bensyverson

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by bensyverson 1mo ago
An SEO tale as old as time
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by bensyverson 1mo ago
In case you find this site difficult to read: document.getElementsByTagName('main')[0].style.maxWidth = '39em';
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by bensyverson 1mo ago
Yes… I don't think the author is thinking on a long enough time horizon. I'm curious what happens to these landfill sites in 100, 1000 and 10k years. Do they inevitably break down and leak into the water table? Do they eventually
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by bensyverson 1mo ago
Thanks—I might return to it and open source it soon… It was a pre-Claude Code project, and it was hard to feel any momentum. It's basically a note-taking tool for capturing quick one-off notes in Markdown, but it stores a lot of surrou
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by bensyverson 1mo ago
I implemented a pretty simple iOS/macOS text editor using TextKit 2, and it was astonishing how many hacks, workarounds and manual implementations were needed to support even the most basic features. That codebase is the polar opposite
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by bensyverson 1mo ago
Ah yes, have you read Seth Godin's "1000 unwitting accomplices?" In Marketing 101 classes, the first session is usually "Recruiting Useful Idiots." You seem to have product marketing all figured out!
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by bensyverson 1mo ago
Yes, basically. [0] [0]: Obligatory https://xkcd.com/386/
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by bensyverson 1mo ago
Flawless logic! I can’t believe I got busted again… The other lizard people are going to be so disappointed. I’m already on probation for leaking the fact that the Earth is flat and bungling the JFK thing. Now they’ll probably pull me off t
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by bensyverson 1mo ago
True, but so what? Is the idea that they sponsored the creation of OpenClaw and Claude Cowork, CIA-style? Or is the idea that this (presumably lower-level, given that they're working on the mini) marketing employee had a large discreti
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by bensyverson 1mo ago
You're right, Apple has a long history with guerrilla marketing, especially gray-area tactics like bots and paid commenters. Even though there is no evidence of this, it "feels" true, so it must be true, right? Why wouldn&#x2
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by bensyverson 1mo ago
This is exactly the kind of paranoid conspiracy thinking I was talking about. If you see red yarn between everything, you're impervious to reality. Honestly, I'm an Apple user since 1988 and shareholder. I use my full-ass name on
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by bensyverson 1mo ago
People really have a twisted idea about how corporate America works. Apple does not have a psyops division cooking up ever more elaborate ways to seed demand for low-end, low-margin Macs via bot armies. They honestly don’t need to, because
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by bensyverson 2mo ago
The key is to have agents generate code which exports Excel with live formulae (there's a good Python library).
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by bensyverson 2mo ago
You’re right, we should manually tell every agent everything they need to know upfront at the start of every session.
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by bensyverson 2mo ago
You wouldn't have looked to the 80s, you would have looked to the 70s (maybe punk). The 90s are now 30 years ago, and in the 90s, young people did have false nostalgia for the 60s. "I wish it was the '60s, I wish I could be h
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by bensyverson 2mo ago
One last thing: all the stuff we "lost" is still here. You can still hand-write a letter. I still play CDs and take photos on 35mm film. People wax poetic about the time before phones, by typing these nostalgic thoughts into their
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by bensyverson 2mo ago
It was a great time for a certain group of people, but if you happened to be black, or gay, or trans, or Muslim, or had a pre-existing medical condition, it was not so rosy. I was in my late teens / early 20s at the time, and not in an
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by bensyverson 2mo ago
Agents have to decide to search files, and they don't always know that they should. For example, if the agent sees the database, it may miss detailed instructions on how to access the database deeper in the repo. Behaviorally, humans w
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by bensyverson 2mo ago
Every generation has their “good ole days.” Unfortunately the old days never were that good for people who were around at the time.
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by bensyverson 2mo ago
It’s good that a lot of people are trying a lot of things when it comes to agentic memory. Sadly none of it represents a complete solution at this time. But we need the experimentation.
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by bensyverson 2mo ago
As long as the spots continue to be compatible with shovels from other shovel manufacturers
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by bensyverson 2mo ago
I hope they're good stewards. This reminds me of the Microsoft GitHub acquisition in terms of the importance to the broader community.
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by bensyverson 2mo ago
Yes, and don’t forget, LLMs are very good at tagging, so it’s not even that painful to backfill the corpus.
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by bensyverson 2mo ago
Yes, MCP was already overly complicated, and these new features will make it even more unapproachable. If I need to integrate with a third party service, I'm now skipping their MCP entirely and just going straight for the CLI or API, w
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by bensyverson 2mo ago
Much like security, optimization is now a function of token spend—which in some ways means it's a function of care. The reason why software may continue to be slower or less secure than it could be is simply that no one cares enough to
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by bensyverson 2mo ago
I went from being fully in-person at a design firm (IDEO), working every day in a project room full of brilliant designers, to fully remote at the same company post-COVID. The remote period was a nonstop marathon of Zoom meetings, and I eve
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by bensyverson 2mo ago
This is the right general idea, but it does read as an ad for Cloudflare OS. Every tech company is scrambling to be the stable foundation for people in enterprise to build cute little one-off apps safely. It's a perfectly fine pattern,
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by bensyverson 2mo ago
Yes, especially for a web app where there’s realistically only a need for one VM/server. By the time you outgrow that approach, a very straightforward migration to Postgres is probably the least complex problem you face.
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by bensyverson 2mo ago
Just think about the boost to our GDP by having healthier consumers who live longer, don't go into medical bankruptcy, and continue to buy stuff.
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by bensyverson 2mo ago
The APIs are similar but not the same, which is to say: different. Definitely not as simple as swapping out the base URL. Claude Code has no built-in way to use non-Anthropic models. It does support overriding the API URL with an environmen

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