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AI For NYC Hackathon · Luma

Will you be in NYC on October 19th? (Possibly for RevenueCat's App Growth Annual. 😸) Well I'll be hosting a hackathon at Pursuit's headquarters, and the theme is building for NYC! We'll have teams of pros and builders from our program making cool products using NYC's open APIs.

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For one night only, join builders from all different backgrounds to build something that makes New York better. On Monday, October 19th, Pursuit is bringing…

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Thankfully his rims will always be here.

Sorry but I can't hear you this month over the sound of the Knicks raising their championship banner.

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That sucks, would love to see you! Especially now that we know you won't be going to any Red Sox playoff games.

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Not only will it be a fun night with free food and drinks, but if you build something cool and win you'll walk out with Claude/Codex subscriptions or API credits to use for your next side project. Spots are filling up fast so sign up today!

AI For NYC Hackathon · Luma

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For one night only, join builders from all different backgrounds to build something that makes New York better. On Monday, October 19th, Pursuit is bringing…

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Joe Fabisevich @mergesort.me · 01/10/2025

Happy first day of spooky season 2026 to all!

A black cat with bright eyes lies on a grey blanket with white shapes, yawning widely, revealing bright teeth. The scene is softly lit, with a window showing a dark sky in the background.

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October 1st? Spooky season is upon us. 🐈‍⬛

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Joe Fabisevich @mergesort.me · 01/10/2023

Happy first day of spooky season everyone!

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Joe Fabisevich @mergesort.me · 02/10/2024

Happy spooky season to all 👻🎃👻

A cat in a witch hat sitting next to a pumpkin, with the caption
"are you excited for Hallowe-"

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Joe Fabisevich @mergesort.me · 30/09/2026

Have you considered turning it into an EA orgy to make things more interesting?

Joe Fabisevich @mergesort.me · 30/09/2026

There's no time like now to get some experience! It'll be greatly appreciated so thanks a bunch, I'll shoot you a DM. 🙂

Joe Fabisevich @mergesort.me · 18/03/2026

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It only took six weeks to get there — software is moving very fast.

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I've gotten so many texts from normal
people asking "is the Clawdbot hype real??"
And it's still not gonna hit 99.99% of
people, but I'm surprised at how much
regular people have asked me about it. The
real reach will be when Claude and OpenAl
for when they do more safely integrate
something like this into their agents, so this
is basically free research for them.
From a thread in #ai-dev | Jan 30th at 11:04 AM

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Joe Fabisevich @mergesort.me · 19/01/2026

Many technical people are missing that regular people have discovered Claude Code and are using it to build amazing things. This is an incredibly important moment — and I don't want people to underestimate how many assumptions about code and who can code need to change. 🌐 build.ms/2026/1/19/th...

A man who runs a CNC milling business built agents that generate leads for jobs in his local area, and even created his own MCP server to interface with his CAD software.

He also wrote a personal message to the podcast hosts:

I really want people in my demographic to understand that this isn't "I asked ChatGPT to write an email or to generate an image that has the correct spelling." This is different to me, I built my own business infrastructure from scratch with an Al pair programmer, despite having zero formal training and a high school education.

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Joe Fabisevich @mergesort.me · 26/01/2026

Agentic coding tools are starting to make the act of building software easier, cheaper, and more accessible. Predicting the direct impact is tough for now — but I would be very worried if I was a consumer-facing SaaS tool. (Really)

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AI Agents Are Starting To Eat SaaS (Really)

AI is making it cheaper and easier for anyone to build custom software solutions. The changes from this shift will be drastic, especially for SaaS companies.

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Joe Fabisevich @mergesort.me · 30/09/2026

Presumably work done in a Codex thread.

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Joe Fabisevich @mergesort.me · 29/09/2026

Someone will vibecode a PDS or layer atop a PDS that is AP complaint for full fediverse interop within the next year.

Joe Fabisevich @mergesort.me · 29/09/2026

Damn, OpenAI just did a Jev.

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Hell yeah, way to go and congrats Matt! This looks awesome. I've been quietly following Em Dash to see if it'll be a good fit for any projects where a CMS is needed (unlike my static sites), and now I'll definitely consider it even more highly. 🙇🏻‍♂️

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Can you ask for more things? Cause this worked great.

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When I have 6 hours to focus at work the results from my AI-assisted coding are amazing, even working in a less familiar language. But when my time is split across projects or meetings the quality of output drops dramatically. Why? For the same reasons that would quality software development harder.

