Neil Roberts

🇧🇸🇺🇸 TypeScripter @SitePen (formerly at @Automattic), LLM enthusiast, Tabletop playtester, 👍 Theme parks, Sports Racer, Nerdfighter, 8w9

[Nick Nisi @nicknisi]

"Where was that conversation where I figured out the auth bug?"

If you use Claude Code, Codex, or Pi across multiple projects, you've lost a session. It's buried in a JSONL file somewhere in ~/.claude/projects/ and good luck finding it.

So I built `sessions`

One command to browse every Claude Code, Codex, and Pi conversation you've ever had. Fuzzy search what you typed, filter by tool, scope to a repo.

And if you use git worktrees, those sessions are basically orphaned the moment the worktree is cleaned up. `sessions` still finds them, flags the directory as gone, and tells you exactly how to resurrect it.

brew install nicknisi/formulae/sessions

[José Valim @josevalim]

At this point, this is just irresponsible.

Yes, coding agents are leading to an increase of software production, but we are not seeing a similar push or increase in software quality.

If Anthropic focuses on safety and it believes software engineering is going away, then it needs to be doing much more to improve how we design, build, test, and maintain software (aka software engineering). Increasing the production of unreliable, poorly designed, and unverified software directly undermines safety.

Claude Code is claimed to be "fully written by AI". In the last two months, it took three separate postmortem-worthy failures and user complaints to surface what their own testing missed. Yesterday users were being over billed by hundreds of dollars. Software engineering isn't ready to go away and there is not enough progress to argue that case.

I am certain Anthropic would argue that AI progress in other domains is strongly dependent on having proper safeguards in place. I can't wrap my head around the cognitive dissonance when it comes to software.

PS: Mythos (may) improve software security, but that is only a subset of safety.

[Neil Roberts @pottedmeat]

These pickups are really starting to get out of hand.

[Nick Launches @nicklaunches]

No more Opus 4.6 on @Copilot Pro+, but Opus 4.7 with 7.5x is fine. How does it make any sense?

[Speculator @TheSpeculator0]

Working at Anthropic must be like being on crack. Get paid a million bucks a year to --dangerously-skip-permissions vibe your way to releasing a new product every day.

Does it work? not really. Is it reliable? also no. It doesn't matter, you're building the machine god.

[Convex @convex]

convex 2.0 has been online internally since february. when first activated, it synced data that didn't even exist yet

in response, we've made a "convex lens" program with select partners. a think tank to prepare the world for this level of DX

if you're not scared, you're ngmi

[Neil Roberts @pottedmeat]

Seeing someone curled up asleep on a park bench: “Why don’t they get a job?” “They’re probably on drugs.” “This is what’s wrong with the city.”

Seeing someone curled up asleep on a bench in the airport: “Poor thing, they’ve had a rough night.”

[Nick Nisi @nicknisi]

I've been doing a podcast with @pottedmeat on AI Skills called The Skill Tree that is itself an AI skill! Check it out! https://t.co/0SPjZUQpCh

[Neil Roberts @pottedmeat]

Our original wait time was 50 minutes. We’ve literally been stuck in the same spot for 15 minutes. And this is the second time we’ve had an extended sit.

[Neil Roberts @pottedmeat]

At @UniversalORL the way they implement their express pass, you can join a line with one quoted time and end up waiting significantly longer as they prioritize pay-to-play. In the line I’m in, everyone has just given up and is sitting in the floor.

[Neil Roberts @pottedmeat]

At @UniversalORL the way they implement their express pass, you can join a line with one quoted time and end up waiting significantly longer as they prioritize pay-to-play. In the line I’m in, everyone has just given up and is sitting in the floor.

[Josh Daws @JoshDaws]

I've been reading most books on Kindle for 15 years. Now my digital assistant has access to all 11,328 highlights across 15 years and hundreds of books. This is what I mean when I talk about giving AI the right tools. "Give me everything I've highlighted about the church growth movement from David Wells."

[Neil Roberts @pottedmeat]

My initial thoughts about our first trip to @UniversalORL after being long term @WaltDisneyWorld park goers has been heavily influenced by the sporadic undocumented use of powdered eggs at the places we’d least expect them.

[Neil Roberts @pottedmeat]

@DavidClaridgeUK @raycast Hey all this does is send an email.

[Neil Roberts @pottedmeat]

Love using the ⁦@raycast⁩ iOS app.

[Neil Roberts @pottedmeat]

@DavidClaridgeUK @raycast Hey thanks for responding and I’ll do this but there are persistent obvious UI issues when using it on iOS 18.

[Nick Nisi @nicknisi]

I had a great time chatting with @chantastic as we figured out what an agent is versus a harness and dug into a fun weekend experiment I had trying to automate coding from start to finish.

[Enes Akar @enesakar]

Announcing Context7 On-Premise — built for air-gapped environments.

- Run the Context7 parser agent on your own infrastructure
- Host the API and MCP server yourself
- Bring your own LLM
- Access public Context7 library (optional)

Your data never leaves your network.

[Neil Roberts @pottedmeat]

@tom_doerr *last updated 7 months ago

[Neil Roberts @pottedmeat]

Pro tip: Don’t release a 15 minute response video where you don’t address the primary issue you’re responding view. In this case the issue was that he charged per view then ran promotions for the video without the knowledge of his customers.

[GameNightPicks.com @DiceParadise]

Recently, GameNightPicks was attacked in a statement which cast doubt on the integrity of this channel and myself. To clear up the misinformation it caused, please see the following response video, which provides facts and examples to address concerns: https://t.co/bQFDsvJ3hD

[NYT Wirecutter Deals @WirecutterDeals]

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