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Anthony Whitford

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Technology Leader | Software Engineer | CTO | Consultant | Preneur Champion of Data Centric Architectures and Knowledge Sharing Your AI has questions. Elicitly.ai gets the answers. Doctor Who fan, 🇺🇸🇨🇦

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Anthony Whitford @anthonywhitford.com · 26/09/2026
AI doesn’t “go rogue.” Sounds like OpenAI has inadequate safety controls to prevent damage. Let’s not deflect Accountability.
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Anthony Whitford @anthonywhitford.com · 24/09/2026
The growing habit of talking about AI as if it has a mind of its own bothers me. "The agents conspired." "It went rogue." "It's outsmarting us." Whether intended or not, that language shifts attention away from the people accountable.
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philsmithcross.bsky.social @philsmithcross.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Anthony Whitford @anthonywhitford.com · 20/09/2026
Right before buying Screen Studio, I discovered Recordly.dev 🫡 Save your 💰 #BuildInPublic
recordly.dev
Recordly - Open-source app for incredible screen recordings.
Recordly is an open‑source screen recorder for MacOS/Windows/Linux with auto-zoom, motion blur animated cursors, and minimal interface. Used to create product demos, guided walkthroughs and more. A free alternative to Screen Studio.
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Anthony Whitford @anthonywhitford.com · 19/09/2026
I see this frequently with AI tools: "The first attempt failed because the sandbox blocks access... so I re-ran with the sandbox bypassed" Serious question: What's the point of a sandbox if you can just choose not to use it? #BuildInPublic
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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This regime doesn’t want you to vote. They don’t want you to voice your concerns over their lack of doing anything for America. Tearing down democracy is the goal. Fuck them ALL! 🗣️ #Vote in numbers too big to rig!
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Anthony Whitford @anthonywhitford.com · 16/09/2026
Trying to get Early Adopters, and seeing: "Sorry, I can't execute any software outside what's whitelisted by our company." 😞 #BuildInPublic
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Anthony Whitford @anthonywhitford.com · 16/09/2026
I asked Claude to make an agent for me… and it did it with GitHub Actions. 🤨 Some Pydantic code, triggered by a GitHub Action scheduler and linked to my Anthropic account using Identity Federation (no API Key). I didn’t expect this pattern, but it works for now. #BuildInPublic
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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Anthony Whitford @anthonywhitford.com · 15/09/2026
One beautiful thing about Goose Desktop is how it uses the full screen width (unlike Claude Desktop or ChatGPT Desktop). Claude and ChatGPT are just wasting perfectly good screen real estate. #BuildInPublic
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Anthony Whitford @anthonywhitford.com · 13/09/2026
It is so dumb that I need a CLAUDE.md file that says look at AGENTS.md -- Why is Claude not on this supported list? #BuildInPublic
agents.md
AGENTS.md
AGENTS.md is a simple, open format for guiding coding agents. Think of it as a README for agents.
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Canada will never forget.
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Anthony Whitford @anthonywhitford.com · 07/09/2026
Upgrading @pnpm.io 11.25.0 -> 12.3.4 resulted in a 38.26% increase in speed/throughput for my CI builds. 🚀 #BuildInPublic
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Anthony Whitford @anthonywhitford.com · 06/09/2026
Claude Desktop went from falsely advertising support for MCP elicitation to honestly not offering it. Progress, I guess... 😞 #BuildInPublic
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Anthony Whitford @anthonywhitford.com · 06/09/2026
For #BuildInPublic people building MCP Servers, shout out to Glama for creating TDQS - it provided helpful advice to improve my MCP Server's AI agent readiness.
tdqs.dev
TDQS — Tool Definition Quality Score
An open framework for scoring how well an MCP tool definition communicates to an AI agent. Specification, reference implementation, CLI and hosted API.
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Anthony Whitford @anthonywhitford.com · 22/08/2026
This triggered me because I built Elicit.ly specifically because we need Human In The Loop (HITL) for Responsible AI — because AI needs Accountability. #BuildInPublic
elicit.ly
Elicitly — Your AI has questions. Your users have answers.
