Erik van Eekelen

Founder & CEO of creators of CallCoach. Built my first Neural Network 20 years ago. Passionate about AI, Innovation and Leadership.

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@kimmonismus “The single most load-bearing document” . Note to self: remove Claudisms before posting.

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@emollick Can you ask them who wrote that piece? I assume it’s mostly AI written but it doesn’t read as AI. Knowing how they prompt Claude to write better and avoid the AI tropes would be very useful.

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@doodlestein @sama I was going to mention @doodlestein , and here he is.

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@fofrAI So basically a graphic novel about @simonw in the future, but from the past…

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@the_antrik @emollick True, I’ve seen them in the wild ��� as you say mostly used by academics. In a marketing brochure not so much though, and it’s very much a LLM tell these days, as it’s almost impossible to get them to stop using it.

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@doodlestein @xundecidability @Prithvir12 Agree, have seen it too. Yesterday on a complex db performance issue. “thinking-high” was doing all the correct logical things and didn’t get stuck in a loop, but max was eventually able to get to the unintuitive breakthrough finding.

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@fofrAI Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and all they want to do is say hi to me. A thousand times.

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@karpathy @AnubhawM This is really mostly a ChatGPT thing since the last 5.x versions (haven’t seen Claude doing it).

Very annoying - I’ve tried a number of prompting techniques to stop it from doing it, but the RL on engagementmaxxing seems too strong.

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@doodlestein @bygregorr MommyBench lmao!

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@karpathy @neural_avb Did you listen to the audio version by any chance? So good!

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.@OfficialLoganK Can you help me understand why gemini-2.5-flash-lite is being replaced by a model that is still in preview and most importantly 65% more expensive? We're on tier 3 and 2.5-flash-lite is an important reason for us to use Gemini.

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@Teknium @dotta Since Hermes Agent came out, I noticed that many of Tek’s posts and replies…
1. Are more polite and considerate
2. Are longer than 1 sentence
3. Lack any cussing

If you’re being held hostage Tek, make sure to use your safe word!

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@karpathy @adrian_valentim Doesn’t mean you’re not a time traveller of course….

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@GeoffreyHuntley Locals night?

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@fofrAI Play the second video slowly and it feels like Dusk till Dawn

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@Steve_Yegge Proximity to a bakery is definitely underrated as an ingredient for success - waking up really early with the smell of baking bread does that to people.

Great write up.

Companies using Gastown? Really?

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@swyx @RayFernando1337 Second and third reply perhaps show that he doesn’t have his agents under control yet.

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@ID_AA_Carmack I was reading along with your summaries, very interesting, thanks for sharing this!

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@karpathy That didn’t take long, but maybe not in the way you expected: API keys and email exposed