Rian Stockbower

CTO at Monit. Previously SrDirEng @ First Republic Bank, VPEng @ CareStack, and developer at Vistaprint and Cimpress.

[Rian Stockbower @rianjs]

@0xCordeiro On what time horizon? Certainly not hours or days. What do we do until the hardware can be redesigned to not have that bug (but maybe we introduce another), manufactured and then shipped?

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@0xCordeiro I was unaware it was possible to patch hardware.

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@realEstateTrent Tried doing this with a Toyota dealership last week.

They don’t work this way—their operational processes are set up for in-person visits. Their internet sales is just a funnel for in-person time waste.

It’s actually impressive how bad it is.

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@kunchenguid I set up a build rack using a $20 dish organizer, old m1 air, and an old i5 laptop running Linux for exactly these reasons last week.

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@thsottiaux Bookmarks. Like a browser has.

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@pvncher It’s a shockingly good model.

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@atishayhyperke My agent deletes these before I ever see them.

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@jeiting I had to steer quite a bit to get computer use to not destroy cart state, trip infosec heuristics, etc. “you have to navigate like a human. Search. Click. Wait. Click the UI. Wait again. Next search”

It’s just a skill now tho

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@tshddx @patio11 @KevinSunday86 Albertson's subsidiaries block my agent from creating a shopping cart because agents don't use computers the way humans do. Now I give it explicit instructions on exactly how to shop, add things to the cart, etc. so we don't lose cart state/get yeeted.

Banks will do the same.

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@stevesi My wife is a public school teacher in MA. She doesn’t pay social security tax.

Weird thing for a Senator from MA to assert.

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@vtahowe Would love for grocery stores to think this way. Why do I need to manually enter a grocery list when I could take a picture and select a pickup time?

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@jasonlk I’m sure GitHub’s abysmal availability had nothing to do with it. 🙃

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@adam_fresko @GergelyOrosz Can’t tell if you’re joking or not. The primary switching cost of moving tools or platforms is rarely financial: it’s getting people successfully migrated. Have you ever worked at a place that has HR, legal, finance, facilities, etc?

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@Shpigford Not sure you need to ground it in something tangible. If you set a baseline token at 1 for haiku, and then express sonnet, opus, and fable in terms of that base, you could accomplish the same thing.

Gotta be how the token bucket works anyway; they just obscure it via %.

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@Rainmaker1973 This is indeed a fun fact.

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@Shpigford Been wondering the same.

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@Shpigford We wrote a qbo CLI to avoid their bad MCP bullshit. Same for Confluence, Jira, Google Workspace, and Slack.

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@Shpigford those first two 🤩

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@chriswong @theo Value per $

Literally no idea what I’m supposed to do with Terra?