Ruairi O'Brien

A nice person.

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A surprisingly effective way to get a coding agent to debug an issue is to get it to use the 5 Whys technique.

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Common tech X post: If you don't always do the thing I just learned how to do and am immediately an expert at, you are an idiot.

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Today, because I'm not at work, I want to spend more time learning about Jev and some use cases I am thinking about, try fine tune a local SLM and spend time improving my local agent setup. Need to get a life.

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The Jev model by TypeSafe is really nice. Been playing around with it since yesterday.

A lot of the LLM based system components I build take some kind of unstructured input and produce structured output. That pattern takes work with LLMs and making them more deterministic is a tough engineering problem.

A good amount of what I want to build appears to be suited to a model like Jev. The speed and price are pretty amazing.

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My small attempt to reduce AI slop in python code bases https://t.co/BnKga57V20

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I've tried a bunch of tools to manage local settings like dotfiles. Nix has been the best so far https://t.co/5NyXuHrUay.

One thing I've started to manage that way is my agent skills. I use a lot of different coding agents for some reason and I prefer managing skills myself vs `npm install`ing them.

This is how I'm doing this: https://t.co/irpiGXMpaI

It's a nix plugin that lets me manage all my agent skills in one place and puts them into the various coding agent skills locations.

It lets me vendor public skills giving me a chance to review them before I use them and supports easy auto updates. It provides security scans against skills using the Cisco scanner.

A setup skill is included so if you'd like to try it you can ask an agent to set it up for you by pointing it at the repo.

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Bet those meetings are absolute bangers.

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When I first started using computers, seeing this many ads meant you needed to run antivirus, even though there was a high probability it would just install more viruses.

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This is very good!
Casey Muratori – The Root of The Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 https://t.co/UZYwAT6tOx via @YouTube

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@RhysSullivan Nobody expects the slack IDE!

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The time has come for me to accept that Trader Joe’s branded spirits just aren’t great.

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Good luck to me!

https://t.co/B409k23kXp

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@ThePrimeagen Same. Nobody knows. Potentially useful.

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I've taken to telling the LLMS I'm tired

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Seems like luna on max is a pretty good way to go for coding agents lately.

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@ThePrimeagen Starting to think Naval is not as brilliant and wise as he thinks he is.

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@ThePrimeagen Repeat n times before abandoning the project again.

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https://t.co/fQEHAH6bLk

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@NextTokenShow is excellent, covering everything I'm battling with right now.