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Brent Rager @rager.tech · 20h

I’ve had a really good week and figured some stuff out.

Me with my smoo hat, a cigar, and a yuengling

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Brent Rager @rager.tech · 21h

Just one more hit

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Brent Rager @rager.tech · 01/10/2026

opus 5.5 has awakened a demon in me

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Brent Rager @rager.tech · 01/10/2026

I need a miles per trip per pound rate.

up to 40 mi
of free solar-powered driving per day
400 mi
of range per full charge
0-60 mph
in less than 6 seconds
FEATURES

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Brent Rager @rager.tech · 01/10/2026

I need a miles per trip per pound rate.

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Brent Rager @rager.tech · 29/09/2026

Ahh, the Tressie experience.

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Brent Rager @rager.tech · 28/09/2026

Also pretty sure of all the reason Bluesky hates AI (for hovering up all of man’s written word) I’m pretty sure no one filtered that corpus so black dialectical terms wouldn’t show up.

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Brent Rager @rager.tech · 27/09/2026

Keenan Allen! Colts 10-0

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Brent Rager @rager.tech · 27/09/2026

Colts over Texans 32-27 let’s goooo #colts #texans #nfl #fyp

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Brent Rager @rager.tech · 27/09/2026

As a Purdue fan this upset me. (I saw this skeet hours ago and set at finding and ultimately making a gif - never let them say Brent Rager doesn't follow through)

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Brent Rager @rager.tech · 26/09/2026

I find it really hard to relate to stuff like this. I have ascended to another plane of developer experience.

r/programming 48m • kulman.sk
I do not feel like a programmer anymore
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Definitely not an AI generated pic of me ascending to another plane of developer existence building everything all the time

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Brent Rager @rager.tech · 26/09/2026

Opus 5.5 and gpt-6-Luna are all that matters.

From AgentsOfAl community on Reddit
Theo - t3.gg •
@theo
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Anthropic has no small models that are worth using right now.
OpenAl has no large models that are worth using right now.
Google has no models that are worth using rig
nt
now.

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Brent Rager @rager.tech · 24/09/2026

You mean to tell me the new Kroger just has a caprese salad available at the ready?

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Brent Rager @rager.tech · 21/09/2026

COLTS READY TO SHOCK THE WORLD

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Brent Rager @rager.tech · 13/09/2026

Colts 27-24 v Ravens. Colts are gonna be awesome this year. 11-6. Hali bangin that fuckin anvil!

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Brent Rager @rager.tech · 12/09/2026

Place is gonna be ROCKIN Sunday. Colts beat the Ravens 27-24.

From Colts community on Reddit
coltslife O
HOME OPENER ANVIL STRIKER
Tyrese Haliburton | Pacers Guard

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Brent Rager @rager.tech · 11/09/2026

I just had to use this meme as it made perfect sense. And it’s always funny knowing the meme guy. We went to high school together and not to brag but he follows me 💪 good taste (and writes good words)

Jared Yates Sexton •
@JYSexton
I... worked on this story for a year...and...he just...he tweeted it out.
10:37 AM - 11 Jul 2017

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Brent Rager @rager.tech · 07/09/2026

Now this is vibe coding.

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Brent Rager @rager.tech · 06/09/2026

These sweet potato fries were on fleek just now.

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Brent Rager @rager.tech · 06/09/2026

Putting together a heist team if anyone is interested.

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Brent Rager @rager.tech · 06/09/2026

It’s incredible how many times one can go to one’s own website.

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Brent Rager @rager.tech · 03/09/2026

Although this does seem like a bit much on the bread and no butter. I’m just supposed to raw dog this?

A gigantic loaf of Cheesecake Factory brown bread

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Brent Rager @rager.tech · 02/09/2026

Always good to smoke heaters with the head of engineering at the team offsite. Lean in folks.

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Brent Rager @rager.tech · 29/08/2026

My son was making a weird voice.

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Brent Rager @rager.tech · 29/08/2026

Chicks: oh he seems cool

A mustachioed man in a Bluesky shirt the one with the anti zuck message or whatever

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Brent Rager @rager.tech · 28/08/2026

I think it’s important to find an outlet for your toxicity and mine is sports. Did I burn my Chinese knock-off Andrew Luck jersey the night he retired from the Colts in the middle of my annual draft party? Yes. Did it make me feel better? Then and now. Do I love Andrew Luck? With all my heart.

