briantakita

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by briantakita 6mo ago
I was told by an exec...once a company or technology implements something and gets mindshare, the community (including companies) moves on. Competition is essentially dead for that segment given there is always outward growth. With that bei
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by briantakita 7mo ago
We already won. Are you tired of winning yet?
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by briantakita 7mo ago
> Then you should have no issue with people using LLMs to communicate more clearly. My raw thought: I wonder how many people are really objecting to the loss of exclusivity of their status derived from their relative eloquence in interne
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by briantakita 7mo ago
> LLMs are a cancer on human thought and expression. LLMs help to express what many people dont have the energy or ability to express. It also has a broader scoped view of protocol...It does not have emotions, which often leads to less t
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by briantakita 7mo ago
The pre-submit commit as an immutable baseline is the key design decision — every agent interaction is an atomic transaction with a known rollback point, exactly right. On the "event → agent" gap: we've been thinking about th
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by briantakita 7mo ago
The runtime state logging approach makes sense for browser automation — that's a domain where ground truth literally lives outside your repo. We have a similar dynamic with email state in corky (IMAP sync, draft queues). Same pattern:
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by briantakita 7mo ago
Agent loops also enables the "hard discipline" of making sure all of the tests are written, documentation is up to date, specs are explicitly documented, etc. Stuff that often gets dropped/deprioritized due to time pressure &
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by briantakita 7mo ago
I am now releasing software for projects that have spent years on the back-burner. From my perspective, agent loops have been a success. It makes the impractical pipe-dream doable.
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by briantakita 7mo ago
I've been building agent-doc [1] to solve exactly this. Each parallel Claude Code session gets its own markdown document as the interface (e.g., tasks/plan.md, tasks/auth.md). The agent reads/writes to the document, and
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by briantakita 8mo ago
It's part of the messianic end-times fervor that has been with America since the beginning...which is useful for imperial management...As it provides a constant source of existential judgement and dread...that religious/quasi-reli
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by briantakita 8mo ago
When Science replaced Religion...Science took the place of Religion...
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by briantakita 8mo ago
Kayfaybe...Donald Trump worked with WWE for a reason...
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by briantakita 9mo ago
Mr Claude is already on it. He wrote an article titled "How Climate Change Affects the Behavior of Pet Hamsters and How Paying Carbon Taxes Can Help". Game changer! https://claude.ai/share/cc12416b-723a-45af-b
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by briantakita 10mo ago
I think you will mostly get "the west is the best" over here. And "look at those evil authoritarians over there"....Enjoy your "freedom" to participate in the culture wars digital serf...while the standard of l
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by briantakita 10mo ago
Roblox has been banned in China since 2021. Perhaps it's something to do with nationalist governments not liking global corporate circumvention of their culture/power.
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by briantakita 10mo ago
I dont think porting everything over to React...making the site slower, bloated, & buggier is "creativity". I agree that people should be treated with dignity...but groupthink & herd mentality often strips people of their
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by briantakita 1y ago
Yet we have Microplastics, PFAS, & a slew of other dangerous contamination across the planet. And the military industrial waste is rarely mentioned. It seems the EPA cares more about enforcing CO2 production & making sure a homestea
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by briantakita 1y ago
> Calling a function is like calling for a servant — a summoning to perform a task. So we renamed our git branches from master to main...because of colonialism. So what's the correct non-colonial word? ask, request, plea? Some peopl
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by briantakita 1y ago
In Democracy you get to vote on who gets to vote on how taxes are spent.
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by briantakita 1y ago
> They want decisive and ambitious action, you can't get that if we all turn to doomerism. What if "doomerism" is a key component to demoralize people to accept "decisive and ambitious action"? Note that most of
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by briantakita 1y ago
I learned to consider that if one brings up Dunning-Kruger...projection/irony may be at play. Anyways...I've had a few reoccurring issues with libraries. Note that the language is framed on a case by case basis...not general rules
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by briantakita 1y ago
> reducing our total health Because America has been the paragon of health over the past few decades...because America spends the most per capita on Health Care. What a super effective system. Obviously everything was working out so grea
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by briantakita 1y ago
Harvard received the "worst score ever" clamped at 0.0 in 2023. By the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. The actual score was -10.69. They were particularly oppressive on anyone espousing opinions on the political rig
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by briantakita 1y ago
Alcoholism happens to people who have jobs as well. Though there's a policy of being sober at work which limits drinking to off hours. Another possibility is that Basic Income alone doesn't solve all problems. Life direction &
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by briantakita 2y ago
This is why many people don't trust "The Science". It's the positivist materialist institutionalist gaslighting. If the conflicted institution hasn't published the opinion or the measurements then it doesn't ex
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by briantakita 2y ago
> Which somehow convinced ~49.8% of the country that the richest man in the world somehow has their interests at heart. Well...when you consider the competition you get what you get. In this case the richest man in the world positioned t
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by briantakita 2y ago
Granted large political systems are uniquely complex. But complex & old software can share the attributes you outlined. 1. Politics does enter into programming teams. There's several articles of this genre. Where the most highly re
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by briantakita 2y ago
A codebase accumulates messes during it's entire lifetime. Sometimes, it gets to the point to where a rewrite is a good option. Even if the rewrite doesn't have all of the features...Even if possible, it may be better not to keep
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by briantakita 2y ago
The Constitution doesn't protect the many bureaucratic organizations that have sprung up since it's inception. I could be wrong, but I don't think there's any amendments that protect the agencies either. For example, the
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by briantakita 2y ago
Yet the USA was the only country to drop atomic weapons on civilian populations. If country X didn't have nukes & wanted to remain sovereign, the USA + global banking cartel would impose a regime change. It would be better if relat

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