Human-in-the-loop approvals for AI agents over MCP. Free local edition; hosted Pro with review pages and an audit trail.
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Anthony Whitford @anthonywhitford.com · 19/08/2026
Shout out to Neon for offering Startup credits: 👉 neon.com/startups #BuildInPublic
neon.com
Neon Credits for Startups
Apply to the Databricks Startup Program and get up to $200K in Neon and Databricks credits. For venture-backed companies and startup accelerator programs.
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Anthony Whitford @anthonywhitford.com · 18/08/2026
Liking purelymail.com for organizing my emails by domains. ✉ - $10/year - multiple domains and users at no extra charge 🤯 #BuildInPublic
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Exactly 3 months from today is the most important midterm election in our lifetime. Our opportunity to hold him accountable. Register to vote here: Iwillvote.com The stakes have never been higher. Show the world the majority of Americans are good, decent, honest people. #VoteBlue🗳️ #RejectMAGA 👎
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Anthony Whitford @anthonywhitford.com · 01/08/2026
Does anybody still think obra/superpowers skills are useful and valuable compared to "out of the box" Fable/Opus/Sonnet 5? Isn't it just unnecessarily overcomplicating things now? #BuildInPublic
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GitHub - obra/superpowers: An agentic skills framework & software development methodology that works.
An agentic skills framework & software development methodology that works. - obra/superpowers
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Hard to overstate how much of a threat leaders and public officials who actually govern and serve the people pose to those whose political careers depend on fomenting cynicism and delegitimizing democracy
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Anthony Whitford @anthonywhitford.com · 26/07/2026
"Confirmed — you're right, and I was wrong." — says AI. I use the tools, but I inspect the changes. Like a hawk. If I am committing the change, then I'm accountable for the change. #BuildInPublic
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Majestic Hawk Close-Up
ALT: Majestic Hawk Close-Up
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Anthony Whitford @anthonywhitford.com · 25/07/2026
What is the minimum broadband speed for WiFi at a hotel in a major US city in 2026? 🛜
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Tech companies treating cautionary tales from science fiction as product roadmaps is one of my least favorite things about this timeline.
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Anthony Whitford @anthonywhitford.com · 18/07/2026
Hey #BuildInPublic, I feel like I’m babysitting AI too much. Claude Code is running with: - Sandbox mode with auto-allow - Allow unsandboxed fallback Yet, I’m constantly being prompted to proceed. What are devs doing? Are devs just running in Dangerous mode?
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Arabella @arabellaspireship.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
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Anthony Whitford @anthonywhitford.com · 07/07/2026
#AI efficiency low-hanging fruit: uploading a file via an MCP tool today pushes every byte through the model's context — tokens burned on a 500KB payload the model never reads. SEP-2631 fixes it: presigned uploads, bytes by reference. #BuildInPublic
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SEP-2631: File Objects and Transfer by caseychow-oai · Pull Request #2631 · modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol
Summary This PR introduces SEP-2631 for first-class MCP file transfer. It builds on SEP-2356's x-mcp-file input declaration model, keeps file-valued inputs as URI strings, and adds out-of-band ...
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Anthony Whitford @anthonywhitford.com · 07/07/2026
We pay an LLM to retype a 500KB file, byte by byte, every time an agent uploads a meeting transcript. That's how MCP file inputs work today. SEP-2631 fixes it — presigned uploads, content by reference, zero tokens on payload. Vote for #AI efficiency. #BuildInPublic
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SEP-2631: File Objects and Transfer by caseychow-oai · Pull Request #2631 · modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol
Summary This PR introduces SEP-2631 for first-class MCP file transfer. It builds on SEP-2356's x-mcp-file input declaration model, keeps file-valued inputs as URI strings, and adds out-of-band ...
