading tokens, calling it now.

[Jacob Haugen @built_by_jacob]

@jamwt there’s no way to copy an admin key from convex on mobile iOS. Could you please add a copy button

[Jacob Haugen @built_by_jacob]

Going to be in NYC next week! If anyone wants to grab coffee and chat about AI automation, drop me a DM 🗽

[Jacob Haugen @built_by_jacob]

Anthropic if they start banning the dev community.

[Jacob Haugen @built_by_jacob]

This is cool.

[Jacob Haugen @built_by_jacob]

@levelsio They've already proven that they can handle the world's data reliably and were the OG for transformers.

[Jacob Haugen @built_by_jacob]

Anyone have a good slack like interface with phone support for managing claude code instances? Want inbox of threads to respond to.

[Jacob Haugen @built_by_jacob]

I saw my ex's video today. She was behind the camera, not in front, making someone else look awesome. I realized she’s still generous in ways I never realized, and I hate that I can’t tell her that. The grief hit my throat so hard it felt beautiful. I’m scared to post this because the internet is permanent and I’ll be flattened into “the guy who cried over an aquarium video.” But holding it in feels like being a backup copy of a person I used to be.

[Jacob Haugen @built_by_jacob]

But it's not enough to offer to no one. That's the thing. And it didn't feel stupid. It just felt beautiful. That was the thing. I loved feeling the pain. Probably because some part of me believes that pain is a beautiful thing to experience. Why? Because I think it helps you feel alive. Because it helps you feel like you're contributing to something larger than oneself. To some spiritual side of being. To be witnessed. To watch myself even have a strong reaction to just saying that. I felt that in my top deep throat. I wanted to share it all.

[Jacob Haugen @built_by_jacob]

@leerob I’d love to know what they admire about Clinton’s like Claude code and some of their favorite non ide ai tools are.