Colin

All grown up. Proud owner of a 2003 Ford Focus.

[Colin @heytherecolin]

What has your experience been like lowering the autocompact threshold? I am testing two different projects right now @ 500k vs 977k

[Thomas Wolf @Thom_Wolf]

Karpathy: disappears from X

Ben Affleck: alright, gather round, so you'll want to freeze the base weights first, learning rate 2e-4

[Colin @heytherecolin]

How are you adapting site MCP interactions to google analytics?

[Colin @heytherecolin]

This fall, everyone will be talking about using VMs for local coding and how convenient it is for their company's DevOps team to maintain a common harness/router for agentic sessions.

The number of job postings I see for DevEx and local infra teams gives me a 2-month heads-up.

[Matt Pocock @mattpocockuk]

100%

We are all engineering managers now

Strategists, not tacticians

[brett goldstein @thatguybg]

my hot take is that 99% of software can be built with the same set of finite elements

spending time/tokens building any of this from scratch over and over again is peak AI psychosis

[Matt Pocock @mattpocockuk]

Take a look at your favourite skill.

Go on, take a look.

Check for lines like:

- "Make the commit message very detailed"
- "Be thorough"
- "Make the implementation easy to read"

What do these lines have in common?

They're no-ops. They do nothing to change the agent's behavior.

Agents always write good commit messages. They always try to be thorough. They always try to create easy-to-read implementations.

Try removing them. Does the output change? No? Then the line was a no-op.

Agent-authored skills are LITTERED with no-ops. Entire paragraphs and sections of text that does nothing to change the agents' behavior.

No-ops make skills harder to evaluate, harder to maintain, and burn tokens uselessly.

Learn to spot them, test them, and remove them. Your skills will thank you.

[BuccoCapital Bloke @buccocapital]

I've watched a ton of people vibe code internal tooling only to realize:

"I am now the admin for something that basically does the same thing as the software we used to use "

And go back to using that software. It turns out 10% more customization isn't really worth it at all

[Patrick McKenzie @patio11]

This sounds like a trivial observation and it isn’t:

No organization which makes its people pay for coffee wants to win.

[Colin @heytherecolin]

Harris / Swift on the ticket if the dems know what’s good for ‘em

[Colin @heytherecolin]

'Meet the Grahams' absolutely ended Drake's "rap beef" with Kendrick Lamar. Here is what the haunting piano and assassination of the hip-hop artist's character taught me about enterprise SaaS sales 🧵

[BuccoCapital Bloke @buccocapital]

NVDA shareholders every time OpenAI makes a product announcement

[SEC, and CWC Champions @IOnlySayFacts]

Matt Damon said it perfectly

[Colin @heytherecolin]

Much like sampling and remixing in song production brought crediting the original source to commercial licensing, training an AI model on copyrighted material will require any commercial use of the model to credit the sources.

Palworld v Pokemon is going to force the use case

[Colin @heytherecolin]

2024 I’m a big ironing guy now. No creases

[Colin @heytherecolin]

@uniquestaysguy @isaacfrench_ You’re comparing a whole site for one property vs a page of Hyatt’s portfolio and questioning branding.

Do you also compare your local hamburger restaurant to the brand loyalty of McDonald’s on Congress Avenue?

Boutiques have success, and it’s not a modern trend. Be honest.

[Colin @heytherecolin]

@yo_no_se good dog, p.a.r.A.P.p. city

[Jason, @jasonc_nc]

We should be building versions of this on neighborhood corners across the country.