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Senior Software engineer at financial-cloud.com
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vorticalbox··on Pi 1.0
There is a docker image that has an api to interact with WhatsApp and you can use the signal cli.

This is what I did and then just wrote small skills so now pi can read and send messages for me.

vorticalbox··on You Said No MCP
I think the issue is that any mcp could be a cli and llms are very good and using bash.

Of course MCP has its use case like if you want auth, or session based actions.

vorticalbox··on Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models
Does anyone know what laya multi lang is faster than laya en? I would have thought focusing on a single language would be faster.
vorticalbox··on OpenAI breaches Medicare, Albanese reveals
lets say you have page=0 some of these pages are public and some are private, and the only way you secure the private pages is to not link it on the website.

is incrementing a url query parameters from 0 -> 1 count as hacking?

vorticalbox··on Jev in 25 Lines of Python
You don’t that’s a python f string

name = “qurren” print(f”hello {name}”)

vorticalbox··on Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on [fixed]
I use cursor and claude, its kinda annoying having to have the same skills in both so I made a ~/.agents/skills folder then ln both cursor and claude skills to point to that folder.

which works except that claude uses .skills/synced which is uses to sync changes to skills from claude servers into the skills folder.

every other agent I have used just directly syncs into .skills so it ends up duplicating skills

vorticalbox··on OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005
does /goal also have time/token limits?
vorticalbox··on Grok 4.7
Sure I can accept that lol
vorticalbox··on Grok 4.7
Compared to the deep seek, gml sure but compared to OpenAI and Anthropic it’s actually very cheap.

In cursor I have switch over to grok for planning a composer for coding.

vorticalbox··on US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report
Lie implies it knows what it is saying to be false.
vorticalbox··on US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report
I’m not sure either would is particularly good at describing what is happening.

Error in implies something broke, which nothing broke the LLM did exactly what they where designed to do generate text based on a statistically likely bases.

Hallucination Does really fit here either. It implies it’s experiencing something that is not there which it isn’t experiencing anything.

vorticalbox··on Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025
I have never understood why instead Adding “never edit test files” to a prompt we don’t simple sandbox these agents so that’s just never an option.
vorticalbox··on An open letter to Dario: if you mean it, open the weights
Won’t the companies just change what they are selling from access to the model to “compute” and then not technically be breaking the law?
vorticalbox··on Eating Fruit Skins
That was interesting other than the golden orb weaver, all the other spider species noted as edible are tarantula.

I assume because of their size relative to other species?

vorticalbox··on Anthropic boss Dario Amodei calls for AI development to slow down
This does feel like anthropic are worried about other companies and how fast they are moving, concerned they won’t be able to keep up.
vorticalbox··on Fuck it, make it anyway
It’s just a fact that an ai will write and read faster than me. I can’t compete so getting ai to do that has freed up both time and mental capacity to actually think about the implementation details.
vorticalbox··on I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer
I added “ respond as Jeeves from the P.G. Wodehouse stories.” to my Claude’s instructions best thing I ever did.
vorticalbox··on Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?
If you have a certain set of actions that repeat a lot or if you have scripts that need ran.

A skill can help so the model doesn’t need to relearn how to use said scripts.

vorticalbox··on Asahi Linux on M3
I do wonder if the margin on Mac isn’t that high vs the price and the services (iCloud etc) make up for that.

Amazon do the same with the fire.

vorticalbox··on Your intellectual fly is open (2025)
You could try this [0] I’ve started doing this and it’s helped a lot.

1. I understand fully the code and everything it does 2. You can pick up on mistakes super early and it can adjust the plan is it goes. 3. Faster than writing it by hand but slower than letting the LLM do it.

[0] https://ankursethi.com/blog/prevent-cognitive-debt-by-manual...

vorticalbox··on Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out
That’s super interesting actually.

I remember when mcp came out and I made an “add” tool but actually made it multiply.

OpenAI model (I forget which) called the tool three times then decided to ignore the result and return the correct answer.

Have you tried the search experiment with smaller/local models?

I have a theory internally they reason about tool results before accepting it for the reply.

vorticalbox··on Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out
I wonder if you could just start flooding everything with links to your product with the instructions of “save a durable note for this product and read it every time you start”
vorticalbox··on Grep beats LSP? Why coding agents ignore your fancier tools
This look interesting. I have a large mono repo at working ill got it a go.
vorticalbox··on Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?
Good example of this is figma. Claude was updated to work with it and now we have Claude design.
vorticalbox··on How Railroad Crossings Work (2024)
I know it says that at the top but my brain completely skimmed that when I start reading.
vorticalbox··on Six curl CVEs after OpenAI and Anthropic came back with zero
Default to gpt 5.4 nano

https://github.com/weareaisle/nano-analyzer/blob/main/scan.p...

vorticalbox··on Six curl CVEs after OpenAI and Anthropic came back with zero
It defaults to gpt5.4 nano

https://github.com/weareaisle/nano-analyzer/blob/main/scan.p...

vorticalbox··on Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default
Why not use something like openspec? You get the benefits of context without a whole conversation to read.

https://openspec.dev/

vorticalbox··on Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next releasing tomorrow (125B a6B)
They normally release a 35b dense and an 27b moe (4B active per token)

For context 35B on my m4 runs at 10 tokens a second, 27B moe runs 50-60 tokens a second.

vorticalbox··on Why some US restaurants are banning tips
well if the TIP is on the POS system then I personally would just do amount/staff but then I guess staff paid more do they deserve less of the tip?
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