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Trying to drink from the #atmosphereconf fire hose this weekend. To all the amazing builders I’m now aware of, please add an about page to your website (not as a subdomain). I shouldn’t have to search, “what is [blah] [magic keywords]” after visiting your site.
When you’ve recovered from the conference, @bookhive.buzz importing goodreads csv doesn’t seem to be working atm.
Like many terms in the ai space I’ve been trying to better understand spec driven development. And my takeaway is we should be calling it design doc driven development or spec-anchored driven development (thanks Birgitta Böckeler). I think “spec” can easily drift in meaning and interpretation.
Every couple of weeks I think to myself that I should post more of what I’ve read about engineering and AI only to remember that 90% of the useful links I discover are via @simonwillison.net Simon is the single best source for keeping up with AI engineering.
They can have the borg speak multiple languages but they can’t pronounce the name of a little land locked country. IYKYK (Pluribus)
Anyone else having issues with claude code and the scripts folder in skills? All the examples show a relative path (python scripts/blah.py) for invoking but claude code complains because the path is relative to the project not the specific skill folder. Seems to be fine with plugin installs.
My current favourite combo is Claude code and AppleScript. “Find all tabs in safari related to [topic] and append the title, url and short description to today’s Obsidian daily note”
Maybe I’m projecting but, how have you picked directions in the past? What caused you to dive into react or bsky or write longform (and greatly appreciated) posts recently? I have to imagine there’s an emotional force, a passion/joy that guides some of that. What about that energy?
I’m getting a ton of value from the posts but it’s a slog. Because they’re long I break it up into sessions but the structure and style requires maintaining some context and history of the changes. Sometimes I come back and I’m lost requiring rereading earlier sections.
@simonwillison.net is there a way to combine a geojson with lat/long values in datasette? I want to show a bunch of markers as well as city boundaries. I can view each separately in their respective tables but not sure how to combine them.
We live in a world where technology is already helping us achieve tasks faster and easier than ever before. We can order groceries for the week from our laptop in minutes. No agent needed.
I think the issue with consumer facing agents is a mismatch in task scope and ability to articulate the task. I think agents show their value with tasks that take days not minutes. Most people don’t have big enough tasks or struggle to articulate the process/outcome in a meaningful way for agents.
SSX Tricky! In my early 20's I had a PS2 but couldn't afford the games. For months we played the SSX Tricky demo (2 min limit) over and over until the wee hours of the morning. I would dream of flying squirrels. youtu.be/PDFUgsE6odU?...
As an FX artist who used to spend days crafting fluid simulations (fire, water, smoke), the gen AI stuff often falls short. The coke ad always make me cringe. But, this… This, is really good.
I’d argue 90% of the time an ‘agentic’ framework isn’t needed. I had to learn the basics about orchestration and distributed systems to realize that.
The initial appeal was easily constructing/modifying a graph. Define your fn’s, define the flow/relationships. It took time for me to understand agentic flows, thinking complex systems needed a special framework.
“According to EPRI, a single ChatGPT query requires around 2.9 watt-hours, compared to just 0.3 watt-hours for a Google search, driving a potential order of magnitude more power demand.” about.bnef.com/blog/liebrei...
