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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 46m

the gang does a little refactor

github.com dash — lines added and deleted by week over time, with a big spike

Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 20h

The most surprising thing about agents so far is that there is absolutely a way to permanently use 100% capacity on every piece of metal I have for making the agent better/faster/more capable. CPU, memory, storage, all of it. Really trippy.

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’ve spent weeks tuning cache hit rates, which I recommend doing if you’re running a custom agent setup. Many of the posts I see complaining about cost (Fable etc) are, I suspect, caching struggles. Given model pricing structures, 94%—> 98% cache hit rate massively drops your costs.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."

Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The level at which software development workflows are falling over is a trip. Sitting here building a job runner so I don't have to keep mashing "buy more GitHub actions;" it's all so weird.

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Me showing an Android brother the light:

Green text message: "Autistic people just need to read Kant. The man explains literally everything."

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Could someone teach Zitron like the Rule of 40 or honestly just anything about how growth businesses work

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Me: “can’t you do some Linux shit and make this a lot faster?” Agent: “yes, actually.”

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.” —Wittgenstein So funny to live in an era where philosophy has become like a key survival skill.

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Is anyone using Sol 6 and liking it? Tried it on a few workloads that 5.6 handled well and it was just awful; wondering if I'm missing something.

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

People are apparently considering wearing something made by Meta made on their face. Incredible.

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Theory: in the next year or so, as a phase that will ultimately prove temporary, there will be a scary phase of AI problems around initiative and intent. The ol’ “will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest” scenario, like a paperclip maximizer but smaller and episodic and more personal.

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A diesel export ban. Ah yes, surely this will help America.

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

On the other hand, this impulse to dispatch subagents is exactly what I want in an orchestrator, which Opus is IMO still best-in-class at. Fable —> Opus orchestrator —> progressive dispatch to completion —> return to Fable for review & acceptance

Not an Anthropic hate post, this has happened a few times now. I give Opus a relatively straightforward task. Go read about this thing and it just shotgun blasts out subagents for some inexplicable reason and they immediately hose 70% of the token budget.

This last time I just wanted it to look up latest Qwen models and benchmarks to see if anything was competing.

17 agents and 1.5M cache reads later... It gives me a 3 paragraph response for what could have been a simple Google Search and a couple pages.

Yes, Fable is a LITTLE more expensive, but I have never had that happen.

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"That's a whole nother issue." Look... all I'm asking is that people stand up a basic linter in the language-producing part of their brain to catch stuff like 'a whole nother' before it ships to prod.

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Based on my experiences trying Gemini, I’m reading this as “it loaded 3 corporate websites and then generated a video of Will Smith eating spaghetti.”

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If one of my agents explained the Hugging Face incident in the confident-yet-wrong way that Cory Doctorow post does, we would immediately stop all work and strip down the metacog package to see what broke.

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

One must accept that the answer is [5, inedible] and simply master the art of iterative deprogramming.

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Friends have started asking me about the AI doomerism in the news. I think they want either reassurance or confirmation they should be afraid but I can’t honestly offer either one so I just say what’s true: “sometimes people working closely with this tech become very afraid.”

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Witnessed — Person 1: <being competent> Person 2: “This is entrapment!”

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Dario’s “a swarm of AI could take over the internet” sounds dramatic but something nearby that is probably my base case, independent of how the slowdown vibes play out. If I had to guess I’d say the internet gets challenging to be on (for infosec reasons) and balkanizes.

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hailey @hailey.at · 10/09/2026

i had to see it so you do too

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

One of the things about vibe <coding, other stuff> is that the workflow is very different which I think creates a lot of confusion. It’s a workshop for empiricists, and I think that looks kind of messy when we’re used to computers being a domain governed by formalism. What does that mean?

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Philosopher here. Uh… so it actually did. Worth looking into the “Four Color Theorem” as an early example of this, because this is as incorrect as it is confident. Perhaps there’s a psychology term for that. Oh wait no… there was, but that study is part of the replication crisis in psychology.

