
Optimist / builder / craft / systems. Studio @aftfoundry. Past @uwaterloo. Now: Vancouver.
Kitsilano, Vancouver
Joined June 2008
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If you are building something sufficiently complex with the latest models (Astra High / Opus 5.5)
Your role as an engineer now is largely to pull the models out of architectural local minima
Out-of-the-box/un-prompted they still avoid "factorizing" and compressing a solution into it's most minimal representation (generalization)
Currently experimenting with a server-authoritative retained-mode compositor/render-server application architecture.
Thinking being by pushing semantic information down the stack, and with a few clever tricks, you can implement advanced compositional experiences while improving performance/rendering performance.
Time will tell.
There are specific growth engineering arbitrages open right now with respect to Codex/Claude computer-use. 👀
Oracle architecture discussions right here in Vancouver 🫶
Very cool checking out dctrl's new space in Gastown!
Join us this Thursday for a talk on trusted third parties. Learn about the oracle dilemma for pricing, perps, and predictions.
🗓️ Oct. 22
🕡 6:00 PM
📍 DCTRL - 328 W Hastings St.
Sign up below:
luma.com/a3x7tqr1
If you're a harness, you're now adding system of record capabilities.
If you're a system of record, you're now adding harness capabilities.
You need to be both.
Benjamin Van Meter retweeted
“b-b-but startups need to be in person!”
nope, zero to multibillion dollar sale in 3 years with fully remote workforce
what you ACTUALLY need is top talent obsessed with solving the customer problem
OpenRouter is joining Stripe.
We started OpenRouter with a simple mission: intelligence should be multi-model. Today, we are the largest AI marketplace & gateway, processing 10T+ tokens daily on 400+ models.
Joining @Stripe gives us the opportunity to accelerate that mission.
Going to install @NousResearch’s Hermes on my modded Lululemon Mirror as an office assistant / heads-up-display 🫡






















