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Two-time founder. At Trent.ai - security analysis for AI-built systems (code, agents, runtime). Heavy Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini user. Opinions on agentic tooling earned by breaking things. george@trent.ai

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hackaday.com 28d ago

A Commodore Boombox: The 1350 as You've Never Heard It Before

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trent.ai 1mo ago

We Benchmarked Claude Code, Codex, Semgrep, CodeQL, Trent on 28 CWE-Bench CVEs

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blog.blendo.co 9y ago

Predicting churn with Random Forest

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blog.blendo.co 9y ago

Predicting Churn with Random Forest: When Do Email Recipients Unsubscribe?

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blog.blendo.co 9y ago

Redshift and timeseries data

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blog.blendo.co 9y ago

Working with Time-Series Data on Redshift

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blog.blendo.co 9y ago

Building a data pipeline and analytics dashboard for Intercom

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blog.blendo.co 9y ago

A Data Model View: Email Marketing Data vs. Transactional Email Data

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blog.blendo.co 10y ago

Online courses to start with data cleaning

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www.wired.com 10y ago

Google’s Training Its AI to Be Android’s Security Guard

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blog.blendo.co 10y ago

How to Represent MailChimp's Data as Tables and DataFrames

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blog.blendo.co 10y ago

Of Custom Dashboards and BI Tools

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andrewgelman.com 10y ago

Stan makes Euro predictions

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siliconangle.com 10y ago

Save the whales Taking a high dive into deep learning

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blog.blendo.co 10y ago

Data Science and Marketing: Can you achieve campaign optimization?

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www.aurumahmad.com 10y ago

After Death: Big Data and the Promise of Resurrection by Proxy

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blog.blendo.co 10y ago

Data preparation and modeling for email marketing campaign optimization

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blog.blendo.co 10y ago

Data Science Online Courses on the Subject of Data Cleaning

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blog.blendo.co 10y ago

Getting Direct SQL Access to Your Mixpanel Data in 3 Steps

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blog.blendo.co 10y ago

Easy access to the right data, at the right time

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medium.com 10y ago

The epic startup story of Karl and Bertha Benz

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blog.blendo.co 10y ago

Strata Hadoop 2016 San Jose Wrap-Up

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blog.blendo.co 10y ago

More data, create more questions

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cpardalis.wordpress.com 10y ago

Apache Kafka: Building Connectors with Kafka Connect

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histography.io 10y ago

Histography – Timeline of History

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www.forbes.com 11y ago

Agile Enterprise Architecture Finally Crosses the Chasm

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gpsistakis.wordpress.com 11y ago

The illusive Daily Standup Meeting. Do we actually need one or not?

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www.apirise.com 11y ago

In case you were wondering where to find an API to use for your next app

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www.apirise.com 11y ago

API Discovery tools you need to know before developing your next app

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www.npr.org 11y ago

Ancient Scottish Sea Reptile Not 'Nessie,' but Just as Cute

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I dont think you can get into flow easily - not talking from the dev pov but rather from growth. I find my self multi tasking like crazy and having to click yes yes yes in claude prompts :/ One way is to relax those permissions and have less interruptions. the other is to try and listen good music throughout.

I've been a founder since before any of this existed, same flavor of small team then and now. What I see now is that anyone can produce more but less due to their skills from scratch (slop?). A big company sees the headlines and a CEO reads that as "fewer people", or force use of LLMs and people seeing it as a preparation for AI processes taking over (and rightfully so). But frankly probably for smaller teams it reads "same people, wider surface". Imo bad CEOs existed before AI and will exist in the future...

coming from a different pov, I was (am) systems engineer who never became a proper coder, then founder, now mostly product/growrth. So AI and agents dint erode a mastery i had, they gave me one i never had. What you describe though makes sense for the skills I did have and I see a dependency as well. Things I used to work out myself, even slowly, I now reach for the agent first by reflex. The speed effect is indeed there. I get anxiety many times that I don't understand subject matters or I learn them slowly. Haven't found a good way other than keeping some of the writing or critical judgment calls to me. On a happy note i try not to push LLMs at all to my kids as I start reading such dependencies happening there.

considering my journey (systems engineer / not coder -> founder -> product growth) if you are in the "technical side of things" you probably do need a notion of coding. Maybe you don't need to be an expert in Node for instance but at least have some nuances when Claude Code gives you code snippets to run. A good example is having Codex tell me how to repair my car and me not having idea of what is it talking about (I don't, cars are a black box to me). So I believe technical affinity, and flexibility in grasping technical subjects and moving around them is the way to go. At least this is what i say to my kids but I am not Pythia the ancient Greek oracle in Delphi :P

Non-engineer here, doing growth at a small company, using these tools on side projects as well. The thing i find expensive is how to trust the output. I am not a coder so i cant rate the code to know if it's right. I end up running a second model to check the first one's output or testing. That takes time as well :)

imo helped in a matter of things professionally, as i managed to increase my output by reducing blockers (seeing this not from an eng pov but from a growth/marketing perspective). Have definitely increase anxiety that i am left behind and i don't know the best and latest.

windows user, not a dev, engineer doing growth. I use Claude, codex, Gemini in my projects. The failure modes I hit far more are 2: an operational one, ie shell confusion. Claude executes commands that do not work or fail in cmd / PowerShell, permissions issues etc. In code (and marketing / growth stuff) i find it many times that i will ask from claude to verify the code it proposes with codex and then come back with the results. Depending on the task i may ask for consensus from the three models - thats fun!

A lot of people are posting links to microphones/headphones/stream-decks/etc... My personal experience from a series of podcasts at home and with 2 kids, a super duper mic would not solve my problem. A lot of the audio issues you see at events and streams like these stem from bg noise, echo, no pop-filter, stream lag. It's usually a case of repair, not replacing equipment. New microphones bring risk potential with excessive gain, headphones can make you too self-conscious or focus on the wrong thing. Like, rather than spending X amount on a new setup, just use some tools/plugins in post - most can be ran through OBS live, despite initially seeming like a post-production technical thing. I lost a lot of time repairing my audio in various tools when software plugin bundles like this - https://accusonus.com/products/audio-repair/era-bundle-stand... -gave me a way better recording upgrade, as opposed to a new mic.

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You are mentionining the drones will Percepto connect with. Which Naza model is the best case scenario? thank you...

Good luck with your campaign!

Hey its George one of the founders here. Our goal with Morph is to enable data transformation between WebHooks with no need to write code. Instead, you may use our visual configuration editor. Our purpose is to make simpler to connect arbitrary services together.

Specifically, with the editor you may: - Rename fields from the original response - Move them to a different place in the response - Remove them completely - Create new fields and structures

We plan to add more functionalities in the futre. So if you have any questions or comments I'd love to answer them.

"Looking back to when I started Buffer, even though I had learned a lot from my past startup experiences, I truly didn’t know what I was doing and I approached everything with that mindset. I was out there to learn and I knew that the only way I was going to progress was to adopt a very open mind. I’m writing this post because when I stray away from this mindset, I lose out as a result." Joel speaks almost for everyone. I feel sometimes the same and I am not in any way as accomplished as him.... Am I alone?