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ElijahLynn

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Opensource Software & DevOps Engineer

I'm open to chatting about roles working with opensource, especially orgs/teams with an open communication policy. If this is you, send me an email at elijah@elijahlynn.net with the subject "HM Contact: [Subject]"

Framework, Grafana & GitLab are on my short list for places I'd like to interview at.

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Author blames the two week sprint. But that isn't this issue. It's testing gates. Plenty of teams can ship high quality software with two weak sprints. They just have great testing gates.

AI 2040: Plan A 11 days ago

Most of their work is slop.

This opening statement told me the bias that the plan had from the beginning. My experience is that you can make slop and you can make art. Just like a paintbrush. I've done beautiful things, and have gotten increasingly better at using the AI paintbrush.

The author(s) are likely scared. And I'm seeing the divide increase with articles like this. Those who don't understand it and won't use it, or learn more, will ultimately have a story (our human condition).

I think AI is going to make a beautiful future, much better than our current one.

I bet this same thing happened with the advent of electricity.

AI is like Electric 2.0.

There are many problems with this proposal, including impacts these satellites will have on human health and safety, as well as on astronomy and the low-Earth environment.

Flashes during mirror repointing could disrupt pilots and drivers. The light could also disrupt circadian rhythms of plants, animals and humans

Superpowers 6 20 days ago

Side note: Matt has a new skill /grill-with-docs, which he recommends as the one to use for coding. Regular /grill-me he doesn't recommend for coding anymore.

Superpowers 6 20 days ago

This is true, one has to step back and learn a new methodology. It's basically pulling our brains up and staying at the high level, and letting the Superpowers workflow do all the heavy lifting. And learning to trust that.

Similar to Addy Osmani's Agent Skills and Matt Pococks skills.

Great way to build larger projects!

CursorBench 3.1 20 days ago

I see what you're saying. And it's still crazy valuable for the price.

Compared with how much it can do in such little time, it's still far less than even a junior engineer.

CursorBench 3.1 20 days ago

Yeah, only way to use Opus is with 2-3 different sessions running side by side, or ask it to be the main conductor and delegate tasks to sub agents. Definitely a new way of thinking for me, but I'm liking it to some degree!

Cursor's Composer 2.5 is refreshingly fast by comparison, but I don't trust it as much as Opus. And Composer doesn't have 1 million context...

I was just thinking about this exact use case yesterday:

And it's for me measuring different charged speeds at different starting battery capacities and different temperatures and I was like well. What if I just had a video camera pointing at the voltage going in and out and then I could see the battery percentage increase and I can have a temperature gun pointed at the phone as well. And I couldn't know what temperature of the phone is as well and it could just figure it all out create charts..

This would make reviewing different charging equipment really easy as long as you really have to do is plug it in and tell other people to do the same thing and take a video of it and beat it to the system.

I might very well give this a try!

2027 will be the year of the robots.

I also saw Tesla is ramping up to make millions of Optimus robots. And Amazon bought Fauna robotics which I predict we will start seeing "last 100 ft" deliveries soon. Amazon's Rivian packmobile will pull up to a block and 5 Fauna robots (they are short) will jump out and start delivering packages to the neighborhood.

The robots are coming...

Listening now, after a day long coding binge, and I need to wind down.

It has a decent sleepy background vibe to it too. Reminds me of Joe Perra Talks You To Sleep (Adult Swim). I dig it!

This is the kind of fruit that vibe coding brings! A quick little fun idea that you can just whip up and try out! Without vibe coating it might have just been an idea that got put on a list of ideas and never got to be tried out.

And now it's an open source repo that other people can try out and fork it and see what works and sticks!

I love it!

As a first time founder, I'm making my first product right now, and this video was perfect timing!

I like the advice that the first three customers almost always come from personal network, and then 4-10 will come from warm network, and through techniques that don't scale.

It was kind of spot on, as I do have my first pledged customer after showing them the proof of concept demo. They keep asking when it's going to be ready.

And my second target was the person who runs the co-working space I used to be at. Which are lining up with the claim that the first three will be in my personal network!

Also, TIL about Startup School, and there's a whole bunch of videos to absorb and I subscribed to their YouTube channel!

Well from my experience visiting Portugal, there's tons of farming there and they didn't have all these oversized trucks. I wonder how they do it...

It seems uniquely American to have these huge trucks and most of the people here don't even farm. They just use them to flex.

I recently visited Portugal and it was so refreshing not to see huge near monster trucks on the road. Which have a very intimidating vibe to them.

I was like oh look at people can actually function without big trucks, wow! What a surprise!

We have a socially acceptable, predatory, regulated vice: credit cards with 30%. These ruin many lives.

I'm finally almost out and I'm 45. Nobody taught me in school not to use them as they are harmful. Nobody taught me how much money they will actually charge me and how much money I will lose because of them. Whereas if I had just saved my money and bought the thing out right I wouldn't have to pay any extra money.

My school failed me.

Oh wow, so they are only using sails?

The article seemed a bit light on actually how it's been powered.

My initial assumption was that it's just going to harvest wind out of the air to power electric turbines since there's probably so much wind at the sea so much of the time.

But there's a quote in the article that says we're going with the wind, and not in a straight line.