Max

Dev of worktrunk (& @prql, @xarray_dev) | By day, quant in Irvine. Prev CIO @ Sixty Capital, @Bridgewater, HBS, London | Quoted in @matt_levine's newsletter!

[Max @max_sixty]

Announcing Worktrunk! A git worktree manager, designed for running AI agents in parallel.

A few points on why I'm so excited about the project, and why I hope it becomes broadly adopted 🧵

[Max @max_sixty]

Europe is ready for AGI:
- 20-hour week
- unparalleled regulatory infrastructure
- political system built to divide spoils
- annual August stress-test of human relevance

[Max @max_sixty]

@_lopopolo OK, those are both excellent points, thank you! This does seem simpler than I was holding

(and I think "secure storage" can just be something like `/proc` which is hidden from a bwrap-ed process, it doesn't need to be something the Tend project has access to either)

will try!

[Max @max_sixty]

@_lopopolo Does it not require that _given current constraints_?

I would love something that delegates calls to something that has the key material etc

I'm holding that's a great future state of the world, but it's not currently possible. But maybe wrongly?

[Max @max_sixty]

@_lopopolo tradeoffs!

would be better if they were short-lived. but that's not possible with current subscriptions

and ultimately if you want the agent to manage your project, it has to have some level of access

(merges to main are blocked though)

[Max @max_sixty]

@quant_____ @IsaacKing314 a spurious reason, if you will

[Max @max_sixty]

@askDemigan yes good point

I think that monorepos have gone up in value a lot; and good dependency management with good caching (uv!)

I haven't used DBs much at all, but totally makes sense re sqlite

[Max @max_sixty]

@askDemigan thank you! I have worked really hard on that aspect of it. lmk any small frictions when you hit them!

[Max @max_sixty]

@_sholtodouglas @amorriscode I just moved https://t.co/u5aRz91ABb to use Codex by default (which so far seems much worse), because GHA are no longer covered in subs, even for FOSS

still using it locally to build e.g. https://t.co/SQas2EUkkT

would be awesome to have more tokens for FOSS projects

[Max @max_sixty]

@Romy_Holland https://t.co/UeFTFw1QF5

[Max @max_sixty]

you're doing much more for humanity by giving your kids too much screen time than not having kids at all

out of 100 billion humans to have ever lived, a child in the US now is likely in the most fortunate 100 million, even with too many screens

[Max @max_sixty]

@wieslawsoltes @shanselman worktrunk (the app that @shanselman is suggesting above) does Copy-on-Write to avoid this

[Max @max_sixty]

you're doing much more for humanity by giving your kids too much screen time than not having kids at all

out of 100 billion humans to have ever lived, a child in the US now is likely in the most fortunate 100 million, even with too many screens

[Jill Filipovic @JillFilipovic]

Parenting is hard etc but I’m sorry if you’re allowing your toddler 2-3 hours of screen time per day you actually are failing them and you’re failing as a parent. This past week I saw at least a dozen toddlers running around with devices, some with phones clipped to their strollers(!). Your toddler has only been in the world for a short time. It’s still very interesting to them if you let them look up at it.

[Max @max_sixty]

@ByggeData @zeddotdev with worktrunk: add an alias for ` wt sw` which evaluates to `wt switch --base=origin/main {{ args }}`

[Max @max_sixty]

I've never been one to complain about ads, but Googling "worktrunk" now has a full page of AI ads, and the open-source project is pushed below the fold...

[Max @max_sixty]

@littmath related: https://t.co/hVQcMzuCth

[Max @max_sixty]

the best hedge against AGI is to have kids

maybe you think you're too busy because you're on the computer making the numbers go up. but you're terrible at that, relative to Mythos.

so do what we've been trained to do for 100K years: find a partner and bring up kids

[Max @max_sixty]

the best hedge against AGI is to have kids

maybe you think you're too busy because you're on the computer making the numbers go up. but you're terrible at that, relative to Mythos.

so do what we've been trained to do for 100K years: find a partner and bring up kids

[Max @max_sixty]

@trq212 this CC bug requires lots of perilous effort to workaround

recent release notes said it was fixed, but alas it's crept in again.

bug: https://t.co/5McLUk7KIt

full repro, including logs in CI: https://t.co/QjOtu0sRO8

thank you *very* much if you can take a look

[Max @max_sixty]

most dogs are well-behaved enough to be in shops & restaurants & airplanes

but some aren't, and no one wants to make dog-level decisions

so we have overly strict rules that are unevenly enforced, which requires people with the well-behaved dogs to lie

[Max @max_sixty]

if you believe in the simulation hypothesis, you should behave like a Christian

do unto others as you would have them do unto you ... because the simulations you're being sampled into ("the afterlife") are likely to give you that

[orph @orphcorp]

fortunately have to post this again

Christianity is the greatest alignment system ever revealed

[Max @max_sixty]

maybe this is immoral but: if you're running late for a Waymo, you can get another few minutes by changing the pickup location, even by 20 yards