Peter Sobot

mediocre professional jazz bassist, among other things

[Peter Sobot @psobot]

@paulgb @barsisyphus paul

[pedram.md @pdrmnvd]

The team that worked on this is incredible. It was a completely painless migration for me, and what they built was so much faster and easier to use. More great work by great people, very happy that we share it.

[Peter Sobot @psobot]

@barsisyphus this is why we stayed at the eastwind instead

[pedram.md @pdrmnvd]

there’s a special form of ai psychosis i keep seeing over and over where people are convinced that they can tell the models to optimize some end goal without ever looking at the approach and then they end up with something that looks fast on a benchmark but actually sucks. unfortunately the new bitter lesson we will have to learn is that this doesn’t actually work and you still need to care about software engineering.

[Peter Sobot @psobot]

love to use AI, but taste still matters!

[Peter Sobot @psobot]

walking around the upper west side we drop into a brunch place, see AI art on the menu, AI art on the walls, not the vibe

turn the corner and go into a different cafe, much better vibe, get to the counter: AI art menu, AI art specials

[Peter Sobot @psobot]

I love technological progress sometimes.

This stack of CDs and DVDs from my childhood is 253 discs tall and stores almost 500GB of data.

The microSD card in front of the stack holds all that and more in 26,000x less volume and 15,000x less mass.

[Nikhil Thorat @nsthorat]

The writing quality in Opus 5.5 is my favorite improvement!

[zach @blip_tm]

how it felt before opus 5.5

[Claude @claudeai]

Opus 5.5 communicates more naturally, addressing some of the most common feedback we heard on Opus 5.

It puts the most important information up front and follows the writing rules you give it, which makes long sessions easier to follow.

[Peter Sobot @psobot]

@arjunqie I last lived here in 2013 😅

[Peter Sobot @psobot]

First time back in SF after a couple years and I find out that they opened another El Farolito three blocks from the original.

Cities aren’t supposed to change like this.

[Peter Sobot @psobot]

@zacknovack

[Peter Sobot @psobot]

in sf for only 4 hours so far and I already strongly prefer the new waymos to the old waymos

[Peter Sobot @psobot]

people often ask me why I’m still on twitter

and the answer has many parts, but the biggest is that it’s been an extremely strong net positive on my entire career and life

[“paula” @paularambles]

forever grateful for this app

[Peter Sobot @psobot]

@nthnblair this is beautiful

[Peter Sobot @psobot]

@devxpy @sendcutsend Tapcons!

[Peter Sobot @psobot]

Today’s project: replacing a rusted old metal grate with a precision-cut metal part from @sendcutsend, designed with Claude.

Less than a week from tripping over this to having a purpose-built fix. Claude knows how to speak DXF fluently, so I could just describe the part.

[Peter Sobot @psobot]

I got inspired by @fulligin’s amazing 3D model of Grace Cathedral last month, so I tried creating a model of Lower Manhattan and used Claude as much as possible.

It went… pretty well, all things considered! And you can play with it in your browser on a phone, too.

[Peter Sobot @psobot]

And huge shout out to my friends at both @modal and @Cloudflare - both incredible platforms which made this project a breeze to build. (cc @bernhardsson, @kenny_ning)

[Peter Sobot @psobot]

I got inspired by @fulligin’s amazing 3D model of Grace Cathedral last month, so I tried creating a model of Lower Manhattan and used Claude as much as possible.

It went… pretty well, all things considered! And you can play with it in your browser on a phone, too.

[Peter Sobot @psobot]

I blogged about the entire project here: https://t.co/TlhiHQGf7n