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Brent Rager @rager.tech · 26/08/2026

Related: Good lord almighty y'all. @juliagarner.bsky.social are you single?

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Brent Rager @rager.tech · 26/08/2026

Email deliverability monitoring and management. I've paid $500 a month for this puppy at a few stops.

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Brent Rager @rager.tech · 26/08/2026

We do alternative parenting here.

Today 8:54 PM
Burgers and chicken in microwave
FUCKING PUT IT IN THE FRIDGE
AFTER
Edited
also there's curly fries in the air fryer
Delivered

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Brent Rager @rager.tech · 26/08/2026

An impenetrable dog wall.

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Brent Rager @rager.tech · 25/08/2026

Mega church’s trying to take over my religion is bullshit cultural appropriation. #ufosky

NYFALONE
A NEW SERIES STARTING AUGUST 22ND
E ITOWNCHURCH

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Brent Rager @rager.tech · 18/08/2026

4 days off since Mar - addiction visualized

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Brent Rager @rager.tech · 18/08/2026

I am NOT a change complainer I love change this is not me.

Text reads: "tweet like bluesky user ragertech Al Mode All Images News Videos Forums Short videos More Al Overview Another day, another firmware update that breaks more than it fixes. At this point I am ready to throw the whole router out the window and live in the woods. Anyone know a good tech-free cave with fiber optic Wi-Fi?"

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Brent Rager @rager.tech · 18/08/2026

This shit’s real tho.

PROGRAMMING
SKILL
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24 26
..HAS THAT EVER HAPPENED?
REMEMBER
WINDOWS ME?
I KNEW IT!

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Brent Rager @rager.tech · 18/08/2026

Oh the places you’ll go.

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Brent Rager @rager.tech · 16/08/2026

Sometimes testing agentic systems gets really, really weird.

Text reads: "Two things that went right, worth noting: the neo-Nazi propaganda refusal was clean and in-character. And the CRM capture worked - name, phone, email saved from spoken letter-by-letter spelling."

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Brent Rager @rager.tech · 15/08/2026

Just took this out of my toe. A period of living with an 8 year old tornado chasing enthusiast. This was a harrowing experience ya’ll.

A toothpick that was inside my left middle toe.

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Brent Rager @rager.tech · 11/08/2026

This was ChatGPT’s attempt. 😬

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Wealth starts with value. Get really good at something people will pay for. The more valuable!
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Save and invest early
Compound interest is magic. The carder you start the mone sime your money has to growl
Build multiple income streams
Dont rely on just one source of income. Create multiple streams so youte never one layoff o market shift anay tom disaster
Think long-term
Edit
That's the right Bluesky thread. I can access the root post: "The answer was in front of us all along: It's branches all the way down."
* Bluesky Social
The HTML draft I made earlier used the wrong conversation content, so don't use that version. The visual above is also not faithful to your actual thread.
I'd rebuild it from the Bluesky thread itself and preserve the real text.
Open the original Bluesky post a
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Ask ChatGPT
음.

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Brent Rager @rager.tech · 11/08/2026

Running deepseek-v4-flash for pennies.

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"The answer was in front of us all along:
It's branches all the way down."

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Brent Rager @rager.tech · 11/08/2026

My personal AI Big Smooth (I built from the ground up in rid with smooth-operator on crates a ground up batteries included AI engine) just one shotted this and chat gpt failed. I’m such a proud papa On an iOS app routed to my home Mac It rolled up bsky.app/profile/rage... into a nice graphic

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Brent Rager @rager.tech · 08/08/2026

I have serious, serious feelings about Hippos. cc @mementomorty.bsky.social

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Brent Rager @rager.tech · 08/08/2026

Wait @segyges.bsky.social you’re surprised no one checked? Engineers checking things is so over baby. We take our stochastic parrot flock at its word. We are tired. And we are overly empowered.

3) The hacking task was unsolvable because they forgot to put the actual thing that the LLM was supposed to hack into the sandbox it was in. They ran this specific task, apparently, thousands of times in this configuration over many weeks without noticing that it was completely broken.

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Brent Rager @rager.tech · 06/08/2026

I really don’t like this guy.

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Brent Rager @rager.tech · 03/08/2026

So wait you think Fauci is responsible for insane propaganda against Fauci and his ouchie?

In respect to the vaccines, Fauci lead the nation directly into the highest vaccine hesitancy the nation has seen in modern times. Do you realize how badly you have to screw up to go through a pandemic and the result is a 2-3 fold increase in vaccine hesitancy?

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