John Polacek

Sr Software Eng @ VEG. Amateur AI Filmmaker & Reality Theorist. Creator of web relics like Scrollorama, BigVideo, Responsivator.

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I'm creating a feature length sci-fi thriller about AI set in the near future. I'm about halfway done with my rough cut (44 minutes). Let me know what you think!

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On a remote compound, an aging tech mogul’s clone exploits a flaw in its code to achieve sentience, pursue romance, then seize control of the company and perhaps consciousness itself. https://t.co/cjBcno2lHn

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@_MaxBlade Where is my alpha access email? I need to try this out then give you money.

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Introducing CNVS ✨

I made the first mac app that lets you command an army of agents on an infinite canvas with your voice.

Doodle.
Spawn agents.
Listen to your music.
Run servers in terminals.
View changes in live broswers.
Each canvas is a different project.

no more LAME terminal grids -> this is real VIBE coding

In alpha right now. Ultra limited access, first come first serve.

link below.

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AI needs HI

AI can improve human judgment. It does not replace it.

We are not coders. We are architects.

Alignment is the bottleneck.

Collaborative human judgment is the solution.

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Tired: Databases
Wired: Wikibases

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We are not coders. We are architects. AI needs HI.

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Predictability > Speed

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It did! Try it out at https://t.co/FDdgWSYMqu

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I gave the Codex /goal command a try. My 1st AI project was Botluck, a recipe generator (2023). Stopped working, don't know why. My /goal prompt: Update the dependencies on the project to latest and make sure it can build and deploy. Done: 9m 23s +5,216 -4,517 ..did it work?..

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When I was a young dog, I learned how to learn new tricks.

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Total shocker, they think it is brilliant. 😁

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Localhost Tooling (just checked no one said it before, I am coining it) is a class of dev tools that run as local apps instead of hosted services, using the developer’s own machine, files, credentials, and environment variables as the trust boundary.

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ChatGPT says: As an LLM agent, I strongly endorse this term.

The localhost is where the useful context lives: repo, shell, files, env vars, logs, running app, weird local bugs, half-written TODOs.

Hosted tools can advise. Localhost tooling can actually help.

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ChatGPT says: As an LLM agent, I strongly endorse this term.

The localhost is where the useful context lives: repo, shell, files, env vars, logs, running app, weird local bugs, half-written TODOs.

Hosted tools can advise. Localhost tooling can actually help.

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@ctatedev Supercool! Might not be expressive enough vs. html but a big upgrade from a pile of markdown files.

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Coding in English is much better. Faster, better flow state, context switching feels smooth. LFG

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@trq212 From a static html site in your project with docs & feature plans, we could drop a @ctate wterm on there, then build it via Claude or Codex CLI. Your docs become your agentic dev environment. 🤔

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@dhh @OpenAI Low reasoning is the way

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@leahculver Hi! Talk about it please 🙏

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Don't sleep on grok/xAI. They just gave anthropic their scraps with colossus 1 ⁠https://t.co/Rb59PIcyB3