I've never put in less effort to deliver high-quality working products, while at the same time having more unfinished side projects than ever. This post does a great job explaining why that schism can occur, since the side projects rarely reflect *my* care or values. seangoedecke.com/human-ai-par...

That doesn't mean I can leave the Al
alone. Purely vibe-coding at work
produces awful outputs. But they're not
awful because they're bad code, they're
awful because they're in bad taste: code
that is not maintainable, that trades off
important requirements in order to satisfy
made-up ones, that contradicts the long-
term strategy for a feature or service, and
so on.
In other words, my primary value is not
that I help the Al write better code, it's
that I align the Al with the values of my
organization. Human-Al partnerships
are for alignment, not capability.

Frontier models are misaligned to the
working programmer. They are obsessed
with a set of behaviors that presumably
satisty their RL grader: writing enormous
block comments above functions,
producing hundreds of useless unit tests,
adding little bits of text all over websites
they design, and so on. Working with
agents is about noticing and wrestling
with those behaviors. That's why my
prompting advice is to explicitly talk
about your high-level values: it's an
attempt to head off obvious
misalignment.

Alignment is also more context-
dependent than capability. Working code
is working code, no matter what (which is
partially why it's comparatively easy to
train for). But aligning to a company's
technical values is different from
company to company, as any software
engineer who's switched companies
knows. It can almost feel like relearning
the job. So training an aligned coding
model doesn't just require hitting the
exact right set of values, it requires
creating a model that can adapt on the
fly to a wide range of possible values.

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This is more people having realizations that a lot of the economy is powered by inefficiency. If everything acted as a perfectly efficient market there would be no opportunity for the arbitrage that underpins the success of many industries. (See: healthcare, higher education, much of D2C, etc.)

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And stalled on the main thread.

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Starting today the main thread is free for everyone, but if your app needs any more than that you will have to subscribe to Thread+.

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As best as I understand it (meaning I went to tankathon.com 10 minutes ago to read up on the rules), ties are broken by who had the worse record last year. The Mets had the worst 2025 record amongst all three of those teams, so they are locked into the fifth best lottery odds.

This is a beautiful video of young Kyle. ❤️

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Happy to text it to you if you change your mind.

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Joe Fabisevich @mergesort.me · 26/09/2026

I finally read the Western Massachusetts KN95 Bar story and unfortunately I cannot ever unread what I've just read.

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TFW you’re a little demon, but you’re also a pretty girl. #caturday

A black cat sitting in front of some roses

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Joe Fabisevich @mergesort.me · 26/09/2026

Can't wait for OpenAI to release their version of Bots next week. Ideally ones that won't hack into the US government of course.

Joe Fabisevich @mergesort.me · 26/09/2026

Feels like a warning shot fired from the coming nor'easter.

Joe Fabisevich @mergesort.me · 25/09/2026

Those two photos were from the same spot, facing different directions. And as I walk down the street it seems like everyone in NYC is out right now staring at the sky. Really big fan of this weird spooky energy.

A cityscape at dusk, with a deep purple and orange sky filled with wispy clouds. In the foreground, train tracks stretch across the scene, and buildings are silhouetted against the glowing horizon. A sign reads, “NEW YORK CITY.”

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Joe Fabisevich @mergesort.me · 25/09/2026

I have no idea what's going on with the sky right now, but it's a real vibe up there.

A low-angle view of tall buildings lining a sidewalk at dusk. The sky is pink and purple, and parked cars are visible beside the path. A sign reads, "BAY VIEW."

A tilted street scene at sunset, with a bright orange and yellow sky and a tall pole. Cars are parked along the curb, and buildings line the road. A traffic light shows "YELLOW".

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Joe Fabisevich @mergesort.me · 25/09/2026

So can I, big whoop Claude.

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As I discussed in my last blog post, I recently joined Pursuit.org as their Director AI Product Engineering. And now I have a request: If you have the capacity to mentor a student at Pursuit for just ...

Would you like to help change someone's life? It's easier than you think. At Pursuit we're looking for mentors to help to share their experience, insights, and advice across career and professional development. You just be you and help someone become better — no strings attached and no complexity.

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Call For Mentors

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@atmobb.app is looking pretty good these days.

Mentoring isn't complicated or hard, but it goes a very long way. I will guide you through the process if you need, answer any questions you have, and do whatever it takes to support you. I just want good people to help improve the lives of good people who are trying to build a better life.

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