Jacob Matson

excel user & data enthusiast. living the dream at MotherDuck

[Jacob Matson @matsonj]

news! mviz now has mermaid support, bc the folks at craftdocs built a nice way to show them in ts.

you can get the latest with

npx add-skill matsonj/mviz

[Jacob Matson @matsonj]

one must simply create a better team making algorithm

[Jacob Matson @matsonj]

@AlexNoonan6 mercurial stans unite

[Jacob Matson @matsonj]

alright prettttty good

[Jacob Matson @matsonj]

@__AlexMonahan__ to work is to tokenmaxx.

[Jacob Matson @matsonj]

there's a lot of hand-wringing about token usage right now.

once you figure out how to use a model in a harness, you'll spend whatever budget you have. any efficiency gains get absorbed into doing more.

[Jacob Matson @matsonj]

anyway its open source
https://t.co/ACHaN8ohyn

[Jacob Matson @matsonj]

fun thing i'm working on

[Jacob Matson @matsonj]

without scarcity, there is no prioritization. this is a management problem in a CFO's clothes.

[Jacob Matson @matsonj]

this is fine, until you notice that a lot of corporate work is make-work and the reward for finishing work is more work.

if you point that feedback loop at a model, you get tokenmaxxing: spend expands to fill the goal, and if the goal is just "do more," there's no ceiling.

[Jacob Matson @matsonj]

@SeattleWA_Mike @SwannMarcus89 Longer than 15 years. But it does feel a bit different now

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@AlexNoonan6 Actually yeah

[Jacob Matson @matsonj]

how to build empathy for your users, honestly love this

[Jacob Matson @matsonj]

@shakoistsLog lame just build your own harness and ui and

[trash jones @jzux]

if you die in Microsoft excel you die in real life

[Jacob Matson @matsonj]

@_its_not_real_ @ctjlewis yeah well said, but it seems like maybe they are "just selling it"

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@timo_rf @jamesonhaslam hell yeah

[Jacob Matson @matsonj]

@SixersSandro @BulletinBro @fuzzyfromyt Yeah like way less, they will pitch 5 games in a row

[Jacob Matson @matsonj]

@Winterrose I miss when you could wave at the other plane landing next to you

[Jacob Matson @matsonj]

@theo Watch some baseball, go hiking, idk man