Kyle Aster

Vibing in the discontinuous singularity. One of those fuck-arounder and find-outers.

Opinions are my own and do not express those of non-canonical dimensions.

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Let the record state that this is the correct way to treat ALIEN opening credits https://t.co/ma9TvLoJnu

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American culture failed when we accepted this blasphemy against one of the greatest typographic animations ever created.

ALIEN EAITH?

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Sometimes if I squint hard enough, I can see Anthropic's data center contracts in this screen.

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Drafts (the iOS/Mac app) has continually been one of the most useful apps I have on my computers.

But admittedly, sometimes I do wonder what's going on in my head when I find old notes.

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@Stammy 100% — it's gone the way of Lucida Grande.

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End of the season for the ranch.

Now, pray for ❄️

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@tnm It's actually a family, mahalo.

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About once every couple of months, my wife and I stay up way too late and talk about how our life is going. Sometimes with drugs, sometimes without.

It's probably the thing that contributes most to my long-term happiness.

Having an attitude that you want to make your life better and that you'll actively work toward it, without expecting that you'll always meet the moment is crazy important.

(no, it wasn't tonight, tonight we doubled down on our introvert tendencies and hung out in our offices)

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Is it silly? Yes.

Could we reclaim our roads (public spaces) for people? I kind of think so.

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My hottest take right now.

One of the greatest pieces of technology America could invent is a robot that digs a 5 story per-approved underground garage under any building with machinery to store vehicles / boats / shit.

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To be clear, an honest person wouldn't lie and say they don't know their address. They would agree with their attorney and say they aren't comfortable sharing that information on public record.

But these people are habitual liars and scam artists, it's in their nature to deceive.

[loops @_smitop]

Dario Amodei testified under oath that he didn't know his home address

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A long while ago, I used to meet up with customers using GitHub Enterprise to watch their workflow.

I found a ton of companies with several hour long CI runs that were full of stuff like "Ensure Model.count is correct". Several hours! They all thought it was normal.

It all feels useful, but you're just burning compute with no meaningful result.

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How many of your evals/benchmarks have succeeded at 100% for every run for every model you've deployed in production for the past 3 months?

Are you setting tokens on fire?

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Excellent morning of wildlife down at Taylor Creek. Saw-whet owl!

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I'm in a similar boat, and actually use Appflowy + Tailscale to get this mostly working.

- Privacy for sensitive material. I just don't see a reason to share any of this with 3rd parties. They're also subject to demands from police / FBI / etc.

- Ability to have deep integrations with any tool I want/build. I can read and write the database directly.

- Notion just has way, way, way too much stuff going on right now. Makes me babysit other family/staff I onboard to it. Others come up with too-clever setups to "solve" simple note-taking tasks.

FWIW, I wouldn't say I'm super happy with appflowy at this point in time either — its frustrating. Tradeoffs.

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There's a moment in Contact where Ellie is strapped into the seat they've installed because aliens don't understand how humans work.

And everything is vibrating uncontrollably. She can't see where she is or what is happening, it's overwhelming.

And her locket is floating next to her in perfect silence. And she unstraps.

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My three suggestions for setting your agent-based software flow on fire:

1. Remove all skills, AGENTS.md, and CLAUDE.md. At minimum, ask Opus to remove everything not vital.

2. Use Claude desktop app. Sorry, yes.

3. Use Opus 5.5 Medium. It's significantly better than others.

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Your harnesses, your skills, your overly prescriptive AGENTS.md — they're all making your models dumber and burn tokens like there's no tomorrow.

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So with *hand waves* everything happening. What happened with Seti @ Home? And everything along that path?

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Yeah, writing down what you really care about is super valuable (for agents, for collaborators, for you)! I usually have a small handful of documents like this — design priorities, security priorities, etc. Different for each app.

The agents have become super good at revisiting these priorities every milestone and adjusting their approach to fit.

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@kaluops Write down your safety rules, yo

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I think terminal is just an extremely poor user experience with the current complexity of harnesses. I use the ssh targeting, so all my sessions run on an always-on computer, but I get the desktop GUI to see its results. That said, the important part is using a first party harness.