Tim Urian

Programming, Books, Bird Watching.

[Tim Urian @timurian]

@garybernhardt this this 1000x this! we have a chance to increase the level of craft and maintainability everywhere. i wish there were more stories like this, about deleting code and improving the design of APIs alongside the thrill of infinite features

[Tim Urian @timurian]

A group of ravens can be called:
- an unkindness
- a conspiracy
- a rave
- a treachery
Do with this info what you will, but perhaps we should be a little nicer to ravens?

[Tim Urian @timurian]

One of the best parts about learning with LLMs is the ability to ask questions.

However, it is also productive to not have access to the infinite answer machine, to muddle around confused, creating your own plausible answers.

[Tim Urian @timurian]

What, you don't have @badlogicgames's pi making you epubs about pi for your e-reader? Weird.

[Tim Urian @timurian]

Followed a pattern I often use where I ask for a topic at three levels of detail.
Results are good not great, really needed to include more of my personal context.
Pi-based fan fic need not apply.

[Tim Urian @timurian]

@0xestimated @Teknium @NousResearch Nice, my first hermes skill was an epub creator for the same reason! I never thought I'd live in a world where I can have books custom written for me, but here we are.

[Tim Urian @timurian]

@Teknium Got guardrailed on**checks notes** historical research about the telegraph... First prompt with the model, no real explanation :/

[Tim Urian @timurian]

A gift from THE @jeremyphoward !? I don't know how today could get any better. Excited to dive into @ericries 's new gem.

[Mario Zechner @badlogicgames]

many ways to skin that cat. basic principle is just to expose phases in the execution path that can either observe or change state. nothing much to overthink.

the refactor is largely about untangling code that became a bit too monolithic, so it's easier to compose into different configurations, serving more applications.

composability/modularity and simple state change/observation hooks are usually all that's necessary to make software malleable. pre and post agents.

[Nous Research @NousResearch]

Shopify is the all-in-one commerce platform powering millions of businesses worldwide

Thank you to the @Shopify team for building their own official Hermes Agent skill enabling your agent to manage products, orders, inventory, and fulfillments from any channel.

[tobi lutke @tobi]

@badlogicgames PI is now over 50% of agent usage at Shopify internally.

[Tim Urian @timurian]

@MikkoH 🤘🚀

[Tim Urian @timurian]

Great presentations today at @huggingface 's RL for Agents Workshop
https://t.co/kxwIZUOeB7

[Tim Urian @timurian]

Me: It means "super user do".
Wife: So, it's like a compliment?

[Tim Urian @timurian]

@sanjaynediyara @karpathy My impression was that people were going w Mac Minis bc newer ones can efficiently run open weight models, keep their overall token spend down.

[Tim Urian @timurian]

@jeremyphoward Started using wezterm a few weeks before the break, enjoyed it but too soon to recomend. I liked keyboard shortcuts being displayed in all modes.
Highlighting text auto-copies it to the clipboard, which was a feature I didn't know I needed 🤯

[Tim Urian @timurian]

@jeremyphoward Excited to take this for a spin today!

[Tim Urian @timurian]

@geoffreylitt I love this.
So much of my mindset around programming recently has been 'how can I make everything that is important visible'
Even if it is print logging AI makes it fast/trivial.
I recently built a backtrace-to-markdown-of-functions tool, previously wouldn't have spent the time

[Tim Urian @timurian]

@michael_nielsen Wow, Einstein goes hard.

[Tim Urian @timurian]

side note: Kid me would be so mad at adult me for not watching all the new Star Wars media 🤷‍♂️

[Tim Urian @timurian]

Which TMNT were you? Try "What was your favorite rebellion starfighter?"