Psychologist here. Pardon my rudeness, but that notion is just silly. This is like saying the invention of the calculator fundamentally changed our understanding of mathematics.

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I find it tedious to discuss conservativism as a political phenomenon because my take is that it's mostly a cognitive one. Conservativism is just a bag full of whatever positions are easiest to hold. The old ones, the entrenched, the ones that prevent a need for self-inquiry. The way dad did it.

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A sign liberal arts degrees have been weakened into a sort of rigorless soup more than anything else. There is a type of smug superiority that’s totally appropriate for holders of liberal arts degrees (which I am), but it is not one grounded in the sophistry of rudimentary frame denial.

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I have made myself a delightful shepherd’s pie.

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

My friend had this little dog and whenever he stood up this dog would leap up like "I'm ready boss, what's the mission where we goin'?" Think it was a Jack Russell or something, hilarious little fella. Agents are basically this for thinking, which can be awesome or incredibly annoying. Or both.

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I understand the importance of meeting people where they’re at, but I feel like telling a generation of children “there are no stupid questions” may nonetheless have been a mistake.

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It was a dry year, so the bears are rather motivated.

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I think centering models in AI discussions is odd. The way I see the topology, using AI is about defining cognitive processes (like research, coding, whatever) so that you have a canonical *methodology.* Then you plug in a model. Models fill a defined methodology to different degrees.

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Astra is the first model where I’ve noticed a sort of baked in rigor. Pretty interesting. The rigor isn’t free, like it’s decidedly less creative than something like Sol or K3 (design evals seem to support this) but I’m fascinated by it and think it’s really useful.

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Frontier models are at a point where evaluating them is sort of like figuring out if some college professor is good. You can read reviews and whatever but the best thing to do is just go to one of the classes and get a sense of it.

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A lot of my favorite AI stuff is just taking some mundane thing that's kind of annoying (like browsing a very noisy internet), doing research on how do to that properly, then building a methodology based on what comes back.

High-quality general-web research under adversarial commercial conditions [orienting survey for household product, vendor, professional, and service decisions]

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

“Everyone says Jedis aren’t superheroes and I don’t have an opinion on that.” — 9yo Not to brag but this kid is the best.

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

President: <raving in all caps like an idiot> Opposition: “I am in strong agreement with the President.” We are so cooked jfc

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

One of the things originalists seem to miss is that the framers were all avowed deontologists, and quite clear about having designed a governmental structure only capable of running in an environment of high civic sensibility. So much talk these days about the engine; so little about the fuel.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. (James Madison)

Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private virtue, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics. (John Adams)

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters. (Ben Franklin)

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. (Thomas Jefferson)

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Got some wood-infused PLA. You can work it a bit post-print the way you might with wood (files and sandpaper) and even stain or lacquer them (apparently, haven’t tried yet) which is pretty cool.

Chess pawns printed in birch PLA, fresh print at left, worked variant at right.

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

UPDATE: Victor Marx says an anonymous out-of-state company made a “silly mistake” in a campaign finance filing listing him as the owner. Marx says he’s not the one profiting from his online campaign store selling merch and meetings with Marx for up to $1299.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Amazing to live in a country where the secret police are handling inter-chud beefs. It's like the Night of Long Knives playing out in the parking lot of a Dollar General.

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Strange to live in a time where everyone seems to be dwelling on whether the future will be a dystopia or a utopia. It’ll be both, of course. Always both.

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

What a weird framing. There is never a plan, like that’s not how anything works. History is path dependent and weird; if there was a plan it would be false comfort.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 21/08/2026

you can write a lot of thinkpieces about the structural problems with american governance but also "don't elect grandpa cheesebrain"

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Claude: “be the change you wish to see in the world.” Me: “Claude we can’t just send out subagents to dismantle substack, that’s frowned upon.”

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