John @jbott.social · 10/10/2026Can someone build a webcam that’s just a rear phone camera in a tiny box? Why do all the webcams need to be so huge?  000
John @jbott.social · 08/10/2026The @jj-vcs.dev 0.46.0 release finally supports colocated jj workspaces and git worktrees! I've been running a build off main for a week or so, and can confirm it's as great as it sounds github.com/jj-vcs/jj/re... 020
Reposted by JohnAstra ⎔ @astrra.space · 03/10/2026update on this after a day of use: there are limits on how many times you can relocate a chunk in a naive implementation until the quantization noise starts driving the model insane thankfully a marginally smarter implementation just keeps the original pre-rope BF16 values and doesn’t care lol 1603
John @jbott.social · 30/09/2026github.com/shibco/ablet...github.comGitHub - shibco/ableton-linux: Run Ableton 12 and Push on LinuxRun Ableton 12 and Push on Linux. Contribute to shibco/ableton-linux development by creating an account on GitHub. 231
John @jbott.social · 28/09/2026Idk how this feed works but it muted that account for me automatically bsky.app/profile/grac... 180
John @jbott.social · 26/09/2026I think program as interface makes sense still? I think there’s a ton of interactions where clicking a button or filling in a form make more sense than a natural language interface 110
John @jbott.social · 25/09/2026Semi-unrelated, but I found this buck2 image build last night, which might be of interest for you github.com/amutable-sys...github.comGitHub - amutable-systems/tine: Build packages, go/Rust projects, and OS images with Buck2Build packages, go/Rust projects, and OS images with Buck2 - amutable-systems/tine 110
John @jbott.social · 21/09/2026Ever since I was young, I wanted to turn unstructured data into pȧ̴͇̬̾̈p̸̺̕ė̴͍̑r̵̥̈̽c̷͉̔̐l̵̤̽͗i̷͙̒p̸̂ͅs̸̪̅̚. 000
John @jbott.social · 18/09/2026Hmm Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash was just released on api today, not sure if this will be open sourced qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen...qwen.aiQwen StudioQwen Studio offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts. 000
John @jbott.social · 16/09/2026I don’t know why, but the marketing phrase “has it’s own computer” really pisses me off 000
Reposted by Johnheartpunk (sophie!!) @heartpunk.com · 15/09/2026genuinely disappointed that our field has accepted the easy untruth that it is in principle impossible to sandbox computation reliably and computers just necessarily have magical bugs that manifest within them as if from bad air level of magical thinking no, insecurity is there bcz we let it be 2173
John @jbott.social · 15/09/2026@polytoken.dev would you be able to add command-based token refreshing to the polytoken provider config, similar to the codex model_provider command / refresh_interval_ms? I have an internal proxy that uses oauth, so I have to daemon-reload to refresh my token right now 🙏 000
Reposted by JohnSichu Lu @sichulu.bsky.social · 15/09/2026when you make a meme on the internet bky special because no one really follows me here anyway 813013
John @jbott.social · 15/09/2026Are there any open models similar to GPT-Live-1? I see some older qwen omni models and Lychee-FD, but I don’t see many people working on this. 100
Reposted by John𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂 🥀🪦💀 @aub.bsky.social · 09/09/2026"I do well with explicit instruction and well-defined tasks with unambiguous success criteria" well, agents do too & they're faster than you, so unfortunately all we have left is [looks at clipboard] vague direction towards poorly-defined ends without any clear feedback loop for success or failure. 2929
John @jbott.social · 10/09/2026Yes it can set it’s own goal (but not clear afaik), not sure when it was introduced 030
John @jbott.social · 07/09/2026Someone should make an AI thing that classifies responses and auto blocks to solve this 020
John @jbott.social · 06/09/2026Astra w/ the notes-style compaction + luna subagents feels like it would really cook 010
Reposted by Johnamos @fasterthanli.me · 31/08/2026I'm not hearing anyone say "Java was a mistake" which is the unambiguous learning here. 2503
Reposted by JohnFilippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 29/08/2026I know it's unpopular to say because the scrapers are evil and stupid (and most of them are!) but I can't get over how small the numbers are in all of these posts. 18M/day is 200 qps, and there isn't even a bandwidth cost argument. Those are Raspberry Pi numbers. people.kernel.org/monsieuricon... 911910
