Eric Ventor

Senior Software Engineer @metropolisio | Building the Recognition Economy

[Eric Ventor @ericvtheg]

As engineers our job is to find and reduce complexity. LLMs are not very good at that job.

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@nxthompson Guilty, been using a shit ton of deep seek tokens lately

[Eric Ventor @ericvtheg]

@wernerk_au @nxthompson Bro it’s completely different markets

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@bcherny Tldr spend more tokens

[Eric Ventor @ericvtheg]

@William__Gitta @chrisalbon Sure, 99% of the time this is not the case. Even if you have tests doesn't mean it handles every case. Just because the tests are all passing doesn't mean the solution is correct.

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Using anything besides Claude Code, makes you realize how bad Claude Code is at managing context bloat

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@William__Gitta @chrisalbon This has clear measurable outcomes, most software engineering tasks do not.

[Eric Ventor @ericvtheg]

@dok2001 Loops are actually OP for training ML models. Just tell it you want a x% success rate against the test dataset. It will just keep chugging until you reach it.

Software development doesn’t have as clear of outcomes on the other hand…

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@steipete What does this even mean

[Eric Ventor @ericvtheg]

Extending hermes to get plots out of the groupchat with the boys. It'll find deals, gauge interest, align schedules, and plan itinerarys

[Eric Ventor @ericvtheg]

Seeing if I can get my hermes bot to spin up a gpu pod and generate dubstep songs for the homies in Discord. Ty @runpod

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@itsalexzajac Yes I think the pendulum will swing back as we learn what’s being created is slop. For the foreseeable future we still need to understand what we ship.

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@hthieblot Yall tryna fix the ratio or something? You’re gonna make it worst

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Still thinking about how @AnthropicAI just completely blackballed the word "hermes"

[Eric Ventor @ericvtheg]

The only thing stopping me from believing that @AnthropicAI is completely delusional is the @bunjavascript rust rewrite. Even then most agentic workflows don’t have a phenomenal language agnostic test suite.

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@teej_dv Yes

[Eric Ventor @ericvtheg]

Sometimes I game with the homies. Instead of just sitting and coding.

[Eric Ventor @ericvtheg]

@rohanpaul_ai No way this dude is working on Claude code anymore

[Eric Ventor @ericvtheg]

@opencode Lately been using deepseek v4 flash. Unfortunately most of my work relates to tiananmen square.

[Eric Ventor @ericvtheg]

What models are people using with @opencode? Seeing how long I can go without a ChatGPT subscription