Vlad Savelyev

St Petersburg 🛬 Melbourne 🛫 Barcelona

[Vlad Savelyev @vldsavelyev]

@ClaudeDevs Why do you even need keywords? I thought we are past this already in the world of agents and LLM thinking, Claude can read intent from query, or even deduce if it needs to use a workflow for every specific task.

[Vlad Savelyev @vldsavelyev]

@levelsio @swombat Gotic (in the middle) is touristy. And yes, there are pickpockets targeting tourists. But still it's so beautiful, and living with no motorways around feels so good, that I feel better here then anywhere in the US or Asia.

[Vlad Savelyev @vldsavelyev]

@levelsio @swombat I also been living in Gotic for 1.5 years. Yes, there are shady places in Raval (bottom left). But Born (top right) is the most hip area in the world. It's clean, it feels safe, it's full of expats sipping flat whites and walking dogs.

[Vlad Savelyev @vldsavelyev]

@Mnilax First 3 rules look like something Claude Code already does well. They improve the harness all the time and I'm sure since Karpathy talked about it, they added something like that into the agent's instructions. How often should we re-evaluate this?

[Vlad Savelyev @vldsavelyev]

@shldmdn @sult Удивительно как можно с умным видом убедительно написать ерунду

Пленочный фотоаппарат отражает все прекрасно без софта и без бинокулярности

Зрительные области мозга - врожденные

[Vlad Savelyev @vldsavelyev]

@recouso That’s Barcelona

[Vlad Savelyev @vldsavelyev]

@recouso Name city in the US where you find a laptop-friendly cafe on every corner with free wifi and power sockets, open until 11pm every day, where you can work all day for a price of single 2-euro coffee

[ₕₐₘₚₜₒₙ @hamptonism]

this could have been you europe-maxxing this summer but instead you chose to share a 1bdr with four other dudes in sf to walk around the city with your laptop slightly open so your agents won’t stop running.

[Cairo Smith @cairoasmith]

There's a common misconception that Brutalist buildings were unpainted, but thanks to microscopic analysis of the exteriors we can now recreate what they looked like in their prime.

[Vlad Savelyev @vldsavelyev]

@theo For some reason you keep saying that, despite being perfectly aware that all those harnessses overfit for tbench. And one that probably doesn't - OpenCode - is not there (and below CC on Opus 4.5).

[Vlad Savelyev @vldsavelyev]

@theo Do you trust those tbench benchmarks? You are showing that Claude Code references OpenCode to demonstrate that open-source harnesses are better, but OpenCode is 50th in that list.

[Vlad Savelyev @vldsavelyev]

@Aphalyna А возможно, мы все уже давно окончательно поехали кукухой, и вся хуйня с нами - следствие. Держитесь с котом 🫂

[Vlad Savelyev @vldsavelyev]

@Quintilios10 @s8n But after the cold war, the world was only getting better, right up until 2019.

[Vlad Savelyev @vldsavelyev]

@claudeai I use Claude Code through API usage billing - is it possible for me to use the extension?

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

You don't feel great during your best writings.

You don't feel great when you are about to make the best investment of your life.

You don't feel great when you are about to make a lifelong commitment that will change your perspective.

You don't feel great when you are about to move abroad and rebuild your life from scratch.

You don't feel great during a tough workout that makes you stronger.

You don't feel great when you are reading a difficult book that makes you wiser.

You don't feel great when you are solving a painful problem that makes you smarter.

You don't feel great when you disagree with people who had previous successes, but who are probably wrong this time.

You don't feel great when you are breaking up with the average version of yourself.

It's actually recommended to not feel great; that's when the best things in life happen.

[Vlad Savelyev @vldsavelyev]

@bashorov @wasm_io Пересечемся? :) Я в пятницу вечером вернусь в город.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Agency > Intelligence

I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are we educating for agency? Are you acting as if you had 10X agency?

Grok explanation is ~close:

“Agency, as a personality trait, refers to an individual's capacity to take initiative, make decisions, and exert control over their actions and environment. It’s about being proactive rather than reactive—someone with high agency doesn’t just let life happen to them; they shape it. Think of it as a blend of self-efficacy, determination, and a sense of ownership over one’s path.

People with strong agency tend to set goals and pursue them with confidence, even in the face of obstacles. They’re the type to say, “I’ll figure it out,” and then actually do it. On the flip side, someone low in agency might feel more like a passenger in their own life, waiting for external forces—like luck, other people, or circumstances—to dictate what happens next.

It’s not quite the same as assertiveness or ambition, though it can overlap. Agency is quieter, more internal—it’s the belief that you *can* act, paired with the will to follow through. Psychologists often tie it to concepts like locus of control: high-agency folks lean toward an internal locus, feeling they steer their fate, while low-agency folks might lean external, seeing life as something that happens *to* them.”

[Dear Son. @DearS_o_n]

After 37 years of age as a man, I’ve finally come to realize that the only cure to depression is just leaving the house at every single possible opportunity no matter how badly you don’t want to.

[Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン @rakyll]

DeepSeek simply proved that side projects >>>>> OKRs, meetings, roadmaps, thousands of VPs in the chain.

[Phil Ewels @tallphil]

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