trjordan

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by trjordan 4mo ago
The worst thing that can happen at an early company is that it sort of works. I like the deal where I roll the dice and don't have to work again if I win. I'm fine with the deal where I take a barely-passable salary and do somethi
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by trjordan 4mo ago
The core of the problem is that there are a million tools that make AI better, and no ways to measure whether AI is working better. Big companies with popular products have it. They do something between normal product analytics and chatbot
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by trjordan 4mo ago
Would love to chat -- ping me tr at tern dot sh
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by trjordan 4mo ago
I think it's worse than that. At least if I dumped 5k LoC on somebody in 2021, you knew I spent the time to write it, so it's "fair" to ask you to read it. But I didn't write it in 2026, so you shouldn't read i
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by trjordan 4mo ago
We're working on it, thought it's all early. I'd love feedback: https://tern.sh First product compares the code to the prompts and highlights places the agent made decisions you weren't involved in: https:&#
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by trjordan 4mo ago
> Those are not code problems. They are evaluation problems. > Code becomes precious when it is the only place knowledge lives. Reading AI code all day is _agonizing_. Just, a horrible way to live, and it melts people's brains at
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by trjordan 4mo ago
There's a neat / weird ladder that I keep seeing friends go through as they work through this. - Volume. Kill the backlog! 8 agents in terminals, frantically! - Ambition. Do the things you always want to do! You have the power! -
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by trjordan 4mo ago
Totally. Every "we're losing our craft" article has the same gloomy shape. That's enough of a bummer, but they also argue against themselves halfway through. This one, for instance: > But exactly which details are dee
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by trjordan 4mo ago
It feels like we're far past the point of where having AI do more faster is helpful. It's telling that they used "rewrite Bun in Rust" as the proof point here. It's cool! But the vast majority of software engineerin
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by trjordan 5mo ago
From the verge: https://archive.is/kU4Zg > Gartner forecasts that large AI companies would need to earn cumulatively close to $7 trillion in AI-driven revenue through 2029, which is close to $2 trillion per year by the e
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by trjordan 5mo ago
They've got, ballpark, $5t to $10t to make back in the next 5 years, or the hardware buildouts will start getting written down. This means we're going to need $1t+ per year in spending, per year, on tokens. 200m knowledge workers
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by trjordan 5mo ago
This is ... not new at all? App-bundling apps existed. Apple rejected them. Low-code apps existed. Terminals existed. Apple rejected them. LLM apps exist. Apple allows them, because they render text, pictures, and video, but they don't
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by trjordan 5mo ago
Yes, but: writing code always teaches you something. I've worked at founder-sized startups and $xxb dollar public companies. I've never read a product spec, a pitch deck, or a PRD that describes a solution that, if implemented in
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by trjordan 5mo ago
Color me unsurprised. Anthropic ran a weeks-long roadshow on how powerful Mythos is. They pointed to the danger, their controls, the capabilities, and practically begged the world to be scared of it. Simultaneously, the current US regime re
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by trjordan 5mo ago
Nah. Worse is better. The reason agents work is because they have access to stuff by default. The whole world is context engineering at this point, and this proposal is to intermediate the context with a bespoke access layer. I put the bare
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by trjordan 5mo ago
> figuring out if the company can afford this level of productivity at scale This is the thing that boggles my mind. They spent their budget. They have 4 months of data. What do they have to show for it? I'm not a hater; I'm no
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by trjordan 6mo ago
It's an honest surprise that this isn't spun as "internal AI efficiency gains." They want the efficiency, of course there's AI component, but they're not pre-claiming victory. Neat. It's worth remembering
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by trjordan 6mo ago
lol sorry, I just spend to much time on LinkedIn, I think. I promise this was 100% human-written.
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by trjordan 6mo ago
As a pratical lens on this advice: people are excellent at giving feedback on their problems. They are terrible at identifying how to fix it. "It felt too long" was right. The solution was not to make the story shorter. The soluti
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by trjordan 6mo ago
> Wait for a beloved brand to hit financial trouble. Buy the intellectual property out of bankruptcy: the name, the logo, the trademarks. The alternative is to shut down. That's how this whole system works: the brand can be sold, be
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by trjordan 7mo ago
I'd offer a different approach: think about how you're going to validate. An only-slightly-paraphrased Claude conversation I had yesterday: > me: I want our agent to know how to invoke skills. > Claude: [...] > Claude: Do
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by trjordan 7mo ago
I utterly love Hammerspoon. It's fun to combine with qmk [0], which gives you a bunch more options for hotkeys on your keyboard via layers. I've ended up with a layer where half the keyboard is Hammerspoon shortcuts directly to ap
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Volume, Ambition, Clarity(tern.sh)
2 points by trjordan 7mo ago|0 comments
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by trjordan 7mo ago
A similar argument to OpenAI: https://www.latent.space/p/ainews-why-openai-should-build-sl...
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by trjordan 7mo ago
The push for simplicity can't be at the time of recognition. It has to be during the building, so that by the time the thing gets built, it's the simplest thing that met the need. Can you actually imagine a promo committee evaluat
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by trjordan 7mo ago
"Red lines" does not mean some philosophical line they will not cross. "Redlines" are edits to a contract, sent by lawyers to the other party they're negotiating with. They show up in Word's Track Changes mode
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by trjordan 8mo ago
Having recently set up sentry, at least one of the ways they use this is to auto-configure uptime monitoring. Once they know what hosts you run, it'll ping that hostname periodically. If it stays up and stable for a couple days, you&#x
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by trjordan 9mo ago
1. I absolutely agree there's a bubble. Everybody is shipping a code review agent. 2. What on earth is this defense of their product? I could see so many arguments for why their code reviewer is the best, and this contains none of them
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by trjordan 9mo ago
This is going to sound sarcastic, but I mean this fully: why haven't they merged that PR. The implied future here is _unreal cool_. Swarms of coding agents that can build anything, with little oversight. Long-running projects that conv
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by trjordan 9mo ago
Does Google also not handle this well? Copy-pasted from the chat: https://www.google.com/search?q=translate+%D5%AB%D5%B6%D5%B9...

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