Optimist / builder / craft / systems. Studio @aftfoundry. Past @uwaterloo. Now: Vancouver.

Kitsilano, Vancouver
Joined June 2008
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)
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Friendly reminder all hardware is effectively hackable now with abliterated models
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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.
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Hacking with the good folks at @NovusOrg today
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Spent the past 3 hours hill-climbing kernels with Astra, time for sleep
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Vancouver fall is too nice man
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There are specific growth engineering arbitrages open right now with respect to Codex/Claude computer-use. 👀
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Spectra/speculative execution timing vulnerabilities definitely made it into the training data 😂
completely insane OpenAI agents communicated via cache timing differences, without any shared files or network connection
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You know you are GPU poor when your are trying to revive an old Quadro
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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
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okay they cooked with the corgi fresco
wrapping up london! hosted an event at corgi cafe, +250 people signed up, and realized people in london are crazy tall! thanks 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
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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.
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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.
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Benjamin Van Meter retweeted
The most beautiful city in North America
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Overcast summer evenings are the best for building
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Going to install @NousResearch’s Hermes on my modded Lululemon Mirror as an office assistant / heads-up-display 🫡
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Blessed day in Kitsilano to turn tokens into loonies – at Vancouver, British Columbia
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