Werner Kasselman

Builder. Shipping the pieces of a Rust-first AI engineering stack: sqry, llm-cli-gateway, and grokrs, with more coming. Verivus OSS. Views are my own.

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@davepl1968 @TechOperator That’s just mean Dave

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@lucasmeijer i built and use https://t.co/lV9171XAwQ

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agree, Mate. the challenge is knowing what to build. I started building something, got frustrated by how bad actual real development is and had to pivot to build sqry, so agents understand what they were looking at, and then llm-cli-gateway because none of the frontiers are capable of doing real quality work by themselves or spinning $20k on tokens. Last I had to build agent-assurance, to stop the drift. I’m finally in a position where I’m comfortable that I’m getting predictable quality. Basically a year of really hard work.

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@DrFrankTurek Jesus Christ.

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“Perverse Incentives (The Cobra Effect): This occurs when an incentive has an unintended and undesirable result that is contrary to the intentions of its designers. (e.g., A government pays a bounty for cobra skins to reduce the population, so citizens start breeding cobras to kill them for money).

Goodhart's Law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." If the government measures and rewards a specific metric (like identifying a certain way or pivoting a business to green tech for a subsidy), people will optimize their behavior purely to hit that target.”

and in the meantime the actual battlers can’t even afford rent

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I talk to opus, get it to follow rules and create a structured spec. Then it asks codex, gemini, grok and mistral for independent reviews with the same structure, and iterates until it gets unconditional approval. I’ll look over it, if it’s crucial. Then starts design, implementation plan, test plan, progress report etc. only then implementation. Same review cycle for each unit of work, same rules. significantly better results since I added DAG-TOMLs.

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You’d be better off having a go at a full time comedy career than trying to’fight the system’. The law in good ol Straya has been captured. You’d be much more impactful launching a massive successful career with the backing you’re receiving and casting the sunlight at the nonsense happening.

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@garrytan Seriously $20K? You realise a $350-$500 drone is literally winning the war of attrition in Europe?
Please say they are aiming for significantly less than that.

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You’re right that the instinct was freedom Mate, but we never actually wrote it down.
No Bill of Rights, no First Amendment, just an implied freedom of political communication that protects the system and not you.
2020 was the demonstration, not the aberration.
Probably accounts for why so many ALP pollies love the CCP.

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This is exactly why I wrote

No Job in the Middle
Bind capital to the goal and the shape inverts. A pool of capital forms around a stated outcome, anyone can contribute toward it, and a contribution earns a claim on the value that outcome goes on to produce, a claim that travels with its continued use rather than with anyone’s tenure.

https://t.co/eX1oI8NLnU

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The old system enriched asset owners at everyone else's expense. The new rules don't fix that, they lock capital into unproductive housing whilst punishing the productive investment we are crying out for.
What we actually need is tax neutrality, real supply-side reform, and policies that treat housing as shelter, not a tax-advantaged wealth machine
https://t.co/KaQdL6J8Yn

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@kiwicopple
This is exactly what we should be doing, mate.

Spot on.
This is the same durable claim on outcomes I’ve been writing about for the open AI economy. No new keeper in the middle deciding whose work counts.

The Record With No Keeper: Trustless, Honestly
https://t.co/5xnTt3hxOD

Congrats on the $500M round and the culture you’re actually shipping. This is the way.

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@MatthewBerman agreed. this is atrocious. this is literally one of the worst case scenarios playing out.

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first thing I thought of seeing this. Spotlight on XYZ was amazing! Everything old is new again.
Spotlight on SQL Server (now Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise by Quest Software) initially launched in the early 2000s, gaining popularity around 2002–2003 as a groundbreaking visual dashboard for tracking database performance.

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@garrytan how do they compare to https://t.co/DywUu0F4uq ?

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@ctatedev pretty cool. i do this with cloudflare, it's actually free atm.

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@LisaJaneSpencer @SkyNewsAust This is offensive to me. Deeply, offensive.

You should however be able to ask offensive questions.

I really wish that more reporters will simply ask actual questions instead of being the marketing arm of the ALP. (Australian Liberal Party)

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https://t.co/HWaHztNxVT

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@elonmusk Mate, 1m after your post and there's like 100 replies