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I suppose if thats the game you have to play by the rules

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what do you mean by boosters? and what negative consequences are you experiencing?

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Ironically, mine is quite well read!

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Try the book - heck I'll buy you a copy if you message me where to ship it :) If you have an alternate take book, I am happy to read it. Also some positivity for the day: check out how happy my dog was last night!

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Im more of a logos > ethos person though myself 🤙

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I would think people who are involved in the space might actually have the most informed take on what was at the time a very nascent technological evolution! This is reinforced by the content of the book, which is really excellent.

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It would be able to know what you mean by people like me! No point asking. Also, in terms of social impact, I have seen positives and negatives. A good book I recommend is Superagency for a balanced thoughful critique. Environmentally, the hate against "AI datacenters" seems quite irrational to me

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what societal and environmental damage? and what do you mean by people like me?

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What do you think is BS about it? Also I looked up some context using AI since I am not an expert in Russian

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he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it, and so pass to genuine vindictiveness.

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A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill—

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The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than any one.You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it?

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And having no respect he ceases to love, and in order to occupy and distract himself without love he gives way to passions and coarse pleasures, and sinks to bestiality in his vices, all from continual lying to other men and to himself.

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Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.

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Here's a Dostoevsky quote I read out loud to myself when I start to feel cynical (also wow that was hard to split up into little chunks lol)

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I genuinely hope you find peace and happiness. There are a lot of cool things out in the world if you look out for positive stuff rather than searching for negatives!

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Nice! A use for AI! Also wow that was rather a mean reply 😢

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I prefer to expose my mind to ideas and ideologies I don't align with. Remarkably easy here :) CSAM?

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you are bubbling yourself from the rest of the world in a safe insulated mind cloud

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Nathan Clement @njclement.com · 20/08/2026

Look. Us regular folk will never be able to raise a clone army in time to fight off the Silicon Valley droid army unless we have super powerful AI to help us figure out how to accelerate the growth process.

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I think most AI people are on X, because the dialogue here is so oppressive

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Nathan Clement @njclement.com · 20/08/2026

PDX needs to put an MLB Stadium at Gateway. None of this downtown on the waterfront with no parking and blocking hospital access silliness.

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Nathan Clement @njclement.com · 13/10/2025

My wife left medical to become a vibe coder. Once in a while I review her code, and am regularly in awe of her velocity and work quality. Her secret? She knows exactly what she wants, has incredible attention to detail, and asks her AI assistant to explain its choices.

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Nathan Clement @njclement.com · 05/08/2025

Everyone’s watching the AI breakthroughs. The actual war? It’s the silent backroom talent deals, culture curation, contracts, counteroffers, people sliding between teams, while everyone else argues about code.

Nathan Clement @njclement.com · 05/08/2025

Trying to supercharge Claude agent workflows. Manual "@" calls are a pain, making real orchestration feel out of reach. Has anyone cracked agent delegation, maybe with clever hooks? Craving thoughts from folks in the trenches. Share for visibility if you feel the same way!

Nathan Clement @njclement.com · 27/06/2025

Humans write far sloppier #slop than #LLMs could even dream of generating ✍️

Nathan Clement @njclement.com · 24/05/2025

You can just ask for things... How will GenAI change data pipeline engineering? #tech #developer #software #data #ai

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Nathan Clement @njclement.com · 12/05/2025

You could manage the email list yourself for sure. But it's easiest to break things into smaller problems and solve one at a time :)

Nathan Clement @njclement.com · 12/05/2025

Freeway was flooded on my way to imaging appointment today at OHSU! #pdx

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Nathan Clement @njclement.com · 12/05/2025

You can also roll your own analytics! If you know what you want: AI is making it easier than ever to build small scale solutions

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Nathan Clement @njclement.com · 25/04/2025

Its amazing how much can change without anything being different 😂

Nathan Clement @njclement.com · 22/04/2025

The next wave of great software engineers will be philosophers and lawyers

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Nathan Clement @njclement.com · 28/03/2025

Do LLMs think in a language of their own? Do LLMs plan ahead beyond the next token? Why do models hallucinate? Incredible research by Anthropic just dropped: www.anthropic.com/research/tra...

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Tracing the thoughts of a large language model

Anthropic's latest interpretability research: a new microscope to understand Claude's internal mechanisms

Nathan Clement @njclement.com · 25/03/2025

Starting April 1, Visa is deprecating old Fraud/Dispute management systems in favor of a new, enhanced program called VAMP > Strong incentives for pre-auth prevention > Changes to fee structure > New tools/resources Details below: merchantfraudjournal.com/visa-acquire... What do people think?

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Visa Acquirer Monitoring Program (VAMP) Changes 2024: New Rules and Compliance Tips

As part of Visa’s ongoing efforts to streamline and enhance its monitoring programs, effective as of March 31, 2025, Visa

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Nathan Clement @njclement.com · 25/03/2025

Progress FEELS fast when vibe coding, but in reality you have very little control, and rarely progress towards anything meaningful.

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Nathan Clement @njclement.com · 25/03/2025

Use case for LLM Agents: TDD for Integration Docs. > Step 1: Create fresh application > Step 2: Point Agent at Docs (maybe an llms.txt?) > Step 3: Ask Agent to integrate with your product ✅ Pass = Integration works Automating this process would be a cool product!

Nathan Clement @njclement.com · 06/03/2025

Last week I had a "Black Mirror" thought about a potential negative AI future, so I wrote a short story about it. Curious what folks think :) #shortstory articles.njclement.com/we-chose-the...

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Nathan Clement @njclement.com · 04/03/2025

Testing out our latest integration with the National Do Not Call Registry 📵 AI summary looking nice as well!

An AI Summary of a checkpoint workflow in Dodgeball showing that a phone number used in this test workflow had 110 reported violations reported to the National Do Not Call Registry

Nathan Clement @njclement.com · 17/02/2025

When you just built your first AI model and ask your senior why it won’t generalize…