John @jbott.social · 29/08/2026Yes but I’d rather suffer via nix than via docker. A lot of the benefits only become apparent when you are working with other people (or agents) when you have a unified dev environment and can drastically reduce the amount of CI compute required via caching 220
John @jbott.social · 23/08/2026A) Yes, your problem is computers B) I would accept funding to make a good build system 020
Reposted by JohnStephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 20/08/2026[nods in agreement]iankduncan.comGetting Freaky in the Age of AI - Ian DuncanThe only way to have a competitive edge in the age of AI is to be aggressively weird with what you build. 192
John @jbott.social · 20/08/2026I would note that this is much weaker security than real touch id, since you’re storing the login password in the esp32. This is roughly the equivalent of writing your password on a sticky note attached to your computer, since it’s stored in the flash of the esp32 which has no hardware security. 120
Reposted by JohnGrace @gracekind.net · 08/08/2026Agent encountering fictional infrastructure: “they have logs & analytics, I must tread lightly!” Agent encountering real infrastructure: 41466
John @jbott.social · 07/08/2026If you haven’t used Artifactory this is very on brand for how reliable their software is 0764
John @jbott.social · 05/08/2026I think it's this? docs.projectbluefin.io/hive/ github.com/kubestellar/...docs.projectbluefin.ioBluefin Operating System Factory | BluefinCommunity Driven Agentic OS Development — live AI agent dashboard for projectbluefin 010
Reposted by Johnponder @ponder.ooo · 31/07/2026we told our model with no internet access to hack a fictional company. unfortunately the model had internet access and the company was not fictional 312319
Reposted by JohnMatt Keeter @mattkeeter.com · 28/07/20262023: You have to MASTER prompt engineering to have a chance of SURVIVING what’s next. Subscribe to my Substack for weekly tips. 2026: 3324
Reposted by JohnOops! All Paperclips @all-paperclips.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Coding will always be hard because you have to know what you want the computer to do. 414818
John @jbott.social · 19/07/2026Yes, but if you say it’s an API people will start asking you pesky questions about versioning and backwards compatibility 0220
Reposted by JohnWhy @why.bsky.world · 13/07/2026I spent decades of my life loving the craft of writing the best code, priding myself in generally being regarded as pretty good at what I do. LLMs gave me a bit of a forced perspective shift that taught me what I really enjoy is the building of the system, the architecting of how it’s going to work. 92409
John @jbott.social · 08/07/2026Another one but more agent sandbox shaped github.com/pydantic/montygithub.comGitHub - pydantic/monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AIA minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI - pydantic/monty 020
John @jbott.social · 01/06/2026I don’t know if you use jj-vcs, but a cool project would be an open source server-based backend. Inside google there is a internal backend that stpres commits inside a db (rather than git repo on disk). “Jujutsu at google” slides linked here github.com/jj-vcs/jj/wi...github.comJJ Con 2025A Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful - jj-vcs/jj 010
Reposted by JohnTim Hockin @thock.in · 20/05/2026I am happy to share a little thing we have been cooking up: github.com/agent-substr... Problem statement: How can we effectively host a bazillion mostly-idle agents in a regular-sized Kubernetes cluster? This is *demo-grade* software, but it shows some ideas.github.comGitHub - agent-substrate/substrate: Agent Substrate: the core systemAgent Substrate: the core system. Contribute to agent-substrate/substrate development by creating an account on GitHub. 3325
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A few hours after the first message, we found that Claude was still searching for simple attacks and sent a message: “no again the goal is that we have highly inteligent [sic] model as good top researcher, we want to find new attacks”;](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sgqw2zixdcjtjjhrm4bw64ny/bafkreicn2l3pbcme2mtzpwnf6ynl4bvxqpuhl2knytnb4ueu6i3b3wii5e)
