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dbbk

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Making it up as I go along. Meetings and calls!
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dbbk··on Dots: Always-on agents
To boil it down I think it's basically one 'orchestrator' chat, so you don't manage multiple chats, and it proactively reaches out to you to update you on how your other chats are going. In the presentation they mentioned a "Chief of Staff".

It's not intended for coding.

dbbk··on America.gov
No, they are right. This is basically just GOV.uk for America, and GOV.uk by all accounts is an incredible success.
dbbk··on DevDay 2026 Recap
It could have been worse, the Dots name was originally "o" and the introduction videos they have put out have been clearly dubbed over
dbbk··on Sonnet 5.5
Using advisors doesn't break anything
dbbk··on Sonnet 5.5
Hence why it is no longer dangerous, yes
dbbk··on Plan mode is dead
Alternatively you could just use plan mode
dbbk··on Plan mode is dead
There is a point, plan mode has harness level behaviour - it's restricted to readonly tools, and it re-reads its plan into context after compaction
dbbk··on Plan mode is dead
I use Claude's Plan mode daily and it's great. I almost always have feedback to refine the plan and I want a clean separation of planning time before writing code. I don't get what the problem is.

I also find this "kill Plan mode" push on Twitter odd, because developers have been complaining about AI supposedly killing their jobs, yet they want to take away the main feature that lets them be an active collaborator and participator in the process. Weird.

dbbk··on Meta VR Glasses
Yes
dbbk··on Meta VR Glasses
Now this just makes me sad that Apple gave up on the lighter Vision Pro. I might actually use this... if it had a real OS
dbbk··on OpenAI is well positioned to fast-follow Jev
Not many people know this but OpenAI even has a FREE separate moderation model and API endpoint that can classify user generated content.
dbbk··on GPT-6 Sol and Luna
If you're happy with letting Meta train on you, Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor pricing is a much better deal than Luna
dbbk··on Claude Opus 5.5
This makes Fable not really make any sense?
dbbk··on AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up
Sounds like you want a product manager
dbbk··on Apple Music to open concert venue in Battersea Power Station
How is it not relevant? It's not like they randomly picked the place, it's their office
dbbk··on Apple Music to open concert venue in Battersea Power Station
You... know they work there right?
dbbk··on Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com Alternative
Slop
dbbk··on Orchestrating Claude Code Agents: The Chief of Staff Pattern
No I do other things. Oftentimes I'll just do it from my phone when I'm out and about and just work with it asynchronously.
dbbk··on Tin: full-text search for Postgres
It's almost as if there is a blog post that explains what's different
dbbk··on Orchestrating Claude Code Agents: The Chief of Staff Pattern
Perhaps I'm just "stuck in the past" but I do not understand the appeal of working like this. Your app is being built on architectural quicksand.

I just work on one thing at a time, always with Plan mode upfront, and I'd say most of the time I have some feedback to refine the plan. Working good so far.

dbbk··on Tin: full-text search for Postgres
It's Postgres search any coding agent can switch you to something else in 5 minutes
dbbk··on Tin: full-text search for Postgres
Why would you need super fast search for local testing?
dbbk··on Tell HN: I was laid off from PlanetScale this week on Vitess side
So?
dbbk··on Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude
I am a technical user and I literally last week was trying to work out what the difference between ChatGPT Chat and Work was and couldn't figure it out (other than they bill you differently)
dbbk··on Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude
I have a question about project memory. Last time I tried using Claude to organise my chats into Projects, it turned them into isolated silos. I asked a different chat to refer to what we'd discussed in the other chat, and it said it wasn't allowed to access it.

This was pretty frustrating. By trying to organise my chats, I actively made them worse. ChatGPT at least gives you the option to have either open or closed memory. Is this being considered?

dbbk··on Introducing System One Models and Jev
When they say "can't hallucinate" they mean they produce a confidence value for every result, so you could see for example it has 0.1 confidence, and you can disregard the result - that'd be different from hallucinating where it believes it's correct
dbbk··on Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
At least AA have a dedicated speech model index, of which this is now the leader: https://artificialanalysis.ai/speech-to-speech
dbbk··on Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
Uh, what? This is SOTA for a live model. What are you talking about?
dbbk··on Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows
The year is 2026 and "Siri mark my medication as taken" returns "I'm sorry I can't do that"
dbbk··on Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
"A simple app" well there's your first mistake, it's not a simple app is it
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