Will Monk

I love building things for the web. CTO at @petsappltd 🐱🐶

[Thom Jenkins @thomjenko]

One of our goals with FocalPrompt has been to make prompts dynamically composable: treat tagged prompt components (“foci”) almost like tool calls or retrieval, and only include the instructions relevant to the task at hand (in our case drafting responses to a range of pet owner queries).

Until now, doing that has usually meant extra model calls → extra latency + cost.

There’s also a harder problem: the foci a model predicts it needs aren’t always the same ones it actually appears to rely on. Leave-one-out ablation can reveal that gap.

Two days experimenting with Jev looks very promising.

Score each focus → set an inclusion threshold → compose the prompt dynamically.

The speed and cost make per-focus routing look genuinely practical.

The interesting question now is whether predicted relevance reliably preserves the instructions the agent causally depends on.

@willmonk @GetPetsApp

[Will Monk @willmonk]

@shreyas We are at @GetPetsApp! Looking for our second PM to work with one of our Prides.

https://t.co/UuAzYiWfb0

[Will Monk @willmonk]

@KevinJDCS I always thought the colour was influenced by what they eat. Dan Barber did this here https://t.co/UPu7NuWUk9

Best eggs are burford brown

[Will Monk @willmonk]

@KevinJDCS I can duck tape you to a wework desk if it helps

[Will Monk @willmonk]

Bedbugs will be the downfall of WeWork

[Will Monk @willmonk]

Talk about a varied career. An interest in audio engineering led him to be come a self taught missile defence expert.

[Will Monk @willmonk]

I hope X is paying out creator fees to DHH for activity that can be attributed to his typescript tweets.

He’s in the arena, he’s trying stuff, and this one worked 🎯

[Will Monk @willmonk]

Time for the neovim millennial master race to rise up

[10x Engineer @10x_er]

can’t wait for all the Vim boomers to become managers already so VSCode can claim it’s rightful place as the only interface needed to write code

[Will Monk @willmonk]

What is the most elegant javascript syntax, and why is it this?

[Will Monk @willmonk]

Fun at The Hundred last night. A full cricket ground on a Monday night when the franchise only started in 2021 is pretty good going.

[Will Monk @willmonk]

@m0narch_dev Gruvbox is the theme

[Will Monk @willmonk]

If you're doing react, make sure you know the best way. Which do you prefer?

[Jamon @jamonholmgren]

Which do you prefer? There will likely never be more than 5 save slots in this game.

[Will Monk @willmonk]

Me trying out lua vim plugins

[Supabase @supabase]

Me tryn out a new vscode extension

[Will Monk @willmonk]

@cassidoo @GetPetsApp / 2 mid-senior devs & 1 tech lead/uk eu remote

DMs open

[Will Monk @willmonk]

@alex_picprod @thdxr @EffectTS_ LOL. Was literally having flashbacks to rxjs. Think we might be thinking about the same codebase…

[Will Monk @willmonk]

Developer entering a “legacy” codebase for the first time

[Will Monk @willmonk]

@joeyabanks We’re hiring a product designer @GetPetsApp 👋 🐶

[Will Monk @willmonk]

@thorstenball This is exactly how it looks in roughly 80% of veterinary clinics too. It’s such an interesting topic that causes a tonne of stress in clinics. Change your system, expect resignations.

[Will Monk @willmonk]

Love pets 🐱🐶? Love product design 📲✏️?

Come and join my team @GetPetsApp as a product designer and help shape the future of pet care!

#productdesign #pets

https://t.co/HVXRqdcZB7

[Will Monk @willmonk]

@timbray What are your expected outputs of a review of your code?