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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 3h

I heard there was a secret code that openai ran and so did claude but you don't really care for bignum addition, do ya?

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 3h

dude. what. wtf.

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 4h

I really don't understand the secret calculator thing. Actual model arithmetic stuff aside, chat harnesses today are full of tool calls. They don't hide them, in fact they run them through another little model to make you nice little summaries of what they're for!

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 5h

Yeahhh that's the good stuff right there. And his books are The Best and the Brightest, Amusing Ourselves to Death, and The Sum of Us?!

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 6h

presumably if that permit goes through it will have to? all the offices are on the 2nd and 3rd floors.

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 8h

whoa -- no more Centrl?

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 9h

Credit where it's due I guess, after lying about why they cancelled he lays out a pretty solid case for why they *should have* extended the invites.

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 9h

This is known as Netgear's Basilisk

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 23h

It's just a nom de guerre, his real name is Fred Apollo

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 29/09/2026

very frustrating election for us D3 residents btw!

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 29/09/2026

Not necessarily saying you’re wrong here but 1) nobody knew how strong Wilson would be until ballots were counted, if he’d had less first round votes, marginal gains might have made the difference, 2) the Mapps -> trash line in the chart was the target.

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 27/09/2026

He's not very good at this. If he were, he'd at least sound like he believed what he was saying. C'mon man, if you're gonna do a hit you gotta sell it

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 26/09/2026

Sun-tzu was constantly saying this.

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 25/09/2026

Every election I think that this time I'll be calm and skeptical. And now it's late September and once again I'm like, Blexas! Bliowa? Blarkansas?! South Caroblina??!

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 24/09/2026

Me too. Not because I care about the benchmark, but because Ikea furniture built wrong is guaranteed funny.

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 21/09/2026

I've seen folks defending the concept of "vibe coding" as valid in the industry and I don't get why. Vibe coding is the AI equivalent of a hobbyist writing just code. The quality of the work is variable. Professional software engineers should not (and usually do not) proceed that way.

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 20/09/2026

Yo @chalkgirl.bsky.social… this you? (From about a week ago)

Sidewalk chalk: save our bus stops save pcef ➡️ don’t rank Kellie Torres

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 18/09/2026

Did you see this? He’s kinda got game.

Tweet:

@Achilles4Idaho
Achilles for Idaho | U.S. Senate 2026

@Achilles4Idaho
84 year old wealthy former Idaho governor endorses 83 year old wealthy former Idaho governor. 🤦🏻‍♂️

I like Butch and how he led, but his op-ed represents everything that’s broken in American politics.

No Idahoan wants to send an arrogant, chickenhawk, 83 y/o back to the US Senate for a 4th term. They want an independent who will work with both parties to get America back on track and restore the Idaho way.

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 13/09/2026

You mean the one where the agents got access to a modal account when they needed compute? Evidently a lot of folks can’t imagine that scaling up a bit.

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 09/09/2026

Folks... UISceneDelegate

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 09/09/2026

And you’re thinking another album will make things… better?

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 01/09/2026

The upper Clackamas drainage. Now in breathable form.

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 31/08/2026

it's just a next token prediction machine and the most statistically likely tokens were "ssh root@prod 'rm -r /'"

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 29/08/2026

This is an excellent thesis with just one minor problem, which is that it’s insane.

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 28/08/2026

well, one of these decades it will happen.

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 27/08/2026

Wow, now Yayoi Kusama is gone too? What a week.

A Yayoi Kusama pumpkin on a jetty in Japan

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 25/08/2026

Incredible twist in the last sentence

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 25/08/2026

Many of our favorites from the past couple years came in the mail from the Imagination Library. We value books, we'd have books around no matter what and it STILL made our lives better.

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 23/08/2026

Well, this is sort of the multi-trillion dollar question, isn’t it?

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 20/08/2026

All else aside, here's the highest charge Chauvin was convicted of: "unintentional second-degree murder," which explicitly does not require intent.

Subd. 2.Unintentional murders. Whoever does either of the following is guilty of unintentional murder in the second degree and may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than 40 years:
(1) causes the death of a human being, without intent to effect the death of any person, while committing or attempting to commit a felony offense other than criminal sexual conduct in the first or second degree with force or violence or a drive-by shooting; or
(2) causes the death of a human being without intent to effect the death of any person, while intentionally inflicting or attempting to inflict bodily harm upon the victim, when the perpetrator is restrained under an order for protection and the victim is a person designated to receive protection under the order. As used in this clause, "order for protection" includes an order for protection issued under chapter 518B; a harassment restraining order issued under section 609.748; a court order setting conditions of pretrial release or conditions of a criminal sentence or juvenile court disposition; a restraining order issued in a marriage dissolution action; and any order issued by a court of another state or of the United States that is similar to any of these orders.

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 19/08/2026

Seems smart. Commoditize your complements + similar properties to payment routing infra. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/b...

OpenRouter is exceptionally useful for any developer and Stripe is one of the world's largest developer platforms. As such, we think that there will be many benefits and efficiencies in
bringing these two core needs together.
We think that there are deeper reasons to pursue integration besides convenience, however. Our experience in working with our customers has led us to realize that intelligence is special: it is expensive, heterogeneous, and constantly changing. As with financial capital, businesses must reason about cost and return of every unit in a deliberate and granular way. How valuable is this task? With which models can it be best handled? Who will pay, and when, and what is the
time-value of that delay? We have seen the parallels between managing intelligence and managing capital directly in our own products. Radar, for example, was initially designed to prevent financial fraud, but is proving extremely effective at guarding against token fraud at many of the world's largest Al companies. Metronome (used by Anthropic, Nvidia, and other industry leaders) is showing that
metered billing in an Al context is inseparable from token serving and consumption itself.

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 19/08/2026

do you need to borrow a sawzall?

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 19/08/2026

Sort of reminds me of this paper, in which they tried to identify usage styles with different impacts on learning

arxiv.org

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 15/08/2026

I usually let it generate it tbh, my experience is they’re always correct. But I often edit the plan to change the names, frontier models still suck at naming!

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 15/08/2026

So that it can be mocked. E.g. you have a class that creates a CLLocationManager. A “seam” would be taking it as an init arg, as a LocationManagerProtocol or something. Pretty standard testability stuff!

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 15/08/2026

IME in Swift when Claude says it needs a seam, that’s almost always shorthand for passing in a dependency and abstracting it through a protocol. #latereply

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 14/08/2026

Now that’s quite a cursed spelling of filter(). This executes just fine though, right?

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 08/08/2026

This is probably the #1 way Claude has changed how I think. I understood decoupling, DI, etc., but I didn’t visualize my program structure as “seams” and now I do.

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 07/08/2026

Presumably it’s what you get from /goal make a linux distro that runs on my ps2

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 07/08/2026

100% explains the burrito thing specifically. A burrito used to be 10 bucks ($8-12). Now a burrito is 20 bucks ($17)!

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 07/08/2026

Got it, thanks for the context!

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