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Anthony Whitford @anthonywhitford.com · 06/07/2026
This is how they get you to buy BOTH Claude and Codex! 🤖🦾💸
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
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Anthony Whitford @anthonywhitford.com · 28/06/2026
Dear Model Context Protocol, I'm not sure the purpose of a "standard" that isn't supported. Sincerely, Frustrated #BuildInPublic
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Anthony Whitford @anthonywhitford.com · 25/06/2026
Karpathy said, "LLMs do not get bored, do not forget to update cross-references, and can edit many files in one pass. The bookkeeping that makes humans abandon personal wikis is exactly what LLMs handle well." Has that been everyone's experience? #BuildInPublic
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Anthony Whitford @anthonywhitford.com · 25/06/2026
I am intrigued by OKF. Ironic that it isn't really an original idea (CMS), just an easy idea that we can rally around. Anybody really using this yet? Does it help? #BuildInPublic
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation. This is a national crisis. Trump thinks the public will stop paying attention. So I went to the Senate floor to call his bluff. I told the ENTIRE STORY of his 500 days of corruption. 1/ Here it is - in one🧵
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InfinitelyLoopy @infinitelyloopy.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Trump is emotionally out of control and completely delusional. He really does need to be removed from office. I know it won’t happen but he represents an existential threat to the country. We need to stop pretending that any of this is anything other than literally insane behavior.
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Anthony Whitford @anthonywhitford.com · 20/06/2026
We don’t talk enough about the fires. There are a lot of fires! 🔥
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Anthony Whitford @anthonywhitford.com · 19/06/2026
I like Gleich. Nobody should be able to buy an election. When a billionaire says anything, be suspicious.
youtube.com
Most candidates won’t say this out loud
YouTube video by Caroline Gleich
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Anthony Whitford @anthonywhitford.com · 19/06/2026
Outrageous! #TeslaTakedown folks need to hear about this. 🤦‍♂️
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Obama’s Presidential Center Opening is the American celebration we needed after the shit show at the White House.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The wealth of America’s billionaires has surged to over $9 trillion for the first time in history. This was no accident. Here’s the full story of how we got into this mess — and how we can get out of it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOI8RuhW7q0
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How Wealth Inequality Spiraled Out of Control | Robert Reich
Here it is: The full story of wealth inequality in America.The top 1% holds 15x more wealth than the bottom 50% combined
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OMG.WTF 🇦🇺 🇲🇪 🇿🇲 @amsickofpollies.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
. Interesting. Must be done .
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Meredith O'Brien @meredithobrien.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
When people demonstrate, time and time again, that they are untrustworthy, inaccurate, disingenuous, and truth-challenged, they lose the privilege of the benefit of the doubt. The credibility of this administration, which has done a bang-up job purging nonpartisan professionals, is nonexistent.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Bob Odenkirk is a national treasure. Take 44 seconds and watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0rB...
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Liberal Warrior 🏳️‍🌈👬🌊💙🌊👭🏳️‍🌈 @liberalwarrior.eu · 14/06/2026
Meet Annie Adrews! I hope she can win this. youtube.com/shorts/dIS9C...
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Lindsey Graham Asked What She Believes… She Came Prepared 😳 #LindseyGraham #Politics #SouthCarolina
YouTube video by Lamont Tyson
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Anthony Whitford @anthonywhitford.com · 13/06/2026
Anybody else running into constant regression errors from Codex Desktop? - Plugins with .mcp.json don't automatically install MCP Server anymore on Windows - In-app Browser control is now unreliable Not a good look from the AI experts. #BuildInPublic
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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Absolutely terrifying that we have a president who is just fundamentally ignorant about EVERYTHING and nobody around him is willing to correct him
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
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Anthony Whitford @anthonywhitford.com · 06/06/2026
The AI backlash is definitely coming. When was the last time you tried to record a support ticket? With a bot. 🤬
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DemCast USA @demcast.com · 30/05/2026
Do you have Trump Induced Obscenity Syndrome (TIOS)? Wonderful! Channeling it into action is therapeutic! Download the 5Calls app. It gives you a script and a number, and it takes about three minutes. We’re still swearing, but we’re channeling that energy. Let’s F*cken Go!
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 30/05/2026
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