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Joined November 2008
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I installed the new offline-first Flint model (recursive.com/updates/introd…) locally, and it looks like its knowledge cutoff is ~2.5 years ago. It knows how to work with tools/mcp. It stucks in loops quite often because of incorrect bash command writing, fixable via global AGENTS.md
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I then asked Opus, Sonnet, Gemini 3.8 Flash, Grok 4.7 to review the same completed task. Yeah, you don't want to ship that code (which was literally adding a new input field to modify a user data stored in the wp_users table in WordPress admin area when editing a user).
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Incorrect implementation, wrong hooks, no capabilities check, stored XSS, etc. I understand that this is a small model compared to huge cloud ones, but still. Affordable local AI development is far from being solved.
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Slava Abakumov retweeted
Last week, my company @AwesomeMotive acquired a popular free WordPress plugin WP Crontrol. My primary goal was to give this incredibly useful plugin a good home because we use it ourselves, and I have a lot of respect for John Blackbourn (original creator). WP Crontrol will remain free forever. As part of our commitment, in today's release, we just added all the previously Pro features in the Free version including Cron Logs, Cron Alerts, and newly added Cron AI. wordpress.org/plugins/wp-cro… Yes all users will now get all the Pro features for free. Thank you for your trust and continued support 🙏🏻
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Crazy how everyone calls those presentations with slides having animations as “videos”. I created a ton of “videos” during my uni time. @powerpoint was and still is ahead of its time. Also, you can export it as video.
Just about 1 year ago I posted one of the first posts about using Claude Code to make videos. Each of these actually took a long time to iterate with Claude and get right, pointing out details that were wrong, etc. Crazy how far things have come.
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I use WordPress Studio extensively to test in clean WP (while symlinking the plugins I'm working on). I just learned that Studio also has the MCP tool, not only CLI. I ran various tests, and MCP approach is 2.1x faster, 19% cheaper, and pollutes context 3.6x less.
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Then main reason why CLI loses is a discovery phase where it goes through the --help to learn the semantics. And there are differences in output (CLI sends a ton of unnecessary garbage for agents, like spinner frames, etc).
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So, I'll keep instructing the agent to use the CLI when I need a pinned PHP or WP version, and say so explicitly in the prompt. In all other case like "create a new WordPress site" I will default to MCP.
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I’m still on iPhone 14 Pro. And I kind of want iPhone Duo. I don’t know why. I assume because of a different shape - an experiment. New form factor, something different. 512GB version with Apple Care (which I think this phone actually needs) is becoming a 3k EUR phone. Shiny object syndrome?
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What a Terrable news. (never used it once)
GPT 6 won't have the Terra tier anymore. Terra is being removed from Chatgpt because of this; Luna is a bunch of times smarter than Terra at the fraction of costs. Meanwhile look at where Terra sitting. It's cost mysteriously reaches similar to Sol without meaningful increase in intelligence.
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TypeSafe company claims their model Jev is so fast it doesn't make sense to charge for output tokens. Details: xitter.cf/CompleteSkeptic/status…
After co-inventing ChatGPT, I kept asking myself: why have superhuman chat models not led to AGI? I’ve spent the last 2 years in stealth building a new way to train models (RLCD), and a new type of frontier AI model that we are releasing today: Jev • 20-200x faster • 40-400x cheaper (w/ output tokens free) • Frontier composable intelligence optimized for decisions AFAICT the shortest path to AI-based economic revolution
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It's also interesting that they haven't even mentioned Gemini Flash models :)
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Slava Abakumov retweeted
Half of all new WordPress plugin submissions never get approved, not because they're rejected, but because the author never replies to the first review. Today, @frantorres from the WordPress Plugins Team joins us to explain what actually happens between submission and approval. 🎥 Watch the premiere today: xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1nGeLMnjz…
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There should be more final classes in WordPress PHP ecosystem.
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Surprising quirk - when creating a project in @googlecloud, you cannot use the word "google" in Project ID, even if it's a substring. It's fine if in the Project Name. "g00gle", "googl", or any non-"google" variations are fine. But "google" specifically is forbidden.
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I love how the Solo Menubar shows the subagents spawned by the main agent inside Solo. You can get it here: github.com/slaFFik/solo-menu…
Today's release of Solo Menubar v1.4.0 gives you a choice to show or hide your workspaces. Ask your AI agent to install it from here: github.com/slaFFik/solo-menu…
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Today's release of Solo Menubar v1.4.0 gives you a choice to show or hide your workspaces. Ask your AI agent to install it from here: github.com/slaFFik/solo-menu…
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