Lars de Ridder

Ship it right. I build products from concept to scale, rescue software projects and write about building AI tools in public | Founder @

[Lars de Ridder @theRedbeardIO]

Building AI agent infra. Tether, Context Lens, context engineering patterns. Shipping code, sharing lessons. Building in public. Senior engineer, not an influencer.

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@LunarResearcher Of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most. That initial quote was hilarious.

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@badlogicgames I have a pi extension that proxies to the Claude CLI. Fight me Anthropic.

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@alakazam1314 @badlogicgames @0xSero Wanna test on https://t.co/rrRHHwAKAT? Should do all this.

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@badlogicgames Second and third are live at https://t.co/rrRHHwAKAT. Just 7 days retention though cause I figured ppl wanted that.

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@badlogicgames I just put hosted contextlens online at https://t.co/rrRHHwAKAT, which allows you to upload LHAR trace files or directly from local context lens. Does PII redaction by default. So smth like that?

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@trq212 This literally already exists as open source for months: https://t.co/XhBtoo2kkr

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@bcherny Already exists with Tether https://t.co/XhBtoo2kkr. Also supports codex, pi, and opencode. But yay proprietary shit

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@tomfgoodwin Yes you can now create code, but you already could renovate your house, cut your hair and homeschool your kids. Yet you don’t.

[Tom Goodwin @tomfgoodwin]

When are tech folk going to get that people like wasting time, it's life. They don't optimize for efficiency, they try to get by, they watch dumb stuff, they enjoy shopping. Inefficiency is another work for living and life.

Your m mean and median job isn't a software engineer in Menlo Park, it's Ashley in accounts in a not for profit in Columbus, it's Jesse , the office manager for a tool rental business in Tallahassee, they are more likely to use a Fax machine than Slack.

They quite like meetings because they like chatting, they'll use AI to make a better invite to their baby shower, not agentify their job.

These people, nor their bosses boss, aren't in a rush to build software as a side hustle, they are keen to use AI to check if their vet is overcharging them. They'd like AI to check spelling on the email to the school governor.

They don't want agentic commerce, they want AI to be in the background and make living a little less stressful

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@johnennis @thisdudelikesAI Should add BREAKING and “quietly released”

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@KirkMarple @levelsio But MCPs have the same issue if they have to follow the API and CLI. Which they’re already building anyway.

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@LiorOnAI Greetings fellow humans, something something is over.

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@swyx Interesting for your readers?

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Claude Code sends 62,600 characters of tool definitions per turn. I ran the same model through five CLIs and traced every API call: https://t.co/ydp5hXXjiL

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@zaimiri Why use Claude CLI at that point? Just switch to Pi or OpenCode.

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@alexcooldev I’m gonna call it, this is just creating bullshit for bullshit apps. Happy for your bank account though.

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@TheStackAtlas @charliejhills Greetings fellow humans.

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@jpschroeder Point some LLMs at a random task and see what happens https://t.co/lmX2meTB7W

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@peterom Catching data exists: https://t.co/wZjFiiLJG6. Built on ContextIO which can redact data with rehydration.

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@aakashgupta There’s still a gap in being platform agnostic and open source. That’s where this comes in https://t.co/XhBtoo2kkr